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News - Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck
By furaxhornyx, 26 Apr 2025 at 11:45 am UTC
By furaxhornyx, 26 Apr 2025 at 11:45 am UTC
Funcom was also behind The Secret World, a MMORPG that had you interact with "out of the game" elements, such as internet "fake" websites, or installing an app on your smartphone to try to decode a morse code inside the game... Clever and fun :)
However, they kind of ruined it with its sequel, Secret World Legends... but that is another story :(
However, they kind of ruined it with its sequel, Secret World Legends... but that is another story :(
News - Lost For Swords is a unique deck-building dungeon crawler that's different each time
By RFSharpe, 26 Apr 2025 at 4:42 am UTC
By RFSharpe, 26 Apr 2025 at 4:42 am UTC
I really appreciate games that have demos (try before you buy). I may not judge a book by its' cover, but I do judge a game by its' demo.
Here is what I discovered about Lost for Swords:
1. Upon booting the game I saw the Godot Engine logo (+1 rep)
2. I looked in the settings and saw options for game difficulty (+1 rep)
3. Upon entering the game I saw a "Basic Tutorial" option. (+1 rep)
4. I went through the Basic Tutorial. It did a great job of explaining the game. (+1 rep)
5. I also noticed there was an "Advanced Tutorial" (+1 rep)
6. Once I got through the tutorial, there was a generous amount real game content (+1 rep)
7. I got interrupted part way through the game. When I restarted the game, my previous progress was saved. (+1 rep)
8. The game has Steam Achievements (+1 rep)
9. The game does not have Steam Trading Cards (-1 rep) I know... I am a shallow person.
Bottom Line: I purchased the game.
Once I purchased the game, my progress from playing demo transferred to the full game. (+++++++ rep)
Here is what I discovered about Lost for Swords:
1. Upon booting the game I saw the Godot Engine logo (+1 rep)
2. I looked in the settings and saw options for game difficulty (+1 rep)
3. Upon entering the game I saw a "Basic Tutorial" option. (+1 rep)
4. I went through the Basic Tutorial. It did a great job of explaining the game. (+1 rep)
5. I also noticed there was an "Advanced Tutorial" (+1 rep)
6. Once I got through the tutorial, there was a generous amount real game content (+1 rep)
7. I got interrupted part way through the game. When I restarted the game, my previous progress was saved. (+1 rep)
8. The game has Steam Achievements (+1 rep)
9. The game does not have Steam Trading Cards (-1 rep) I know... I am a shallow person.
Bottom Line: I purchased the game.
Once I purchased the game, my progress from playing demo transferred to the full game. (+++++++ rep)
News - STAR WARS Zero Company is a Clone Wars XCOM and I want it now
By Philadelphus, 26 Apr 2025 at 2:18 am UTC
By Philadelphus, 26 Apr 2025 at 2:18 am UTC
With what looks like unique characters this has XCOM: Chimera Squad vibes. Which I thought was an interesting take on the basic gameplay of XCOM and a fun time, even if I didn't end up playing it as much XCOM 2 overall. Could be good, we'll see! Though I'll wait for it to release before getting my hopes up.
News - Check out the unique demo for Insectile, a bug-catching creature collection game with puzzle-battles
By Philadelphus, 26 Apr 2025 at 1:53 am UTC
By Philadelphus, 26 Apr 2025 at 1:53 am UTC
I was already somewhat thinking it with the insectile design but I saw the "Crawling Olives" in the trailer and my mind immediately went to "Kinda bug, and kinda snack…" 

News - 11 bit studios are remaking the original Frostpunk in Unreal Engine 5 with Frostpunk 1886
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:32 pm UTC
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:32 pm UTC
If UE5 could fix their terrible default configs and performance issues along with EXCESSIVE requirement to use upscaling and sometimes framegen... then I wouldn't mind so much... but that is where we are today.
News - Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:30 pm UTC
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:30 pm UTC
Oh boy, can't wait for more consumer exploiting to come.
News - Steam Deck Verified round-up highlights for late April 2025
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:29 pm UTC
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:29 pm UTC
Oblivion has NO steam Deck friendly config afaik. it will give you 10-20fps.
News - NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:28 pm UTC
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:28 pm UTC
AI writing exploits into their drivers now, just keeps getting better from NVIDIA.
If only AMD could figure out high end GPU gaming.
If only AMD could figure out high end GPU gaming.
News - Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:26 pm UTC
By TheRiddick, 25 Apr 2025 at 11:26 pm UTC
pretty sure Funcom was behind Anarchy Online, that old MMORPG I once spent a little bit of time in, a bygone age.
