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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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Nanobang Oct 31, 2019
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I'm in the "I like it" camp, primarily because I can see my games much better from 3m away on my 1080p TV. I'm used to the Steam UI being a bit clunky and sluggish so I don't find the new Library UI to be particularly slow to load or sluggish. In fact, compared to the videos on any game's store page, the library loads up impressively fast.

I wouldn't mind it if installed vs uninstalled games were less subtly indicated, perhaps uninstalled could be a bit dimmed? The little down-arrow-above-a...tray? a dead bracket?---whatever it is---is impossible to see on many of the game pictures. In fact, it seems it isn't always correctly present or missing. Here's an example of what I'm talking about:



Collapse and Contagion appear installed. Codename Cure and Crashlands might be, but any install symbol is lost in the noise of the game's picture. None of these games are, in point of fact, actually installed. If it weren't for the list to the left of the screen, I wouldn't know what exactly was or wasn't installed.

All in all a step in the right direction, this new library. Now if Valve could just optimize the rest of the client to be half as spry as Steam is in Firefox...
saturnoyo Oct 31, 2019
Am I the only one without the new UI? My steam client hasn't updated itself since the 2nd of October.

Not that I'm in a hurry but... maybe it hasn't released for everybody yet?
Schattenspiegel Oct 31, 2019
Still not sure whether it is Baby's first UI-design or a case of to many cooks... either way: it is impressively bad, even compared to what we had before.
Comandante Ñoñardo Oct 31, 2019

Is a general mess, except for that little button (surrounded by red colour) that allow me to see the games that I have installed.
doctorx Oct 31, 2019
I hate it. Give me my small mode back and let it be an option. Also, why the 40pt fonts???? On my 28" 4k monitor, the letters are a quarter of an inch tall! Also the window is almost fill screen!
Ratman Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: saturnoyoAm I the only one without the new UI? My steam client hasn't updated itself since the 2nd of October.

Not that I'm in a hurry but... maybe it hasn't released for everybody yet?

My steam client hasn't updated either. I still have the October 2 version. Maybe its a regional rollout?
rustybroomhandle Oct 31, 2019
I know hating on new stuff is how we like to roll, but there are quite a few improvements.

- The list filters (Recent, Installed, etc) are now actually above the list itself, rather than just in the Library menu

- The game view is way more clean than it used to be before, when it had all those links down the right

- Managing collections also way better than before
doctorx Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: rustybroomhandleI know hating on new stuff is how we like to roll, but there are quite a few improvements.

- The list filters (Recent, Installed, etc) are now actually above the list itself, rather than just in the Library menu

- The game view is way more clean than it used to be before, when it had all those links down the right

- Managing collections also way better than before

I like change when it makes sense and improved things.. however this doesn't feel that way. What was they being to fix? Also the categories are meh for me. I have mine already sorted and have for years. The game view is way too busy.

I just want the option to have small mode. If you like the oversexed new look other fine, but i don't.


Last edited by doctorx on 31 October 2019 at 4:46 pm UTC
saturnoyo Oct 31, 2019
Quoting: Ratman
Quoting: saturnoyoAm I the only one without the new UI? My steam client hasn't updated itself since the 2nd of October.

Not that I'm in a hurry but... maybe it hasn't released for everybody yet?

My steam client hasn't updated either. I still have the October 2 version. Maybe its a regional rollout?

I was thinking the same thing.

Anyway, my steam client was updated just now, let's see what's new :)
Schattenspiegel Oct 31, 2019
Anyone else having problems adding coverart for Non-Steam Games? Pretty sure it worked in the last beta but does not seem to work now that it is live.
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