If you want a good coop game that also really captures the Starship Troopers experience, Earth Defense Force 5 is a fantastic game with 100+ levels. Works great with Proton.

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I am curious about the itch integration. Mostly because I tried building a c++ Qt client for Itch and found their “third party oauth” process very unfriendly. Basically required the user to generate their own API key instead of going through the “App” key process, which nets you 0 valuable API endpoints.

Otherwise I use Lutris for anything but Steam.

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Quoting: Phlebiac

Quoting: itscalledrealityValve also separated the Steam Play enable checkboxes. The new default checkbox only allows you to install Windows games if the Steam Compatibility Tool says it’s okay. There is now a second checkbox for installing all software with Steam Play. Very very very annoying when I tried to install Yume Nikku.

Say what now? That's how it's been from the very beginning. They only changed it for Steam Deck.

I don’t think so, why would I have it disabled on my big rig suddenly?

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Valve also separated the Steam Play enable checkboxes. The new default checkbox only allows you to install Windows games if the Steam Compatibility Tool says it’s okay. There is now a second checkbox for installing all software with Steam Play. Very very very annoying when I tried to install Yume Nikku.

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Quoting: StalePopcornNever. Ever. Ever. Pre-purchase. Ever.

I could understand the need to preorder back when games were primarily sold as physical copies however the digital age doesn’t make any sense to me. The only benefit is that you can pre-download the game, but if you MUST play it day one anyways, does pre-download really add any benefit? Preorder bonuses will eventually be made free or added as optional DLC. Entire idea seems like broken logic for impatient people.

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FWIW (nothing) I always use ProtonDB and never find Valve’s SteamDB really helpful at all.

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We will get Portal 3 before Half-Life 3.

There is also: Neon Prime !!!???!!!

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Just announce a Bloodbourne port already! No one wants midgrade Naughty Dog games.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: FireGate_13Man, please stop suggesting that they improved this game. 5 patches and counting, and still constant 100% cpu usage, huge vram and ram numbers, crashes and stutters.. this port is still the worst..

100% CPU usage is not necessarily a bad thing, though.

I always compare it to workers: If you hired some workers, you do want them to work if there's still work to do. (Of course, it's not useful if they're just running in circles.)

It’s bad because there leaves no room for any process to use the CPU, not even itself. Your comparison would be closer to RAM usage.

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My guess is that Naughty Dog will lose or have already lost the window of zeitgeist to convert tv series fans to game fans. What tiny portion that may be will probably not wait to play this and move on to whatever the hip new thing may be. Most people I’ve discussed the topic with really don’t play games and only watched the show, another small portion have only played the game 10 years ago (and most have no incentive to return) and the rest have never played or watched the show.

The more you fumble a release the odds are that no one cares about the game that’s known for enticing cutscenes and okay game play. Those who will pick it up are going to be die hards (honestly never met anyone jazzed about the series) or casually interested who manage a back log.

> As Naughty Dog's Neil Druckmann said previously "Getting VERIFIED isn’t a priority. Optimization & stability (on the Steam Deck & other pc platforms) is!".

Sorry Druckmann but that’s pretty much the same thing.

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