SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:16

HeroOhOne begins the introduction of co-hosts

00:00:19

Dora (hmccio)

00:00:20

DerRidda

Our Gaming

00:00:27

Dora (hmccio) has been playing Slime Rancher [source]

00:01:17

HeroOhOne has been playing Natural Selection 2 [source], Trine 3 [source], GRID: Autosport [source]

00:02:17

DerRidda has been playing Insurgency [source], Skyborn [source], XCOM2 [source]

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:03:00

Past Events

Starbound [source]

7 Days to Die [source]

PULSAR: Lost Colony [source]

Saints Row IV [source]

00:04:52

Upcomming Events

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive [source]

DiRT Showdown [source]

Insurgency [source]

Guns of Icarus Online [source]

00:05:50

HeroOhOne got his Thrustmaster TX wheel initialized in Linux [source]

Steam/Valve News

00:07:20

Steam bug which did not allow Chromium-based games or applications to be launched from the Linux client has been fixed [source]

00:08:01

Lunar New Year Sale [source]

Tech News

00:09:17

AMD GPUOpen launched [source]

At least 30 git repositories spread over 4 GitHub organizations [source] [source] [source] [source]

Mostly supports DirectX11 with some support for OpenGL, OpenCL, Nvidia CUDA, and DirectX12

00:10:59

Unreal Engine VR Mode editor [source]

00:12:36

Godot Engine 2.0 is now in beta [source]

UI improvements, including much better screen space efficiency

Bug fixes and small features

General Gaming News

00:16:29

gog.com introduces a new "In Development" category which includes 3 Linux games [source]

00:17:54

Humble Weekly Bundle - Make Your Move

Includes 7 Linux games out of 8

Pay what you want: Frozen Synapse, Frozen Cortex, Lux Delux, Shattered Planet (not on Linux)

Beat the average: The Last Federation and 1 DLC, Reassembly

15USD or more: Chaos Reborn and Big Pharma

00:19:13

Natural Selection 2 update [source]

Adds servers restricted to low level players with bots filling gaps and forces experienced players into spectator slots

Improved AI, including ability to take commander role

00:21:39

Company of Heroes 2 now has Linux/Mac cross-platform multiplayer and a performance update [source]

00:22:57

Don’t Starve Shipwrecked DLC updated, including Linux support [source]

00:23:36

Serious Sam 3 and The Talos Principle to have Vulkan support

The Talos Principle will have Vulkan support “at launch” [source]

Serious Sam perhaps later [source]

Joke article by Croteam in response [source] [source]

00:24:31

Day of Infamy, a WWII themed Insurgency mod [source]

00:26:22

SNOW is now 'Free to Play' and runs on Linux (but with FMOD issues) [source]

00:28:09

XCOM 2 released [source]

Native Steam Controller support and bundle discounts [source]

00:32:16

American Truck Simulator released [source]

00:33:43

Batman: Arkham Knight port cancelled [source]

00:35:35

Black Mesa confirmed to come to Linux [source]

00:36:20

Tomb Raider (2013) gets empty Linux depots [source]

00:37:41

Mad Max gets empty Linux depots [source]

00:38:21

Rust Linux server updates [source]

It appears they are working on it but it is not functional at the moment [source]

Crowdfunding

00:39:27

Knights and Bikes [source]

Created by developers who worked on Little Big Planet

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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