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Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts
25 January 2019 at 7:12 pm UTC

I'm a bit suprised about the metro games: I've never had any stuttering/slowing down on my pc, and the games seemed playable even on my 8 year old laptop.

Valve's card game Artifact seems to be dying off and fairly quickly too
25 January 2019 at 7:09 pm UTC

Quoting: slaapliedjeIf someone made a Munchkin or INWO online game, I'd be all over that. Not going to buy some other card game just because it's Valve.

Pretty much anything that says 'card game' in a digital form, I just ignore. I think I have Slay the Spire, and I think that mentions something about cards for abilities, so I still haven't tried it.

OT, but:
I've noticed in the past two weeks two promotions for elder scroll games, so i got excited. Until i saw they were for the MMO and the card game...

Steam Play versus Linux Version, a little performance comparison and more thoughts
19 January 2019 at 8:57 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: jensThat said, DXVK clearly wins when looking at availability. Whereas Feral port are usually several months later than the Windows release, Steam Play/DXVK works on day one (if it works). Would be cool if Feral could improve on this side and shorten the time between window and their release date. Dunno what is in their hands though.

How is DXVK and SteamPlay porting? Who would pay 60 to 100 euros for that? No one... If i wanted to play wine games i would stick by the appdb... You know what else works on day one (if it works at all)? Windows...

The devs of Tower Unite remove the broken Linux beta in favour of Steam Play, mentioning Unreal Engine issues
9 January 2019 at 3:12 pm UTC

Well, pretty much every game is abandoned after 10 years ;)
Except maybe some of the biggest online ones, and games like Skyrim that get "remastered" every two years once the publisher/developer finds a way to pack microtransactions in.

Mentioning Arch makes your point moot as arch is unsupported by commercial games, only Ubuntu/Steam (and rarely maybe debian) is supported, so issues can be expected. DOOM3 was never bundled for linux. Sure it had executables, but they were never part of the "release" so to say, you had to download them separately from id's ftp server.

By running networked stuff in wine you also run some risk of windows viruses infecting some of your files.

Mad Max is not worse, last i checked, it's an elf executable, that is not worse.

Eon is slightly worse than that, but it's still miles ahead of wine/proton, since it is at least standalone. As the Proton database grows, the costs of proper support will grow - as each wine version can break previously working games. It is why tools like Playonlinux existed for far longer than proton.

Don't get me wrong, it's good that Valve takes the effort to do the tweaking required for windows only titles, however, if a dev promised linux version, proton just isn't that.

The devs of Tower Unite remove the broken Linux beta in favour of Steam Play, mentioning Unreal Engine issues
9 January 2019 at 8:12 am UTC Likes: 3

Native always beats wine/eon/etc... because it means that the devs actually care about using standard tools instead of platform-locked technology.

41 of Steam's most played games in 2018 are supported on Linux
30 December 2018 at 6:47 pm UTC

The point of a console is that it works. It may sound strange, but as long as you have a well defined set of titles/offerings, people will buy it, even if it doesn't have the hottest new AAAAAAA stuff, or if it just runs on 25-30 fps. For many people, even self-professed "gaming-youtubers", the minimal pc maintanence to play video games (on windows) is a lot.

For the average consumer they would really need some exlusive titles, even if they are only that for a time (kinda like GTA games that always come out 1-2 years later on pc than consoles lately). Right now Valve has a lot of games that do not really fit consoles (virtually all of their online games), and a handful of old or old-ish titles (HL 1-2, Portals).

Some thoughts on Linux gaming in 2018, an end of year review
19 December 2018 at 11:54 pm UTC

Quoting: GuestI'm still struggling about making my final opinion about Linux game ports after the changes this year. Sure they deserve a lot of attention, but overall Proton with DXVK are the most important change for me personally. I mean DXVK with the help of Vulkan changed everything. Where we have been dependent before from slow game ports based on OpenGL, we now have something that works really well! Somehow it feels like a year of independence, we now have all the infrastructure available as open source on our side and it gets a lo of attention now. As such I think I changed my opinion about some game ports, yes Linux releases are nice, but now I believe not at cost of waiting months or years for a port with slow performance that we cannot influence at all. Either there should be a native Linux version with Vulkan support like when building with Unity or maybe DXVK should be used as well in game ports.

There were and are ports that use Vulkan. Same as games that use older versions of D3D etc... I'm also not sure what do you mean by slow OpenGL ports... My new pc is not high end per "gaming" terms, but it ran all opengl games just fine, with constant framerates at native resolution.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive introduces a Battle Royale mode, goes free to play
14 December 2018 at 10:12 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: ageres
Quoting: devnullAre you kidding? There's be
en a tonne of content from maps to weapons. The lootboxes are all costmetic.
The game may look different, but its core mechanics are the same.

Yes, that's the point of CS:GO. Way back when CS:S was new, i remember many people talking about how it was shit and they wouldn't switch to it from 1.6.

CS:GO was marketed when it came out in a way that made it clear they wanted something that felt very similar to 1.6 and that pleased the pros.

Steam Link for the Raspberry Pi is now officially available
14 December 2018 at 10:07 am UTC

Is this free or not? Will it be included in the normal debian repos or just in raspbian? It would be great for those of us using non-raspberry armhf devices.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive introduces a Battle Royale mode, goes free to play
9 December 2018 at 6:03 pm UTC

Well, the fact is, CS:GO is still one of the most popular online games. Maybe it's just not your cup of tea.