SteamLUG Cast
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Introduction
- ValiantCheese introduces
- Jasey_Wasey
- DerRidda
Our Gaming
- DerRidda has been playing Saints Row 2 [source] and Saints Row: The Third [source]
- Jasey_Wasey has been playing Windward [source] and War Thunder [source]
- ValiantCheese has been playing Left 4 Dead 2 [source], Windward [source], and Guns of Icarus Online [source]
- Assault Android Cactus [source], Crypt of the NecroDancer [source], and Hand of Fate [source] on the side, along with games from LowRezJam [source]
SteamLUG Community Stuff
- Past Events
- King Arthur's Gold [source]
- War Thunder [source]
- Fistful of Frags [source]
- XCOM 2 [source]
- Upcoming Events
- Left 4 Dead 2 [source]
- Frozen Cortex [source]
- Jasey_Wasey is now hosting official Windward servers [source]
- His game servers are hosted in Docker containers [source], contributions are welcome [source]
- A Docker container for RTMP streaming [source] has also been made by Jasey_Wasey
- Can be used to stream gameplay with OBS to multiple streaming services simultaneously
- VR on Linux website [source] has been launched by norbert
- Nemoder and ValiantCheese created Hidden Star [source], a space exploration game for LowRezJam [source]
- ValiantCheese posted an unboxing video [source] of the Assault Android Cactus IndieBox [source]
Steam/Valve News
- Valve has added GitHub repositories for the CS:GO Demo Parsing Tool [source] and OpenVR driver for Razer Hydra [source] Steam Store received 115 Lionsgate movies on April 22nd [source]
Tech News
- Intel mesa driver now has Vulkan support mainlined [source]
- radeonsi now supports OpenGL 4.3 [source]
- GL 4.2-4.3 needs llvm 3.9+
- Shadow of Mordor and Alien: Isolation will see improvements [source]
- CodeXL [source] has been released by AMD, in a continued commitment to their GPUOpen initiative [source]
- Comprehensive debugging and profiling tool with Linux support
- Nvidia driver version 364.19 has been released
- Adds support for Vulkan, their own flavor of Wayland, and DRM KMS support
General Gaming News
- Valve has started CS:GO Prime Account Matchmaking as an experiment allowing one to register their account with a phone number [source]
- This prevents "smurfing," or experienced players making new accounts to play at lower ranks with less experienced players
- Randomized character generation in Rust now includes female characters [source]
- Pyre has been announced by Pyre [source]
- More video of gameplay in Shadow Warrior 2 has been revealed [source]
- SpeedRunners has been released from early access [source]
- Don't Starve Together is now out of early access [source]
- The Culling has had a Linux port released [source]
- Tomb Raider (2013) is now on Linux [source]
- The Torchlight 1 Linux port is now available for purchase [source]
- The Linux version of Darkest Dungeon is out of beta [source]
- Master of Orion (2016) port released [source]
- Kerbal Space Program 1.1 released [source]
- Adds Unity 5, a rewritten UI, KSPedia, and new tutorials and scenarios
- Air Brawl is free to own [source]
- Gog.com officially supports Ubuntu 16.04 [source]
- Includes derivative distributions which use Ubuntu 16.04 as a base
- This is in contrast to Steam's webpage stating support for Ubuntu 12.04
- Not many official Valve sources state support for any particular Linux distro, but the few that do only say Ubuntu 12.04 [source] [source]
- meklu says in chat "the page has been lost in the whirlpool of bitrot"
- The Witcher 3 [source]
Crowdfunding
- Happy Dude [source]
- Platformer that uses changing colors as a means to solve puzzles
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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