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Missing LFS bug confirmed. The game crashes... Really, Beamdog. You could do better. How hard is it to add a simple compiler switch: -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64

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Good, I'm going to buy Jack Orlando. Never played it before.

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The broken bit of Dota 2 Vulkan issue I was having was fixed, pretty quickly.

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I've played a little so far. I'd agree with the nostalgia glasses. Some of the nostalgia is great. But some is not. In particular the voices. Man are they annoying after a few minutes of playing.
Also, I prefer the Banjo IP. I wish they'd just bought back the rights from Microsoft...

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Quoting: M@yeulCI wish I had backed this one... Well, you can never know, my apologies to the dev team. I will probably buy it on release.

You can still back it and gain access via their website :)

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Quoting: razing32If people keep playing on Winblows and Android , they endanger nothing. (pricks)

I don't know... to peel Minecraft away from Linux would require that they kill the Java dependency. A way to do that would be to rewrite the code in some other language that doesn't support our OS (such as C#). The only problem with this is they'd be setting the community on fire when they did so. All the mods and various bolt-on enhancements would just stop working, and that would essentially kill the game that they paid Notch so much money for. I believe that community is what keeps Minecraft relevant. That community following, or rather the lack of it, is also why other clones of it aren't as successful.

Of course, this isn't all sunshine and roses. Minecraft will go away one day. I don't know when, but I do believe I know how. Eventually the ROI on maintaining the game will dwindle to the point that it is no longer reasonable or profitable to maintain it. Interest will wane, and new subscribers won't be able to keep the game afloat financially. On that day, whoever owns the Minecraft IP will either try to sell it off or just pull the plug. Long live Minecraft.

TL;DR - I don't think they're crazy enough to mess with Minecraft in a way that hurts Linux users because it would hurt everyone else too. At least not while the IP is still so lucrative.

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I tried for an hour or so but I had to ditch is cause of that aiming. It feels so random and clunky.

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Quoting: M@yeulCThis won't solve the problem, though. I guess Valve didn't update the .deb on their website with the latest version.

This comes from the fact that the Open source drivers are compiled against a newer version of the libraries present in the runtime.

Try to launch it with:

STEAM_RUNTIME=0 steam
Then, update steam (opt into beta branch if necessary, I've been staying there for more than three years :P).

worked perfectly thankyou.

and with the updated drivers my games work [as expected] much better, plus no graphical glitches in Defense Grid 2 and Assault Android Cactus has a much smoother framerate.


thanks again

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I wish I had backed this one... Well, you can never know, my apologies to the dev team. I will probably buy it on release.

Speaking about badges, I have been thinking about implementing some groups in the GOL website (I haven't looked at the code yet). One could imagine a group per studio, within a "Game dev" group, or something similar. The idea being to add a tooltip to the badge, indicating what game the dev is working on. And maybe a nice place for a studio showcase (Feral: who we are, or similar). Would you be open to such a thing, Liam?

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This is great as performance will be on par with Windows as Source 2 was built with Linux in mind. No more DirectX to OpenGL conversion.

Oh and Vulkan!!!

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Quoting: ggmIts' like awesomenauts

Exactly my impression! I'd bet my ass it uses the same engine.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: micha...

Micha, How did you get that "Game Dev" tag?

Liam offered it after he found out I'm a coder working on Albion Online.

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Quoting: micha...

Micha, How did you get that "Game Dev" tag?

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Of those games listed, only 4 I'm missing. =P

Yes, I picked up DiRT Rally in the Humble Monthly Subscription. Hoping that INSIDE might make its way to Linux (eventually). I was another one where I wasn't keen enough on DiRT Rally to pay full price. But at the Subscription price: "Yeah, why not!"

Also I recently picked up "7 Days To Die" on Humble Store (and used my Subscription 10% extra discount). I've been playing 7DTD and quite enjoying it. Full price: £18.99 Humble current price: £7.59 10% extra off: £6.83
And the link: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/7-days-to-die

Picked up GoNNER on Humble Store as well, same 10% extra Subscription discount: https://www.humblebundle.com/store/gonner-press-jump-to-die-edition

Those titles are all still on sale (at time of posting).

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From the makers of Banjo Kazooie comes... Don't sue us Microsoft Banjo Kazooie. And everyone is happy to see it get made :)

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Its' like awesomenauts

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Well had a chance to play this for an hour today.. correction, my 6yo daughter did, she would not let me have the controller (except when it was tricky)

Once the libudev tweak is done the game launches just fine with a controller. The game was nice and smooth via steam link and no need to configure the controller.

