I've launched the demo on the Deck, and they've messed up the way they handle aspect ratios - the sides (the actual interface for the game) are completely cut off. If you manually pick a 16:9 resolution you get to see the sides, and it otherwise seems to work OK. I hope they've fixed it in the full game, or will very shortly - even if I were playing on the desktop rather than the Deck, that's 16:10, too.

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Quoting: DrakkerAh cr*p, does it mean they can't make any more Shadowrun games because Paradox still own the license?

That's unclear. Paradox own the three Shadowrun games ("Paradox will maintain ownership of The Lamplighters League, released this month, and other titles developed by HBS.") but the Shadowrun electronic IP is owned by Microsoft (other Shadowrun usage is possibly owned by Topps cards after they bought WizKids) and was licensed back to Jordan Weisman. Whether Paradox or Jordan Weisman now have that licence to make future games, and whether either could get a different licence to make future games, are unknown outside of those parties.

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Quoting: SlackdogAre you on duel monitors? I had this until I switched my second screen off before rebooting...

No, single monitor here. I think Liam's on single monitor, too, and the other people I've seen mention it. The screen turns off during any update of the driver on that branch, and the computer appears unresponsive - although one can SSH into it still.

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Note that when an nvidia-drm framebuffer console is enabled, unloading nvidia-drm will cause the screen to turn off.

I wonder if that's the cause of the upgrade bug that's been present for each driver on the 535 branch, where upgrading the driver turns the screen off?

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Perhaps some macOS users may want to give Linux a try…

I suggested to a Mac user that they get a Deck for their gaming needs; they did, and it seems to have gone well: they're now recommending the Deck to other Mac gamers. So, yeah...

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI myself have serious doubts about the 30% cut being reasonable.

I recall that during the Epic vs Apple trial, there were Microsoft (pretty sure) documents released that estimated the break-even commission rates at 20-25% for game stores, with GOG's needed rate being higher than Valve's because of scale. I can't find the document now to cite it, so you'd be justified in saying that this is unsubstantiated.

Break-even isn't sufficient for a business, though: you need to make a profit for the endeavour to be worth doing at all, and you need it to be sustainable by reinvesting revenues into the business (all the value-add Steam services mentioned upthread, for example).

These figures tally with the numbers we see: Valve's commission rate drops to 20% if you make enough money; Humble (~15% commission) has relegated itself to being a Steam key reseller; Epic and Microsoft's Windows Store (12%) are massively subsidised by revenue elsewhere, so they can afford to take a loss on the store itself; and everywhere else (including Microsoft's Xbox) is 30%.

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That's a lot of work fixing other people's bullshit launchers.

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The good news is that it will be entirely optional as the HD content will be available via the Steam Workshop as free downloads... Find DUSK on Humble Store, GOG.com and Steam.

I wonder how they'll approach putting the new content on GOG, or if they will?

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Quoting: PenglingSome of them definitely are. One example that springs to mind right away is Hotshot Racing, which works perfectly, but which reportedly won't start if you're offline - it's marked as Unsupported, seemingly for this reason.

This game isn't Steam Deck rated at all, yet, though, so that remains to be seen.

A game requiring an Internet connection doesn't affect the rating. It gets noted on the compatibility report for either the single-player requiring an active Internet connection or for the initial setup requiring an active Internet connection.

The Deck Verified criteria are for things that will affect everyone; for the (probably majority) use case of just using your Deck when you're chilling at home, the Internet requirement doesn't stop you playing.

It still sucks, obviously, and it will stop some people from being able to play. So they put it in the report.

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Yep, the failure of the game devs to let the player use controls that work for them is why this game came off my wishlist.

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