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Latest Comments by Shmerl
Stealth game Shadwen from Frozenbyte to launch in May, Linux should be day-1
14 Apr 2016 at 6:32 pm UTC

Quoting: Saladiengog.com day one? If yes, then its mine :). (if they have a better QA this time, trine 3 was a mess)
Hopefully. The demo was on GOG from the start.

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st
12 Apr 2016 at 7:08 pm UTC

@slaapliedje: you mean on the same computer?

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st
12 Apr 2016 at 5:28 pm UTC

Nobody or not nobody, it doesn't matter. Not only it's not tying you to Steam, having the local server option allows playing the game no matter what server exists out there. Too many old games go bust in regards to multiplayer after their servers die. That's not a good thing.

You don't need to use LAN. You can use WAN all the same, if the server component is part of the game and allows running it in server mode.

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st
12 Apr 2016 at 4:11 pm UTC Likes: 1

Thanks, that sounds good. So it won't be tied to Steam? I appreciate when developers provide LAN / WAN multiplayer when one game instance simply runs in server mode. Many developers don't put much effort into that, and simply tie their games to Steamworks for network features.

Don't Starve Together leaving Early Access on April 21st
12 Apr 2016 at 2:34 pm UTC Likes: 1

Does it use some server, or it can be played over LAN?

There's an open source Standalone Steam Controller Driver
11 Apr 2016 at 7:15 pm UTC Likes: 1

It's stalled (didn't have any activity in a while) and it still doesn't support the main mode (i.e. custom bindings). So it's good that it's there, but it's not that useful yet.

Still, it's something. I won't really buy the controller until it will be usable without Steam.

Same problem is with Vive.

Firewatch now available DRM free on GOG
11 Apr 2016 at 3:43 pm UTC

One thing I found a bit strange about - it's causing me a major headache because of camera shaking. Switching off "head bob" setting makes it a bit better. Never really encountered it before in games.

New Linux & SteamOS gamer survey for April
10 Apr 2016 at 4:12 pm UTC

Quoting: MuffinmanUnder Desktop Environment, KDE and Steam are both purple. Is KDE more prevalent?
KDE is possibly one of the most popular DEs.

Firewatch now available DRM free on GOG
10 Apr 2016 at 2:45 am UTC Likes: 1

I just got it on GOG. It's pretty GPU intensive. Unusual game though, and pretty well done.