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Pretty tough game. Somewhat confusing, what happens if you buy the same combo twice? I got two icons on it, but what benefit does it give?

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I already own Vampire Survivor, so I have this extra Steam key for it now. 0N5ZE-Y76CC-AVY2E
Hopefully, someone will see this and give it a home.

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No wonder Valve doesn't have time to make Half-Life 3, they're too busy making everybody else's games work in Proton.

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They been fixing the finals within 24 hours when they update EAC for multiple updates now, hopefully this is a standard and they keep updating when they break online service games.

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I've actually read the original book, "Captain Blood", by Rafael Sabatini. It's fun. Originally published in 1922, I got it off Project Gutenberg.

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Another new game that not only looks interesting but will also run on my laptop. I might check this one out too.

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Hey! A new game whose system requirements will allow it to run on my laptop. Nice!

Added to my wishlist.

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Turns out, the game wouldn't work if you had Steam set to offline mode. Now it will. Just a nice little fix for players on handhelds.

And for those of us that don't have Internet access at home too.

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Popular name.

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Gooey.

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@tkonicz I think the name is just a coincidence, I didn't play the first game with this name but I still own the sequel - Commander Blood.

A quick Wikipedia lookup it appears there is a pirate movie from 1935 with this name.

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That looks incredibly similar to Castle Story. I'll have to check it out!

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I prefer the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQrV255FlU&t=4s

@tkonicz
I didn't even know a game with the same name existed over 35 years ago but at least I recognize the name of the musician on the splash screen.

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I prefer the original. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMQrV255FlU&t=4s

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It's so frustrating that this game goes relatively ignored. IMO, it is the true successor to the Wipeout games and is far better than any of the other anti-gravity racing games I've played.

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I used it quite much, but it was allways a hassle to get it running.
Maybe I should give it another shot 😎

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I avoid any and all Capcom games due to their anti-consumer and anti-modding stance, like adding DRM to a 10 year old game to limit modding. That was an ass move. And Monster Hunter: Wilds could run much better without the over-intrusive DRM they added to it.
I voted with my wallet.

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I already played that years ago on my phone, I don't remember the name of this game :(

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@Corben To add some detail that may be interesting. I only seem to have screen tearing while in menus. So it "looks" like things are fine when fps drops below the display refresh rate.

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@Ehvis Screen tearing in VR is happening since nvidia 570 driver for me, if you are using that one too.

https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/tearing-in-vr-since-570-x/327594

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Oh man, I almost can't believe we are finally getting "wake over Bluetooth" on the LCD models. I was resigned to never getting that on this hardware iteration. I primarily use my Steam Deck plugged into the TV.

I still say the revolution we need is to move consoles (and set-top boxes and Blu-Ray players and whatever else) to the couch. It's so silly that any interaction with a console requires me to get up from the couch. Put the gear where it's convenient to use forever, and solve the problem of connecting it all to the TV once.

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I am once again asking for online coop games to add a couch coop mode.

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Playing SteamVR on Linux has been a pain, but I might try it out with Half Life: Alyx, once my PC upgrade is finished. Last time, the audio kept skipping, voice lines went unfinished, and the performance was overall worse than on my Windows partition. However, I am wondering if that's because of Linux or because of my PC not reaching the recommended specs. My main issue is that ALVR was so much harder to set up than SteamVR Link for Quest, and I don't know if I can go through the effort of setting that up again.

I did try WiVRn recently though to check out [The Museum of All Things](https://mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-all-things), and that worked without a hitch. Just goes to show that Linux VR is still a mess, with some games working fine and others breaking down completely.

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I feel like making this work with 2.4GHz controllers shouldn't be too difficult, now that Bluetooth controllers can do it too, right?

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I've been mixing up SteamVR and Monado usage for the past couple of months. For any game that uses OpenXR the Monado experience has been superior. Not that Monado is without issues. It lacks a proper configuration UI or Steam launcher. This week it just stopped working entirely and I had to rebuild the whole thing. Luckily Envision makes that relatively painless. For OpenVR games the support has been hit and miss.

SteamVR has been problematic. Async reprojection causes more problems than it solves in SteamVR2. And without it I get lots of stutter (freezes inside the HMD). Most notably when games are loading from disk. Pondering whether to go back to 1.27.5. Last time I tried that version the UI was entirely non functional, but at least no stuttering. And since I can use Monado for OpenXR, I don't really need SteamVR2.

Also had a weird issue with the headset this week: visible screen tearing. Had it in two games, one using SteamVR and one using Monado, so that leaves hardware or X11 as possible causes.

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The survey doesn't only come up in desktop mode.

Really? I have been running Steam primarily in Big Picture mode for something like 7 years now, and I have only ever seen the survey pop-up when I switched to desktop mode.

Correct.

I've had the survey come up on my Steam Deck, just once... But then, I take the survey with an awfully big bucket of salt, because in all the years I've been using Steam under Linux (basically since the beginning of Linux support), I can only count on two hands the number of times I've seen the survey; and at least half of those have been because of new computers or "clean" installations of Steam / the operating system.

It's a stupid (and stupidly vague) law. I don't see how opt-in collection of information about our hardware for anonymous statistics endangers anyone's online safety. That said, Liam just can't risk a potential fine.

Yeah, Europe does a LOT of things better when it comes to privacy and seems to be a LOT more agressive pushing back against big companies - unlike Australia, which doesn't give two $*!ts about privacy... But what little of I understand of this legislation seems to give the impression that it's unnecessarily broad.

Anyway, were I in Liam's position, I probably would have done the same (short of moving the domain off shore), because those fines are a heck of a lot of money.

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It's a shame we can't do that with the 2.4Ghz controllers like 8bitdo, now that would be freaking sweet.

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I'm especially interested in this

Bluetooth controllers can now wake LCD units from sleep, previously only available on OLED models.

As I'm using my Steam Deck as console connected to TV, it would be more convenient for me to be able to wake it up by Gamepad.

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Lawsuit from Nintendo incoming in 3, 2, 1...

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