Quoting: Alia5

Quoting: JarmerI'm not a huge controller user (only on deck) so I'm wondering: isn't this just recreating the steam community layouts feature? Why not just utilize that?

Author of SteamInputDB here

Well, the community features of Steam are not really that great - And have been not that great for ~10 years...
The filter and sorting options especially.

Additionally, it's not really that obvious to some people when it comes to sharing specific configs on third party platforms like Reddit / Discord, etc.

The website is at the current stage what I would consider the absolute bare minimum viable product.
Just imagine what it could be in a few months from now with proper and more direct SteamClient integration and community features Steam lacks

As someone who plays only on my Steam Deck, this tool is a godsend already. Just being able to filter by the controller I'm using RIGHT NOW rather than "any controller that's attached to my Steam account" is immense. It's so frustrating to go to the Steam Community layout for controller configs and the first 7 entries are for an Xbox controller, a Dualsense controller, and a Dualshock 4, before finally finding Steam Deck, WHILE ON MY STEAM DECK.

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It's funny reading the comments to this because I wonder how many actually read through the article.

This is the compromise we could hope for; if they're going to keep demanding an age verification, having that verification instead ONLY on the host device instead of it being face or ID scanning, and that host device simply sending a signal to any requesting site, etc, that "this user is in this age bracket", that's about as secure as you could hope for while still meeting a requirement for an age check, especially if it remains as just a "enter your birthdate" text box at the setup of an OS. It keeps the onus of verification off the website providers, which means user account creation isn't required to verify age because it can just ask for the proper flag from your OS or app provider, and is better for privacy overall than what others are proposing.

The BEST for privacy, of course, would be to never have to ask for that information in any way, shape, or form, but it appears that bridge has already been burnt, so we're now just hunting for the best and most secure and privacy-enabling compromise without just streaming your damn face to every web page 24/7 while you're using it.

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Monster Hunter Wilds and Everspace 2 have been my poison this month, with a healthy majority of it streamed from GeForce Now while I was playing docked to my TV.

THAT SAID, both are actually playable on the Deck natively, they both just suffer from the same thing: specific environments will drop the frames down to the mid 20s (Planets for Everspace 2, Windward Plains for MHWilds), and the amount of upscaling required can sometimes render the game difficult to read; less of an issue with Wilds just because the monsters are as big as they are.

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Man, it's about time. Feels like they've been on 0.9.9 for years, though I understand the issues they were facing before a big 1.0 update.

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Everyone needs to check out Deep Snow Delivery [External Link] as well. Should work perfectly on Linux, as it's doing fine on my Deck (lower the Snow Heightfield Resolution to low, other settings to medium, target 30 FPS), and is just a fun experience from the get go.

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Honestly it's about time, and whomever ends up creating the graphical wrapper of this will be a boon to the community as well. Protontricks/Winetricks is a friction point to the ecosystem just because of their less than intuitive interface and the weird silent pauses and slowdowns that make you wonder if it's working or not. If a game needs tweaks from Winetricks, having something fast and smooth like this is huuuuuge.

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Quoting: Cyril

Quoting: Serious_Table

Quoting: CyrilWhat is "silly" is what they did to Overwatch (the first one). I think I will never understand that move.
And about Blizzard as a whole, where is Warcraft IV? WoW II? Starcraft III?

You won't be getting a Warcraft IV ever; that's what World of Warcraft was/is.

But... it's not, WoW isn't an RTS and never will. We can't reduce a game solely on its lore, it's bullshit.
Don't you think it's sad?

We shouldn't be able to just reduce a game to its lore, but as is, that's what Blizzard has done. World of Warcraft is doing better than any singular Warcraft game did, so they aren't incentivized to go and do another. And the Warcraft team is basically wholly focused on WoW (and occasionally Hearthstone, but that's firmly intrenched in the "tangentially related" category).

A Starcraft 3 is more likely as an RTS entry, in this day and age. Especially with Microsoft as their overlords and breathing down their necks.

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Quoting: CyrilWhat is "silly" is what they did to Overwatch (the first one). I think I will never understand that move.
And about Blizzard as a whole, where is Warcraft IV? WoW II? Starcraft III?

You won't be getting a Warcraft IV ever; that's what World of Warcraft was/is.

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Godot Tarkov was not on my 2026 Bingo Card!

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It's been a lot of getting stuff working on my Steam Deck in recent weeks, as my laptop is now on the fritz. So I've got:

* Guild Wars 2
* Serious Sam 2 & 4
* Elite: Dangerous
* X4: Foundations (this one surprised me; the secret is apparently disabling Volumetric Fog?)
* Factorio (I keep bouncing off it and keep trying anyway)
* Stardew Valley
* Starsector

I can't seem to sit on one game for very long at this time of year. But at least they're all working to my liking!

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