Running the Nintendo Switch’s Horizon OS on Linux, W4 plans to monetize Godot, Half-Life smashes its concurrent players record, and is Win32 the only stable ABI?
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:35 Buying a used motherboard
03:05 Jim at Guitar Center
09:22 Half-Life smashes its concurrent players record
12:17 New games added to Proton 7.0
12:33 WTF is Chuzzle Deluxe
16:24 Proton Exp fixes Re-Volt and Vermintide 2
19:29 Valve year in review but with metrics?
21:44 Neodash
23:14 Climb Challenge at 15FPS
25:49 Pillow fights with Bulanci
28:29 Blossom Tales II: It’s not Zelda, probably
31:54 Linux & Thrills bundle
42:49 Why win32 is or is not the only stable ABI
51:44 W4 plans to monetize Godot
57:09 Running the Nintendo Switch’s Horizon OS on Linux
01:00:29 SRB2Kart v1.5
01:02:59 Review: Kung Fu Er San
01:14:29 Emails
Colour key: Venn Jordan Pedro
Steam: News
Record crowbars
* We did it internet!
* 12,280 Half-Life players got together to set a new all-time peak player record for Half-Life.
* The #RememberFreeman campaign is a sequel of sorts to last year’s “Breaking the Bar” event, which smashed Half-Life 2’s concurrent player record.
* I fully support the community coming together to play the actually good old games, not the website.
* It was the largest spike since Steam Charts started recording it: https://steamcharts.com/app/70
Proton
* Our long national nightmare is over. You can Play Chuzzle Deluxe on linux
* No big features, just game specific fixes.
* WHAR spoodermang fixes?
* That is a fat chunk of what was in Experimental.
Experimental
* Re-Volt and Vermintide 2 have been fixed.
* I would strongly recommend you use Luxtorpeda and set Re-Volt to run with RVGL.
* It runs much better on the Deck.
* Cutscenes in Dragon’s Dogma Dark Arisen should be slightly less choppy now.
* Halo Infinite gets ingame on AMD. GE has had it running for a while, but it’s good to see mainline proton catching up
* Apparently Vermintide is still a little unstable if you’re not the host
* Elite dangerous is still borked for me
Steam numbers
* Valve is working on a “year in review” page for the winter sale.
* So far it indicates playtime and total sessions for the year.
* Deck playtime is one of the metrics and that’s worth watching out for.
* This is per user as of right now.
* Those numbers you see were just from the xPaw himself.
* Though, I do hope someone will figure out a way to get the info of that out of at least the public SteamIDs.
* It would be great to see those deck numbers vs. the mac and desktop Linux numbers.
Steam: New Games
Neodash
* Distance minus the multiplayer
* More physics platformer with wheels.
* I think I played this during the snek peek event a while back.
* One dude spent the last two years making this.
* Single player and clocking in at a hefty 1.