It's important to note that Tim Sweeney is an eternally salty dude with a chip on his shoulder about valve so lodged in there that he very likely just dislikes linux simply because valve is supporting it, who very likely only said what he did to hurt Steam Deck in the eyes of developers. The whole, "Woe is me, Steam Deck is underperforming, we just simply don't have the resources to support such a niche platform (after I laid off 830 developers) [External Link] oh well"

I don't really trust in the slightest that he is refusing fortnite support for proton/WINE in earnestly good faith. I assume devs had to twist his arm to even get EAC working at all on linux.

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Playing Half Life: Alyx without VR is like playing Time Crisis or House of the Dead without a Light Gun. Sure, a mouse will get the job done, but it's not the same and I hope people who play it for the first time with this NoVR mod will judge it for what it is, and not as the original Alyx experience.

Additionally, I wish the direction they went with porting alyx from VR was something more akin to the way Resident Evil 7 plays than the more semi fast paced direction this has gone in since that makes way more sense for the pace of the game in VR, but hey, I'm just happy more people will get to play the game at all. I'm still rooting for this mod to succeed, just so I can have the ability replay the game on the go with my steam deck, and out of curiosity.

I highly recommend to people that if they are gonna play the game this way, they should install the Merciless Half Life Alyx mod to balance things out a bit.

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Ah shit, here we go again. [External Link]

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: PyrateStadia failing is a net positive, who knows what will happen to gaming if cloud streaming got accepted this early (it's probably inevitable, but the later it happens the better).

Stadia's downfall was a *major* blow to Vulkan. And that in turn majorly affects Linux gaming.

I genuinely don't think people liking Stadia would have helped change this. [External Link]

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Fixed AVPro playback in VRChat.

Hell yeah. I have been waiting a long time for that one. I wish they clarified if you still needed --enable-avpro-in-proton in launch options after this fix though.

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"Multiple loadouts (modlists) per game."
"Deleting downloaded mods from your Mod Library."
"Rewind - a global undo feature that will allow you to walk back changes to your loadout one at a time or jump back to a specific point in time."
"Collections support"

So basically all of the feedback I would have given is already covered in the roadmap except for maybe like, "Launch Mod Loader instead of game when game is launched from steam." and "Auto-Change mod load order to optimal layout as reported by community" kinda similar to what LOOT does.

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It's not that I don't welcome competition to the deck, hell, I even think that that the steam deck APU hardware is already getting a bit long in the tooth and could do with an upgrade, it's that the competition doesn't have the dual touchpad, dual analog, 4 grip trigger controls.

I use every last input on the deck and it's ruined other controllers for me. If even a Steam Deck 2 didn't have those, I wouldn't be interested.

The fact that the competition doesn't have linux is not really a problem for me since I can just wipe windows and put something like CachyOS Handheld Edition, ChimeraOS, or Bazzite on it, but the controls are non negotiable.

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Quoting: Steve45377

Quoting: WMan22Would be nice if Valve sorted Ghost of Tsushima multiplayer out with Sony. Seems like a proton issue, since there's no word on it being an anticheat issue as far as I'm aware.

It's actually a PSN and PS Overlay issue from my understanding sadly, and I don't see Sony puting in the effort to fix their PS Overlay on Linux anytime soon. 😭

I understand this, but what I was saying is, if it's not hooking into the kernel like an anticheat, what exactly is stopping a fix? Nobody's mentioned what the actual issue is with PSN and PS Overlay, and if it's not hooking into your kernel, surely it is an issue that can be addressed with specific dependency management/fixes on proton's end, right?

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Would be nice if Valve sorted Ghost of Tsushima multiplayer out with Sony. Seems like a proton issue, since there's no word on it being an anticheat issue as far as I'm aware.

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Wow, I was already greatly looking forward to this game as soon as I heard it existed, I didn't know that the developer was gonna make a native linux build too.

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