SteamLUG Cast

Introduction

00:00:23

Corben78 introduces

00:00:24

hmccio

00:00:29

HeroOhOne

Our Gaming

00:00:37

hmccio has been playing Sword Coast Legends [source], SUPERHOT [source], Pokemon Omega Ruby [source], and emulated games

00:02:46

HeroOhOne has been playing Arma 3 [source]

00:03:06

Corben78 has been playing TIS-100 [source], SUPERHOT [source], and Elite: Dangerous [source]

00:05:42

Corben78 SPOILER HOTS all over the SUPERHOT

SteamLUG Community Stuff

00:12:10

Past Events

GRID: Autosport [source]

Factorio [source]

Sir, You Are Being Hunted [source]

No More Room In Hell [source]

00:13:23

Upcoming Events

Frozen Synapse [source]

Tabletop Simulator [source]

Arma 3 [source]

Natural Selection 2 [source]

Steam/Valve News

00:17:03

Action sets feature released for the Steam Controller when using the beta client [source]

00:18:16

Unity beta received native support for SteamVR [source]

Valve made a free SteamVR rendering plugin for Unity [source]

Linux support not yet present in SteamVR nor the plugin

00:20:26

Valve spoke about porting Source 2 to Vulkan at GDC [source]

Dota 2, despite not being a good test case, had better frame rates in graphics-heavy scenes

Tech News

00:22:07

Godot Engine 2.0.1 released, marking the beginning of a quicker release cycle [source]

00:23:23

Croteam has released Serious Engine v1.10 under the GPL [source]

icculus has begun work on a Linux patch [source]

00:24:37

Atomic Game Engine is now MIT licensed [source]

Based on Urho3D [source]

00:25:23

Cryengine is now pay-what-you-want for source access [source]

Linux client is not yet available

00:26:05

AMD released a video describing their GPUOpen initiative [source]

00:26:42

Raspberry Pi 3, the most powerful Raspberry Pi, has been released [source]

General Gaming News

00:28:35

flibitijibibo has unofficially gotten Stardew Valley to work on Linux [source]

The developer, ConcernedApe, is considering a Linux port [source]

00:30:40

Payday 2 appears to have an imminent Linux release [source]

00:32:57

Life Is Strange shows signs of Linux support [source]

00:33:51

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II [source] and Dawn of War II - Retribution [source] show signs of Linux support

00:34:20

Substance Painter 2, 3D painting software, is planned to have a Linux beta [source]

00:34:36

Frozen Synapse 2 reveal trailer [source]

00:35:11

Stellaris has a new trailer [source]

00:36:19

Arma 3 Linux client has been updated to version 1.54 [source]

The port is still considered a beta, but this includes 5 releases from the previous version

00:38:45

Prison Architect has had a hidden 3D mode since at least version 1.0 [source]

00:40:14

Day of the Tentacle Remastered is not to have a day-1 Linux release [source]

00:41:24

Stasis, an isometric horror game, is to have a Linux release [source]

Crowdfunding

00:42:35

Overload has been funded [source]

00:43:44

flibitijibibo is running a Patreon campaign [source]

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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