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I see OTXO as inspiration, I had really bad time with it as the controls on gamepad were really strange (I couldn't get used to how the character was turning). Hopefully this will not be that case.

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I'm not sure about the "randomly generated rooms" part, but other than that, looks great.

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This is good news for desktop Linux and Valve.
They see the need to address the SteamDeck separately and not push needless extra stores.
EA'll intentionally be one of the latest to allow their software to run on desktop Linux systems.
They're fighting Valve and keeping Linux down means that Microsoft can keep Valve in check.
Yet they've SteamDeck became enough of unit on itself to be addressed separately even though with the same motivations(remember SteamDeck isn't even half of the Linux market share).
Lets hope they'll need a SteamOS and/or an Arch statement next time, because it shows effort on their part.
Every time they need to split the platform it means they're now dealing with two problems instead of one.

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I feel the game is still very alpha and lacks some good structure.
Hope they keep working on the gameplay and overall game feel as I feel its severely lacking in structure.

I'd be down for a creature redesign model wise and some visual growth elements to replace the lack of evolutions.
Maybe more ocerall personality too.

They are good to their community so far, hope they keep at it and dont get lost into the "just stuff in more assets" trend for updates.

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SuperTux and SuperTuxCart are pretty fun alternatives to Mario and Mario Kart, definitely worth checking out IMO.

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And once again we have the community to thank for this, showing what is possible when you're not blinded by corpo mindsets. AMD could've unlocked FSR4 on their previous gens to reward customer loyalty, and increase their value, but they decided that their new GPUs need a selling point. Ironically this makes them look worse now from a consumer standpoint and will probably hurt their sales rather than increase them

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I was confused seeing Pokemon and Mario

The very top of the article:

Also including games not available on PC to show alternatives.

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"M$ threatened our Windows discounts after that Go S release, so we had to promise a Windows-exclusive release, even though everybody is figuring out it runs way worse that way."

Ugh... and where does this come from, please?

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"M$ threatened our Windows discounts after that Go S release, so we had to promise a Windows-exclusive release, even though everybody is figuring out it runs way worse that way."

Netbook deja vu?

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Having built-in dithering is nice, but I really wish they would tackle HDR support to solve the banding issue at the source. I know there are mods for it, but they tank my framerate on Steam Deck.

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Yooka-Laylee, possibly as an alternative to Mario, but more closely Banjo Kazooie. Its steam deck verified and Linux native.

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I wonder how back-heavy this thing is with the battery attached...

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Same here, I prefer Forza offline. But then I'm not competitive at all and the most social you really get with other player in the open world is freaking them out with bizarre car skins.

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No Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon for platformers?

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The only reason I'm not cursing Larian right now for that asinine decision of making a Steam Deck exclusive Linux build (and let's hope that doesn't ever become a trend), is because BG3 runs horribly on the SD, so if they are specifically porting the game to that hardware, it better be better than Star Wars Outlaws on the Switch 2!

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If you own Cult of the Lamb, install and launch it. For some reason, it always fixes this issue for me.

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FTFY ;P Linux, SteamDeck & macOS confirm that they will not support EA.

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Looking forward to playing that one! I can never get enough of these coop adventure games.

Also can I just point out that it really irks me when people use reviews as a grievance form for what's obviously a bug.

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I was confused seeing Pokemon and Mario but I guess it was to mention games of those genres supported on Linux rather than them being actual games. This is a great list and I'd love to see it be expanded more based on commenters!

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In my case see nice, have more characters like toadette

https://i.imgur.com/TCOZ0Ka.png

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It's funny because people weren't asking for a free-to-play, online Skate game. They wanted Skate 4, and the fact that they keep announcing that Linux and Steam Deck aren't supported also shows enough people are asking for Linux support for them to notice.

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Looking it up properly, GTFO appears to be really nothing like Tarkov. Needing to extract doesn't necessarily mean it's an extraction shooter - they're a lot more of a specific genre.

GTFO would be more like Helldivers 2 or Deep Rock Galactic, they're just co-op shooters.

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What would GTFO be an alternative to?

Alternative to Escape from Tarkov bcs it is a PvE Extraction shooter but in some alternative setting.

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CS2 is probably the closest alternative to Valorant as well.

When ARC Raiders releases, that'll be a good alternative for Tarkov, assuming it supports Linux like The Finals.

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I did not even know that there was a separate AMD open source driver outside of Mesa. So makes sense to focus on one, and make it the one that's widely in use at that :-).

Now, what I would want to see is all the LLM stuff supported by OSS driver. I don't really feel like setting up a separate install just for toying with my GPU. Though looking at how fragile that ecosystem still is, maybe there would not be a way around it anyway.

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I'm enjoying Session: Skate anyway. They're a few years too late to jump on this bandwagon.

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Again, just play Tony Hawk instead. 🤙

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I have the whole of EA on my ignore list. So I won't see this one anyway.

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Never had any problem with RADV in the... Gosh, 9 years since? From all the way back with my beloved RX480. I still remember the "RADV is not a conformant Vulkan implementation: Here be dragons!" warning. How far we've come.

Great news in my opinion. I haven't noticed any ray tracing performance gap, but I'm also using a 7900XTX and avoid using raytracing on principle when I'm not checking "max settings" performance with a game.

I remember a single title, Metro Exodus, where RADV constantly crashed in the desert area of the game and I had to briefly switch to AMDVLK to complete that level. Probably since long fixed as well.

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For the extraction shooters, I'll suggest Incursion: Red River. It doesn't have any PvP like Tarkov, but it's still an alternative that works on Linux (desktop, at least; I haven't tried on the Deck at all).

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