I wish Valve would incorporate AMD Chill into SteamOS: when I stop providing inputs, after a second or two drop my fps to my target minimum. When input occurs immediately ramp up fps to my target max.

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Quoting: BeamboomThis is a massive downer for me. Apex has become my major title over the last couple of years, I've got a long friends list in that game of players I met ingame and hook up with regularly.

So yeah, major blow. Surely, surely there must be a way for us to get Linux at least on par with Windows on the anti-cheat situation.

Valve could step in and say that on Steam, VAC must be used.
Otherwise we are looking at kernel level controls. That's not going to fly based on the foundational principles behind Linux. --- edit: but maybe Valve could step in and implement kernel level anticheat on their SteamOS package?
But then... Won't that just mean cheat creators edit the SteamOS package, remove the kernel access, and repackage?

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This news is sad but expected. The devs know a route to close off some small portion of cheat engines, and that is denying Proton and Linux.

How soon until these MP games are entirely streamed -- you download a thin client which connects to a server, and all gameplay elements are streamed to your PC, MMO-style?
Then mandate controller input only, create some "reasonableness" check for number of inputs received in a given span of time... Eliminate cheat creators by locking down the game so that all you receive is video streamed to your device and your inputs are sent back. That's likely the future of gaming. Once Fortnite or Valorant decides to go down that road, everyone will follow.

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Quoting: sonic2kkI wasn't concerned that they would take another deal, moreso that I am soured on any studio that accepts it (yes, even Tomorrow Corporation which is my profile picture, I am ashamed to have supported them). A buyout here is a better deal, but being bought by the team behind Dead by Daylight (or any developer that includes invasive client-side anti-cheat and/or Epic Online Services in their games) is just more reason to avoid anything from Red Hook Studios in the future.

Don't get me wrong, I really hate that Epic was paying for exclusivity - but I absolutely cannot blame the devs for taking the deal. Would you rather make a game and be gifted the funds for it, or try to make a game and go bankrupt? Hell, even less extreme - would you rather work for 2-6 years and launch for a chance to go big and get paid, or launch with a significant cash sum and definitely get paid? I despise Epic for many reasons, and they are truly awful for consumers however I cannot deny that for developers, it is a no brainer. They offer lower fees (12% IIRC?) regardless of exclusivity, a cash sum if you do go exclusive with them, and their own tooling (Unreal, EOS, EAC). EOS is of course not as well developed as Steamworks as far as I'm aware, but paired with everything else it again makes sense for developers to go that route.

I personally find yet another acquisition within the games industry a much worse alternative.

I do find it funny that Epic exclusivity seems to be used as a beta period for games now though; they know they won't make much money on epic so they'll wait to release on steam once the exclusivity has dried up and their game is in an actual good state.

As an addendum to that, there are no restrictions on HOW you spend the exclusivity payment. You could buy your staff sports cars, or the founders could use 80% of the payout to buy themselves houses. Or they could pile the funding into wage costs or lease costs. I can't blame them for taking that deal either!

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Quoting: sonic2kkI can't say I like the Dead by Daylight devs (they include Easy Anti-Cheat malware with their "game", and afaik enforce cross play woth Epic Online Services malware) but I also can't say I like the Darkest Dungeon devs (Darkest Dungeon 2 was an Epic Exclusive).

Can't say I respect either studio, perhaps they're made for each other. :tongue:

Epic announced they may no longer provide exclusivity deals with payments up front. that was a significant lifeline for Red Hook to the tune of many millions, so without it, maybe they're eager to accept buy-out cash from anyone who will offer it if it means they get to keep making games.
I had fun playing DD1 and am proud to have beaten it on the original difficulty. Later play sessions have led to frustration and uninstalling. I just don't have time anymore for RNG ruining my fun, nor do I care for spending the tens of hours to beat RNG through sheer force of acquiring dozens of end game trinkets.

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To think I spent $10 on Greedfall like a chump last summer sale when I could have waited until November to claim it for free!

I'll grab Shadow of TR thanks

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I watched a YouTube tutorial recently on how to swap steam deck buttons, and it's an arduous process. Looks like it would take 30-60 minutes just to get to where you would have access to the button caps. Then you have to put it all back together !

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That is an annoying bug. There's another related bug where making changes to gyro will disable gyro input until I hit the QAM button and close it.

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I half-expect Timmy and EGS to suddenly announce EAC support for this particular flavor of Linux, but specifically NOT SteamOS.

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I set the game to update on launch, and haven't launched it while I await the new update to fix the physics-tied-to-framerate idiocy they introduced (apparently merging codebase from consoles to PC, good job guys).
Good on Hopoo devs joining Valve though.

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