The dev has displayed a real contempt for their user base in interviews and Reddit responses, generated a store description with ChatGPT, and couldn’t be bothered to create art assets for the store page that fit the sizing guidelines within Steam.

They’ve also yet to describe what it is that they’re going to offer that makes it worth “pricing as aggressively as possible” over their competitors in Heroic, Lutris, or Non-Steam Launchers.

I’ll absolutely be skipping this.

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Quoting: grumpytoad

Quoting: RavenWingsI´d love to get into X again, but I don´t think I´ll ever find the time other then maybe on the Deck. Anybody tried playing it there for a longer periode of time?

I did play it for a time on the 'Deck, which works surprisingly well, because you can switch to different modes based on whether you're flying / map-mode / walking about, but I did need to spend a fair bit of time customizing the controls and making shortcuts.

I don't think you can optimize every last detail, because the menu-system is a bit unusable on the Deck, but I don't find X4 that hardcore to have to do that. Maybe creating bases is a no-go, but it was already incredibly clunky even with a mouse and keyboard.

It's probably worth checking out again as 7.00 specifically targeted better controller controls, including introducing radial menus. A lot of our problems with it on the Deck might well already be resolved.

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Yesssssss. BRING ME MORE SPACE SHIP GAMES FOR MY DECK! It was one of my first thoughts when trying Vampire Survivors. "This'd look great in a space setting". I'm really glad there's developers who agree.

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20 Minutes till Dawn took me completely by surprise. Vampire Survivors was a good time suck, but between Gunlocked and 20 Minutes, I think the genre is starting to realize that have a more active role in the play of the game rather than just moving makes for a much more exciting (and TENSE) play experience.

I cannot wait to see how this evolves; the different playstyles that can evolve between each run are fantastic.

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So, pardon the absolute novice of a question here, but: when I go and investigate Mesa on the Steam Deck, it appears they have a version 21.x.x installed. I'm going to assume this release of 22.1 isn't going to get pushed to the Deck until much later? Does Valve do their own custom stuff to the Mesa driver, or (should you be an adventuring user) would this theoretically work out of the box if you were to manually download it to your Deck from Desktop mode?

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Spoilers for the video, but:

I'm surprised how well this held up! The scratches on the screen weren't apparent until super wide viewing angles, 20 seconds exposed to FIRE and the screen recovered, and not a single crack while flexing the device?! I was seriously sweating when he started pulling but it flexed right back. Valve really built these things to last!

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Inb4 Tim's response is "You can always install Windows onto your Steam Deck" when approached on this.

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Man, I was just starting to come down off the high for Nvidia Open Source drivers and then this lands in our laps. Today is a GOOD day, it seems!

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X4 has worked pretty well on the Steam Deck in my experience! You can expect about 30 FPS in space stations, but 60 pretty much non-stop in Space!

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Quoting: mr-victoryDoes this mean I will start hearing ChromeOS users saying I use Arch btw? I hope not!

This has been Arch's goal the entire time! Everyone is moving to Arch, whether they like it or not!

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