This is really nice. I love it when companies are offering developers the opportunity to further improve an open source stack. Even more when they are not directly related to this stack, nor major players in the OSS world.

As a side note, I very, very seriously considered applying there for the year-long internship I am doing right now, but was ultimately deterred by their notice that they needed 5 years of professional experience in the industry. I so much wanted to help with their SteamOS efforts. And I am here, doing a slightly boring internship where I don't really learn anything new (but, granted, where I acquire experience).

Sorry for ranting and exposing my personal/professional life here, but that's how Valve job offers make me feel, and I expect I am not the only one :/.

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I would be curious to see some benchmarks. Is it an improvement only in Dirt? Does it slow down other games? (An optimization has been disabled, after all)

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Very sweet little game, with quite a lot of potential.

A chat would be a bonus, short-term, and/or a list of connected clients to check whether you are alone or not.

I wonder which direction it is going to take, though. Is it going to become a battle game (à la Mario Kart), or an open-world race game? Or something completely different? Time will tell :)

Physics could be also tweaked a bit (to become more - or less - realistic), I think. Or maybe it's just because I played with my keyboard? (around 1:45 IIRC -or was it 55?) Well, it seems I need to tune a bit my hand's internal PID because I keep rolling over, although it seemed to get better near the end of my session. It might also have to do with the fact that I had the "old" car. I don't really know how different they are.

I had quite a lot of fun racing with other people (waiting with each other at the start line), fighting them corrida or joster-like, running the track backwards, or ambushing near the sea.
There's even room for plenty of cosmetic items. Hats, paint jobs, stickers (apparently that's a thing in CS:GO, now), horns... If that's the developer's wish. (I must say I am not too fan of this paid-for content, but I like customizability :D)

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Yesyesyes, now I am hyped. Thank you, Pierre-loup, thank you Valve.

It was indeed about (valve) time.

I hope they will add this support to openvr, though I also hope they would open source their implementation.

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Quoting: kazrikoI currently have two systems, my Phenom IIx6 1090t running Linux, and an A10-7850k running windows. Hoping to buy a Zen system and merge the two. Depends on if the zen box can properly handle GPU passthrough though to run Windows with a GPU in a VM.

Sounds like you'll at least want an APU for your Linux host. I think they will come out a bit after the FX series.

Quoting: lejimsterYep same here, except I have had the same intel platform for 8 years now! A good ol' Q6600 @ 3.2Ghz, hehe.

I have had almost the same for quite some time (a bit downclocked compared to yours), and I upgraded a bit of time ago to a Xeon with a socket mod 771->775. Happy so far :)

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Quoting: ElectricPrismI'm looking for a favorite new RTS, not sure which game will be the funnest.

Anyone got anything to share about linux RTS'

Dawn of War 2.

Company of Heroes 2 is also in the current humble bundle :)

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I am really eager to see what they got. That plus vega, those are going to be interesting times for AMD.

I fear their design might not allow very high clocks, though, which might be very noticeable against Intel. Well, we'll see. I've been waiting for those for almost 5 years (!).

I hope they kept this idea of making their ARM K12 compatible with the same AM4 socket. It could be a great help at streamlining ARM the way x86 was.

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Quoting: ColomboMore like science communicator.

Tat would make a pretty neat name for a railgun in a video game :)

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Quoting: Eric1212Will need some teaser there... I can't figure out very much what to expect. :P

That's the key: don't expect much from those, if you don't want to be disappointed. Or rather, if you want to be pleasantly surprised :D

I've been let down too often by such promising concepts... The only expectation I can reasonably have is this one: The game will never get out (and it would be crap anyway). I think that's called cautious optimism.

See? I don't really know how it could let me down. I was even pleasantly surprised after no man's sky came out :P

Edit: Anyone got the video playing?

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Quoting: manero666It would be great if Steam could give us the ability to launch wine games through the Linux Client, without switching between clients every time.

IIRC, there was some discussion about making a library that would allow windows games to communicate with native steam, but I don't know its status, nor do I remember its name.

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