I doubt I will check this out anytime, its likely to shutdown eventually anyway since it relies on players to exist it seems.
Would love a single player RPG like this with tie in COOP/PVP on the side, but as the core part of the game, nar.
I doubt I will check this out anytime, its likely to shutdown eventually anyway since it relies on players to exist it seems.
Would love a single player RPG like this with tie in COOP/PVP on the side, but as the core part of the game, nar.
News - Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck
By Purple Library Guy, 25 Apr 2025 at 10:34 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 25 Apr 2025 at 10:34 pm UTC
Is it just me, or does "Funcom" sound like it should be the evil government in some bizarre dystopia?
News - System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more
By PixelDrop, 25 Apr 2025 at 10:18 pm UTC
By PixelDrop, 25 Apr 2025 at 10:18 pm UTC
COSMIC is pretty exciting, to me it's the potential of getting a DE that might actually care about the non-power Linux native experience eg: The people who just want to use their computers. I love the fact they are actually putting effort into accessibility.
Last time I tried to use Linux on my main computer it failed miserably due to lack of accessibility. The best accessibility tools were in KDE and they were subpar and complicated to setup properly. When I reached out to the devs they basically said it wasn't their priority or interest and that people with disabilities should stick to Windows and Mac, and so that's what I did for my main computer. Since System76 is a company with vested interest in people using and enjoying their computers which starts with the DE I have high hopes for it over the long run.
Last time I tried to use Linux on my main computer it failed miserably due to lack of accessibility. The best accessibility tools were in KDE and they were subpar and complicated to setup properly. When I reached out to the devs they basically said it wasn't their priority or interest and that people with disabilities should stick to Windows and Mac, and so that's what I did for my main computer. Since System76 is a company with vested interest in people using and enjoying their computers which starts with the DE I have high hopes for it over the long run.
News - World of Goo 2 comes to Steam with new levels on April 25
By WORM, 25 Apr 2025 at 10:03 pm UTC
By WORM, 25 Apr 2025 at 10:03 pm UTC
FYI, you can grab your Steam key here https://www.humblebundle.com/home/keys if you already purchased the DRM free version.
News - Point and click adventure Casebook 1899 - The Leipzig Murders launches later this year
By Purple Library Guy, 25 Apr 2025 at 9:25 pm UTC
By Purple Library Guy, 25 Apr 2025 at 9:25 pm UTC
Roughly Victorian era series of murders and it's not happening in London? Is that even allowed?!
News - Valve continues preparing the Steam Deck OS to release for more devices with SteamOS 3.7.4 Preview
By CatKiller, 25 Apr 2025 at 6:54 pm UTC
By CatKiller, 25 Apr 2025 at 6:54 pm UTC
@shadowofward There is essentially zero difference between distros for performance. You'll want to look for things like support, convenience, community, as well as personal preference.
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-best-linux-distribution-for-gaming-in-2025/
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-best-linux-distribution-for-gaming-in-2025/
News - The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified
By darkfoss, 25 Apr 2025 at 6:25 pm UTC
By darkfoss, 25 Apr 2025 at 6:25 pm UTC
I bought it last night and installed it on kubuntu 24.04 lts. Steam selected proton hotfix to run the game I was suprized how great it runs. FSR 3 everything jacked up to ultra and buttery smooth so far.
I'm using the amdvlk driver since the Tome Raider series runs better than radv on those titles.
I'm using the amdvlk driver since the Tome Raider series runs better than radv on those titles.
News - Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
By 14, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:57 pm UTC
By 14, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:57 pm UTC
After going public, each Discord user changes from a person into nothing but an earnings potential statistic.
News - Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck
By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:51 pm UTC
By Liam Dawe, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:51 pm UTC
Sure, but the point of getting confirmation is to ensure it will continue working, and not just be randomly pulled like we've seen from many pre-releases in the past.
News - Dune: Awakening set for a public playtest May 9-12 but the anti-cheat concerns me for Linux / Steam Deck
By Stoppable3, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:50 pm UTC
By Stoppable3, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:50 pm UTC
I can just say that the Anti-Cheat haven't been a problem at all during the playtest, and I've been playing from the beginning.
The only problem it had was for like 1 or 2 months that you had to install AMDVLK (even if you ran with RADV after), but that has since been fixed.
It has gold status on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710
[EDIT] Also forgot to mention that Conan Exiles their other game works with Battle Eye without any issues.
