With all the hype, I won't lie my heart stuttered seeing "Half Life" and "arrives December 12" thanks to my selective reading.

Some day, some day...

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Realise this is a bit old now, but I've been playing with BF4 for a year or so and one thing is really annoying - no steam overlay. Which also means no steam recorder.

Do you or anyone have any experience with getting the steam overlay to work with this?

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Quoting: CloversheenAnyone having any experience playing it crossplay?

We would be playing it with 2 linux users and 1 windows user.

To be clear I've not played in ages, but crossplay used to work although it was something weird like I believe the Windows user would have to host.

Nowadays I'm 90% sure it's plug and play, but someone else chime in if they know for certain

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This looks insane, love it

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I see so many people saying it's not an issue because they don't play these types of games, or anticheat is bad/unescure etc. Or even that kernel level anticheat is not effective.

And I do agree that (kernel level) anticheat is... not great, and obviously has the potential to be a really dangerous backdoor. But the truth is that many, many players DO enjoy these types of games - I personally love battlefield and still play BF4 frequently; I used to enjoy COD and played WWII up until it was no longer safe to play and I spent years waiting for MW2019 to work on linux before it was obvious that would 'never' be possible.

I love Counter Strike, and I'm very glad it has had a native client for as long as I can remember - but the fact is that it does have a large cheater problem. CS2 in particular had the top ranks of premier filled with cheaters (whose name advertised their cheat configs) and I have personally seen several cheaters throughout my gameplay. Even 'ragehackers' were fairly common, though it has gotten a little better in the last few months. Cheaters stay cheating unbanned for months sometimes. I use leetify to track when cheaters are banned.

Valorant? barely has any cheaters. Players are notified that the odd cheater they do find is banned the same game they play against them. Their anticheat clearly does work, and unfortunately that is a fact. FaceIt for CS2 is pretty similarly cheater-free from my understanding, and that is Windows only due to anticheat reasons.

For highly competitive games, it can be a necessary evil - MW2019/Warzone players begged for a kernel level anticheat in the hopes it would even alleviate their issues.

What I'm trying to get at too is that this is not just a problem for the people that play those games - Linux just won't be able to grow as much as it should if there is not some way or another to get round these issues. It is a problem that will honestly effect every linux user, not just competitive FPS/MOBA players. Serverside anticheat is not as easy as it sounds, and it's not just because of server costs that companies don't rely on it. I hope it will one day solve the issue though.

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Been quite excited for this one, I really enjoyed buckshot roulette

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I've followed this project for a long while now. It looks really awesome, but I won't lie there's something about it that makes me feel a good deal skeptical. Maybe that's just general paranoia and because it seems like such a big project made by a relatively small team that even has realistic graphics. I'd love to be proven wrong though, it really does look cool.

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IMO I'd split the FPS categories up into even more categories, while CS and Battlefield are technically both FPS, I'm not sure how much the fan overlap is. To suggest some additional alternatives:

Esports shooters:
Valorant -> CS2, Fragpunk
Rainbow 6 Siege/X -> Zero Hour, CS2*, Due Process*

Large-scale shooters:
Battlefield -> Battlefield 4*, Insurgency: Sandstorm*, HLL* (bit more milsimmy but still), Rising Storm Vietnam*, Planetside 2, THE FINALS*

Hero shooters:
Valorant -> Dirty Bomb, Overwatch 2*, Multiversus*

Arcade shooters:
Call of Duty -> Titanfall 2* (GOAT), Splitgate 2, Halo Infinite, Shatterline?
Could mention WWII and earlier, however most of them need custom clients due to the RCEs (this applies to both windows and linux)

Extraction shooters:
Tarkov -> Tarkov SINGLEPLAYER, Gray Zone Warfare, Marauders, Deceive Inc, Zero Sievert* (but singleplayer only)

Not sure where they'd fit specifically but I also think For Honor and Rocket League are worth mentioning somewhere within esports because they both work on linux and have some big fanbases

Also it would be wrong for me not to bring up Garfield Kart as a mario kart alternative lol

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Just want to add that WWII is no longer safe to play due to a new RCE exploit discovered. It is unclear if it only affected the windows gamepass version or if it was just exposed due to the uptick of players, but for all safety it is best to avoid Call of Duty: WWII Multiplayer or Zombies. Not worth risking your PC.

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Definitely makes purchasing one of these systems a lot less riskv.
Cool to hear!

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