Looks like something I would enjoy.

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Quoting: XpanderI always remembered that it looked better than Flatout 2 ... but its more blurry and low textured than Flatout 2 imo, water and reflections look a bit nicer though and there's more AI opponents racing. Other than that its just Flatout 2 with few tweaks here and there.

Also for some reason it shows Controller prompts in the menus, Even though i have no controllers connected. Still works with keyboard though, just have to remember the buttons.


Works out of box with Proton 9.0 (Beta) that i had selected.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1knWp7etloY

No steering wheel for this one? 😎

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Quoting: D34VA_Anyone who has played both FlatOut and Burnout: Is this series comparable? Some of my best memories are of Burnout 3 and Revenge. Does Flatout scratch a similar itch?

I only watched my roommate play Burnout but Flatout 1 & 2 are among my favorite racing games. They look rather different, at least on the surface.

I can tell you what you can expect from Flatout series:

- satisfying, but mostly arcade experience (you can modify the settings to make it more realistic)
- simple car upgrade system, variety comes mostly from driving different cars (think the usual top speed/acceleration/handling stat choice)
- nitro boost goes brrrrrr
- upbeat 2000s rock & metal soundtrack
- beautiful, mostly offroad & rural tracks (I recommend turning off bloom though)
- demolition and stunt elements in most tracks
- weird-ass alternative game mode in which you can throw the driver into a large shooting/bullseye circle or jump through fiery hoops

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I've always just used Steam Remote Play for Linux host, Parsec for Windows host. Still, I am glad those projects exist, streaming is awesome.

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Wow Steam becoming ripe for Google Play Store level of scams haha that is new

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One day we will get rid of GPUs (and other hardware) competing on secrecy & exclusive features (often not needed). Today we are a step closer to that day.

(at least on Linux, haha).

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Happy to see them being on the top of the issue. Would be even happier if testing for this kind of use-case was part of their release routine ☺️.

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Quoting: GuestIn case Valve doesn't provide a fix in a timely manner, it may be necessary to downgrade the client (I don't own a Steam Deck to test):

• Enter desktop mode (Deck users)


• Exit Steam


• Launch Steam and downgrade using archived 1705108172 version:
   
steam -forcesteamupdate -forcepackagedownload -overridepackageurl http://web.archive.org/web/20240113112425if_/media.steampowered.com/client -exitsteam


• If the client successfully downgrades and launches, inside `~/.steam/steam`, create a new `steam.cfg` file with contents:
   
BootStrapperInhibitAll=enable

Source

This is some dark magic, downloading Steam client from the Internet Archive :p

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Quoting: Shmerl

Quoting: hardpenguinGentlemen*, start your pacmans**!

* and everyone else
** or apt, dnf, nix-env, pkgtools, emerge etc.

Hopefully Debian maintainers will package it soon.

Eh I am not in a rush, my Debian Sid can stay on version 5 for as long as maintainers want to :P

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Gentlemen*, start your pacmans**!

* and everyone else
** or apt, dnf, nix-env, pkgtools, emerge etc.

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