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I played this for over a year using my Steam Deck and I don't think anything changed. Is this just Valve being sloppy with certification again?

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Some people might be OK with carrying vehicles across maps, but I expect my vehicles to carry me.

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People seem concerned that something may break, but iirc steam runtime versions are always preserved the same as proton versions (and you can manually enforce what version to use for linux native games) and a lot of games can just keep using 3.0

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To me, indie means creatively independent. Which automatically means financially independent. This also means that if you even have a publisher, it must be one that is paid for their services instead of the other way around. I wonder how hard it would be to fill the "indie" category with just games/developers that fit into this description.

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Last time I tried their free trial I got stuck in a rock after 20 minutes, with no way to reset my position.

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Quoting: JarmerWhat's the general consensus here on the AI usage inside Arc Raiders?

I don't know whats called general consesus here, but i'm personally fine if its used for enemy AI behaviour training, or as tool to automate some things and is not really coming up as sloppy art replacement in a game

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Quoting: SupayHDD prices have gone up so much. I went to refresh and replace some of my 4 and 8TB old ones with 14TB, and was horrified at how expensive 4 and 8 still are compared to when I bought them years ago. It's why I went with Snapraid and mergerfs for my big media array. Can use any mixed sizes and types of disk, parity is confined to specific disks, only disks in use spin up, and if the array fails then I can still read each disk independently so only lose the disks that died. It's great for WORM type setups, doing the overnight sync and able to recover from disk loss if needed. I have had to do that, and it worked perfectly.

If you do get a Poweredge or similar, I recommend putting something like Proxmox on to start with and then out OMV on that. Keep to a very basic config for Proxmox, don't try and learn too much to start with, and then pop OMV on as a VM. That'll let you then be able to add other VMs/containers and nodes to the system later as you learn it. Though OMV can do a little of that as well, so can always just install that directly and get used to the options that provides first.

thanks again for the advice :)

and agree on prices. I think I will just try to keep those old wd red drives spinning for as long as I can, I just don't want to put down almost $2k for new ones. Holy shitballs.

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What's the general consensus here on the AI usage inside Arc Raiders?

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I guess that Debian is a better basis for runtime library changing every few years that the thundering rolling library of Arch.

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YES! Been looking forward to this. But now, alas, I don't know what to do. Do I either play this or Quartet on the Deck as my next game? CHOICES!

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^ the "indie" category has always been that way. It's so dumb. They have been told a million times to fix it and they ignore everyone and continue to put massive studios in that category. My all time fav was dave the diver. Just insulting. Nexon has 7000 employees, $3 billion in revenue, and is one of the largest gaming companies on earth. Get outta here with that nomination.

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@Bumadar

Thank you for the info. I was under the impression that it was much, much earlier than that, but I guess those were "unofficial" releases.

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What is the correlation here, where actually worthwhile and not predatory multiplayer games, made by passionate devs and not a committee work on Liunx ?

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Nice. I guess this game will make more sense for Steam Machine, when it arrives.
I have been playing over 35 hours now and im addicted. So many tense and random moments in this game that makes every play super unique and fun.

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They removed a lot of libraries... I know, increase in speed, less memory overhaul, etc etc, but I expect many old games not working anymore...

The thing is, you can still use the older versions of the runtime for these games. In fact, it is likely that Steam will default to an older version of the runtime for older native 32 bit titles.

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This looks insane, love it

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It's a shame that they don't support Linux on desktop pcs but it's a good start to have it only for the steam deck.

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An early trailer locked video framerate has nothing to do with how a game will perform...

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The video being 30fps may indicate this will not be a high FPS on low end devices. I hope the developer finds a good balance between number of zombies and performance.

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Quoting: StalePopcornSteam page doesn't list Linux/SteamOS system requirements but the YouTube video description has the tags #Linux and #SteamDeck. Looks like fun!

That's our trailer channel, not related to the developer. It's a game you'll need Proton for.

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They removed a lot of libraries... I know, increase in speed, less memory overhaul, etc etc, but I expect many old games not working anymore...
imagine if the library support could be optional for "advanced users", I would like that.

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And Larian let this dev go through with developing a native Linux version. That includes supporting this version too in terms of maintaining it. They made this choice. Where other studios say that 3 percent market share is not enough.

I haven't seen stuff like this happen before. Like the dev who wants to create a Linux version of Playnite because the dev wants to switch and devs own app is holding that switch back.

The YT channel Linux for Everyone did a video where a clip from a main stream media tech program was played. The slow death of Windows it is called. There one of the people said that children today don't know about Microsoft. And another said that we're raising a generation of gamers, and they're all switching to Linux. Boom!

TLDR: something is happening. And I am here for it. With popcorn.

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@LoudTechie Thanks for advice, will look into it. I managed to run gui in YeetMouse, just needed to restart after driver installation ;) Corrected mouse rotation no problem there, so now I'm ready for HL3 :D
Might sometime try mouse acceleration again...

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Quoting: linuxjacquesTotal War: WARHAMMER III review ratings on Steam are ... not great.

It's...complicated. The reviews are negative but a lot of them are coming from people who've put hundreds if not thousands of hours into the game. We have a kind of a Stellaris situation here I suppose. It's a very ambitious game, that's difficult and expensive to maintain, the game desperately needs attention in its base mechanics instead of endless amounts of additional DLC that keeps breaking stuff. It's tricky to fund this maintenance development time, though.

But if you'll still be able to get hundreds of hours of fun from the game like me, then I can hardly sit here and tell you the game actually sucks and you shouldn't buy it, even if you come to the same conclusions after some time.

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Quoting: Liam DaweI doubt they could entirely change the runtime base like that, with so much depending on it, without breaking a lot.

If they ship their runtime with necessary 32bit libraries - I don't see why not. You can have perfectly fine 64 bit system with 32bit support in kernel and 3rd party 32 bit libraries when needed only.
And most games do exactly that. They ship their 32bit modules.(not all 32bit libraries, mind you, but still!)
In fact its even better, as different OS will have different 32bit libaries. So it makes Steam libs universal for all games.

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Bit odd them listing "Improved VRAM consumption on Nvidia GPUs" under the Steam Deck heading but okay. Hopefully that will help those of you choosing to run the Native Linux version on Desktop Linux with an NVIDIA GPU.

I can only understand that as someone (more or less secretly) supporting Linux. IIRC, they already said the Linux version started as a passion project of a single developer. Whoever you're are, I'm sending a .

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In ideal world 32bit support should have been dropped like at least 10 years ago, but at the same time, if its needed for compatibility for legacy applications/games then, yeah, just don't break things that someone might still want to use.
wine wow64 has been pretty good lately, but iirc there are still some issues running 32bit things on 64bit environments and whats the state with old native 32bit games i wonder, can those be run in pure 64bit mode now?

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What ton of Features so we get from Play it that we can't get from heroic and RetroArch?
Usually people tell me that they find too many settings confusinf and want a turn key solution

More then possible to list. Look at the addons. Everything is addable on top. You aren't assaulted with a universe of features all on one page.

It's designed to bring everything together and cater to everyone, there are no doubt complicated features in some addons but most a pretty straight forward.

If you want zero customization and no options then stick with what's already available.

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Steam page doesn't list Linux/SteamOS system requirements but the YouTube video description has the tags #Linux and #SteamDeck. Looks like fun!

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