Really strange that they couldn't wait for the Valve rating to come out and instead they half-announced compatibility.

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One thing I see a lot of people online hyping up about the next Xbox products being more PC-box than consoles, just like all these deck-like handhelds, is that they're somehow convinced Microsoft will still allow people to use Steam inside their new gaming OS, and I fail to see the benefit for Microsoft in that. Why invest so much money into a new platform if you're still going to allow users to use the competition? Hardware sales stopped being a point of revenue years ago, it's all about the services now, so why would Microsoft allow the competing service to run on their platform?

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Is there a logical possibility for Mesa/Nova/NVK etc to support the software stuff like DLSS etc ? Not asking wen's, just curious to know if it's even something that can be done.

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Place your bets on how many games will be roguelikes. I'd go %80.

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The real question is if Proton 10 will default to wayland or at least allow to use it through a launch option (mainly for that sweet native HDR without gamescope)... there's also ntsync which is right around the corner in wine from what I read.

These 2 features above sound too big and benefecial to just skip over for the next major Proton version. I hope some miracle happens and they do get included for Proton 10.

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Fixed pairing DualShock 3 controllers

Finally, I can't believe such a minor issue took months to fix. Having to use a controller non-wirelessly felt like I'm back to the ps2 days.

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Unfortunate that they make FSR4 such a big focus point. I consider all upscaling worthless, so no points for me. Awaiting some real world results!

They're not included in this article but GamersNexus new video has some first party slides comparing these new cards to 7900's with no upscaling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAe50byQGG0 [External Link]

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I actually do get the rationale of only allowing Steam Deck players, if that's really what's going on here.

The potential amount of people who own a Steam Deck, want to play the game, willing to, and managing to cheat on the Deck must be incredibly small that it could be "worth the risk" for them.

I don't like it either, but like I said in my previous comment, if they manage to find a way to know if you're playing on a Deck, then I guess it's better than zero support on any device. And the other AC makers should get on it to replicate this concept in their own solutions, especially with that upcoming Lenovo handheld and possibly more Linux powered devices.

And who knows, maybe this starts a (very slow) dominos effect of normalising anti cheats on Linux, a long march through the institutions.

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Seems like this anticheat "expert" managed to hardware identify steam deck players. If that's the case then why do other AC enabled games refuse to do the same thing and allow Steam Deck users to play the game? There shouldn't be any fear of cheating right?

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That's cute. Now we need to have a similar stamp but for those "procedurally generated" skeleton of games that rely on "roguelike" elements to make it sound like their game is longer than it actually is :whistle:.

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