• Fix No Man's Sky in VR mode

Haven't played NMS in a long time, maybe it's about time to replay and even check how it performs now in VR :wub:

• Fix voice chat failure in Deep Rock Galactic

I'm also kinda interested in this one, though I mostly play with friends and we use Mumble as voice chat. But maybe DRG has some nice other features, e.g. the ingame voice of Elite: Dangerous is the most atmospheric way to play that game.

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So far I'm really happy about the games that get added for Stadia subscribers. And still so sad those games won't be published officially for the Linux desktop. But I don't feel too bad, as with my purchases there I still kinda support Linux devs. Though I don't buy really much on Stadia, my only two purchases so far have been Everspace Encounters DLCs (the base game was free for subs) and Cyberpunk (as I got a Controller + Chromecast Ultra for free with it).

edit: nice little gimmick, Everspace on Stadia got updated to use Vulkan instead of OpenGL as the native version does on Steam.

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Dang, I missed the Kickstarter campaign. But I bought the game through their website [External Link], so the dev gets a bit more money.

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I'm wondering which are those price differences within the EU? Checking SteamDB the countries using Euros aren't listed separately. So I guess at least via the Steam store those prices are all the same. Then it will be keys that you can buy through retail boxes, and I guess there the store which sells them defines the price. Having those region locked seems strange to me.

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Another small step... getting those people over, that are on the edge. Show them they can still play their games, but they are not relying on Windows. Here, have a USB stick, try it... if it works, you have no reason any more to stick with Windows and you can do the final migration step.

And getting more people over, even though little by little... will help reaching the critical mass. Won't happen soon, but hopefully eventually.

Unfortunately the rumour that Linux is not for gaming still sits in many people's head. Even if you tell them about which games all work on Linux right now. They are so hard-coded that games on PC only work on Windows, that they can't imagine playing on Linux. It's still the same statement from years ago: Linux is great for servers, but for gaming you still need Windows. Yeah, it's true for certain games (especially multiplayer with EAC), but not everybody wants to play those games. They always find a game, that doesn't work, and of course they want to play that game.

For me it changed... if a game doesn't work at all for me, be it native, via proton, via stadia or via geforce now... well, then I skip that game. But when having a discussion in a group of people, there is always that one person, that insists of playing this one game which doesn't work... and thus concluding for everybody: Linux is not for gaming m(

So, being able to show people, that it does work, that you can play your games on Linux... easily by just testing it with an USB stick, this might be a puzzle piece of the marketing Linux needs.

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As doing the steps above manually became a bit repetitive, I created a script automating the steps:

https://gist.github.com/Corben78/72a6a3770a4a71b05813bd1ddc14cd36 [External Link]

As the PPA doesn't provide 32 bit libs, I'm using the git version only. So far it works with all games I tested (on Ubuntu).

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Quoting: GuestCorben has shown streams of the beta. Maybe he will do it again.

You bet! ;)
With VKD3D maturing, it works now even without the '-dx11' launch option very well.
With the former version of VKD3D the performance was unplayable, then an update improved the performance drastically, but the colors were "wrong", but that got fixed as well.
Still media foundation patches are needed though, so currently the best way to play it is to use Proton-5.21-GE-1 and update manually to VKD3D 2.1.0.
Afaik there was no Unreal Engine update implemented, so it should still work with the method above, when the early access version drops. Also iirc it will reset the savegames again, so we can experience the game from the beginning again.

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Nice! When I asked about Linux support on twitter [External Link] in November, it wasn't 100%.

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If you wanna see the device and its controllers, you can have a look into this unboxing VOD [External Link] (skip to ~12 mins for the start of the unboxing though).

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Quoting: Liam Dawejust talk about what they enjoyed across 2020 :)

Some of the games I enjoyed this year (order by last played):

• BioShock Remastered (Proton)
• Beat Saber VR (ofc! Proton, whitelisted by Valve)
• GTFO (Proton)
• Synth Riders VR (Proton)
• Pistol Whip VR (Proton)
• Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice VR (Proton)
• Star Wars: Droid Repair VR (Proton, some issues with video playback)
• Prodeus (atm Proton, native version planned)
• Drone Swarm (Proton)
• Everspace 2 closed Alpha + Beta (Proton, with some tweaks)
• Metro Exodus (Stadia)
• Deep Rock Galactic (Proton)
• Metro 2033 and Last Light Redux (native)
• Everspace (Linux native)
• Helldivers (Proton, 32 bit version)
• Half-Life: Alyx VR (Proton at that time, has now a native version)

and even more... I can't even explain how much fun I had playing games on Linux this year!

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