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Latest Comments by Eike
Check your Steam Library against Steam Deck compatibility easily
16 Feb 2022 at 1:21 pm UTC

Quoting: audiopathik
Quoting: basedBlack Squad unsupported? That has to be a mistake, right? I'm playing it on Linux without issues, just gotta have BattlEye thing installed from the library
SteamDeck Verified also takes into account support for the handheld and onscreen controls and is just not the exact same thing as supported by Proton or even running on Linux natively.
There's the big category "Playable [External Link]" between those two, though. At the moment, we see games not working properly (like multiplayer games with dysfunctional anti cheat) and games just way too "heavy" for Steam Deck (like VR games) in the Unsupported category.

Superliminal gets the multiplayer mode hooked up for Linux
16 Feb 2022 at 8:23 am UTC

Quoting: Liam Dawe
Quoting: SpykerEthan also noted that Valve started to remove some of his games port in favour of Proton.
I wonder if this one is concerned, and why Valve would do that.
Hopefully, this is just a mistake from an automated procedure from Valve.
Nothing has been removed. Ethan's Twitter post is talking about the defaults on the Steam Deck, all of which is likely in flux until release.
Are there other defaults for Deck than for my box?

Check your Steam Library against Steam Deck compatibility easily
15 Feb 2022 at 2:35 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: EhvisI have 32 games that are flagged unsupported. 30 of those were either VR (most) are anti-cheat.
I neither do multiplayer (anymore) nor VR (yet). I don't expect too much red. :)

Tomb Raider's Linux port from Feral Interactive delisted on Steam
15 Feb 2022 at 2:17 pm UTC

Quoting: TeodosioI see this as a confirmation that "porting", intended as a company reworking a game developed for Windows by somebody else, is a failure.
I guess it works for say 10%, but not for 1%. And not against Proton.

Quoting: TeodosioGames need to be developed in parallel for all the intended platform. Paradox interactive does this right.
And some others. Klei, Zach, ...

(I bet it's some dozens when looking close, even if you say they'd need to have at least three multi-platform games out.)

ABRISS is a game of deliberate total destruction and it looks brill
15 Feb 2022 at 1:27 pm UTC Likes: 4

Quoting: sub
Quoting: EikeABRISS - that's what the German language has been made for! :D
Reminds me of the Farbrausch - Debris demo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqu_IpkOYBg [External Link]
Nice!

PS: "Farbrausch" is a good example by the way that German can be a beauty, too. :heart:
It's "colour intoxication/euphoria" forming a single word.

520 games are now rated either Verified or Playable for Steam Deck
15 Feb 2022 at 1:12 pm UTC

Quoting: EikeThese are my numbers:
VERIFIED: 12 games (3.41%)
PLAYABLE: 8 games (2.27%)
UNSUPPORTED: 1 games (0.28%) (That's Insurgency.)
UNKNOWN: 331 games (94.03%)
UNSUPPORTED += 1: Half-Life: Alyx

ABRISS is a game of deliberate total destruction and it looks brill
15 Feb 2022 at 1:09 pm UTC Likes: 9

ABRISS - that's what the German language has been made for! :D

Tomb Raider's Linux port from Feral Interactive delisted on Steam
15 Feb 2022 at 11:25 am UTC Likes: 18

The port ran very good for me back in the days. Sad to see it go.

Check your Steam Library against Steam Deck compatibility easily
15 Feb 2022 at 10:38 am UTC Likes: 1

Quoting: LinasThis may become more useful as more games get listed, but for now ProtonDB is still the way to go.
I'm looking forward to see the coloured section grow. :)

520 games are now rated either Verified or Playable for Steam Deck
14 Feb 2022 at 7:27 pm UTC

Quoting: poiuz
Quoting: EikeI still fear even if they've got several thousands of games at launch, which no console ever had
The PS5 & Xbox Series had thousands of games at launch.
Ah, you're probably right. I always count a new console as starting from 0, but it was different this time.