Quoting: Solitary

Quoting: BekaI noticed something interesting when trying Wargroove.

Wargroove was crashing when intro video was playing on previous proton versions. It looks like they added some color testing/placeholder video instead of the original video, when you run game with proton 7.0.

Now it's not crashing anymore when you run the game. Before I had to run it with 'No intro' option.

That is the placeholder for missing WMF videos, my guess is that Yakuza 4 is the same type of "fix". That game used to simply freeze during loading on start because of intro/credits videos.

Quoting: damarrinI hope that means P4G gets to lose its unsupported tag soon.

Some of the comments report the videos in the game are just placeholders. So the game probably runs now, but without videos (I don't know the game, so I am not sure if it's just intros or actual part of gameplay).

Placeholders are shown while the video is captured and sent to valve's servers for transcoding. A few days later, proton downloads transcoded versions. Thus the first few players see the placeholders, and subsequent ones see the actual videos.

That's a stopgap. The real issue is that video encoding patents are a legal minefield. Although it should be easier in some countries without software patents (ffmpeg and vlc both started in France). Here apparently, videos can be shown directly if you have the codecs installed locally (trough gstreamer and ffmpeg). If I'm reading this correctly, at least.

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I still wish winepak [External Link] (expired https, but accepting that is better than http anyway) had caught on :cry:

It seems like the lack of an automated infrastructure made the project not sustainable.

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Quoting: Ali_JohnHeroic Games Launcher gave me the confidence to buy my first game on EGS, Sifu. There was no protondb to check compatibility, which is dumb imo, but luckily I found other players that tried different wine versions and lutris-fshack-6.21-6 worked well, even with the stuck on menu bug gone! Now, I'm wondering when can I play Pubg, Valorant and more!

Keep in mind that Heroic is unofficial, and could be cut out at any time... I prefer to remain on Steam for the time being !

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Quoting: TcheySeems like so many other "game changing" keyboards.

Just the same stupid non orthogonal QWERTY layout with some more options around.
It’s time the world opens out from QWERTY and similar (like AZERTY in France).

The TypeMatrix BÉPO is not the perfect keyboard, but it’s so better than AZERTY already... Also BÉPO was approuved as the second official French standard a couple years ago, so that’s something. Even if it’s almost impossible to find one in regular shops, at least you can buy stikers, or proper BÉPO from internet (overpriced) stores.

In english, i think the DVORAK jaout or something alike is "superior" but still marginal ? Not sure about non-french stuff though.

TypeMatrix is not the only game in town when it comes to ortholinear/orthocolumnar: I use a nice ergodox EZ, and I'm very happy about it.

For gaming, having the ability to game without moving your hand from the home row (ESDF instead of WASD/ZQSD) is really nice, it gives you better access to more buttons. I have a special "gaming [External Link]" layer that remaps those to WASD, and removes the escape/meta/alt buttons that are typically under my left hand. The real shame is that the keyboard firmware still needs to interact with drivers, so you can't produce arbitrary unicode codepoints on arbitrary keys.

It's a small improvement, but I still regret the lack of analog control and force feedback in keyboards.

I also agree with you on layouts, though we don't even see the AFNOR-approved AZERTY keyboard in French stores (LDLC hinted at something, maybe?). I need to try BÉPO, but for now I'm quite happy with my fully custom layout and blank keyboard.

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Hmm, I'm skeptical but interested. Joysticks are obviously superior for movement input, but I'm afraid the palm might lack precision/mobility to pull that off.

Now, this is just a touchpad... I'm pretty sure someone could cook up a libinput driver that converts a regular touchpad into some left joystick input!

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This is fair. As other commenters wrote, I wouldn't feel comfortable either with giving random games root or kernel access to my system.

However, I could go at great lengths arguing against the usefulness of anti-cheat.

I'll try to make it short. If it were left to me, I'd:

• have pro players play in controlled environments during tournaments


• let competitive players opt-in to stronger anti-cheat measures, like in-kernel/streaming


• relax anti-cheat measures in casual lobbies


• let people play without anti-cheat...


• ... and I would even integrate cheat inside the game

For instance: playing against your friend who is much better than you? Add a bit of aimbot to make it more fun/interesting to everyone. Just make it clear in online lobbies who uses what, and give players the ability to opt out from playing with "cheating" players. Also pit players vs (player+cheat) at similar skill levels. Well, just my 2c.

Oh, of course that can't really work with some business models of selling cosmetics, probably not if trying to extract maximum value. With cosmetics, you need a big, unified player pool to address.

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Quoting: fagnerln

Quoting: MayeulCI wish they added split-screen in the UI. You can launch it with the console, but it's hardly intuitive.

I didn't know that it's possible to play l4d in splitscreen on PC, lol.

Actually reading more on this [External Link], there's a steam workshop add-on [External Link] that adds it to the main menu :)

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I wish they added split-screen in the UI. You can launch it with the console, but it's hardly intuitive.

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Quoting: ridgeUsed to play the original Bloons TD flash game as a kiddo, great fun!
If anyone is looking for a different spin on the tower defense genre, check out the Anomaly series. Anomaly: Warzone Earth [External Link] is my favourite "tower attack" game by far, as in you control a soldier and deploy attackers in real time. You might recognize the developers, they're currently making Frostpunk 2. It also has a native Linux version, however the last Anomaly game, Anomaly Defenders, does not..

A few other TD picks (linux-native):

Mindustry [External Link] is one of my favourite blends of tower defense and factorio :)

Kingdom rush [External Link] is very polished.

Revenge of the titans [External Link] (and others in series) is quite nice too!

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Ironically the Proton version works better than the native version in the Steam Flatpak.

Quoting: pleasereadthemanualI love the format; it's so simple, gives the developer a lot of control, and solves the age-old issue of dependencies being updated over time.

There's plenty of issues with the format too: it's harder to update said dependencies, it still relies on a bunch of dependencies on the host, it also relies on a couple of weird tricks.

Basically, the most interesting part of the format is that it's delivered as a single file. Great for running multiple versions side-by-side, and easy to use in a portable way. Besides that, not much.

Flatpaks are relatively portable too, it would probably be pretty easy to provide one-file exports, although it would require flatpak on the target computer as well to run :)

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