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Steamworks Development - Steam Deck Verified Test Requests - Steam News
In preparation for the upcoming Steam Deck release, we've spent the last several months testing thousands of titles in the Steam back catalog for our Deck Verified program. Up until now, we've been prioritizing the titles heuristically, based on playtime and interest from Deck reservation...
This explains a lot.Steamworks Development - Steam Deck Verified Test Requests - Steam News
In preparation for the upcoming Steam Deck release, we've spent the last several months testing thousands of titles in the Steam back catalog for our Deck Verified program. Up until now, we've been prioritizing the titles heuristically, based on playtime and interest from Deck reservation...store.steampowered.com
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I don't think it matters that much if 10% of games aren't supported or 90% games aren't as long as there's a filter that's probably even enabled by default on the device which automatically hides all unsupported games.
This way, when you're on the Steam Deck, 100% of the games you browse/view are supported, regardless if that 100% is 500 games or 500,000 games.
yeah that makes a lot of senseSteamworks Development - Steam Deck Verified Test Requests - Steam News
In preparation for the upcoming Steam Deck release, we've spent the last several months testing thousands of titles in the Steam back catalog for our Deck Verified program. Up until now, we've been prioritizing the titles heuristically, based on playtime and interest from Deck reservation...
As far as I know, Ys IX is now in the manual queue - curious to see the results!
That said, there are still several things I'm unsure of regarding the verification process. One thing is that most verifications (of popular games) seem to run without any involvement of the developer/publisher. In particular, this means that Valve also isn't getting any guidance or support for the process. For many games that may be fine, but for some games I don't see how this can work. Think of a slow-paced or just really large JRPG that is still unlocking new mechanics with new HUD elements at 15 hours in -- how will Valve get to see them to check whether the font size or button prompts are appropriate? I highly doubt they have people playing these games for 15 hours to reach that point, that seems completely unsustainable.
The other option is to play a bit and assume the rest of the game is the same. Which will likely work in 95% of the cases, but even a small number of "falsely verified" games seem like they could erode trust in the verification badge which is really not something you'd want.
That said, there are still several things I'm unsure of regarding the verification process. One thing is that most verifications (of popular games) seem to run without any involvement of the developer/publisher. In particular, this means that Valve also isn't getting any guidance or support for the process. For many games that may be fine, but for some games I don't see how this can work. Think of a slow-paced or just really large JRPG that is still unlocking new mechanics with new HUD elements at 15 hours in -- how will Valve get to see them to check whether the font size or button prompts are appropriate? I highly doubt they have people playing these games for 15 hours to reach that point, that seems completely unsustainable.
The other option is to play a bit and assume the rest of the game is the same. Which will likely work in 95% of the cases, but even a small number of "falsely verified" games seem like they could erode trust in the verification badge which is really not something you'd want.
Yeah, checking so many games thoroughly seems like it would require herculean effort. I imagine that the goal is to remove that burden from developers and speed up the process but edge cases like the ones you described seem inevitable.
That's a good point, and I think a solution might that Valve will just have to be conservative with the "Verified" label, and just give "Playable" to a lot of games, unless they tester has reason to assume they have seen enough to be representative of the entire game.
Considering that the deck is so flexible when it comes to input, don't they just have to check that the game has support for those? Meaning even if the game does change up gameplay for different input types as long as the deck can handle those its all good. Meaning they don't have to play that long, only need to check if inputs register in the game?
I mean, they confirmed they got help from contractors specifically for this task, I'm guessing teams are getting X amount of games and playing a certain number of hours to check the correct status but I totally get what Durante is saying, FFX for example only has 2 visual bugs and are specifically the last cinematic of the game, rest of the game shouldn't show any problem but last two part video is green for some reason (likely bad enconded) but yeah, I don't think we should worry for this, those games that present any bug at a later stage it can always be reported to devs in case they want to tweak anything.
More and more games are popping up, I totally expect this will speed up next week.
Yeah, and these bugs are present in the Windows version (I encountered them myself and had to youtube the scenes) - so it will be funny and the real turning point when games start running with fewer bugs on Steam than Windows.
So I wonder if the same standards would be expected of Windows though and FFX on the Steam store should be not labeled as compatible with Windows hahaha. If they started looking that closely at games I'm sure you'd be able to knock a few hundred thousand games off the Steam store anyway for some reason or another.
It took me a while to answer that since the game I'm currently playing is Crosscode and it has internal achievement tracking, so I wasn't sure whether the sound was coming from the game or the OS. But yes, there's a sound effect, since I also heard it during our own games and those don't have internal tracking
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Whaaaaa! This is the biggest news! Hopefully it comes to steam proper also.