The game is a nice open-ish world platform game with mini puzzles (got beaten in some damn race).

I haven't tried the arcade section yet.
It's a nice fun platformer and seems good for kids or general time wasting

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Quoting: edddeduck_feralDo send in your reproduction steps though as it does sound like you have an issue most people never experience.

Will do in the next days.

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This thing makes me curios. I don;t like roguelikes , but this one may be worth a go.

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Quoting: lvlark

Quoting: razing32What field ?
You peaked my curiosity :)

I'm a tutor for pupils at high school level. Sometimes one-on-one, sometimes in (relatively) small groups. My fields are physics and math. Sometimes chemistry, though for pupils at the IB level I have the luxury to pass that on to a more capable colleague.

I also help younger pupils (from age 12), but then subjects are more of a mixed bag. That part is also more about pedagogy than working with exam-level-pupils.

That's cool actually.
Math , physics and IT were my favorite subjects when i was in high-school. Sucked at chemistry though , but I blame that on a teacher who simply did not give a shit and sold us marked up manuals we barely used.

Not sure how IB levels worked , but seems to be a US thing.
In my country used to work (not sure now) like this :
7-11 First 4 years - primary school
11-14 Second 4 years - secondary school / gymnasium
14-18 High school - 4 years
18-21/22 Bachelor
+2 for Master's Degree
+X for Doctorate (no clue since i stopped caring at Bachelor level)

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: AnxiousInfusionI don't think it is a matter of if, but a matter of when.

I don't think Microsoft are stupid enough to endanger their second biggest IP any time soon.

Depends how many Linux users they have.
If people keep playing on Winblows and Android , they endanger nothing. (pricks)

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Hammerwatch is amazing. I'll be buying four copies of this on day one!

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Glad I backed it. However not at the alpha test tier so will have to wait until EA but that's fine. =)

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Quoting: FredO

Quoting: pete910It is brutal on GPU's tbh, also the openGL implementation is nowhere near the perf of DX from the scores I've seen.

From what I can find the Win10/DX11 results are very close to the Linux/OpenGL looking at Average FPS:

Windows 10 DirextX (1080ti - Extreme setting - 46 FPS):
http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/unigine-superposition-performance-benchmarks,2.html

Linux OpenGL: (1080ti - Extreme setting - 44.5 FPS)
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=unigine-super-benchmark&num=3

Take his benches with a bucket of salt, Why on earth he cant just use the actual score that the bench produces is beyond me.

1080's are averaging 4500 in windows. mine is 3225, so like I said, not even close.

Need to see the score as to determine how Phoronix and everybody elses stacks up, Showing the average is only part of the benchmark final score

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I can't recommend Planetary Annihilation: TITANS enough. You'll often be able to find me in the (discord) PA Community Centre. ;)

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Quoting: AskQuestionsLater

Quoting: M@yeulCSpeaking of Minetest, is it usable as a full game, including the survival aspect of it? I've seen projects like Voxelands or Minefix that try to achieve this, so I was under the impression that is was not (plus, last time I played it, there wasn't much to do).

Base minetest (without the mods) is a fairly quiet place without much life. However, mods are trivially easy to add and there are many extremely good ones, including modpacks that provide a quick starter on adding to the base build.

I have both minetest and minecraft servers running at home, and my children (7 and 9 years old) still play on both servers. Generally I'd say that the animation and polish in minecraft is better, but the ease of modding and variety available in minetest provides a highly interesting world.

I had not realized the scripts download was already automated. I played a bit online this time, and this is exactly what I was looking for.

Yes, it could use a bit of polish, I might try to contribute, one day :)

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Shame there's no multiplayer/coop. Still I'd check it out when/if it gets ported. :)

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Works. Yay!

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I got Dirt Rally from Humble Bundle. Was pleasantly surprised about how well optimized it is. You can really turn down the graphics, even to the point of replacing objects with sprites. I managed to run it on my modest Quadro K1100M at 1600x900 on medium settings at 30-35 FPS. Can go up to 60 FPS if I really don't care about the looks.

That's not amazing, I know. But for somebody who never owned a proper gaming machine, this is perfectly playable. In comparison I can only get around 20 FPS from Mankind Divided at 800x600 and all options on lowest.

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Quoting: metro2033fanboy

Quoting: kibbles...

lmao, yet another silver 3 blaming "cheaters"...

He is right and we don't need the facking Cheaters on Linux. The most Cheaters switch from Windos to Linux, because VAC is not on Linux active.
I have see many comments on Youtube about the switch. And yes i hate facking Cheaters.

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