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Playing Prey on Linux in 2018
15 February 2018 at 4:31 pm UTC

Quoting: Jewgeni Filippowitsch IwanowskiSince it has no built-in support for FullHD resolution I changed the following lines in ~/.prey/base/preyconfig.cfg

seta r_customHeight "1080"
seta r_customWidth "1920"
seta r_mode "-1"

The game supports resolutions up to 2560x1440 via .ini edit.

http://www.wsgf.org/dr/prey

Playing Prey on Linux in 2018
15 February 2018 at 12:07 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: Leopard
Quoting: ArdjeMeeh! How can I obtain a copy now :-(.

Ebay or......

Well, couple well known grey market key reseller websites still sell Steam keys of Prey (2006). But, as the game uses "LegacyKeyRegistrationMethod: disk" on Steam just like Quake 4, it needs to be launched via WINE to generate preykey which is needed for native client on Linux.

https://steamdb.info/app/3970/

Playing Prey on Linux in 2018
15 February 2018 at 6:24 am UTC Likes: 1

It's shame that near the release of original Prey 2, Bethesda wanted to acquire Human Head Studios that eventually got rejected. After that incident, Bethesda cut the monet flow, introduced unreasonable deadlines, finally took the project from Human Head and then ultimately canceled it. When you beg Bethesda to release Doom, Quake, Wolfenstein, Elder Scrolls for Linux, remember that...

Here are in-game videos and screenshots of cancelled Prey 2:

http://www.aliennoire.com/home/images/

Remnants of Naezith is a slick grappling hook platformer that's tuned to perfection
6 February 2018 at 3:14 pm UTC

Interestingly enough, the game was built on SFML instead of SDL. Gameplay is smooth and responsive while being hard to master. Being able to watch live replays of other players is quite nice but I suspect that feature uses Steam API which might be a bad news for DRM-Free advocates. Overall, it's a solid speedrunner platformer that I can't wait to see it being played on public events like GDQ and ESA.

Looking for ways to spice up your gaming? Here’s a few games with awesome mods
5 February 2018 at 1:01 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: axredneck> the massive amount of Doom WADs
This. Isn't Doom 2 the game that has more good mods than any other game?

Could be. Arguably Half-Life and Quake follow it. O' glorious id Tech! ;-)

Looking for ways to spice up your gaming? Here’s a few games with awesome mods
4 February 2018 at 8:45 pm UTC Likes: 3

- Quake
- Half-Life
- Half-Life 2
- Unreal Tournament
- The Ultimate Doom/Doom II
- Duke Nukem 3D
- Star Wars: Jedi Outcast
- Star Wars: Jedi Academy
- Doom 3

Thousands of SP and MP mods.

It's time to bug Feral Interactive about future port requests once again
24 January 2018 at 9:04 pm UTC Likes: 2

Deus Ex, because it's the best PC game ever made and its IP owned by Square Enix which contracted Feral before.

Nearly six years after the Kickstarter, Stainless Games claim Carmageddon is still coming to Linux
18 January 2018 at 8:43 pm UTC

Quoting: constDidn't know of this games, looks kind of interesting.
It's great that they want to release for linux. Thanks for making me aware.
I'll go buy it now. Will use the link in the article, hoping they give you some of the revenue for promoting the game.

Don't bother, original version ran like ..ap on Windows, I don't expect updated version the run astonishingly better. It won't be released for Linux.

Playing Quake 4 on Linux in 2018
15 January 2018 at 7:00 pm UTC

Quoting: SwannySo, I've been meaning to release a new Loki libs with updated ALSA libraries for a while now... However, the iD patch for SDL1 was pretty simple, just to allow enabling and disabling the GL context. I have it applied by default on my Gentoo systems but not sure if it's in my Loki libs. Should do a new release to be sure and make the patch available as it used to be on the iD FTP site.

Holy cow, are you still around? I though devs of that site moved on and never looked back, silly me. :-) Well, ETQW requires pre-2.14 glibc to work properly which is not an easy task with current distros. In fact a custom build recent glibc with "disable-multi-arch" option seems to solve the issue but I couldn't figure out how to compile glibc on Ubuntu. :-)

http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/32089-ETQW-oddities-with-glibc-2-15-FIX?p=570552&viewfull=1#post570552
http://forums.warchest.com/showthread.php/32089-ETQW-oddities-with-glibc-2-15-FIX?p=396658&viewfull=1#post396658

Also, Quake 4 and ETQW's "improved" binaries have non-standard (probably proprietary) SDL_GL_DisableContext and SDL_GL_EnableContext_Thread functions. As I recently found SDL Compatibility Library which allows SDL 1.2 applications to use SDL 2.0, I wonder if it's possible to port those functions to default SDL 1.2 somehow?

https://github.com/MrAlert/sdlcl/issues/14

Playing Quake 4 on Linux in 2018
15 January 2018 at 2:08 pm UTC

Quoting: ageresI tried this, and it didn't work for me. I had to contact the Steam support, and they gave me a key.

You probably missed something. A user reported to be successful doing so, yet he hasn't received an extra key.

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/7qe83f/playing_quake_4_on_linux_in_2018/dsop3w7/