The Pre-Sequel is out! NVidia brings PhysX to the penguin, 0 A.D. throws Alpha 17 in our FACE organs, and Unity denies all the things. Then Borderlands The Pre-Sequel faces our Chairquisition! All this, plus your hate mail.

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 Links

Steam

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• http://store.steampowered.com/app/261640/
  
• http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2014/10/10620/
  
• http://steamcommunity.com/games/distance/announcements/detail/171460076368602807
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/301970/
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/
  
• http://steamcommunity.com/games/281130/announcements/detail/137683079242548069
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/281130
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/321480/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1
  

News

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• http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-technologies-sale-options-solved.268527/page-4#post-1808103
  
• http://physxinfo.com/news/12421/physx-sdk-3-3-2-arrives-adds-gpu-acceleration-support-on-linux/
  
• https://education.github.com/pack
  
• http://play0ad.com/alpha-17-quercus/
  
• http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2014/10/terminal-overload-03-released-support.html
  
• http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?202489-fallout-for-linux-source
  
• https://github.com/Spunkybd/fallout-2-for-linux-source
  

Review

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• http://borderlandsthegame.com/index.php/game/borderlands-the-presequel#videos
  
• http://store.steampowered.com/app/261640/
  

Hate Mail

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• http://slexy.org/view/s2SgehLVXO
  
• http://slexy.org/view/s21S4iWatR
  
• http://i.imgur.com/QFRGswx.jpg
  
• http://slexy.org/view/s2MpOptrh5
  

Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro

Steam News :

Pre-Sequel launches, Working as Advertised on Day 1

http://store.steampowered.com/app/261640/

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• Differing regional release dates can DIAF.
  
• We’re in 2014 not 1993.
  
• I’m actually a bit giddy about this.    Is this the first triple-A game to get a simultaneous release (giggity)
  
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  • More like AAA DLC @ 59.99
    
  
  
  

 

Racist

http://blog.counter-strike.net/index.php/2014/10/10620/

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• Shader fixes, basically.
  
• Still doesn’t let me use llvm to speed up the shader compiles.
  

Distance Beta Build 3153

http://steamcommunity.com/games/distance/announcements/detail/171460076368602807

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• Four new challenge modes.
  
• WHAR challenge pissing?
  
• Quicker level restarts and a FK load of bug fixes.
  

Screencheat (embargo keys in list)

http://store.steampowered.com/app/301970/

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• Embargo and launch date of Oct 21
  

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• I like this bit from the system requirements:
  
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  • Graphics: Any from the last 4 years
    
  
  
  
• Interesting mechanic.    Have to play this with roommate and see how that fares
  
• It hurt my brain organ a little bit.
  

 

DeadCore

http://store.steampowered.com/app/284460/

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• We talked about this game billions of years ago in the futures past
  
• Platformer-FPS blending exploration and speedrun
  
• First Unity game I played /w Linux
  

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• Used to be called DeadLock but then the Dev discovered that was also the name of 1996 TBS game.
  
• Those aesthetics remind me of how much they’re trying to be Portal.
  
• This was the game that made me realise Unity games work better on the Intel Mesa drivers than AMD’s.
  

Dolphins Cry

http://steamcommunity.com/games/281130/announcements/detail/137683079242548069

http://store.steampowered.com/app/281130

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• Looks neat but no Linux in ze System Requirements so NOPE!
  
• 3rd-party DRM YAY! \:D/
  
• Several Duke Nukem Forever analogies were made in the comments.   This fills me with hope
  
• This doesn’t fill me with confidence: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_3rd_Party_DRM_on_Steam#Reality_Pump
  
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  • Because you want to limit the number of machines your game runs on in an ecosystem that is trying to introduce “Play anywhere†functionality.   Good jerb
    
  
  
  

 

Sigils of Elohim

http://store.steampowered.com/app/321480/?snr=1_7_7_230_150_1

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• Oh, those crazy Croatians
  
• Sliding block puzzle minigame in the Serious Engine?
  
• Oh look, free promotional material.
  
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  • In the hands of anyone else, this’d be called Early Access and you’d have to pay full price.
    
  
  
  
• Croteam has always attempted to put out Linux ports, so I’ll continue to support them
  
• WHAR The Talos Principle?
  

News:

No Unity

http://forum.unity3d.com/threads/unity-technologies-sale-options-solved.268527/page-4#post-1808103

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• Clearly the place to debunk these rumours is ..the forums?
  
• If you feed this into the De-BS-o-tron-9k you get ‘nobody wanted to buy us’
  

Oh, barra-barraCUDA – Yeah

http://physxinfo.com/news/12421/physx-sdk-3-3-2-arrives-adds-gpu-acceleration-support-on-linux/

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• You gonna burn, burn, burn, burn, burn it out to the wick!
  
• This will only really affect new games and older games who completely overhaul their Phys-X support
  
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  • https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/2j6r3h/borderlands_the_presequel_is_now_playable_on/cl97p9z
    
  
  
  

SDP

https://education.github.com/pack

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• Basically a huge free bundle of software and credits for services aimed at making student projects easier by putting all the necessary tools in their hands (Hosting, CI, Collaboration, DNS)
  
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  • Almost as good a deal as hostgator (ker-plug),
    
  
  
  
• YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE NOW
  
• Apparently my university e-mail is still valid. Can you say free shit?
  

