As long as it works on linux, I'm not too fussed the way I play it. Don't like stuff putting shit in my /.config and /home directories anyway. At most to me this just means it takes 2 more seconds to start up.

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Quoting: CatKillerStealing good ideas, like Hall Effect hardware or extra controls on the rings of the sticks, is feasible - they've already done that by lifting things from the mod community and integrating them into the OOTB experience.

A perfect controller to me is just the steam deck as is with no screen or computer included, hall effect joysticks, and they add the HD Rumble/Haptic Trigger effects from a DualSense. Additionally they make the 4 grip triggers easier to press without adding rubber extender addons.

This way, all the steam input profiles that get made with a Steam Deck, can just transfer with ease over to docked mode.

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Quoting: pete910People will be really pissed if they announce/release the SD2 there first!

Not really, I'd actually just be super happy that the Steam Deck 2 exists at all, even in this magical fantasy worst case scenario where we get a SD2 release in Australia first I'd be more than happy to wait however long it takes for the SD2 to come to the states.

...Assuming it has the same control scheme as SD1, that is. I'm extremely worried that Valve is going to remove things because certain people think they don't need the touchpads and 4 grip triggers while I can't go back to not having those on a controller.

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Quoting: monyarmWhat does delisting mean in this case. If you own any of these games will they dissapear from your account? Or does it simply mean that you won't be able to see them in the search/store and buy them after they're delisted?

As someone who owns some delisted GOG games like Riddick Assault on Dark Athena, this usually just means you can't buy them anymore.

As for the games being delisted, I don't play favorites enough with games to think of this as anything but a tragedy for game preservation, but admittedly the only one of these games that looks slightly appealing to me is WarForwards and even that looks like it's missing something I can't quite put my finger on.

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Man, not 3.1? What a shame. Hopefully they fix this in an update later.
Like, listen, I'm happy to get framegen at all, but once you've tried 3.1 it's hard to go back to 3.0.

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My favorite steam related memory is Potato ARG hype back when Portal 2 was about to come out.

A bunch of people in Killing Floor 1 collectively gathering together just absolutely ecstatic to look at a door and unweld it for a while to see one singular potato and going "WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?".

People genuinely playing any game valve tells them to for achievements just to get a whiff of the new game before launch. People literally decoding audio images from a portal 1 update that changed the radios when you moved them to hyper specific locations, being rewarded for going fully insane about easter eggs and collaborating as much as you see the community collaborate and speculate nowadays whenever Hideo Kojima releases a weird new trailer for a game with several scenes out of context.

We're probably never going to have anything like that ever again for a big release and that makes me sad, the art of the ARG is something pretty much only relegated to smaller projects and youtube analog horror these days, not big releases like what Valve did. I feel like if you tried to do it now, people are so accustomed to not having this that it'd probably go unnoticed, enough time has passed that people just don't expect things like that to happen anymore outside of the horror genre.

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I'm more interested in reliable buttons that feel better to mash during QTEs, honestly.

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It was really disheartening to see people heap shit on the deck during the period of time this was unverified because I was playing this new kex port before it was verified, it worked fine, but it was almost becoming a meme to say "It runs on everything EXCEPT steam deck" which was stupid.

The real problem is, I wish we had a way to roll back to the dosbox version in steam's beta branch, because a 1GB download just to get the .wad files I want for a port that actually has freelook unlike this one is a complete waste of internet, luckily I have the GOG version too where this isn't a problem.

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Still waiting eagerly for the day I can use a SteamOS-like distro with Nvidia cards, complete with working real time TDP/framerate cap settings and such. But from what I hear gamescope-session isn't even ready for Nvidia cards yet, even after wayland explicit sync became a thing.

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