Community MetaSteam | June 2019 - Microsoft does what Epican't

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Knurek

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Trying out the Xbox game pass deal makes me appreciate Steam even more.

The download speed isn't terrible, but Steam has been consistently maxing out my connection for so many years now that I don't even remembered that this is not a given :p
Just FYI, there's a system-wide option that caps your download to 70% of your connection hidden away in the Windows Update panel.
 

Wildebeet

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So somebody tell me if grid icons are finally gone. I at least want an option to use that instead...
 

Ascheroth

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Whoa, if you hover over a trading card you have in the new UI it pops out as a 3D model and you can slightly rotate it by moving the mouse over it.
 

madjoki

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Whoa, if you hover over a trading card you have in the new UI pops out as a 3D model and you can slightly rotate it by moving the mouse over it.
If you click trading card, it will open so big popup you can't click close on 1200p or less.
 
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Wildebeet

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they're gone, yes
It's kind of amazing that Valve is sort of dumping on grid view. With the probably 20k+ grid icons people have made, I hope Valve will give people the option instead of waving off all that effort. Grid view is how I like to see what I've got going on, so I guess I need to try to make Playnite or Launchbox work with weird ratio icons. Gah.
 
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Snakethesniper

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Do you guys have been able to download games from gamepass? It seems it requires an update that's not been released?
 

Durante

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Just FYI, there's a system-wide option that caps your download to 70% of your connection hidden away in the Windows Update panel.
Thanks for the heads-up. I actually got about 70%, so that might be it!

Do you guys have been able to download games from gamepass? It seems it requires an update that's not been released?
Works for me, the games show up on the Windows store as "owned" and I can download them.
 
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After a few tries with the new UI and getting black screens. I decided to change the language of the interface to english and then it worked.
 
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ZKenir

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Do you guys have been able to download games from gamepass? It seems it requires an update that's not been released?
I had to manually update because the windows update thing kept spitting out an error (after manually updating now it's fixed), you can force the update from here in case it doesn't update automatically for you

Download Windows 10

Someone more tech savvy than me can probably tell you if forcing the update is fine or if it's better to wait
 
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ok guys, let's do this shit again (now that the servers are upgraded) ... the chat is live! open the thread (there's the stream embed in there) and jump into the Microsoft chat room! :) but ...

REMEMBER: ALL mesages posted in the chat will be converted into forum posts in the stream thread ... and they won't get automerged ... so try not to post multiple short messages in a row if possible!!!


see you on the other side ;)
 

「Echo」

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Mt. Whatever
DF Analysis of Octopath :
Thanks for posting it! If anybody was looking for a more authoritative take on Octopath port, it doesn't get better than DF. I know fantomena was lookin' for impressions. At least I think it was him.

They pretty much nailed it too. 4K-60 is easy, even mid-level cards should do it. The game is more GPU heavy than CPU as well.

It's a wonderful port which is quite surprising from SE, but I think UE4 probably made it super easy to port.

The same as on desktop: Use Firefox with ublock origin. At least that's what I do (and have done for many years).

When Firefox addons were broken for a day or so some time back I was flabbergasted at the amount of shitty advertising on the internet. It's unusable.
Yep. ublock Origin + NoScript in my case, breaks the internet in all the best ways. No ads, no scripts without my permission. Wouldn't browse any other way tbh. (y)

Sorry for the off topic but 35 degrees Celsius (95 F) shouldnt be a legal temperature to have at barely 11 AM.
I hate Summer. Between the bugs and heat. Bleh. Worst season. (It's not even officially summer, but sure feels like it lately!)

Well at least the nights are cool here. :face-with-cold-sweat:
 

Wildebeet

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Just wishlisted Cyberpunk 2077 and moved it to #2 (behind Eastward).

Hey, based on my interest in Cyberpunk, steam suggests I check out Huniepop and Sakura Dungeon. Right on, Steam. Right on.
 
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