Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: tuubiIt's the beta. Unfinished features sometimes pop up, but usually they get cleaned up before they end up in stable.

The reduntant (?) audio settings are also in the stable release. I don't have the beta channel active.

Oh, okay. Maybe they didn't want to just remove the old way of configuring the mic before users get used to the new one. Makes sense as long as the new chat can be disabled with a command line switch.

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Quoting: Doc Angelo

Quoting: SteamAdded 'Offline' as a selectable status. This will log the user's client out of Steam Friends and the user will appear as offline to their friends.

Seems to be the same as with the old chat. You're still able to receive and write messages, but the notifications are different.

I tested this briefly: Invisible status does what you describe, and if you're offline, you need to sign in to actually send or receive messages, or even see your friends list. Just like before.

Quoting: Doc AngeloWhat I found kinda weird is that there are now two settings for the microphone. One section is in the old location, in Steam Menu > Settings. The other is if you click on the gear icon in the friends window. I don't see a reason for keeping those two settings separate.

It's the beta. Unfinished features sometimes pop up, but usually they get cleaned up before they end up in stable.

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FYI: Offline mode is back in the beta. Don't know about stable.

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Quoting: KetilHaving watched both the good and bad video a lot of times at 1080p60 quality I must conclude that the playback of either video doesn't feel consistent. Sometimes the bad one feels perfect although most of the time it seems a little off. On the other hand, the good one sometimes feels bad, although never as bad as the bad one.

Something must be wrong with the way your system renders the videos then, because for me the difference is extremely obvious. One is smooth as silk, and the other is consistently choppy, like advertised.

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Quoting: marcusThe only thing I really miss and would like to have is a keyboard with ISO layout and english keycaps. They all only sell the ANSI layout which I find harder to use. I like the big enter key I can just smash down on :D

Definitely a deal-breaker for me too. I always have a hard time adjusting to a new kb, which is why I'm not really interested in anything too fancy either. Just give me a quality keyboard with a familiar layout and I'm happy. Make it as silent as possible and I'll be even happier.

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Quoting: ShmerlFunny they are calling it "Gee-O-Gee". When they speak in Polish they call it "G-O-G".

They gave up on GOG being an abbreviation for Good Old Games, but it's still just three letters. It's likely they do not think it's important how people pronounce these letters as long as they remember them. :)

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Quoting: hummer010

Quoting: tuubiI'm severely allergic to this backlight nonsense,

You know, I used to feel the same way, and then I bought a laptop with backlit keys. I liked the backlit keys enough that my next laptop had to have 'em.

Can you actually buy a reasonably high-end (business) laptop without a backlit kb these days? I've used a couple, but they didn't change my mind about desktop keyboard backlights being just pointless bling. Not quite as pointless as cooling fan LEDs, but still.

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I'm severely allergic to this backlight nonsense, but I could go for a decent (non-rgb) Ducky with silent switches if they weren't so damn expensive.

Quoting: GuestUrgh, metric measurements.

Yay, metric measurements!

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Quoting: barab4Will other distributions get this fixes now (support for DS3 controller)?

Steam settings -> Account tab -> Beta participation

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Quoting: GuestAverage Steam sales numbers were about 32,000 in 2015. It should be noted that now it's probably even lower due to the massive boom in Steam releases caused by Steam Direct.

A wholly unscientific steamspy.com crawl seems to indicate that "0 .. 20,000" is actually the most common amount of sales for an indie game, even for games released well before Steam Direct.

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