What do you think? Will you buy one?

Probably not.

I generally play games on two devices. On my desktop I use KB/M, PS4 controller or steering wheel, as required by the game; I don't need Deck-style controls there. On the Deck I already have Deck-style controls.

Playing PC games without controller support on the telly (the initial Steam Machines objective) isn't something that I generally do, so I don't need a special controller for that. It's great that this will exist for people that do, of course, and others that don't want to use KB/M for whatever reason.

Maybe as the little one grows split screen PC gaming on the TV will be a thing that happens, and then this kind of controller could find a place here.

Edit to add: gaming on a laptop also isn't something that I do, but is the kind of scenario where Deck-style controls might be handy.

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Quoting: Craggles086Yeah, gotta work out if I get this one or wait for Steam Deck 2 now, meanwhile New Zealand must be fuming as no mention of it in the release notes..

Don't expect a Deck 2 any time soon. If you wait you'll miss out on a couple of years of Deck gaming.

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%command% -dx12

Correct me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is that arguments are assumed to be appended, so if, as here, you're just sticking something on the end, you don't need the %command%. That's for when you (potentially also) have things at the front, so the client can parse which bits go where.

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Quoting: Vortex_AcheronticYet I am surprised it works in flatpak at all. Especially the Steam Runtimes which kinda are their own flatpaks inside flatpak.

It didn't work, specifically because of that issue with nested bubblewrap. They made changes to both the Steam client and flatpak so that the client can negotiate to run things with flatpak's bubblewrap. And now it works.

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Quoting: robvvLooks quite appealing and has quite a unique art style. The Linux system requirements show 32GB RAM, whereas Windows requires '4 GB RAM MB RAM', whatever that is!

Even better, the requirements are "Memory: 32 GB RAM
Storage: 4 MB available space"

That's a hell of a lot of compression if the tiny 4 MB file can balloon up to 32 GB when you try to use it.

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Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: rcritEvery time I think I want to play this I look at reviews that call it a backpack management simulator. I don't know what to believe.

It's a backpack management simulator in the same sense that a role playing game is a dialog simulator.

And in the sense that Ico is a game that's entirely escort mission, Shadow of the Colossus is a game that's entirely boss fight, and Minecraft is a game about moving blocks. As in, reductive to the point of uselessness.

In common with those games Death Stranding is a game that's focused on the experience for the player rather than solely on the gameplay loop.

Whether rcrit would enjoy it is impossible to say (and if they're swayed against it by random reviews by numpties I'd suspect not) since it really needs a significant time and emotional investment from the player - the tutorial is longer than most games at about 10 hours.

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Are you currently having issues you want to see solved?

The notification bell popping up for things that you've said you don't want to be notified about is still super annoying, and has been super annoying since they introduced the notification bell.

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Quoting: lucinosActually something is very wrong with the GPUs. They add up to more than 100%.

They've also all grown this month rather than some growing and some shrinking. Very peculiar.

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Quoting: _wojtekI wonder... couldn't Valve just collect the stats without the "survey prompt" to get saner results?

They're collecting information about their users and publishing it for any third party that wants to use it for any reason. Whether or not permission is strictly legally required for that, it's better to err on the side of getting the permission than not.

They likely also have very detailed moment-to-moment internal data about exactly who's using their network & services, but they aren't sharing that.

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Getting Talos Principle and Qube vibes from it, both of which the little one loved. So I've wishlisted it & I'll check out the demo when I get a chance.

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