SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:28

Cheeseness (ValiantCheese) forgets to introduce himself

00:00:30

DerRidda (DerRidda)

00:00:34

meklu (mnarikka)

00:00:37

bean (beansmyname)

00:00:40

Mim (MimLofBees)

Our Gaming

00:01:04

DerRidda played Counterstrike:GO, Metro 2033 Redux, NEO Scavenger, Natural Selection 2, Starbound, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

00:03:05

Mim played Dead Island, Sword & Sworcery, Guns of Icarus, Appointment with F.E.A.R, Don't Starve

00:04:24

meklu fell in love with Lovely Planet, played lots of Counterstrike:GO, also some Binding of Isaac: Rebirth, FOTONICA, The Talos Principle, Little Racers STREET

00:08:34

Bean played Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, Guns of Icarus Online, Binding of Isaac:Rebirth, Beat Hazard, Costume Quest 2, Democracy 3, Little Racers STREET, Cosmochoria, Jets'n'Guns Gold

00:10:12

Cheeseness played Crypt of the Necrodancer, Guns of Icarus, Satellite Reign, Civ: Beyond Earth, Space Run, XCOM: EU

00:13:43

Corben78 (Corben78) is stuck in a blizzard

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:14:30

Past Events

00:14:32

Civ5 Longplay attempted but postponed due to bugs

00:14:48

No More Room in Hell almost victorious.

00:16:04

Mount & Blade Warband

00:16:05

Synergy (HL2 mod) fun but buggy.

dscharrer has a workaround for Synergy crashes [source]

00:17:52

XCOM:EU

Upcoming Events

00:18:16

Orbital Gear (post cast)

00:18:34

Planetary Annihilation

00:18:42

Dota2 Beginners Training from sakuramboo and Dougie187 [source]

00:19:44

Event suggestions welcome [source]

00:20:21

johndrinkwater sends his warm steamy regards

Other Community Stuff

00:21:14

Kaia has been putting together a guide to finding help and information for new Linux users [source]

00:22:15

grinsekatze/spacepope has put up a TF2 Mannpower server steam://connect/gs2.de.steamlug.org:27505

00:22:33

soeb has done another Port Report, this time looking at Civ: BE [source]

Steam/Valve News

00:23:15

Holiday Sales drain wallets from everyone

00:27:23

Valve introduces region locking across the board for some countries to combat abuse [source]

00:29:12

CS:GO VAC Ban wave [source]

Tech News

00:34:00

Desura Client is now GPLv3 again. Linux support will be more of a priority moving forward [source] [source]

General Gaming News

00:37:51

TF2 Smissmas update Includes new beta game mode [source] [source]

00:38:47

Distance is on Steam Early Access now [source]

00:40:55

Corben78 survived the blizzard and his newborn son and joins the cast

00:41:48

Sportsfriends is released [source] (Joust component is Linux only since controller support in windows is broken)

00:43:55

OpenMW 0.34 is released [source]

00:45:46

GamingOnLinux.com GOTY awards accepting nominations [source]

00:46:30

Natural Selection 2 fixed Linux sound crash [source] [source]

2014 Recap

00:49:47

This year's Cast guests:

Oliver Franzke (Double Fine) s02e02

Matt Hartman & Howard Tsao (Muse Games) s02e04

Josh Klint (Leadwerks) s02e09

Leszek Godlewski (The Farm 51/independent) s02e10

John Warner (Over The Moon) s02e12

Edwin Smith (Feral) s02e15

JP LeBreton (Double Fine) s02e16

Mevious (Rexaura) s02e18

Tak (Unity) s02e19

00:52:05

How the mac and linux communities respond to ports and porting companies

00:53:49

Valve's Greenlight's rise and fade

00:58:30

SteamOSe project merged upstream [source]

00:58:37

GOG supporting Linux [source]

01:00:03

Desura changes hands again and promises better Linux support and Humble Bundle's proportional decline in Linux support

01:01:53

More Unreal Engine 3 Linux ports, and UE4 ported by community

01:02:48

Mac porting houses Aspyr, Feral, Virtual Programming embrace Linux

01:03:15

Crowdfunding and early access hits and misses

01:05:22

Vintage gaming on Linux

01:14:09

SteamLUG Community stuff: Events, streamers, youtubers, writers, mapping challenge, clans and guilds, game jam partici-pants pants pants

Favourite games of 2014

01:16:12

Corben: Alien Isolation

Bean: Borderlands 2

meklu: Lovely Planet

Mim: Don't Starve

DerRidda: Wasteland 2

Cheeseness: Another World

Predictions/speculation for 2015

01:27:51

Most anticipated games

Corben: Evolve

Bean: Darksiders

meklu: Kingdom Come

Mim: Star Citizen

DerRidda: Witcher 3

Cheeseness: Guns of Icarus Adventure Mode

Sign-off

SteamLUG Cast is a casual, fortnightly audiocast which aims to provide interesting news and discussion for the SteamLUG and broader Linux gaming communities.

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