Quoting: dpanter

Quoting: Comandante Ñoñardopurge gtk3-nocsd

Note: Ubuntu specific as far as I can tell from a number of bug reports in the last few days.

It doesn't exist in Mint 20 by default. I've just re-installed my laptop, so this is a pretty clean install though. Perhaps other apps pull it in.

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Well, it's on sale now. As usual, I bought it on Itch.io for $15 (I added a $5 tip), only to discover, as morbius notes... I'd already bought it.

Honestly, I don't mind paying money for quality and I'm looking forward to playing this so I don't mind... in this case.

But why the hell does Itch allow you pay twice for content you already own??? It's just an awful concept. I was logged in, this is in my library, and yet Itch let's me pay for it again? What the hell are they thinking?

I think less of Itch for allowing this, even if, as I say, I don't mind in this particular case.

- Edit to add, I'm running Mint 20 which is based on Ubuntu 20.04 and it runs perfectly.

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Instabuy. Simples. Yes, it looks very similar to the first game, but I'm down with that. I loved this, I loved Immortal Redneck, and (with Proton) I loved Gunfire Reborn and Mother Gunship. This whole room-based FPS roguelite has loads of life left in it. And I'm here for it.

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Quoting: einherjarAnd there the typical Internet Drama of these days is seen again (Twitter "outrage" etc.)

Calm down, he has an opinion and it is different from what the most people think about that topic. So what?

Before the internet and Twitter and its peers, most people fumed ineffectively in private at publicly voiced, but terrible, sometimes even abusive opinions. Even large social circles opposing that public voice rarely got media attention. What you're seeing here, in these modern times is simply a reflection of the voice of the masses.

Finally! We don't need that big media attention to oppose an uninformed, or abusive take.

So I don't get your "calm down". Is your "calm down" simply that you don't care about those opinions? Fine. Ignore them. You cared enough to comment here though - ironically feeding into the discussion you appear to despise.

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Quoting: melkemindThe DMCA is a gross abuse of copyright. It always has been, and that includes the music industry's greedy exploitation of it. Copyright was never meant to be used this way. I say this as a librarian who remembers all the harm it did when it was first passed.

I think so too, but there needs to be some kind of mechanism for reporting abuse of copyright. I just don't know what a better solution looks like.

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It looks really clean, but after seeing games like Dusk and Prodeus (which is out in just over two weeks!), I'm afraid that "clean" feels more like "bland" in this case. Not much sense of gun feedback in the video. I doubt I'll pick this up, tbh. Unless reviews prove me wrong.

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I'm looking forward to playing this, but not buying it until they (or you lovely people) confirm that it's all good in Linux land. Such a shame. I expected better from Frictional. As others have noted, their games have always been playable from day one on Linux and there's really not many devs you can say that of. Even fantastic devs like Klei, who I love, have very patchy and uneven support, especially during their development process.

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I re-installed Mint last week after a torrid two weeks on Manjaro. Manjaro's VR experience was okay, but other elements forced me back to Mint.

On Mint 20, although I entered the various commands for dependencies that I list in this article, I noticed that a lot of them are now already there. Presumably this tallies with a lot of people earlier telling me that their experience on 20.04 was pretty seamless. Now that Mint 20 is based from that, I'm finding it much more streamlined.

As for the VR experience, I know what you mean about the flashing. I think it's the equivalent of shader compiling as I only notice it when the game starts up, as you describe. It lasts under a second, but it's noticeable. Can't compare it to Windows as I haven't used that O/S for over 7 years now.

If you haven't already, check out my Forum post on how to remotely turn on/off your Lighthouses. It could use a few more people trying it out, I think. Some folk have struggled, while other are working perfectly. It worked for me perfectly on both Manjaro and Mint, so I think the issues people face are actually older VR hardware. Just a hunch though, still too few people replying on that thread to know for sure.

And I liked the earlier suggestion that we create a WIKI page for this stuff. I'll get round to that eventually, as my knowledge of this stuff grows.

VR is a incredible experience though, for sure. Games like Elite:Dangerous and Overload (in Proton) are incredible. I love it.

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Quoting: ShinyaOsenAll the blazblue games now launch video doesnt work in any of them. Calamity trigger and Continuum shift extended have a resolution problem on first launch but you can still see and get to the option menu to fix it. I cant get MF plat to install for some reason to get video in Centralfiction, the rest of the games use quartz from what i could find.

MF-Install is deprecated now, it's replaced by non-patent infringing work in Wine itself. ProtonGE has backported that work for a while, but Proton 5.13 is the first official version to include the new libraries.

I think you can still install mf-install into such a container, but no idea what results you'll get.

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I got onto the beta testing for this and my sole suggestion was taken on board (the targets used to rush in, then slow down as they neared their "perfect" shooting point, which jarred against the general rhythm mechanic), so I'm delighted! Despite that, I didn't play much and I'm looking forward to picking this up and experimenting a bit further.

The whole VR rhythm game mechanic has certainly been done before in games like Beat Saber, Synth Riders and Pistol Whip, but this is its own beast and as a Linux native game, I hope it does well.

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