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Valve rolls out the new Steam Library and Remote Play Together for everyone

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That's it, done, finished. The beta for the new Steam Library is over and the Remote Play Together beta is now out for everyone as soon as your client updates.

We have tons of new features to play with that have been talked about before like: the ability to sort games into dynamic collections, the customizable home page with different shelves of games made from your collections, a list of recent updates at the top of your Library home, overhauled game pages, a new events system, a Linux "Tux" icon to filter only Linux games in your list and so on.

This update also rolls out Remote Play Together (beta) for everyone now too. The new feature of Steam that allows you to play games that only have local co-op/multiplayer, across the net with your Steam friends. Only the host needs to own it too. It's a huge feature, one that's quite exciting and full of possibilities. For some of us, it's not easy to get people in the same room and not just that, so this breaks down a few walls.

You can see the official announcement on Steam here and there's also a changelog here.

Something else they didn't seem to announce directly, is that Steam will now prompt you to make or update a review when you've put a number of hours into a game. This is good, as we've been told many times how important reviews are for games to get noticed.

Not just to get more good reviews onto store pages though. In the era of live service games that are constantly updated, it's good to get accurate and up to date reviews. Games change drastically often now, so having a client that can actually remind people a little like that is good.

Also, something else seems to be coming involving the Steam Runtime for Linux, which now shows up in the Tools section of Steam. Developer Timothee Besset replied to me on Twitter with "soon (tm)", so when I have more info on what exactly it's for I will let you know.

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Tags: Steam, Update, Valve
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Purple Library Guy Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: UsualAnyone know if the library is electron based now?
Isn't all computing electron-based? :P
Grifter Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: no_information_hereI like that it will enable the steam overlay for the controller without forcing me into big picture mode.

It's always done that for me previously :s
vlademir1 Oct 31, 2019
Honestly, while I don't care for the new interface I also really didn't care for the old one and have mainly loaded games from outside their library interface for ages now. I practically treat the Steam client as a mix of IM client and old DOS TSR type utility that other software needs around in active memory to run but which I don't directly interact with unless some config work is needed (himem.sys comes to mind). Remote Play Together seems much more valuable on paper, but I've not had time to give it a try in practice because it's a horrid time of year to find gaming time outside my normal tabletop gaming group night.
no_information_here Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: Grifter
Quoting: no_information_hereI like that it will enable the steam overlay for the controller without forcing me into big picture mode.

It's always done that for me previously :s
Then why is this line in the update?

"Added support for enabling the Big Picture overlay when using controllers with the desktop client"


Last edited by no_information_here on 31 October 2019 at 5:08 am UTC
Grifter Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: no_information_hereThen why is this line in the update?

I'm probably just misunderstanding what it does in that case.
vector Oct 31, 2019
As to be expected, the dynamic collections are only as accurate as the individual games' details are. As a test, I created two dynamic collections, one for games with achievements, and one for games with trading cards, but some games with achievements (e.g. 103, Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs, etc.) and/or trading cards (Stacking, Super Hexagon, etc.) are left uncategorized as they exclude mention of achievements and/or trading cards in their app details block.

At least they don't rely on user-defined tags for filtering dynamic collections. Cyberpunk 2077 is still tagged "dating sim".


Last edited by vector on 31 October 2019 at 7:19 am UTC
Pinguino Oct 31, 2019
QuoteThat's it, done, finished. The beta is over and the new Steam Library along with Remote Play Together is now out for everyone as soon as your client updates.

Maybe I'm misreading all of this, but isn't Play Together still on beta?
Phlebiac Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: [email protected]The OS filter is gone?

There is a little (chubby) penguin icon to filter.
Liam Dawe Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: wleoncio
QuoteThat's it, done, finished. The beta is over and the new Steam Library along with Remote Play Together is now out for everyone as soon as your client updates.

Maybe I'm misreading all of this, but isn't Play Together still on beta?
Correct. Bad wording on my part. Adjusted it.
Ardje Oct 31, 2019
In the mean time, big picture hasn't changed a bit. It actually still has the videos store, you can still buy videos. Just you can't play them because the player is broken.
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