It will be sued for developing SteamDeck because they took 30% from developers and publishers to fund it. That is not fair, other companies can't do that so valve has advantage from the start when developing hardware like this. XD
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Looks fast and snappy. Its impressive but at same time Deck has a good cpu and a lot of ram so its to be expected lol. Looks like they did really good work overall.
Need to stop watching Deck videos. Its such a long wait its gonna be depressing waiting for this thing. I never buy launch window gaming hardware (like ever) but now I know how console gamers feel when they have to wait so long between unveil and actually playing with a device. feelsbadman.
I'm kinda hyped for the Steam Deck but also more than a litle sick to death of hearing about it.
Take my money and shut up.gif
I suppose.
Take my money and shut up.gif
I suppose.
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I finished Factorio, only took me 57 hours, holy shit. Also used some save games to cheat myself to some cheevos because fuck it why not.
Still interested in playing it more, but not sure. Also interested in continuing Dyson and Satisfactory, but I will wait till they are done. Need cheevos for them.
Still interested in playing it more, but not sure. Also interested in continuing Dyson and Satisfactory, but I will wait till they are done. Need cheevos for them.
I look the little zoom effect when launching a game on the Deck
Were I to get a steam deck
I'd just flash it and turn it into a Win10/Win11 machine, have it docked, connected an HDD or two and that's my PC gaming hooked up to my TV for some light and multiplayer gaming.
I'd just flash it and turn it into a Win10/Win11 machine, have it docked, connected an HDD or two and that's my PC gaming hooked up to my TV for some light and multiplayer gaming.
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I would like to see the SteamDock that Valve have in mind. I'm expecting it to be expensive but USB-C docks usually are especially if it's Thunderbolt compatible which i hope it is so we avoid USB channel saturation. I have that with the tablet i use for work, without thunderbolt the USB bus is always complaining of low bandwidth due to driving the second monitor at big res.
In my continued effort to actually finish games, I recently began categorizing them by their length based on HLTB averages (and where I tend to land compared to those).
So far, I'm finding that planning ahead and knowing roughly how much time I'll be committing has been conducive to staying focused and finishing games. At the moment, I'm not really up for long games, for example, so having a list of short games on hand has allowed me to avoid some of the choice paralysis that plagues me.
So yeah! I recommend it. I also enjoy categorizing things so that's an extra bonus. I've divided them like so: 0-5 hrs, 5-15 hrs, 15-30 hrs, and 30+ hrs. Perhaps I should add another for 60+ hr RPGs but I don't think I have many of those anyway.
So far, I'm finding that planning ahead and knowing roughly how much time I'll be committing has been conducive to staying focused and finishing games. At the moment, I'm not really up for long games, for example, so having a list of short games on hand has allowed me to avoid some of the choice paralysis that plagues me.
So yeah! I recommend it. I also enjoy categorizing things so that's an extra bonus. I've divided them like so: 0-5 hrs, 5-15 hrs, 15-30 hrs, and 30+ hrs. Perhaps I should add another for 60+ hr RPGs but I don't think I have many of those anyway.
I'm sure the BPM and SteamOS team are the same people.
Maybe they make some simulation software for HMAF, same way Crytek does for Bundeswehr?
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apparently false alarm ... looks like their twitter got hacked ... yet again
Ubisoft really decided to pump as many F2P games as they can and see what will stick.
Then in that case, get on updating the Steam client interface for BPM please.
Tom Clancy's doesn't sell like he used to. Couldn't be the games though, that's be crazy talk
On the one hand, I agree that they look awkward. On the other hand, I like that they have the people actually doing stuff talking about it.
The one thing I am surprised about the deck are the back paddles. Didn't the Steam Controller get sued successfully by a patent troll for doing exactly that? Given that precedent, it feels like Valve is setting themselves up for another lawsuit.
I mean, I'm pretty certain they took that into account. Maybe they got the rights to do it as part of a settlement, or they bought a license, or they are confident that the new design is sufficiently different.
I'm extremely happy they didn't drop it, the back buttons are one of my favourite things about the Steam controller (and I think I asked for 4 of them for its successor before on this very forum
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Ironburgs patent covers two big buttons. It doesn't cover 4 small buttons.