The only problem it had was for like 1 or 2 months that you had to install AMDVLK (even if you ran with RADV after), but that has since been fixed.
It has gold status on ProtonDB: https://www.protondb.com/app/1172710
[EDIT] Also forgot to mention that Conan Exiles their other game works with Battle Eye without any issues.
News - System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more
By walther von stolzing, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:32 pm UTC
By walther von stolzing, 25 Apr 2025 at 5:32 pm UTC
I hope eventually they will divert some resources to the iced toolkit.
The documentation for it has been improving (there's a really nice in-progress guide book; in addition to some outdated/deprecated cookbook type manuals), and there's a pretty wide variety of example applications, but especially with respect to widgets interfacing with external data, the examples are pretty limited to simple things, which really don't help with the intricacies of Rust's borrow, lifetime, etc. rules.
Earlier this year I worked through rustlings, and a few other Rust tutorials; I was under no illusions about my competence (?!) in rust, though nevertheless I was looking forward to building a new version of my simple pdf viewer using iced. (currently a version exists that uses bare opengl, in C, via glfw) It started out fine, and I was even proud of myself when I figured out how to add a function to mupdf's rust bindings to request some extra stuff from the C side -- but then I couldn't figure out how to load rasterized pages progressively into a widget, so I gave up. Granted, I'm just a silly amateur; though various forums show real programmers getting puzzled over similar tasks.
So anyway, I hope we eventually have resources to help app developers make better use of iced.
The documentation for it has been improving (there's a really nice in-progress guide book; in addition to some outdated/deprecated cookbook type manuals), and there's a pretty wide variety of example applications, but especially with respect to widgets interfacing with external data, the examples are pretty limited to simple things, which really don't help with the intricacies of Rust's borrow, lifetime, etc. rules.
Earlier this year I worked through rustlings, and a few other Rust tutorials; I was under no illusions about my competence (?!) in rust, though nevertheless I was looking forward to building a new version of my simple pdf viewer using iced. (currently a version exists that uses bare opengl, in C, via glfw) It started out fine, and I was even proud of myself when I figured out how to add a function to mupdf's rust bindings to request some extra stuff from the C side -- but then I couldn't figure out how to load rasterized pages progressively into a widget, so I gave up. Granted, I'm just a silly amateur; though various forums show real programmers getting puzzled over similar tasks.
So anyway, I hope we eventually have resources to help app developers make better use of iced.
News - DOOM (2016) gets a surprise release on GOG with a big discount
By poiuz, 25 Apr 2025 at 4:24 pm UTC
By poiuz, 25 Apr 2025 at 4:24 pm UTC
Not that I've seen. Compared to this https://wiki.bethesda.net/wiki/snapwiki/Doom/SnapHub/:
- There's no "SnapMap Community". Instead a "Play" tab which contains some maps to play.
- Instead of "My Snapmaps" there's a "Create" tab with the same content (but without "My published maps" & the wiki link).
- There's no "Find match".
I don't know if you can copy them from the filesystem.
- There's no "SnapMap Community". Instead a "Play" tab which contains some maps to play.
- Instead of "My Snapmaps" there's a "Create" tab with the same content (but without "My published maps" & the wiki link).
- There's no "Find match".
I don't know if you can copy them from the filesystem.
News - 11 bit studios are remaking the original Frostpunk in Unreal Engine 5 with Frostpunk 1886
By neolith, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:49 pm UTC
By neolith, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:49 pm UTC
Oblivion Remaster from the recent ones seems another UE5 slop again. Performs bad, looks pretty blurry and awful.Part of the reason for the performance might be that the remaster runs two engines under the hood. Much of the game logic still runs on a mixture of Gamebryo/Creation Engine and the rest as well as the graphics are powered by UE5 on top. It is a slightly weird move and I can only assume that the reason for that is that they were able to push out the game a lot faster this way since it is not made inhouse by Bethesda.
News - System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more
By Minux, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:47 pm UTC
By Minux, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:47 pm UTC
System76 
The desktop has been pretty solid base to me for months. Maybe a bug or two sometimes. But I read this year is the year of Cosmic. And to me it's definitely. I'd wish my capacity right now gave me more chances to learn in order to put my little grain of salt.
Cosmic has made me finally feel at home on a computer.
There's just some annoying things I'd love to be able to help polish, but I'll wait because I love these guys, their philosophy, their work.
System76

The desktop has been pretty solid base to me for months. Maybe a bug or two sometimes. But I read this year is the year of Cosmic. And to me it's definitely. I'd wish my capacity right now gave me more chances to learn in order to put my little grain of salt.
