Quoting: razing32Colour me curios. What's "BT" ?

Battletoads!

Although in this case it's probably Bard's Tale. :D

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The Wine thing is still not particularly useful as it is. I now had to switch to "in the last month" because I tried both Fortnite and two games in SteamPlay Proton. But on a whole my Wine usage is still best described as "incidental" and hasn't really changed. Wouldn't it be better to have something that shows how often you have used it in recent history? Maybe "Have you used Wine or Steam Play/Proton to play Windows games much in the past six months?", with options such as: never, sometimes, regularly, daily.

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Quoting: AzPSo do we know what this was yet? I can't find it on the radar anymore.

TW: Warhammer 2

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Also note that if you install a game into a secondary library, that it will install both Proton and the compatdata into that secondary library as well.

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Got the game. I'll run through HRM first though and then hope the new one is a little more complicated.

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Quoting: legluondunetTekken 7 is on the Steamplay whitelist and it doesn't launch with Proton...Valve should verify his Whitelist before to publish it.
https://steamcommunity.com/games/221410/announcements/detail/1696055855739350561 [External Link]
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/Proton/issues/278 [External Link]

I suppose this is going to be a pretty big problem for the Proton future. Wine has always been pretty sensitive to details, so even though stuff works on one machine gives no guarantee for the rest.

Even updating Wine may break stuff that was whitelisted earlier. This may prove to be quite a bit of work.

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Quoting: BeamboomTo be honest, and this is of course very easy to say now in retrospect, but just by hearing the audio effects and background music in that gameplay video clip earlier this week, this really doesn't come as much of a surprise to me. It had to be some stock assets from the Unity editor being used, and more than indicated that they had a lot of work left. Like, a lot.

It's weird because the BR mode was a late addition to the game. Half of the issues should have been worked out for the original game. Especially the sound, since that is such an important part of shooters.

The really should have pulled in the backers for testing way back with the E3 build. I don't see them releasing anything free to the public in a short time now.

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Quoting: GuestLuckily I'm just a simple programmer and I don't know anything or have a say in the matter. Can't say I envy the management job, especially for the foreseeable future aha.

It would probably be a lot more worrying if Steam started advertising Steam Play compatibility in the store. That would be a bit of a support nightmare though.

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Quoting: Sir_DiealotI'm less optimistic.
It's a win for Steam for sure. If you are buying at other platforms this has zero benefit.
It could mean fewer games will be ported, which is going to make our situation is getting worse.
I hope that at least Steam is going to put some resources into the WINE project.

I don't think people with a no tux no bux attitude will change because of this. And others probably already bought windows games to begin with. I don't really see much reason for things to change.

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I'm quite positive about this as well. I've never been against Wine, but I'm usually to lazy to try anything since I have plenty of native stuff to try. Especially having to run a second copy of Steam inside Wine was a bit of a nuisance to me. To such a degree that at some point I even investigated installing a Windows game with steamcmd and trying to insert a wrapper like that.

And now they have done exactly that.

And now it's just install and see. And for stuff that doesn't work, it's probably still better to give it a go manually or use Lutris to install it. If one can find the time to do that.

As compatibility grows, I may actually use it for a couple of things. For instance, the other Bioshock games came with my copy of Bioshock Infinite, which I'm curious to try at some point.

It'll be interesting to see where it goes.

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