It took me a while to answer that since the game I'm currently playing is Crosscode and it has internal achievement tracking, so I wasn't sure whether the sound was coming from the game or the OS. But yes, there's a sound effect, since I also heard it during our own games and those don't have internal tracking
That thing right there is the true reason to run SteamOS instead of Windows. Steam Deck is saved!It took me a while to answer that since the game I'm currently playing is Crosscode and it has internal achievement tracking, so I wasn't sure whether the sound was coming from the game or the OS. But yes, there's a sound effect, since I also heard it during our own games and those don't have internal tracking
Cool for those that want it. I assume it's a toggle so we can turn it off if we don't want achievement notifications?It took me a while to answer that since the game I'm currently playing is Crosscode and it has internal achievement tracking, so I wasn't sure whether the sound was coming from the game or the OS. But yes, there's a sound effect, since I also heard it during our own games and those don't have internal tracking
Well, only took like nearly 20 years for Valve to finally implement notifications sounds. I guess Epic Game Store really does have them shook.
I never understood what it was with you people and achievement sounds.
That's something I never even thought of... but achievements are something I don't really worry about for most games
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I wonder if Valve/their contractors also take a look at ProtonDb when they test games to get an idea before they start
What I hope for an overhaul to achievements is the options to have sound&display notification, display notification only, no notifcation while still earning, and turn off achievements. Ideally globally AND on a per game basis.
Then they can have default sounds and display, developer set sounds and display, and custom sounds and display (bonus for Valve, they could add stuff to points shop). Basically the ship has sailed for making achievements more meaningful via points or levels, but they can make the experience more customizable for folks who like it OR be able to shut it off entirely for folks who do not.
It's all about that dopamine trigger! Like some games have special sound when epic loot drops.
Valve has tested 'thousands' for the Steam Deck, 60 currently Verified
In a recent update on the Steamworks Group on Steam, Valve gave an update on Steam Deck Verification and testing appears to be ramping up lately.
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Just finished watching the video, fantastic stuff. Can’t wait for more.
LOOK AT OUR GUY Phawx GOING, YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!
EDIT. FURIOUSLY CHECKING OUT PHAWX RECENTLY PLAYED GAMES TO SEE WHAT GAMES HE WILL COVER IN FUTURE VIDEO
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I got booted from Q2 to after Q2 with the delay announcement. I'm trying to trying to be optimistic and hope that's closer to July or August than September.I'm "After Q2"
Valve does have outsourced customer service, it's possible they're going to have that company do some of the testing.
BTW. Steam Deck website has been updated again. Visually at least, I did not see any new information.
The Falconeer has a native Steam build now, because "The developer decided to do a native port, as they wanted the experience to be as good as possible for the Steam Deck."
The Falconeer takes flight with a Linux version out ready for Steam Deck
For people on the lookout for more native Linux games, developer Tomas Sala recently delivered The Falconeer.
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Linux build released for Technobabylon too!
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Technobabylon - Technobabylon - LINUX AND MACOS ports! - Steam News
- Added proper LINUX and MAC ports with WORKING ACHIEVEMENTS! - Added Steam Cloud support [cross-platform even] - Fixed two crash bugs 1) Regarding creation of a screenshot. 2) Regarding a certain individual trying to fade out of existence, fading the game instead. - If you want to revert to the...
By now I'm guessing you saw the news, there has been a big batch of games that went through the verification process and there is good news and bad news.
I will start with the good news, a huge number of SP games have been rated as verified and work perfectly fine on Deck, this list includes all FF pixel remaster games, Hitman 1, Deathloop, Ni No Kuni 2, Katamari, Dead Cells, Bayonetta, MGRising or Rockect League among other titles, quite a few, in fact.
The bad news come from the Anti-cheat side, as expected the verification process has determined that games with EAC or battleye are not configured to work on Deck at this moment, games such as MCC (MP side), Gears 5 (MP side), Fall Guys, Planetside 2 or Back 4 Blood do have this displayed on them:
Shouldn't be a difficult fix as both Valve and Epic have worked together to make this process as painless as possible and it shouldn't be worrying because this results have been sent to partners in order to tweak their stuff.
So yeah, thinks are looking great for SP games and a mix bag for MP games, hopefully that will change for better.
I will start with the good news, a huge number of SP games have been rated as verified and work perfectly fine on Deck, this list includes all FF pixel remaster games, Hitman 1, Deathloop, Ni No Kuni 2, Katamari, Dead Cells, Bayonetta, MGRising or Rockect League among other titles, quite a few, in fact.
The bad news come from the Anti-cheat side, as expected the verification process has determined that games with EAC or battleye are not configured to work on Deck at this moment, games such as MCC (MP side), Gears 5 (MP side), Fall Guys, Planetside 2 or Back 4 Blood do have this displayed on them:
Shouldn't be a difficult fix as both Valve and Epic have worked together to make this process as painless as possible and it shouldn't be worrying because this results have been sent to partners in order to tweak their stuff.
So yeah, thinks are looking great for SP games and a mix bag for MP games, hopefully that will change for better.
I'm wondering, is it possible to send out a video signal from the deck at the same time as having the screen on the deck? For example connecting it to a capture card for streaming but playing on the deck?