Cosmic has made me finally feel at home on a computer.
There's just some annoying things I'd love to be able to help polish, but I'll wait because I love these guys, their philosophy, their work.

News - Time-travel adventure Old Skies from Wadjet Eye Games is out now
By neolith, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:39 pm UTC
Good lord, yes – Space Quest 6 looked so weird to me.
... that reminds me: I haven't played Space Quest 5 in ages. I think I still might have the disks somewhere...
By neolith, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:39 pm UTC
Kind of like going from Space Quest 4 to Space Quest 6.
Good lord, yes – Space Quest 6 looked so weird to me.

... that reminds me: I haven't played Space Quest 5 in ages. I think I still might have the disks somewhere...

News - Lenovo - Legion Go S with Valve's SteamOS gets a price increase at Best Buy
By Mohandevir, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:34 pm UTC
By Mohandevir, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:34 pm UTC
1100$CAN, here. 689$CAN for the 512gb OLED Steam Deck and 819$CAN for the 1tb model.
I will stick with my LCD Steam Deck. If I had to make a move, I'd pick the 512gb OLED Steam Deck and swap drives with the 1tb I already have in my LCD.
All in all, I'll wait for the Steam Deck 2.
I will stick with my LCD Steam Deck. If I had to make a move, I'd pick the 512gb OLED Steam Deck and swap drives with the 1tb I already have in my LCD.
All in all, I'll wait for the Steam Deck 2.
News - You can get DOOM, DOOM Eternal, more DOOM and multiple Wolfenstein games in this latest Humble Bundle
By neolith, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:33 pm UTC
By neolith, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:33 pm UTC
I guess it could be blocked in Germany.Could be. But it's weird since you can get the games at both Steam and GOG here.
News - System76 COSMIC Alpha 7 is out with new accessibility features, global shortcuts and more
By R Daneel Olivaw, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:28 pm UTC
By R Daneel Olivaw, 25 Apr 2025 at 3:28 pm UTC
Nice! Very happy about their progress! I tried out the new fedora spin they have and while it seemed nice, it definitely has that "alpha beta" level of polish and features to it. Once it fully releases out of beta in a few years time I'll definitely try it out as a daily driver.
News - Love board games and pure chaos? Fortune Avenue is a new spin on Monopoly out in Early Access
By dibz, 25 Apr 2025 at 2:38 pm UTC
By dibz, 25 Apr 2025 at 2:38 pm UTC
I wouldn't call this a new spin, it sounds exactly like the long running game series Itadaki Street, although I believe only the Wii game had a US release as Fortune Street.
More of a love letter to that, considering the name, I think.
Also, Fortune Street is probably my all-time favorite Wii game and if anyone reading this hasn't given it a shot yet, I highly recommend doing so. It's an amazing combination of Mario and Dragon Quest characters, in... A monopoly-like game that features stocks and minigames.
More of a love letter to that, considering the name, I think.
Also, Fortune Street is probably my all-time favorite Wii game and if anyone reading this hasn't given it a shot yet, I highly recommend doing so. It's an amazing combination of Mario and Dragon Quest characters, in... A monopoly-like game that features stocks and minigames.
News - FBC: Firebreak from Remedy releases June 17, aiming to be Steam Deck Verified
By Linas, 25 Apr 2025 at 2:01 pm UTC
By Linas, 25 Apr 2025 at 2:01 pm UTC
Reminds me of "Control" quite a bit...They take place in the same universe.
News - NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers
By Ehvis, 25 Apr 2025 at 1:33 pm UTC
Windows doesn't need security vulnerabilities. Microsoft built them into the OS.
By Ehvis, 25 Apr 2025 at 1:33 pm UTC
Now imagine how many flaws their Windows drivers have, unbelievable clown company.
Windows doesn't need security vulnerabilities. Microsoft built them into the OS.
News - NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers
By stellarharbour, 25 Apr 2025 at 1:29 pm UTC
By stellarharbour, 25 Apr 2025 at 1:29 pm UTC
Now imagine how many flaws their Windows drivers have, unbelievable clown company.
- The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remastered revealed, it's out now and Steam Deck Verified
- Discord CEO steps down, replaced with former Activision Blizzard CSO as they work towards being a public company
- NVIDIA disclose new security flaw in their Linux GPU drivers
- Dwarf Fortress hit a huge new milestone on Steam, Noclip documentary now completed
- Wine 10.6 released with improvements to Bcrypt, Command Processor and WindowsCodecs
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