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Re: "The Eyes" - this is why I rarely use my Deck and why the only type of game I have on my phone is chess!

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There's literally a 5 hours free trial and you get invited by a friend to try the game with friend pass.
And as mentioned if you bought it on steam, you can always refund it.

I was not aware on The Crew Motorfest, as I said, I have seen very little about the game. Thanks, I'm gonna give it a try, seems to be in that sweet spot of semi arcade semi simulation.

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I did a quick try of VoxeLibre and I don't think it will be replacing minecraft any time soon. In my short try I saw two major issues:

1. New player experience is pretty bad. If you don't know what you're doing, you're going to have a hard time.

2. World generation. This can be split into how it looks and how appropriate it is. I'm not a fan of how it looks. It feels too unnatural. But I suppose this is subjective. The practical aspects are a much bigger issue. First try: I got spawned on the slope of a giant mountain sticking out of the water with a few patches of ice around. Traversing it was a pain, so I quit and generated a new one. Now I got spawned in what looked like a desert. I need wood. Trees? No trees. Started running and found a town. A partially destroyed town because the world generator decided to generate a crevice right through it. Still no trees. Run further. After a while I find a second town. Also partially destroyed. After that town I finally saw the first tree. By then it was night of course.

As long as stuff like that happens, the majority of people will not be taking it seriously.

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When Pi 500+ becomes available in my part of Eu (in two weeks?) and its keyboard proves to be usable, it will definitely get a lot of "Amiga/ST" love from me, but if CodeWeavers help me play new itch games or gog games on it...

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Luanti and VoxeLibre are good enough if you are not demanding (like me). If you want something backed by the insanely rich money making machine ran by Microsoft then sure, stick with Minecraft.

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Any fans of GeForce NOW reading?

Hi 🙋 Only using GFN sporadically and it is still missing some games that I want to play so 🤷

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To me, it looks like one of those "nobody wants to do it because nobody is doing it".

More like "Nobody wants to do it, because it is work/costs money and doesn't pay"?

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Are there any game studios that have embraced, or even half-heartedly supported, Windows on ARM64? To me, it looks like one of those "nobody wants to do it because nobody is doing it".

Edit: OK, there's a list. Looks like they are mostly casual mobile/tablet style games, and for ARM not ARM64:
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/List_of_Windows_ARM_games

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I ended up switching to Vintage Story in the end. It's more complete than the Luanti games and mods are also excellent.

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That’s what reading glasses are for :D

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I used to love GeForce Now when I owned a Chromebook. But have since purchased an Asus Rog Strix G18 with Nvidia 5060. Plays all my games locally now so I dont need GN anymore. Dual booting W11/Bazzite

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I have a question, how good is this game in terms of... NFS, Dirt or even Forza Horizon series? I have seen very little footage of it and I wonder why AAA companies stopped having demos like most indies.

There's literally a 5 hours free trial and you get invited by a friend to try the game with friend pass.
And as mentioned if you bought it on steam, you can always refund it.

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I wonder if Valve is considering an ARM CPU for the Steam Deck 2.

I see no benefits for them to do it. Unless AMD will make an APU with ARM CPU cores (supposedly AMD does plan something like that). And even then, how would it be better than x86_64 APU?

And for a handheld performance penalty for emulating x86_64 on ARM is going to make it additionally problematic.

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Probably the only game I'd play on this is Destiny 2, but it's not worth my money, and I'm not a fan of the concept of cloud gaming, so it's a pass from me.

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I wonder if Valve is considering an ARM CPU for the Steam Deck 2.

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I've tried to get into Techage a couple of times, but the dearth of quality-of-life mods (could use a good waila, for example) still means I gravitate back to Minecraft 1.12 + GregTech Skybound.

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hahaha I am turning 49 , it's the eyes. the eyes the go.. ;)

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It's all I use it for.

That's sad. You should definitely try to make time for recreational gaming, and the Deck is a great device for that.

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same as colleagues above - had the founders and was paying it but I just realised after about 2 years I wasn't using it (especially after getting steam deck) so I cancelled it ;)

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So hi, the developer of the Falconeer , I felt it wise to clarify a few things.

With regards to the other ports, Those where done and paid for by the publisher, mostly 4-5 years ago. A port to another platform outsourced can be as expensive as 20K or more. For a single platform. That is not a discussion that relates to the Linux Port.

Because I manage all the steam work myself, it's the main platform where I work with the community to improve my games. Which I manage myself. And this was how the Linux port came to be. I am not a linux person, I don't even own a linux machine, up until I won a Steamdeck a few years ago. I made that port at the request of a linux fan, and we did it together.

