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Jon Shafer's At the Gates, the indie strategy game from the designer of Civilization 5 is out
23 January 2019 at 11:01 pm UTC

Quoting: WorMzyThis has me Blinded by Fear. :o

Hah, I watched them last month, they do blind you by fear. :-D

Putting games across multiple stores is not easy, as developers keep noting recently
23 January 2019 at 9:06 pm UTC Likes: 3

Nice read! I guess there's a market to automate software update distribution between stores and APIs. Perhaps there are such software that I am not aware.

Late last year Quake 2 gained Vulkan support thanks to one dedicated coder
2 January 2019 at 11:59 pm UTC

Well, it is great indeed, but Quake 2 isn't so demanding to begin with. In fact, OpenGL based source ports like Yamagi Quake II limits framerate to a certain level as default to not to overuse CPU/GPU. Though, vkDOOM3 looks promising, yet it also isn't available for Linux at the moment...

https://github.com/DustinHLand/vkDOOM3

The Black Mesa team have pushed out a new Linux beta
18 December 2018 at 5:45 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: poke86Thanks for the tip, I was restarting from a quicksave maybe that was it.

As far as I understand, public-beta branch pushes tweaked versions of those 2 problematic maps. Loading a quicksave most probably loads the old version of the map. I can confirm loading chopper section from a quicksave reproduces the crash while restarting the map with following command loads the new map which works just fine.

map bm_c2a5g 

The Black Mesa team have pushed out a new Linux beta
18 December 2018 at 12:08 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: poke86Dammit I uninstalled the game just last week because of a recurring crash... Guess I need to try again, hooray for broadband!

Quoting: MayeulCDid they fix the crash that required moving the bodies around a chopper before blowing up the tank truck? This was quite annoying, although I didn't test in a long time...

Test chamber and chopper crash have already been solved in public-beta branch. You need to restart the map FYI.

For now, the experimental Linux (and Mac) port of ARMA 3 will not see any more updates
12 December 2018 at 6:33 am UTC

Quoting: Ehvis
Quoting: GuestAs rea987 mentions, Battleye runs natively on Linux and Arma 3 runs via eON. Bohemia could do the same type of port if they wanted using Proton or Wine so as long as Proton or Wine runs Arma 3 well which I'm not sure as I haven't looked. It would just take some collaboration with the folks at Battleye I'd imagine.

eON does not use the source code, only a Windows binary. There's no way to get the Linux version compiled in there. Since BattlEye should catch any kind of tampering, I'm wondering how VP managed this.

Here, "Linux Bin" depots of Arma 3 from public and development branches:

https://steamdb.info/depot/249507/
https://steamdb.info/depot/249507/

As you see, BEClient_x64.so and BEServer_x64.so are natively available. You do not need to include BattlEye in eON builds, it simply works alongside with it.

For now, the experimental Linux (and Mac) port of ARMA 3 will not see any more updates
11 December 2018 at 11:07 pm UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: EhvisSo how would eON do that? Seeing as that effectively wraps the Windows binary as well.

BattlEye is available for Linux. Most probably VP's eON handles the game and Linux version of BattlEye works alongside with the game. Here is the Linux depot of Insurgency which is a Linux game that use BattlEye:

https://steamdb.info/depot/222884/

Jon Shafer's At the Gates to finally release next month, with Linux support
11 December 2018 at 7:52 pm UTC Likes: 4

Swedish metal band At The Gates? Oh, wrong forum, never mind...

John Romero has announced a free unofficial spiritual successor to The Ultimate DOOM's 4th episode
11 December 2018 at 10:37 am UTC Likes: 1

Naming choice is a bit interesting. Cause, another id Tech 1 (Doom engine) game The Original Strife: Veteran Edition used to be called Strife: Quest for the Sigil. I guess that's just a coincidence but peculiar indeed.