Quoting: mark348Reminds me of Safari Biathlon Racer

I had some flashbacks about old games I played when I got my ATI RAGE 128 Ultra 16MB AGP card, and among those, was this one, I just had forgotten it's name.

I also remember Ballistics (developed by GRiN), Bandits Phoenix Racing, damn! the early 2000s had a lot of futuristic racing/combat games. Sadly, looks like the genre is almost dead.

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Quoting: Avikarr[...]Check out BallisticNG on Steam! This game is a passion project, spiritual successor of WipeOut and it definitely slaps! [...] Pure labor of love. Devs like these should be supported. Period.

Can confirm! Whenever I fire up wipEout or wipEout 2097 (wipEout XL in the USA) I usually end up switching to BallisticNG after 10 minutes or so once the nostalgia starts wearing off. BallisticNG is just everything I love about the early wipEout games plus so many more conveniences that it really has become the golden standard for anti-grav racing games at this point :grin:

For some reason I also have it, but never played, maybe it's time to check it out.

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How do you play Phobia 3 on modern Linux? I tried to run it and nothing happened, ran it through the command line and it asked about libartsc.so.0 library which I can't find anywhere.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: amataiI am totally lost with all that game manager.

Steam and Itch.io have Linux clients.
Heroic is for managing Epic, GOG and now Amazon.
Lutris supports everything and the kitchen sink. Use it for anything that isn't from any of the sources above. EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar etc.
Bottles is useful for .exe installers.
These programs have overlapping functions, which means you can use one of them instead of another. I just listed their primary functions.

I'd like to see Heroic support Ubi and EA games, I have several on UbiConnect and the freaking launcher uses 3GB+ of memory (I guess it's a bug with Proton/Wine/Angle/WebGL and whatnot which Ubi obviously won't solve)

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Expect them go Epic-first or exclusive for their next game...

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Quoting: Guest

Is there a particular bug you're hoping to be solved soon?

Slow scrolling, the client dying without killing windows that can't be closed, still being unable to drag & drop in chat, and general client instability like having to retry downloads and cloud syncing 1,000,000 times,... and oh, open-sourcing the client. I am hoping that OpenSteamClient [External Link] gains more attention.

At least they listen to feedback on the issue tracker, pretty happy the notification issue got solved.

I didn't know about OSC, I'm tired of the official Steam cliente since it's a resource hog. Do you know if the shader cache related things work? (state cache, fossilize) oh, I didn't notice the Shader management support part in the readme. :(

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Quoting: slaapliedjeCould be an interesting subject matter for an essay; as we know commercial competition drives innovation, but it seems to in the open source realm as well. It could be argued that instead of group A working on one product (like Heroic Game Launcher) would be drawing talent away from improving a different product (Lutris) that group B is working on. But I think in the case of these two, they seem to work just like the commercial environment where if you have no competition, you end up floundering around with little to no improvement (or you end up doing what Windows does and try to just slide in more ways to make money off of essentially the same crap).

I need to try out Heroic Game Launcher again.

They're two different products. They might seem identical, because they both help you play your Epic and GOG games. But Heroic replaces them with a single launcher, while Lutris doesn't replace anything, it just helps you install their launchers instead. Two totally different approaches.

I prefer the Heroic approach a LOT!! It's lightweight, just to play a game without fuss!! With Steam becoming bigger and more polished UI-wise, it uses even more resources, it can easily grab a couple gigs of RAM while Heroic can stay at a quarter of that. Ubisoft launcher is even worse, in my case using 2.5-3 gigs of memory.

I'd love if they add support for Steam, Ubisoft and EA games.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyFunny, I realized that my expectations have flipped. For a long time I was always impressed that games were just running out of the box with Proton.
At this point it's kind of impressive that people are still managing to make games in such a way that they break on Proton.

As more games become DX12-only, things are becoming worse again.

Unless Valve makes some incentive to make devs to use Vulkan instead of CrapX12 this game of cat and mouse will continue.

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A Vulkan renderer should be a nice and dedicated Deck (and Desktop Linux) upgrade.

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Playing the catch-up game again... as more games become DX12-only this only will get worse, translation layers such as VKD3D or DXVK are nice to have, but I hope Valve eventually makes native Vulkan mandatory for games to become Deck-verified.

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Awesome update! Now with the AppImage it just works! I had compiled it from source before, but I wasn't able to get an audio output (it was greyed out), some builds refused to run at all (illegal instruction)...

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