0 A.D. New Release: Alpha 17 Quercus

http://play0ad.com/alpha-17-quercus/

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• something something …in a world
  
• Performance improvements
  
• Scenario and Mod Design
  
• New Maps
  
• Major Core Combat Rebalance
  

Terminal Overload 0.3

http://freegamer.blogspot.com/2014/10/terminal-overload-03-released-support.html

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• Everyone’s favourite remake of ROTCE is back
  
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  • This time with a new map, GUI improvements, and game improvements
    
  
  
  
• Glad he is still working on it since it’s a fun game that nobody knows about.
  

 

OG Fallout (1&2) for Linux goes on GitHub

http://www.nma-fallout.com/showthread.php?202489-fallout-for-linux-source

https://github.com/Spunkybd/fallout-for-linux-source

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• Timeslip (prominent OG Fallout modder) gave up on his SDL based Linux engine reimplementation for the original Fallout and Fallout 2.
  
• Don’t expect that noise to build OOTB because makefile
  

Scale:

- Nooope

- Not sure if want

- Check it out

- Shutupandtakemymonies

Game: Borderlands 2: The Pre-Sequel

Webzone: http://borderlandsthegame.com/index.php/game/borderlands-the-presequel

Devel: Gearbox/Ass-Pyre

Engine: Willow Engine (Unreal Tech)

Price: $59.99/€49.99

Wazzat: Your mother, the meat bicycle

Makes with the working

V-

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• Works OOTB /w two issues
  
• Roughly 30% of our A/V downloads come from space Australia and not only are they hit /w the space Australia tax they get region lock-in FROM A COMPANY IN SPACE AUSTRALIA?
  
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  • This is how you create piracy
    
  
  
  
• New rule: FK mothering region locks in 2014 =’s minus one chair.
  
• You lose another chair for not even bothering to detect mah hardware.
  
• Really, everything was set on calculator.
  
• My first experience should not be digging around in advanced graphic settings seeing what else I need to enable or set to high.
  
• Outside of that everything else was butter.
  
• Ass-pyre did a fine job porting the game. I know this because almost every, single, game-breaking, bug found in the Windows version is here as well ..but that’s not their fault.
  

J-

S-

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• I ran the game on Both my SteamBox running SteamOS and my Ubuntu 14.04 machine down stairs. It runs flawlessly on proprietary 334. drivers on my Nvidia GTX555.
  
• The game has a tendency to stutter on the on the AMD open-source drivers but runs flawlessly on FGLRX 13.35 drivers.
  

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Shiny / Sounds

V-

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• It’s a reskin of Borderlands 2 and BL2 looked okay.
  
• Again there was no single point where I went Oooooh shiny!
  
• Again Unreal Engine 3 (even modified) is getting long in the tooth organ
  

J-

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• No real change from Borderlands 2
  

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• The Borderlands series has been one of the best Unreal 3 ports I have played with.
  
• The soundtrack reminded me of Tron Legacy… then I went to Moxxies bar and I saw Daft Punk in the DJ booth. Go figure
  

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Control

V-

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• I could bind all the things
  
• Didn’t spend 20min futzing /w the gerbil input speed,
  

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• Frawless
  

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FUN

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• I’m coming at this from an uncommon position.
  
• My first time playing BL2 was a few weeks back. I wasn’t revisiting an old friend on a new OS.
  
• For me this is BL2 /w a new gravity mechanic (yes but-slam is fun for a bit) and an oxygen meter that is more of an annoyance.
  
• Really, there was never a time I ran out of O2 and said anything other than ‘welp, better stroll halfway across the map and grab some more’.
  
• In all fairness I drink A LOT so random blackouts while walking is called “Tuesday” #powerblackout
  
• Singleplayer is just miserable for me. I just did all this shite in BL2.
  
• Multiplayer is somewhat better but FK all buggy.
  
• Unoriginal, poorly written, unfunny, buggy DLC repackaged as a $60 game.
  

J-

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• Linux gamers kind of got screwed with the release schedule of the Borderlands game
  
• For someone who played BL2 two years ago, this would probably seem like a fresh game
  
• For folks like us however, all we see is getting two very similar games back to back, so I’ll try not to Judge it too harshly
  
• Venn is Right, sometimes there’s just a metric fuckton of enemies you have to deal with
  
• Its also pretty grindy, which II think is a bit of a step back from BL2, which mitigated some of the grind
  

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• Unlike the other two heathens, I am enjoying the game. My only major gripe I have is that if the game is going to check for my old save files from BL2 take out the tutorial. I also am still on the fence with the games grinder system.
  

 

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Final - 

Hate Mail:

chairquisition

http://slexy.org/view/s2SgehLVXO

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• To plagiarize my response from shatrealm:
  
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  • “Cameron, you racist slut! I was completely aware that there is a 3DS shovel knight. It’s specifically why I brought it up!â€
    
  
  
  

The bridge

http://slexy.org/view/s21S4iWatR

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• The chairs are not of this world.
  
• We are only beginning to understand their ways
  
• We only know our simple human ape maths are wrong and dare not question these ascended beings who gifted us advanced moon technology.
  
• Hallowed are the Chairs
  
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Fully (redacted)

http://slexy.org/view/s2MpOptrh5

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•  You were soooooo close little buddy.
  

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  • If you want us to take a look at your game (basically give it a free plug) just send us the keys.
    
  • We’re happy to do it but it’s really at the point of having to pick and choose and one of the deciding factors being keys in the note. 
    
  
  

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• E.g. the lot from Screencheat (this game will be huge) were all like ‘we know there’s only three of you but we’re sending an extra one for the full experience‘
  

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  • That right there is the mark of people who actually pay attention.