Quoting: benstor214

Quoting: WMan22I'm one of the seemingly few people who actually welcomes mod.io

mod.io is tencent

If you're implying that I dislike epic because of Tencent's majority stake in Epic, I'd be as much of a hypocrite as Tim Sweeney, since Warframe is my most played game.

I dislike Epic Games because they're anti-consumer outside of giving away free games, their store is worse, they don't list if a game uses Denuvo DRM, they do exclusivity deals while heaping shit on valve for being a monopoly (as they contractually MONOPOLIZE game releases for a year), they delisted unreal tournament for basically no reason except what I can only assume to be maliciousness as players were using OpenSpy to host servers and the game has LAN support so it would have cost them basically nothing to keep them up with the only game they bring back basically being a F2P version of widely considered to be the worst UT game, and they keep taking *undeserved* potshots at steam.

To be clear: Just because I really appreciate what they're doing for linux among other things, doesn't mean Valve is my "friend", they are a company. I haven't forgotten about lootboxes, CS:GO gambling, the fact that I had to wait over a decade for a new half life game, their neglect of Team Fortress 2, or Skyrim Paid Mods. You can absolutely take potshots at valve, they are not perfect.

But nobody at epic has yet earned the immense amount of shit they talk about valve and when confronted about it they basically shrug their shoulders and continue to morally grandstand about "muh 30% cut" even though that's literally industry standard and valve is actually doing things with that cut like paying proton developers, manufacturing steam decks, making features for steam like Steam Input, Remote Play Together, Interactive Recommender, LAN downloading, etc. meanwhile Epic took 3 years to add a shopping cart. ...A shopping cart.

It's frustratingly transparent that Tim is trying to win the store wars through libel, they're basically trying to social media mob people against valve, hoping the average person didn't do any research on how little epic has done and how much valve has done, which is despicable. It puts a sour taste on even something I approve of, which is cross platform play. I want this, I don't want online play to be locked in to steam users only, I just don't want the solution to be from Epic. It's clearly done to go "See! We have a lot of users! Look how many people signed up Epic accounts (even though it's solely to use EOS)! Make your games exclusive to epic!"

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I love how Tim Sweeney once again makes a an extremely hypocritical, smugly delievered statement, this time where he complains about something being "a classic lock-in strategy" yet Epic is the one doing exclusivity deals, not Steam. And they "lock in" many people to windows by not enabling EAC on linux for Fortnite, too.

God I hate this dude. If that statement came from someone from GOG or any other storefront there would be absolutely no issue in my opinion with saying that, but as it stands with the way things are now it comes off as undeservedly smarmy and hypocritical. It's like he's completely oblivious to why people dislike Epic, or is intentionally ignoring it. Didn't he say at one point that Epic would be more curated too during one of this moments where he throws stones at steam from his glass house? Guess he's walking that back too with the $100 entry.

As for the decision itself, I'm all for cross platform play, it's why I'm one of the seemingly few people who actually welcomes mod.io in place of Steam Workshop, but Epic doing it with one of their services really comes off as sketchy to me, since they have built anything but a positive consumer reputation so far.

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Quoting: rcrit

Quoting: WMan22Eagerly anticipating the Luxtorpeda implementation and Flatpak version.

This won't be added to Luxtorpeda as they are avoiding reverse engineered ports.

https://github.com/luxtorpeda-dev/packages/issues/816 [External Link]

Ah well, perhaps I can simply settle for a flatpak version.

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Eagerly anticipating the Luxtorpeda implementation and Flatpak version.

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I play Othercide just fine on my steam deck, no idea why it's marked as unsupported.

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I really hope they follow through on that itch.io support. The official itch.io launcher for linux isn't... great in my experience, and it'd be nice to consolidate my launchers to just Steam and Heroic. I basically only use GOG, Itch.io, and Steam to get my games.

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VR support, as in proper VR support, is the ONE final thing tying me down to Windows. I can give up some anticheat games, I can't give up VR. So any progress on this front is greatly appreciated beyond a means that words can describe.

Edit: It just occurred to me after I made this comment that adding Gamescope may be a prelude to getting Motion Smoothing working within SteamVR, since after all, if they can have special stuff like HDR working inside of it, maybe they can do that too. Exciting.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: LanzIt would be awesome if itch.io was integrated into the Heroic Games Launcher next.

Why? Heroic was created because a native launcher for Epic Games does not exist, while itch has a Linux native (and afaik open source) client. Heroic devs are planning to add Amazon support later this year.

Because the linux native version is kind of buggy, and even if it did work, it would be nice to use 3 launchers (steam, heroic, bottles) instead of 4. Also, the Linux native version does not come in flatpak format, so it's ill advised to use on Steam Deck as far as I'm aware.

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This is great assuming it's under a license people can do something with, I hope they continue to open source stuff, because I just want Wayland to work as well as it does on AMD cards, man.

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I would use docked on my steam deck more frequently if Valve made a Steam Controller 2 that gives me parity with the steam deck's controls. (It would also be the best controller ever made in my opinion)
I do play it docked with a Steam Controller 1 though, the game mode interface is actually amazing for older games that run at low resolutions, especially point and click games because of the magnifying glass feature.

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