Quoting: CybolicUhm, those terms.... (emphasis mine)
Surely that can't be legal? Signing over the rights to one's name, likeness and voice in perpetuity in order to enter a contest?

They just mean they want the right to re-post your Twitter/Insta/Tiktok on their socials pages. This is strictly a publicity tactic, and I'd be quite surprised if the winner of this isn't the one with the highest profile social media accounts with the most followers who makes the best post advertising the game. Hence why I never bother with Gleam giveaways as I don't use twitter/insta/tiktok, I'm a faceless anonymous gamer: my chances of winning are dead in the water. If I won, they'd simply say "congratulations chickenb00 on winning a custom Steam Deck!" and they couldn't even @ me.

Edit to add: This is quite a nice custom deck, though a bit bright... The game looks nice though. Spirited Away, The Game, basically

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Quoting: GuestI'm very very tempted to break my "No Early Access" rule for this one... the demo itself felt so damn good.

I may break my No Early Access rule as well, based on Liam saying Chapter 1 is complete, and Chapter 2 is intended for 1.0. That's plenty of maps to play and the game sounds highly polished. By the time 1.0 releases it may be 2026, who knows...

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Quoting: Jarmer

we expect to leave Early Access in 2026.

So ....... see you in three years.

Oooof. That's a really long wait.

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Wishing for eGPU support is wishful thinking, people: have you looked into reviews of say the Asus ROG Flow? Not only does it need a proprietary connector to have the right throughput, but it's frequently janky and often requires whole reboots to have it work! When we achieve hotswapped eGPU ports to gain +80% performance, without rebooting and without display errors, I'll buy, but not before.
I have little faith that eGPU would be well-implemented for a Linux device, even by Valve. And the expense -- those things are not cheap, and you would still be bound by the CPU in the deck itself. If that's upgraded to a 6/12 it would be better, but anyone with a Radeon 7800+ would be losing performance, and then you'd have people whining if they can't use their Nvidia cards.
It's simply too big an ask.

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Thanks Liam, wishlisted! Loving the vibes of this with its FF7-era low poly, fuzzy/blurry backdrop, 16bit SFX thing.

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I tried installing this on my steam deck but could not get the game to launch for the life of me. Free EGS key installed and launched via heroic launcher. Maybe it will work now that DRM is removed.
Anybody have any recent experience launching this with heroic? Does it work yet? And if it does work and play is the performance still pretty rough?

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Quoting: GuestI used to play this so much. The fun was amazing. Not sure if I could get back into it.
But it is cool to see this game still going strong!

Still some of the most fun I've ever had in online gaming. Those clutch moments at match end with the announcer counting down the seconds and both teams converging on the bomb cart at the very end. OVERTIME!

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My SO and I had a lot of fun in this game. It plays well on Deck, too.

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I resolve my issues with remote play by disabling Nvidia NVFBC. Previously with that setting enabled, the game video would not stream, however if I all tab on the host PC the desktop would stream to Deck just fine. All tabbing back into the game the video stream would end. Now with that setting disabled I can stream just fine on stable.

That isn't an option for Radeon cards...

Oh and disable hardware encoding on the Deck. Real shame we have to use software encoding, come on Valve, if the hardware encoding never works just remove that option!

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Quoting: tmtvlI've been working out some builds in Neverwinter Nights 2, looking for a nice OP one which I can use to play through modules without having to get really bogged down in combat. Aside from that I've cleaned out some of my backlog: played through Along the Edge (it's fine), Primordia (it's fine), Shardlight (it's pretty good), and Technobabylon (truly amazing game, I'm so happy I played it, it's fantastic).

Another Technobabylon enjoyer! That game is great and I still think about it years after playing. I also played Primordia but couldn't get into it, and then the game crashed and I lost my save. I should give Shardlight a go...

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