Quoting: TheSHEEEPI wonder when RTS developers will get around to targeting the (clearly larger) pool of single player RTS gamers again with a title that offers a bit more replayability than "play through campaign once".

It's been a while... and meanwhile, almost every RTS that went for the multiplayer crowd and did not have a big name like StarCraft or AoE behind it just straight failed - without competitors ever seemingly learning from each other's failures.

Northgard has this: there's the story mode, then the additional story mode that they added recently, and a whole chunk of per-clan challenges. Plus generic skirmish mode.

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Quoting: elmapultesting MMO then... is a impossible feat.

hopefully valve should have contacts in the industry that allow then to "cheat" in games, like using bots to test the entire game, playing in private servers to not affect other users, skiping parts of the game that were already tested, geting save states for any part of the game and so on.
gaining exp/leveling up faster than the normal, acessing any area or item...
right... right?

What Valve really need is for game developers to do the testing themselves - game devs are testing the games already anyway, they just need to also have Linux/Deck as part of their testing pipeline. They need to build up momentum before that will be a reality. But Valve literally can't do it all themselves, especially when some developers seem to go out of their way to break things with their launchers and whatnot.

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Quoting: slaapliedjeSounds like it needs Glorious Eggroll. But that's weird that it'd be considered 'Verified' as I think that should mean that it needs zero tweaks to get it to run 100%.

Despite Valve's lofty goals, the testing is patchy - particularly for things that happen later in the game. MGS5 had some in-game videos that were bugged under Wine - you'd get a frame every couple of seconds and broken audio - that was unfixed for years, and they gave that a green tick long before it got fixed because the first video doesn't come in until after the very long tutorial section.

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Quoting: soulsourceIf anyone wants to check the official documentation about certification, it can be found here: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/steamdeck/compat [External Link]

What I consider interesting (as in: it annoys me) is the phrasing of the controller support requirement. It allows games to get verified that don't support gamepad input, because the touchpads are considered part of the Deck's physical controls. Any game that can be played with a mouse automatically passes this requirement...

Not all games that don't support controller will automatically pass: "Interacting with any physical Deck controls using the default configuration must not show non-controller glyphs." So even if the default layout is using touchpad mouse (which is perfectly valid for, eg, point & click, strategy, or FPS games) the game can't use "left click/right click" or "WASD." Use of the touchscreen (which is also one of the Deck's controls) is also excluded from being adequate for Deck Verified testing.

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I hope they can also fix up the text size to get that green tick. Seems like it should be good on the Deck.

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What have you been playing?

In April I've mostly been playing Syberia 2 and Bridge Constructor Portal. I've got to the penultimate level in the latter, now. The little one's mostly been playing Dead Cells.

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Quoting: EikeI fear they've just been assimilated. Has there anything on Twitter or the like about the game?

Not as far as I know; the band got split up for HL:A, and then not much. But I think the game would be really good, and super sweet on the Deck, so I'm holding out hope that they get round to it one day.

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Perhaps finally Half-Life 3 (yeah likely not but I can dream).

HL3 couldn't be anything but disappointing. In The Valley Of Gods is what I'm dreaming of. Of course that probably wouldn't need aggressive driver performance optimisations.

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Fixed video playback speed issues in METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN.

FINALLY. It never should have had the green tick before they'd done that.

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Quoting: scaineTo be honest, I'm not sure this will lead to native anything. I think all they're trying to do here is make their stuff run better on the Deck.

The thing with Proton and the Deck is that if you really want your game to work (rather than having it work by accident and maybe break by accident) then you need a Linux testing pipeline even without a Linux build. Valve have provided debugging tools to help with that part. The making of a Linux build is much less work than setting up the Linux testing pipeline, and makes it much easier to fix should the game accidentally break. How many developers do the first part, and how many go on to do the second part, time will tell.

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