This year’s hosts recap recent Linux gaming happenings and then take you on a reflective journey through the wonderous 2014 with all the seriousness and reverence it deserves.

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 [https://gist.github.com/dscharrer/14dcaa7b8df85d2a3441]
  • 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 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/624076851038420585/]
  • 00:19:44 Event suggestions welcome [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/2/828934424146675833/]
  • 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 [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamlug/discussions/1/626329820875068176/]
  • 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 [http://community.pcgamingwiki.com/page/blog/_/features/port-reports/pc-report-civilization-beyond-earth-on-linux-r170]

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 [http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/12/17/steams-region-locks-games-to-fight-currency-exploits]
  • 00:29:12 CS:GO VAC Ban wave [https://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/2q7flx/biggest_vac_ban_wave_in_the_history_of_csgo/]

Tech News

  • 00:34:00 Desura Client is now GPLv3 again. Linux support will be more of a priority moving forward [https://github.com/desura/desura-app/commit/fd5c87acd283f14da0d1bd13ba4159a9b223e04e] [https://twitter.com/Desura/status/548492058323718145]

General Gaming News

  • 00:37:51 TF2 Smissmas update Includes new beta game mode [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=15304] [http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=15300]
  • 00:38:47 Distance is on Steam Early Access now [http://store.steampowered.com/app/233610/]
  • 00:40:55 Corben78 survived the blizzard and his newborn son and joins the cast
  • 00:41:48 Sportsfriends is released [http://store.steampowered.com/app/277850/] (Joust component is Linux only since controller support in windows is broken)
  • 00:43:55 OpenMW 0.34 is released [https://openmw.org/2014/openmw-0-34-0-released/]
  • 00:45:46 GamingOnLinux.com GOTY awards accepting nominations [http://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/gamingonlinux-goty-section-nominations-now-open.4735]
  • 00:46:30 Natural Selection 2 fixed Linux sound crash [http://unknownworlds.com/ns2/build-272-live-steam/] [http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/comment/2224956/#Comment_2224956]

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 [https://github.com/steamos-community/stephensons-rocket]
  • 00:58:37 GOG supporting Linux [http://www.gog.com/news/gogcom_now_supports_linux]
  • 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

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