Quoting: ChrisznixDeath Stranding was crazy. I really liked the setting, but i never found out how to battle the BTs, so i chose to abandon it. It ran without issues on the deck, though.

Until you get on the boat to leave the tutorial area your options are limited. You get plenty of means to deal with them as the game progresses.

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These builds are deployed untested.

That's the opposite of what anyone wants.

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Of note with this case is that Valve had already bought a licence for the patents. Then they got sued. So there was a case where they said, "actually, we already paid for this." Then they got sued again, so they took the gloves off.

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Quoting: Loftyersonally i think Displayport should be included on all TV's aswell but i would imagine the HDMI group leans hard on Samsung, Sony against using an alternative connector ?

It's the TV manufacturers who are in charge of HDMI. They don't need leaning on.

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£70/€80 is way too much for the base game of Death Stranding 2. That's $95; although European customers are subsidising US customers because they're only charging $70 in the US. £50/€60 would still be an expensive game, but not insane.

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Coupled with the update last year to show on the store page when a game's been abandoned in Early Access, this should bring good transparency to the state of games in Early Access.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI must be misunderstanding this, because I don't really see much benefit from foveated streaming.

The benefit is in limited bandwidth. The Frame doesn't have a wired option - it can only be used wirelessly. Foveated streaming doesn't reduce the rendering load at all, it's true, but it does maintain the perceived quality of the image where bandwidth is limited or variable.

Should eye-tracking become a baseline expected feature of VR headsets following its inclusion in the Frame (and which will necessarily be the case for, say, ARM and Android games put on Steam for use on the Frame) then game devs can justify utilising it for foveated rendering, which does reduce rendering load. They haven't been able to rely on eye-tracking being available generally, so they haven't generally bothered with foveated rendering. Foveated streaming makes sensible use of eye-tracking orthogonally to the foveated rendering chicken-and-egg. Both techniques can be used together with headsets that have eye-tracking.

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Just a reminder that Luxtorpeda [External Link] makes it super straightforward to use ScummVM (and DOSBox, and various engine reimplementations) with Steam games.

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Over to you in the comments - what have you been playing the most recently?

For January I completed Unpacking, Hellblade 2 (streamed from my desktop to the Deck), Gabriel Knight and most of Gabriel Knight 2 (with Luxtorpeda).

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The vast majority for Meta platforms at 82%, SteamVR was next at 37%. Perhaps the Steam Frame will shift this over.

Facebook closing a bunch of VR studios and laying off thousands of workers, having wasted billions chasing a "metaverse," might also shift it over. I expect quite a lot of people are going to wonder whether that platform is the basket they'd like to put all their eggs in.

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