Now, that was an interesting read. I love Croteam!

Shall we tell Feral to use VK_GOOGLE_display_timing to compute frame timing on all of their Vulkan ports, or are they already doing it?

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Is it using X or Wayland? Although I would deem it quite trustworthy, you lose some sanboxing mechanisms with X.

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I quite enjoyed SR1, if only the tutorial (in which I must have spent 6 hours or more), but that was on windows and a while ago.

I bought SR2 as well a few months back, but didn't get around to play with it. It seemed quite a recent (and decent) game to me, even if reviews seem to deem it unbalanced. So I am quite surprised with this move.

I can't wait to see what the community will do with it! I wish well to the developers as well.

this does mean everyone can play the game for free, but you will have to put in some extra effort to build it first

Edit: what I mean with rude is anything that would offend the developer, and would put off other developers that might otherwise be tempted to do the same.

This strikes me as odd, as MIT doesn't prevent binary distribution at all...
Anyway, the devil is out of the box... Would it be considered rude to put it up on FlatHub?

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WOW
Wow
wow

this is huge.

Now I'll be able to play with my windows friends :D Thanks Aspyr, I had basically given up hope on this one! And I didn't see it coming...

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It looks quite nice, and reminds me a bit of Mothergunship (upcoming apparently just released "sequel" of tower of guns, though I'm not sure if Linux is planned).

My only concern is that the environments might feel a bit cramped after a while ^^

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Quoting: Dmitri SeletskiI know there is butthurt in Mac forums right now. And thought of that is making me smile. Those tears, ummy yammee! I fast on no carbs diet, but those tears are so sweet, like round fat fingers covered in doughnut chocolate of rich fan boys who have more money than sense.

Hum, I can certainly empathize with them. I would certainly prefer all games to be as widely available as possible. Maybe they could use MoltenVK in the future?

That dev statement is nice, I know what they mean, but I would certainly love them to elaborate a bit on this, as this would probably be a good argument for porting games to Linux.

Edit: I'd like to play this one as well, though I think I got it in a monthly some time ago. It would be nice to test with my soon-to-be-installed-in-a-new-pc new R9 Fury :D

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Quoting: devnullOne of the reasons to stag logged out of friends, is security. There were exploits against trading for example where people could send an offer and even if you didn't click on it, they could get your IP. In effect it pings your client.

Valve has some serious questions to answer if any of that has changed (yeah I know, good luck with that).

That's probably the reason they stated that chats were now relayed trough Steam servers and not p2p anymore.

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Quoting: GustyGhostEw... webRTC

What do you have against it? It's a nice set of protocols and APIs.

WebRTC-based backend. It uses Opus encoding, encryption and the voice chat now goes through Steam directly, instead of being peer 2 peer.

I usually read this as steam servers being used as Turn servers to allow clients to connect together (p2p) trough a NAT or firewall. They might implement a TURN fallback, though (like a proxy trough Steam servers), in case that fails. We'll, that's how WebRTC is designed anyway.

Weren't all chats in the same, tabbed window already? I sometimes found this "feature" annoying.

Great, another proprietary chat option, just what we needed! /s

I've been using steams chat myself, it was quite reliable. I like Matrix a lot, though, and I'm glad to see that there are some steam/Matrix bridges (though they will probably have to be updated).

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It looks great, but I never was a fan of those rollercoaster or attraction park games. Nor of the real thing, to be honest. The concept is a bit foreign to me :D

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IIRC, one of my big gripes with it is the lack of a dedicated/self-hostable server. Or was that solved some time ago?

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