When you have one game out, it's fun, make a VR version, make a native linux version,, it's not that much work, it isn't rocket science either. But it's a lot of 'busy-work' setting it up, porting to two platforms,, (I sometimes to beta patches once a day when in heavy beta /development) and I have to test every patch twice. It's just more work than I can handle with 2 games out, a remaster and working on a third. But I want to maintain and upgrade all my games, keep them fresh and in the best state possible. That is a ton of investment for something that has in this industry zero commercial value, doing indie remasters or updating old games,, nobody does it, cuz it makes no money. This remaster, it's not a commercial thing, it cannot be in the charts, not be wishlisted, it's just a passion project. And with the help of the Publisher we're trying to make the most of it and find some new fans.. Taking a leap;)

There are a few facts that are wrong here I wanted to correct, the linux native version was made I believe sometime late 2021, perhaps early 2022. I don't think steamdeck had released, steamOS existed. And my second game was years away from being released (it did so in 2024, last year). So no I didn't abandon the linux port when my second game came out, or even when I started work on it. There has been a natural hiatus in free content, cannot make two games at the same time, that is true. But this free remaster proves I am committed to the Falconeer, that's over a year of work in the making.

Regarding the deck verification, the work done here was very much in the controls and interface part. It's a small screen and Valve have been getting tighter on readability and such requirements. This isn't a trivial amount of work.
And as the article states I added specific performance options for Steamdeck. I faithfully tested and catered development for this Remaster on my deck. It's all I use it for.

I can understand folks are upset, I casually removed a native linux build. That is the truth. But this isn't a perfect world, there isn't a ton of money in games, I'm not rich by any stretch and I gotta make smart choices. The effort vs the returns would make it impossible especially going forward. It's just not practically do-able for a solodev.

Perhaps one day I can have a crack at it, when its stable and no more updates are being done...But that seems some ways off.

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I'm currently trying out Wuzzy's new update on Hades Revisited, and I tend to like Nonsensical Skyblock and the Oneblock mod for Mineclonia.

But then, I've never played Minecraft itself aside from a few minutes toying about with Pocket Edition many years ago.

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game?

I play VoxeLibre casually on single player. It's ok for me and I have fun with it, but I'm far from being experienced in Minecraft - in fact I barely played Minecraft before because it gives me motion sickness (and that isn't the case with VoxeLibre under Luanti for some reason). The only thing I can say for sure (from my experience) is that crafting is different on VoxeLibre and it seems that there are much more mobs at night when compared to Minecraft. No big deal for me, as I prefer playing VoxeLibre with the damage turned off (so it's kind of similar to Minecraft's Peaceful Mode because mobs don't attack you).

TL;DR: I think you should [give VoxeLibre a try](https://content.luanti.org/packages/wuzzy/mineclone2/). If that's not your cup of tea, there are other games that run under Luanti - you can find them [here](https://content.luanti.org/packages/?type=game). And there's also Elsewhere , which just got [released on Steam recently ](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1271150/Elsewhere/). I'm having a great time with that one too! It's different enough from VoxeLibre, so playing one doesn't invalidate the other.

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Liège Waffles from the food trucks probably need a dedicated budget line. Club Maté drinks also deserve a special mention,

Also, the beer. Belgians probably have the best beer in the world. At FOSDEM itself you only get a very mainstream version of gueuze and kriek (these are types of sour beer, not brands), so be sure not to miss the pre-FOSDEM beer-event at the Delirium.

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That's why I removed the game from my Steam account 2 years ago, the dev never cared about the first version or making it work on Linux until their sequel.

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Same as wintermute, I haven't used it in a while, yet I'm also on the founders subscription (27.45€/6m) and don't want to lose this budget price.

It would be perfect if GeForce now had all those games, that are using any form of Anti-Cheat which doesn't work on Linux, e.g. GTA V... but that game is missing -.-
I just saw, they have Plants vs Zombies GW2 though... maybe I can give that a try and my subscription finally has some use again :D

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It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?

There's a [public server list](https://www.luanti.org/servers/) with many longstanding community servers, but there isn't really something like some of the huge Minecraft servers (e.g. Hypixel). The Minecraft community is so large that running a single server can be a company on its own with paid staff.

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I haven't used it much in ages because everything I want to play works on Linux. The only reason I'm still subscribed is because I'm on a grandfathered £5pcm tier.

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Another incompetent dev who bit off more than he can chew, then casually dropped the Linux support while advertising Steam Deck verification that he probably did nothing for. There goes my payment soly for the native version.

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Unity Engine

🤨

It's simply [too] much for me to support additional platforms for two games.

The Falconeer supported platforms:

Microsoft Windows
Xbox One
Xbox Series X/S
Amazon Luna
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Nintendo Switch
Stadia

🤨

I don't want to be mean, but I do wonder what troubles he'd run into with the Linux build.

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May I ask, does anyone around here play this game? I've thought about it, I have had Minecraft for a long time but don't want to install it with the new Microsoft garbage.

But I kind of enjoy the process of Minecraft and I would absolutely be 'down' to participate in an online experience with others - but I don't really know others.

It's hard to manage servers but places like MCC and others exist. Do they in Luanti?

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