I thought Cyberpunk was a great game in many ways and that it clearly got a lot of unfair press due to it being too over-hyped (on the other hand hype is obnoxious so I like when it gets taken down a peg).

In my opinion the biggest problem with the game was that it felt horribly unbalanced. Combat was usually quite easy and the huge number of items and upgrades available in the game wound up seeming inconsequential. Sounds like they at least attempted to address some of that in this upgrade, so I'm very much looking forward to it.

Also runs extremely well for me on linux, and I'm glad CDProjekt bothered to get it steam deck verified particularly considering that it's on its own engine, though I'm disappointed it still doesn't seem to have ray-tracing support.

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I'm an nvidia user who is obsessed with all things set in space, so yes I'm extremely disappointed I can't get this running yet.

While I don't think it'll be fixed very quickly because it seems to be a driver issue (thinking order months not order days or weeks), I am cautiously optimistic that it'll just get fixed one day and we'll pretty much all forget about it being unplayable on linux, just like has happened with nearly every other game. As an anecdote, I have a list of steam games, out of my 700 strong library, called "borked", meaning unplayable on linux. Currently I have exactly 1 game in that list: starfield. Granted I've not tested every game I own, but I have by now played *hundreds* of games on linux and all work, mostly without any issue. It might seem remarkable that such a highly anticipated game happens to be the one that doesn't work, but keep in mind, most games these days come out on one of about 3 game engines, this is a brand new in-house job so lots of opportunities for the devs to do "weird" things that break the drivers or vkd3d that you simply don't see on e.g. UE.

Also we should keep in mind that if past bethesda games are a precedent, starfield is likely extremely complicated from a programming standpoint and initially (or always? see skyrim) quite buggy. So, as frustrated as I am I can't play right now, I think it's probably just fine to wait for things to shake out and play in a month or 2 after a whole bunch of driver, vkd3d and game-specific stuff has been patched.

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I can't confirm yet, but supposedly this will also fix random hangs in Remnant 2 on nvidia, which I'm looking forward to, more because it's been one of the most weird, frustrating issues I've encountered in wine than because I'm all that excited about continuing to play the game. (With the exception of lots of crashes in the early days of dx12 support, almost 100% of the hundreds of games I've tested either "just work", "just don't work" [usually because a dependency is missing from the prefix] or suffer some weird graphical glitches that don't break the game, remnant 2 is the only game I can think of off the top of my head which was mostly working but suffering inscrutable stochastic failures with no real prospect of fixing beyond dxvk voodoo only properly understood by a few hundred people in the whole world.)

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I got a lot of enjoyment out of HoMM and I'm obsessed with sci-fi, so this looks great to me. I also love the art style for the most part.

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There's quite a lot wrong with steam's review system, and frankly I spend more of my time bemoaning it than celebrating it. However, this is a great example to show that, whatever may be wrong with it, there are huge advantages to having user feedback built so prominently into a storefront. While the fact that so many people are playing the game suggests there's another side to the story, 9% positive reviews out of 10^5 is a sure sign that something is terribly wrong. When blizzard puts the game in their own isolated ecosystem it's far easier for them to pretend they didn't do anything wrong, but in steam they're, at least somewhat, held accountable for their despicable monetization shenanigans. I can only imagine that this kind of feedback has served as an underappreciated good incentive for other developers over the years in ways that have gone largely unnoticed.

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Right now I'm hoping for a fix to random crashes on Remnant 2, so hoping I'll get lucky and this will do it.

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At least we haven't yet heard anything to make us think it won't run fine on linux desktop. I'm admittedly quite excited about this and will be frustrated if I can't run it.

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This seems mostly useful for trying to get people who refuse to play Stellaris (which is clearly the greatest game in existence) to play Stellaris. Such people have told me that Stellaris is "a horrible map game".

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This kind of thing makes me super nervous. The idea that 10 years from now, yeah sure we'll have linux gaming but this means SteamOS and all other distros are worse off than they are today, is quite scary. Valve might be a temporarily benevolent monopoly but they are still a monopoly, at some point they will pivot from helping us to screwing us.

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I haven't bought a steam deck because I couldn't think of what I could possibly use it for. Now I have an idea.

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