Quoting: CatKiller

Quoting: MohandevirSteamOS 3.5 that's taking ages to reach stable... What is holding them back?

SteamOS 3.5 is the first time that the underlying OS got updated. I suspect they were expecting to just take another Arch snapshot, apply their patches, and then move onto other things - after all, Steam works on every distro already, and a lot of Valve's stuff has been upstreamed. Easy. But... that's not what happened. People testing 3.5 said that it was very broken, and it remained very broken for quite some time. And while Valve are busy putting out fires for that snapshot the Arch hosepipe has kept on going, meaning that Valve also need to come up with a sane way to keep rebasing on Arch snapshots much more easily than this time, to keep doing it for the next 10 years or so without just being distro maintainers that never get anything else done.

Thanks for your input. I knew 3.5 was buggier at launch, but I didn't know it was that bad. I tought the major roadblocks had been sorted out a while ago.

Edit: This said, Arch being buggy and, like Liam said, HDR development, it might explain a lot of the actual delay.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: MohandevirI'm wondering if it's not the biggest missing link for the SteamOS 3.5 release and the Sephiroth official reveal. **Fingers crossed**

I think if it was for Deckard then it would have a much higher priority than it has seen. I imagine how it's being rendered is different, especially since from the previous leaks we saw it would have a standalone mode.

I'm not going to argue about that; you are in a much better position to know... It's just that all these leaks about Sephiroth and SteamOS 3.5 that's taking ages to reach stable... What is holding them back? What roadblock Valve met? It might just be coincidence, then.

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I'm wondering if it's not the biggest missing link for the SteamOS 3.5 release and the Sephiroth official reveal. **Fingers crossed**

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... There's various reasons for games to no longer be sold including expired licensing...

One such game is Dirt Showdown which weirdly got a Steam Deck rating: Playable. Just did a new playthrough. Quite fun on the Steam Deck.

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Seriously. AAA studios have proven time and again that most of their games are beautiful empty shells filled with micro-transactions scams. EA, Ubisoft and Activision/Blizzard all fall into this category. Gaming studios for shareholders. Not my cup of tea. Sad for the players and the real creators that would like to create games they want to play. They are gradually killing the industry. I haven't bought a AAA game in ages, I involuntarily tend to encourage indie developers, lately. I find that their games are of better quality.

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Color me surprised... Not!

Business as usual... :huh:

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All of the above proposed refresh would be nice, but I personnally would like to see them replace the 64/256/512 by something similar to 256/512/1tb storage options. Quite sure it would still fit in the same price brackets; the nvme 2230 prices have rocketed down since the Steam Deck release.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyIt pains me to say this, because I want to be happy to see a purple dinosaur that isn't THE ONE WHICH MUST NOT BE NAMED, but...

"... I love you, you love me, we're a happy family..." :grin:

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With a little luck, AMD kept Valve in the loop and they are already working on a fix to support it.

Give it a couple of days? *Fingers crossed*

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This and this. It makes total sense. Times are hard at Epic and I'm not the one to be sad about it. They dig their own grave. This shady company could be driven through the ground, for my part.

"I love the smell of desperation in the morning"

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