Latest Comments by Julius
Steam Deck on track for the end of February
14 January 2022 at 11:47 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: BielFPsValve should also release a new game with deck in mind to show the device qualities, like other "consoles" usually do.

Apparently they are working on such a game called "Citadel".

Unrelated to that, strange that there still aren't any pictures of final docking station for the Steam Deck.

Collabora announced Venus, 3D accelerated Vulkan in QEMU
1 December 2021 at 6:10 pm UTC

Clearly aimed at ARM based Chrome-books. Not much to see here from a "normal" GNU/Linux gaming perspective.

Valve reportedly developing a Half-Life shooter-strategy hybrid
1 December 2021 at 6:07 pm UTC

Quoting: MayeulCSounds like a RTS/FPS hybrid like Natural Selection (first or second one or Nuclear Dawn?

Probably not (sadly all FPS/RTS hybrids so far have been a commercial failure).

To me it sounds more like trying to bring a Dota2 (and maybe auto-chess) like formula into a FPS game with some additional aspects taken from asymmetric Left4Dead.

Valve answers the question: should developers do native Linux support or Proton?
13 November 2021 at 2:39 pm UTC Likes: 5

If developers target Proton/Wine as a stable API instead of doing strange hacks that only work on specific versions of Windows, then it is better then custom (closed-source) native ports. The GNU/Linux ecosystem is too dynamic and focused on working with constantly maintained open-source software, for the typical close-source game port to work without problems longer then a few months. Sure you can try to work around that with more stable runtime environments like Steam does or package it in containers etc. but at that point you might as well run another compatibility shim like Proton.

What we really need it open-source engines for games, not closed source native ports.

OPGames donates $300k to open source including Godot Engine and Blender
11 November 2021 at 5:25 pm UTC Likes: 7

Free money I guess, but very iffy source. But truth to be told Godot is already sponsored by some large gambling companies using it to make slot machines and so on...

Humble Choice for November has Project Wingman, WRATH: Aeon of Ruin plus more
2 November 2021 at 11:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Argg... And I just bought Project Wingman on a regular sale.

Still this looks like a good selection after some months of less interesting ones (which I paused).

Steam and GOG both have their big Halloween Sale live
28 October 2021 at 8:50 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: Julius@Liam is there a reason the GoG links are all pointing to some ad-tracking redirect?
This was answered before. GOG changed their affiliate program, this is who they use now.

Well it gets fully blocked by uBlock Origin, which certainly is a bit annoying.

So I don't think those affiliate links are going to work for most people.

Steam and GOG both have their big Halloween Sale live
28 October 2021 at 8:33 pm UTC Likes: 2

@Liam is there a reason the GoG links are all pointing to some ad-tracking redirect?

EVERSPACE 2 full launch delayed into 2023
20 October 2021 at 5:53 pm UTC

As an original Kickstarter backer without "beta" access I am starting to feel a bit annoyed by this perpetual beta status :(