This design as workaround for the patent was covered in trial (and was at somepoint planned for Steam Controller too).
If you put name associated with one thing on every product you release it loses any meaning. How many young audience they are aiming to capture with xDefiant even knows who Tom Clancy is?
Since Valve only has like 350ish core people I doubt there's more than a dozen or so core people who primarily work on Steam itself. I'm sure others help as needed but it's always felt so weird to me that Valve just doesn't expand some more since it's clear they dont always have the development resources needed due to their small size.
that is immensely funny to me - intellectual property laws... not even once
Get me job in Valve and i promise you More regional pricing, Portal 3, Team Fortress singleplayer game and new Big Picture XD
I can't find the video now as I don't think I saw it on YT, but somewhere else, but during the launch of the Index, Gabe said that he wanted the people actually developing the Index (and other Valve products) to showcase and talk about them, because they know the products best, not some marketing people.
They way they talk about the UI makes it sound like they are now working on just one UI that morphs to the target platform. One might call it responsive, though not truly since it would probably only have 3 main modes and variations on those based on your screen size. Certainly beneficial to not have to completely separate UI styles and code paths with different features here and there.
I mean it looks like it too, definitely elements of the new library in there.
I'm guessing that the way it will work on the desktop end is that you'll get a checkbox for "if a controllers is detected, use controller UI", similar to how you can currently do with BPM overlay. With the addition maybe being that the whole library interface could change to controller UI, not just the overlay as it is now.
Looking at the video though, there are still some stuff there that doesn't look like it's fully controller enabled so to speak. Like early on when he's scrolling through the sections of the Hades library page, it just shows those right side elements from the current desktop library as is, which are definitely mouse driven. Very doable on touchpad or touch screen but maybe not ideal for controller.
Countdown to old BPM getting deprecated starts now.
Thought now that I think about it, have they said about anything about SteamOS 3 on desktop? As far as I recall older SteamOS' would boot straight into BPM on desktop, or at least that was an option. I wonder what the plan is there.
Too many question!
I mean it looks like it too, definitely elements of the new library in there.
I'm guessing that the way it will work on the desktop end is that you'll get a checkbox for "if a controllers is detected, use controller UI", similar to how you can currently do with BPM overlay. With the addition maybe being that the whole library interface could change to controller UI, not just the overlay as it is now.
Looking at the video though, there are still some stuff there that doesn't look like it's fully controller enabled so to speak. Like early on when he's scrolling through the sections of the Hades library page, it just shows those right side elements from the current desktop library as is, which are definitely mouse driven. Very doable on touchpad or touch screen but maybe not ideal for controller.
Countdown to old BPM getting deprecated starts now.
Thought now that I think about it, have they said about anything about SteamOS 3 on desktop? As far as I recall older SteamOS' would boot straight into BPM on desktop, or at least that was an option. I wonder what the plan is there.
Too many question!
I just realized if I was really into game pass I would probably have been really fucked with the Steam Deck as will at least try to not wipe SteamOS from it. The Suspend/Resume feature that comes with SteamOS sounds really great.
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Tom Clancy's Punk Rock Mosh Pittom clancy arena shooter?
Sir if you can promise me more official Team Fortress anything I'll do anything you ask.
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Hmm, so I'm supposed to believe you're working for Valve?
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No denuvo for Humankinds , case they wernt able to find a way without it affecting performance in time
Meanwhile when Capcom were considering PC players as they greenlighted denuvo for REVIII :
Damn, never thought a genuine Valve employee would join Meta.
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I technically reserved Psychonauts 2 years ago when I backed it on Fig.
I still don't believe Cris Tales is really coming out tomorrow. It feels like it's being released with no fanfare.
So I hear the new hotness is Tom Clancy Presents: Tom Clancy's Tom Clancy Simulator - Super Tom Clancy Turbo Edition 2: Tom Clancy Remix_TCMIX_V3.5; Tim Epic Moneyhat + .Com Tlancy//Pew Pew Bang Bang Shooty Shooty Funtime
I can confirm this too, I'm in the first wave
Thanks Kvik for Pathfinder: Kingmaker! 
"Your expected order availability: December 2021 "
YUP
YUP
I reserved the Deck like 10 minutes after it went up and im Q1 2022. Hopefully people cancel so I can get a December unit
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