Tried the Iron Oath demo; seems to be Windows only for now but runs just fine via Proton.

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QuoteThey've also seen some controversy elsewhere. In the trailer at about 0:46, you can see characters chasing the protagonist wearing masks. Apparently this caused a stir as some claimed it was a racial stereotype. The team released a statement on Facebook to apologize and they will be adjusting that model to remove the dreadlocks, change their "bold lips", skin tone and change the dart blower "so it looks less like a joint".

What the actual... Are they going to go after the protagonist's winter coat next for being cultural appropriation?

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I love the animations so much, I hope the actual gameplay turns out to be relevant to my tastes as well :)

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That's not what I’m reading from Mal’s post at all. They’re saying that even if you get the Steam keys for free, there is a cost to then distribute and control those keys outside of Steam. Meaning that you may be better off just selling them on Steam and letting Valve take their cut if you don’t have the infrastructure in place to handle this easily.

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Quoting: x_wing

Quoting: TheSHEEEPFrom a developers perspective - and most devs don't care about Linux, that's the sad truth - the Epic deal is really damn good.

For whom? for users? I live in Argentina and I can tell you: Epic is far to be damn good even for Windows users. I fail to see where is better for users, which is what we are.

The text you quoted literally starts with "From a developers perspective".

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Quoting: Liam DaweChanging your own achievements, does not directly affect anyone else. It's that simple. Apart from the already mentioned global stats issue. Frankly, I don't get why people care so much. It's a thing, has been for years, on Windows long before Linux had it and Valve never stopped it.

Global stats are actually pretty much the only part I care about with regards to achievements. It’s interesting sometimes to see how many people have beaten the game, how many of those did a certain side quest, which NPC they chose to help, how rare a certain thing I did by chance is, etc. If people can just push a button to tick those boxes, the stats become untrustworthy and that’s a shame.

Even with the broken achievement use case, that means people who don’t know about those cheating tools will look at the global stats and wonder why only, say, 2% of people have unlocked that last achievement and why they can’t get it to work.

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Quoting: CatKillerIt might still be a restricted selection, depending on which ones they get running on Linux and whether it's optional for the publisher for the game to be included in the service.

I could see the Proton whitelist become the streaming lineup. It never made sense to me that Valve would try to keep track of every game that works well through Proton and offer any kind of guarantee for them. But a limited list of stable, high-profile games that are worth maintaining for a streaming service sounds like something more manageable and useful for them.

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Quoting: tuubiI only have a couple of games in my library that aren't Linux native, so no problems here. The only one I picked that didn't launch properly was a free adventure game from 2014 I've been planning to play but never quite got around to. Namely Heroine's Quest: The Herald of Ragnarok. It does launch with the Steam Linux Runtime enabled, but there's no audio. It's an older AGS game though and those tend to be a bit problematic. I'm sure it'll run just fine with Proton.

I think you can find solutions in the Linux release thread:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/283880/discussions/0/343787283753197906/?ctp=1

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Sweet! I’m very picky with racing games, so it will be great to get a feel for it ahead of release.

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The demo was such a soothing experience, and the animation has all the charm you can expect from the best French animation schools. Really looking forward to this one although it’s peripheral to my usual game genres :)

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