Steam Deck support is likely just controller support and maybe interface scaling. Some games have presets specifically designed for that APU, but that's probably unnecessary here, hah.

Back when I played it what bothered me wasn't the controls, though - it was the forced writing. So bland and uninteresting (with a smidge of ESL) it was downright unreadable. Really made me miss the old Might & Magic flavour (just like the new MM and HoMM games).

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These new sales are healthier for the industry (no flash sales, lower discounts etc) and for the buyers, but coupled with the fact that pretty much everything is on sale every 2 months anyway... it's much less of an event these days. Back in the olden days a major Steam sale also meant Steam was down for the first hour as people hammered the servers en masse - that's firmly in the past considering if I miss a sale come February it'll be discounted again, so it's a case of "meh, I'll get around to it." The discount might be deeper on a regular sale anyway.

Now, if anyone is new to Steam, and especially if they're used to consoles a Steam sale is pretty much like that cocaine scene from Scarface. Nice to read posts reminding me of that from time to time, hah.

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Quoting: GlitteryThey really have to write a good script for that.

Kojima won't let that happen, no worries there.

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Quoting: officerniceI have not bought Sigil II yet, but I really enjoyed the first one. It can also be played with Brutal Doom, which is highly recommended.

Brutal Doom is good to blow off some Steam, but I wouldn't recommend it over DOOM. It's goofy excess vs elegance in design.

Each to their own. I've never really gone back to vanilla. :)

Yeah, and I always get bored with Brutal within minutes :)

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Quoting: officerniceI have not bought Sigil II yet, but I really enjoyed the first one. It can also be played with Brutal Doom, which is highly recommended.

Brutal Doom is good to blow off some Steam, but I wouldn't recommend it over DOOM. It's goofy excess vs elegance in design.

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Waiting for the inevitable Wadsmoosh update :)

Also, there's a DOOM2 megawad in the works, so I think I know what I'll be doing in a year.

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Quoting: GetBeanedIt looks lovely. I'm really pleased with how No Man's Sky turned out, but I've always been more of a fantasy guy than sci fi.

Shame about alt-J though lol. Explosions in the Sky did a wonderful job on the NMS ost.

Did you mean 65daysofstatic (and not quite even then), or did I miss something?

Oops, yeah, got my post rock bands mixed up.

If it's another collaboration that trailer song might be it and we'll be getting ambient for gameplay. I like the idea of devs collaborating with different bands this way, honestly.

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Quoting: GetBeanedIt looks lovely. I'm really pleased with how No Man's Sky turned out, but I've always been more of a fantasy guy than sci fi.

Shame about alt-J though lol. Explosions in the Sky did a wonderful job on the NMS ost.

Did you mean 65daysofstatic (and not quite even then), or did I miss something?

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Still not worth it. I didn't expect much of D4 to begin with, but it still managed to disappoint.

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Quoting: ExpandingManThe game is spectacularly broken for me as of this patch, if not earlier. According to the forums there has been an ongoing issue where the crash reporter pops up. Fortunately the game is still playable, but it's very annoying. Unfortunately I ran into a quagmire of issues trying to resolve this. I tried forcing it to run in proton, but for some reason it can't find it's graphical assets when running the windows version. Then, switching back, sometimes the launcher is unable to talk to steam and the game won't launch. Steam now seems confused about whether I want to run the linux or windows version, and it tries to do some 200 MB update every time I try to run it. I can consistently get it to run by clicking and unclicking "force compatibility mode" but it loves doing that 200 MB update. Completely uninstalling the game and removing all its assets and reinstalling seems to lead the same issues.

What a mess. I love this game but paradox is unbelievably bad at fixing bugs. Whatever is happening here is clearly a critical issue experienced by a lot of people, and according to the forums some version of it has been going on for more than a month. This is hardly unprecedented since some more minor bugs persisted in the game for *years* (that were hardly linux specific). I'm so fond of stellaris, and so happy with the game content of a lot of their updates, that for this particular game I don't mind supporting its development via overpriced DLC's, but that indulgence is contingent on the game actually goddamn working. Please paradox, slow down on the DLC's and game tweaks and get your act together.

There's currently some issues with their launcher - Star Trek Infinite was having trouble with dlc ownership at its launch a month ago (and not registering the numerous dlc correctly if you owned them rendering the content unavailable), Victoria 3 is having the same issues now with the most recent dlc, and I saw people running into the same issue for Astral Planes as well.

PDX is more than happy to take your preorder money, but not terribly inclined to fix an issue preventing you from accessing what you bought. Doesn't help their reputation, and it certainly doesn't seem they care that much.

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