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Some more thoughts on Ion Fury, the FPS from Voidpoint and 3D Realms
23 Aug 2019 at 2:19 pm UTC Likes: 10
It is correct to be upset about bigots doing and saying bigoted things and about such things making it into the game. Changing it and apologizing is the correct move. It's not "censorship", it's the right thing to do.

That aside, the game is really good and gets a double thumbs up from me.
Steam Play passes six thousand Windows games playable on Linux, according to ProtonDB
23 Aug 2019 at 11:22 am UTC Likes: 2
Funny thing about Gold or higher, we've been playing Final Fantasy XIV, which is rated Silver. Silver means it doesn't 100% work, but in this case the only thing that doesn't work is the opening cinematic, which is viewable on the official YouTube channel [External Link]. Once you do the necessary edit to make it skip the cinematic, everything else works great.

Re that video. It uses Widevine [External Link], which I'm pretty sure can possibly be made to work with Wine.

(Also, very silly to use a DRM format on a video file that you're going to upload to your official YouTube channel anyway)
Steam Play arrived on Linux one year ago, some thoughts
21 Aug 2019 at 7:15 am UTC Likes: 7
For those worried that Proton might kill Linux gaming? I have one for you... My partner just switched to Linux 100%, even though she can't run Photoshop anymore. We're currently playing Final Fantasy XIV together. That's the real value of Proton right there.
Great looking retro-inspired FPS Ion Fury is out now with Linux support
16 Aug 2019 at 8:32 am UTC
Awesome game.

I played Duke 3D on an Amiga 1200 through a Mac emulator. :)
Egosoft have revealed the first big expansion to X4: Foundations with X4: Split Vendetta
10 Aug 2019 at 7:57 pm UTC Likes: 8
Quoting: GuestForcing players online to have a complete single player experience is evil, and if you WANT abuse like that then I question where your income is coming from and your morality.

Don't be an abusive capitalist apologist.
I have never used Ventures and I don't consider my single player experience incomplete. Also, no need to get insulting. You are like a child, grow the hell up.
Egosoft have revealed the first big expansion to X4: Foundations with X4: Split Vendetta
10 Aug 2019 at 4:39 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: Guest
Quoting: rustybroomhandleI'm confused. Are you guys upset about an optional online feature in a game? You must really hate the Truck Simulator games then too for adding the similar World of Trucks feature.
You apparently missed the part about it being part of the single player game which gives online players an advantage over offline ones, so obviously should have been implemented for offline players. Similar to micro-transactions, except the cost is not being able to play offline if you want "the full single player experience". Both a ridiculous and a stupid move!
No, I got that, and it's exactly like how you can make more money with World of Trucks in ETS2 and ATS. I still think you're blowing it out of proportion. Melodrama over nothing.
Egosoft have revealed the first big expansion to X4: Foundations with X4: Split Vendetta
10 Aug 2019 at 7:34 am UTC Likes: 2
I'm confused. Are you guys upset about an optional online feature in a game? You must really hate the Truck Simulator games then too for adding the similar World of Trucks feature.
Boxtron, a Steam compatibility tool to run games through a native Linux DOSBox
1 Aug 2019 at 2:48 pm UTC Likes: 2
Quoting: GuestBut there is a Linux native port of scummvm already.
Yes. The idea here is that you choose e.g. "luxtorpeda" as your compatibility tool in Steam, and then it will use the native Linux ScummVM/whatever to run the game. There's no ScummVM support at the moment, but it already supports a bunch of things like doom and quake3.

And for people asking about AGS. I just tried making an AGS package for it, and it sort of worked. I could not get the ags steam plugin to work, but I'm not super good with this stuff. Anyhoo, I will leave it up to the pros. :P
Boxtron, a Steam compatibility tool to run games through a native Linux DOSBox
1 Aug 2019 at 12:59 pm UTC Likes: 5
Quoting: EikeCould this be done with AGS to run e. g. Wadjet Eye Games' games?
In theory yes, but using the other project, luxtorpeda.

Hang on, going to give it a try and get back to you. :P
Valve add additional titles to the Steam Play Whitelist
1 Aug 2019 at 10:59 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: Hori
Quoting: Maweki Sam&Max hit the road? Are they really Proton-ing ScummVM instead of just using the native binary? That's amazingly stupid.
Valve can't really make changes to the files provided by the developer. And the developer (apparently) doesn't want to provide Linux binaries.

So, this is the only way this can be done.

Another way would be to make something completely separate from Steam Play that handles console games, and could load the launcher provided by the devs and just load the rom directly with its assigned core. This way they could bring quite a lot of games on Linux natively, AND they could implement this for Windows also, so that it would be much easier for devs/publishers to publish old games on Steam, since they could just upload the old rom and that's it.

The problem is that I'm not entirely sure if it's legal to do this as a third party, or if it is legal at all from some consoles.
Well, the fact that Steam Play in the settings is just referred to as "a specific compatibility tool", implies that Valve did not just intend for Wine/Proton to be the only such tool. It is also possible to add your own compatibility tools, like this one for native DOSBox [External Link]. So in theory this could be done for Java, ScummVM, DOS, MAME, native Quake/Doom/Hexen whatever.