Quoting: tpauhow about tuning the match making system in a way that rapidly pita people with a normal skill against each other?
Good people are challenged and cheaters remain mostly amongst each other.

That would be lovely, but you'd have to detect a cheater first. Otherwise they'd just look like high-skill players.

Just political manoeuvring from Sweeney. All he cares about is money and in this case hurting Valve's steamdeck helps his money machine. He strikes me as a man who doesn't understand the Linux model and has no interest in learning, hence the FUD about kernels. No surprise, since again, there's not much money in Linux (at least yet), and that's where his focus is, money. He doesn't even care about cheaters per se - all he cares is that there are few enough of them that the millions of daily Fortnite players don't care enough to stop playing, and therefore stop buying their Fortnite bling.

All he cares about is money.

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Quoting: scaineI played the Steam demo and it's excellent. Reviewers do give it a hard time for its second act, but apparently it recovers well in act three.

I'd have bought it already if it was native, but it's one of those games that gets a pass from me exactly because it's not. It's a Unity game and his previous two titles were both available for Linux (Pony Island and The Hex)... indeed many of his Itch.io projects even support Linux too, so I was gutted when this didn't.

If there's a Linux port in my future, it's getting bought immediately.

Uhhh . . . according to a bit of thread involving Liam a few days ago, aren't you, like, not allowed to say that?

That doesn't sound good... but I actually don't know what you're referring to!?

This

Wow, talk about bad timing, eh!! I don't think I'm particularly zealous in the native vs proton argument, however, but mentioning that I'd wait for this game to go native, in this article, straight after that argument, is indeed really crass! I do buy a LOT of proton games, but these tend to be both AAA and stupidly discounted.

In my defence, I only mention it here because the article is literally about the potential for a Linux port.

Well, to be honest I was indulging some mild sarcasm just now. My opinion about all that is, well, in my post at the end of the thread. I don't actually think there's anything wrong with what you said.

No, and I suppose in occasional, isolated cases, it's not really a huge problem. But it is still a problem, because when you're trying to build a community of positive, like-minded enthusiasts, it detracts from that message, what this site is all about - excitement for gaming on Linux.

So, the negativity and constant haranguing on the subject (or nearly any subject) is a problem. A lot of it comes down to tone as well. There's a big difference between the occasional "I'd love if this got a native release" and a constant barrage of "no tux, no bux".

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Quoting: scaineI played the Steam demo and it's excellent. Reviewers do give it a hard time for its second act, but apparently it recovers well in act three.

I'd have bought it already if it was native, but it's one of those games that gets a pass from me exactly because it's not. It's a Unity game and his previous two titles were both available for Linux (Pony Island and The Hex)... indeed many of his Itch.io projects even support Linux too, so I was gutted when this didn't.

If there's a Linux port in my future, it's getting bought immediately.

Uhhh . . . according to a bit of thread involving Liam a few days ago, aren't you, like, not allowed to say that?

That doesn't sound good... but I actually don't know what you're referring to!?

This

Wow, talk about bad timing, eh!! I don't think I'm particularly zealous in the native vs proton argument, however, but mentioning that I'd wait for this game to go native, in this article, straight after that argument, is indeed really crass! I do buy a LOT of proton games, but these tend to be both AAA and stupidly discounted.

In my defence, I only mention it here because the article is literally about the potential for a Linux port.

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Quoting: scaineI played the Steam demo and it's excellent. Reviewers do give it a hard time for its second act, but apparently it recovers well in act three.

I'd have bought it already if it was native, but it's one of those games that gets a pass from me exactly because it's not. It's a Unity game and his previous two titles were both available for Linux (Pony Island and The Hex)... indeed many of his Itch.io projects even support Linux too, so I was gutted when this didn't.

If there's a Linux port in my future, it's getting bought immediately.

Uhhh . . . according to a bit of thread involving Liam a few days ago, aren't you, like, not allowed to say that?

That doesn't sound good... but I actually don't know what you're referring to!?

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I played the Steam demo and it's excellent. Reviewers do give it a hard time for its second act, but apparently it recovers well in act three.

I'd have bought it already if it was native, but it's one of those games that gets a pass from me exactly because it's not. It's a Unity game and his previous two titles were both available for Linux (Pony Island and The Hex)... indeed many of his Itch.io projects even support Linux too, so I was gutted when this didn't.

If there's a Linux port in my future, it's getting bought immediately.

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WANT. I love games that offer this kind of flexibility, even though I'm unlikely to, you know, actually not just run and gun my way through every level. Selaco looks incredible.

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So is this the whole "Soldier", "Scout" thing that you sometimes see talk of? The "Steam Linux Runtime" that you occasionally see downloading? I just assumed it was a background process that Steam needed (as a client) to run.

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Quoting: scaineGoddamit. I'm definitely going to have to buy this if they enable EAC for Proton. Electronic Arts, eh? Whodhavethunkit.

Found it for free last week in the Twitch Prime Gaming Loot

Well well. So it was! And I claimed it. I'd completely forgotten!

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Quoting: jordicomaJust get rid off the anti-cheat systems, many (or all) are rootkits and worsens the performance.
Well or at least let play the game without anti-cheats if you don't care about multiplayer.

Well, sure, that would nice. I'd quite like bigger house while we're dreaming. But realistically, it's not going to happen, is it, sadly.

So I'm really pleased Valve is making some headway with the people who make these decisions to get some support in there.

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Goddamit. I'm definitely going to have to buy this if they enable EAC for Proton. Electronic Arts, eh? Whodhavethunkit.

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