Anyone else been getting a really laggy interface when on Steam Big Picture Mode? I use BPM frequently for local coop at home. No other issues; games run fine, PC runs fine, hardware shows no outlandish % utilisation or temperatures. Just seems like a 20 FPS cap on big picture mode added in an update or something. Not enough of an issue that I remember it to research past my local coop sessions, but a tiny bit irritating.

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Genuinely asking here, what is the path forwards for this situation? I do not see how it can be solved. I love linux and the fact it is completely open, but that of course means it's also undoubtedly going to be easier to be malicious in. I will never switch to windows as I haven't for the few decades I've been alive (and we never had many of these games working on linux without a headache back then, aside from ID software <3). I am wondering however if my playable library is going to keep dwindling when it comes to multiplayer games. I love PVP shooters; I have many hours in Titanfall 2, COD WWII, Urban Terror & Wolfenstein, Q3A, even a chunk in Apex and Battlefield 4/V/1 which of course is no longer possible to play.

Unless something like PlaysafeID actually takes off - and let's be real, how many of us really want to submit our ID to play games? I don't see the pathway to take. Server side anticheat is unfortunately a dream (Poor Counter Strike), and cheats only keep getting more sophisticated. Is this problem solvable?

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Quoting: Liam DaweKilling Floor 2

Oh wow I have a couple hundred hours in KF2, man I'm dumb!

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What is the game on the thumbnail for the article? I recognise it but can't put a name to it and it's confusing me to hell hah.

This is a nice big selection of games - I've never tried Amazon's launcher for games before, usually only grab their GOG ones. Not that I have prime anymore, though this does make it tempting. I also still have yet to create an Epic account, though with all the freebies over the years I'm wondering if I'm shooting myself in the foot by doing so haha.

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Hell yeah! Most hyped I've been for the release of a game in years.

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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.

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Don't have many feelings for palworld itself, but this sets a bad precedent.

It should not be legal to patent things like that for software. All of software is iterative, and some of the absolute best products have come from expanding or twisting an idea that was previously made. They're not even that specific - I can think of some games very unlike pokemon that also have those mechanics.

Next Nintendo will be patenting the mechanic to jump in a two dimensional world...

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I was hoping for some more bug fixes related to the recording, but I'm sure those will come in time of course.

Main issues being EAC (and presumably other windows that games launch) taking over the steam recording so about 70% of the time I play Insurgency Sandstorm I go to get a clip of accidentally blowing myself and my comrades up only to find it has a static shot of the EAC launcher and every frame my mouse has covered it instead.

Also occasionally in longer sessions the recorder will just break and stop working, and I've never really found out why.

Still, nice to get some upgrades on this and the Families!

Speaking of families, does anyone know what happens if you own a game (the only copy) and someone else in the family is playing it? In ye olde families, the library owner would just kick them off with a 5 minute warning but I'm unsure who gets priority in the new system. My buddy has a habit of just leaving games running constantly, and it's yet to be a problem but I want to know I can kick him off if need be in the future haha.

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Seems like my kind of game, and for <£7 I can't resist

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Genuinely makes me so sad.

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