Quoting: LinasThere's at least a few guys at my work who pre-ordered a Steam Deck, and none are big on Linux, much less on Linux gaming. Actually they are more of console gamers, and are comparing the Steam Deck with the likes of Nintendo Switch.

I feel that's ok. So many people are using phones or routers (or lamps :D ) that are running Linux and they don't know...

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: DerpFoxThe Index as impressive as it is in terms of tech. It was (and still is) way overpriced in the current VR market.

They can't even supply the demand, so you're obviously wrong here.

We can take a look on Steam's own numbers. While Valve fans are more likely to buy an Index than others, users of most headsets are still likely to use Steam, right?



And as I just looked, this one is healthy as well. :)

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Quoting: denyasisBack to VR... I dunno about "gimmick", but the headset is definitely in the "dude toy" realm. I can't imagine using this when my kids were babies (monitoring naps), my current aged kids (playtime), other people in the living room (some one gonna get hit), or really anywhere where some awareness is needed. Perhaps I'm the only one with these circumstances.

Quoting: haikuMy wife would kill me if i isolate with a VR headset :unsure:

I don't know about your lives' circumstances(*) of course, but independent of VR, everybody should have at least a little time where he doesn't need to pay attention and can close the door behind them, I think. (I'm just arranging this for me and my wife, "just" four years after the children arrived. ;) )

(*) I had a great typo here: "livers' circumstances" :D

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Quoting: slaapliedje

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeI should spend more time in VR for sure. Also, someone should mod the rest of the Half-Life games into VR... I feel a lot will be left out / missing from Alyx's experience by making a flat version... Like being able to hide behind desks and throw grenades at the enemy. And realize how terrible you are at throwing things...

Don't need VR for that, I see it with shame every time I try to play with balls with my little ones (4 yo). :D

Ha, I don't have any little ones to do that with. Maybe someone can code a 'kid simulator'... then again maybe that is a horrible idea.

Absolutely. I heard they've given out baby simulation dolls to teenage girls - so they'd avoid teenage pregnancies. :-D

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI should spend more time in VR for sure. Also, someone should mod the rest of the Half-Life games into VR... I feel a lot will be left out / missing from Alyx's experience by making a flat version... Like being able to hide behind desks and throw grenades at the enemy. And realize how terrible you are at throwing things...

Don't need VR for that, I see it with shame every time I try to play with balls with my little ones (4 yo). :D

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Quoting: WorMzyI get that Alyx was supposed to be a showcase of VR potential and shoehorning keyboard and mouse support afterwards is unlikely to provide a comparative gaming experience, but it annoys me that I can't play the latest game in a series I've been playing since the late 1990s just because I can't splash out £1000+ on an sparsely-used gimmicky bit of tech that I wouldn't even be able to use unless I reorganise my living room. :unsure:

I've seen lately that there's a company leasing VR headsets. I missed Half-Life completely, but when I play Alyx some day, it will be with a VR set.

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Quoting: GBGames... I should play To the Moon first, and so I started it.

And so far I've been really enjoying it. It's very bizarre at times, and also quite touching.

My review from back when I played To The Moon:

It's pixelated, it's ugly, scrolling is bumpy, controls are broken, path finding doesn't work, the puzzles are superfluous, pacing is bad, the action sequences are nonsense, the jokes sometimes fall flat...

... but it's wonderful game about

Spoiler, click me

live, love and death.

Looking forward for the next one.

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Quoting: ShmerlCDPR are welcome to tweak their Stadia version of CP2077 and make a native release for Steam Deck ;)

Does anybody have an idea if this [External Link] could be legit?

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: PhlebiacRunning it now, it looks like it gets a black screen as soon as you start a game, although the opening subtitles display fine at the bottom of the screen. Checking the executable, it says it's from June 4, 2021, which correlates with the last update in their news section - so they kept updating the Linux version with broken builds?

Sounds like the usual issue of a wrong video codec for an intro.

If I remember correctly, it would end up in game graphics automatically though, which doesn't show up either.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: EikeReminded me of AntVentor on first sight, a point and click that unfortunately lost its Linux support.

Oh, that's too bad - when did that happen? I see it got Linux support in June 2018, and it worked great for me when I played it in Sept 2018 (3 years ago, where does the time go?).

Running it now, it looks like it gets a black screen as soon as you start a game, although the opening subtitles display fine at the bottom of the screen. Checking the executable, it says it's from June 4, 2021, which correlates with the last update in their news section - so they kept updating the Linux version with broken builds?

I've played through it as well some yea... times ago. At some point, it showed what you've seen for Mac and Linux users. They were able to fix it for Mac, have been optimistic that the same fix would work for Linux too, but it didn't. Then they just went silent about it...

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