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A developer of the awesome itch games client has a blog post on compressing files for updates
23 Jan 2017 at 8:23 am UTC

Quoting: fasterthanlimewe're a small team [External Link] building a company with no external funding. Usually the answer to the question "why in the world aren't they doing that yet" is "we were busy working on something else".
And yet you're still doing a better job of basic filtering than Valve. That's a thumbs-up from me. All Valve have done so far with their "O/S filter preference" is cause frustration that it doesn't work!

A developer of the awesome itch games client has a blog post on compressing files for updates
22 Jan 2017 at 12:57 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: M@yeulC
Quoting: Leeo97oneOn Steam, we can already choose what platforms we want to show:
https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/ [External Link] (at the bottom)
To be fair, it's supposed to work, but the steam client doesn't always respect this setting, especially in big picture mode. Plus, some client updates randomly break it quite often, in my experience (though it seems to be OK right now).
Yeah, sadly this setting only appears to work (mostly) on your primary queue - the one that shows at the top of the page. All the others show Windows games. It's still infuriating enough that I rarely visit steampowered these days. My purchase decisions come from articles on here, or reddit.

If I decide to visit steampowered directly, it's usually through this bookmark:
http://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Released_DESC&category1=998&os=linux
[External Link]
If only I could get that (and the rest of Steam) to filter out Early Access titles...

Looks like FPS game 'Squad' might be coming to Linux soon
16 Jan 2017 at 12:08 pm UTC

I've heard great things about Squad - people with actual stories of their experiences, as if it were somehow "real". Most of that is because of the in-game voice audio, which is, I believe, positional, such that members further away from you may/may not hear you, depending on how far away you are from them (and fall back to radio in such instances).

Excited to hear that it's a possibility for Linux, but I imagine they'll be facing some big challenges based on the amount of content in this game! Fingers crossed. Would love to buy/play this one - I've been looking for a proper squad-based shooter since I stopped playing Planetside 2 back in 2013.

Deus Ex: Mankind Divided has some free content available in an update
12 Jan 2017 at 8:26 pm UTC Likes: 2

36 hours to complete the whole campaign with non-lethal force. Loved it. What a game.

Steam hits over 14 million concurrent users online
8 Jan 2017 at 5:23 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: TheRiddickI don't think you understand what I was trying to say. So nevermind. Through one ear out the other...
Sounds like Neffo got exactly what you were trying to say. I think it was "Steam ignore certain O/S types, such as Wine". And he addressed it by stating that why would they record it, specifically, if they were going to throw it away?

I guess that reply went in one ear and out the other?

My thoughts on the MMO Albion Online on Linux, many months later
6 Jan 2017 at 5:19 pm UTC

Are there PvE only servers, or is PvP baked into the entire experience. If so, not for me, I'm afraid. Happy to play MMOs, but only in co-op.

ARK: Survival Evolved plans to use Vulkan for Linux this year
2 Jan 2017 at 7:07 pm UTC

Quoting: Guest
Quoting: poisondDon't hold your breath, DX12 was coming next month for over a year :o)

Performance is not wonderful but it's acceptable for what it is.
Ugh. I don't care much about FPS, 30+ and I'm OK. But this game ... 5-20FPS in most areas is not something I'd call acceptable. And thats in addition to all the sometimes game-breaking graphics glitches that haven't been fixed in forever for the OGL renderer, the noticably inferior graphics and the game breaking input bug if you happen to not have a US keyboard.
What hardware do you have? <snip>
You can click on "View PC Info" under his avatar to see his system specs. Spoiler: he's using a GTX970, decent intel i7 chip, 16Gb RAM.

The open source itch games client has been updated yet again
19 Dec 2016 at 6:09 pm UTC

I ticked the box for sandboxing, now the client won't start. And since it doesn't start, I can't untick the option. I guess that feature isn't ready yet (although, if that's actually true, then why include it in the gui?).

Anyone know where the client keeps its config? Time for a wipe.

Mimimi Productions state that Linux (and Mac) were profitable for The Last Tinker
13 Dec 2016 at 11:40 pm UTC

Quoting: ShmerlHm. Another one of those weird "no Linux version on GOG" cases? What's wrong with it this time? I start suspecting it's some incorrect reliance on Steam that's causing it.
Also strange that Blades of the Shogun is on there, but the demo isn't?? Just seems arbitrary sometimes.