FOSS Fun Wednesday 22: Heroic Hotfix, Proton 7.0-5 Out, and OpenRA Dune 2000 Playtest

FFW 22.1- Team Behind Heroic Launcher Releases Significant Hotfix for New Version

As I covered last week, Heroic released a major new version, YAY! However, as with almost any piece of software, there were some bugs, so let’s take a look and see what they fixed so quickly:

• Fix the issue with the download's progress going crazy and duplicating the installation/update.
• Fix a crash on the Install dialog on some games.
• Fix sideload games not being added to steam automatically.
• Fix Games failing to start when launched from Steam because they have an update.
• Fix games falling to start when launched from Steam when they had Sync Saves but the path was not defined.
• Fix Auto detect saves path going on forever. Now it will have a timeout of 15s.
• Fix GOG games failing to install due to not supported language error.
• Increased the connectivity check timeout at start up and added a button to ignore the status.
• [macOS] Fixed an issue where the game save path was not correct for native games.
• [Linux/macOS] Fix the windows version of a game version being recognized as native and not showing Wine settings and others.
• Fix a crash that was happening when uninstalling Sideloaded Apps.
• Fix Login Page container size max Width.
• Possibly fix the state of the game card not correctly updating. Not showing an update button, for instance.
• [Windows] Fix an issue where Heroic was crashing when opening the install dialog.
• Heroic will clean the cache now after upgrading to a new release since some issues are associated with that after updating.
• Some other minor fixes and improvements.

Good stuff, Heroic Launcher team! Any of you guys use it?
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/heroic-games-launcher-gets-a-big-hotfix-to-clean-up-some-issues/
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What is the hope Polycarp is talking about here? What is our faith based upon? Let me give you a little context for this quote... Polycarp was alive from the mid 1st Century AD- the mid 2nd Century AD. The Church was under heavy persecution, such that I doubt that many American Christians would have stood up under. He was martyred in 155. What hope did he have in that context? None but Jesus. He knew the Lord (perhaps not in the natural, as he was born about 30 years after Jesus ascended into heaven). Jesus’ promises to us kept him and the early believers he served moving forward, even in the face of Empire telling them that they could not believe as they did. They were subversives, they confessed a Lord other than Caesar. That was worthy of death, as it was tantamount to treason against the Empire. Is there anything we deal with daily that could be comparable? Perhaps noticing the synagogue of Satan manipulating everything to their own benefit? Perhaps boldly stating that there is no such thing as a trans person? That a trans person is really still their biological gender, no matter how much they try to change that? Fill in the blank, here, think up a sacred cow and slaughter it, and watch what happens.
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FFW 22.2: Proton 7.0-5 Out Now

As announced in the beta release 2 weeks ago, Proton 7.0-5 is now out, and the lineup of playable games and fixes have grown in expected ways. Let’s take a look at the lists:

Newly playable games include:

• Rift
• Unravel 2
• Airborne Kingdom
• Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull
• Re-Volt (but you should try it with Luxtorpeda)
• Aspire: Ina's Tale
• Battle Realms: Zen Edition
• Deathsmiles II
• Primal Carnage: Extinction
• Pico Park Classic Edition
• Six Ages: Ride Like the Wind
• Darkstar One
• Indiana Jones and the Emperor Tomb
• Bulletstorm: Full Clip Edition
Other fixes include:

• Fix Batman: Arkham City GOTY launching in the background on Steam Deck when set to fullscreen.
• Fix Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered displaying dialog about outdated drivers on AMD systems.
• Fix Final Fantasy IV (3D Remake) having no audio.
• Fix Return to Monkey Island not reacting to mouse clicks after a recent game update.
• Fix upsidedown videos in VRChat and many other games.
• Fix Call of Duty Black Ops II Zombies and Multiplayer hanging on exit.
• Fix Bail or Jail crashing when opening the Terms of Serivce.
• Improve GTA V situation with not loading textures.
• Fix Red Dead Redemption 2 crashing after a recent game update.
• Fix Final Fantasy XIV Online launcher functionality after game update.
• Fix cutscene stutter in Disgaea 5.
• Fix Thrustmaster HOTAS having non-functional dial in Elite Dangerous.
• Fix Planet Zoo randomly crashing.
• Fix SCP: Secret Labratory not being playable after a recent game update (again).
• Fix Tekken 7 crashing at launch.
• Fix Armello hanging on exit.
• Fix Sword Art Online: Hollow Realization freezing after the tutorial.
• Fix Space Engineers intro video not playing correctly.
• Fix Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen videos not playing correctly.
• Implement network video support for VRChat.
• Update dxvk to v1.10.3-28-ge3daa699.

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/proton-7-0-5-out-now-for-steam-deck-linux-14-newly-playable-games/
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FFW 22.3: New Playtest for OpenRA and Dune 2000 Released

Not sure how many of you watch my Friday streams, but Dune 2000 often features heavily in those, so hearing about these fixes makes me happy. If you enjoy 90’s RTS games, take a look at OpenRA to get your late 90’s Westwood Studios fix. What have they improved?

Some of the more visible new features and improvements include:

• Measures against sound / notification overlap. No more u-u-u-u-unit lost
• Measures against spamming the multiplayer lobby and in-game chat
• The ability to mute players
• Support for disabling the chat in replays
• An in-game encyclopedia in Dune 2000
• New Red Alert missions
• Community balance changes for all mods
Notable changes for mappers and modders include:

• Automatic map reloading in the background
• A change to the way speed is calculated for ground units
• A new map format which includes the map preview (minimap) in the map versioning (map hash)
• Loaders for more audio formats (e.g., mp3 and ogg), and formats used by the remasters
• Many linting and documentation updates
As well as some other changes worth mentioning:

• Toolchain and changes to support the .NET 6 runtime
• A massive amount of upgrades to both ingame and client UI
• Many more hotkeys became rebindable
• Substantial progress towards localisation

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/openra-for-classic-command-a-conquer-dune-2000-red-alert-has-a-new-playtest/

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