So, I just downloaded 11.9GB, game starts in 800x600 by default, works pretty much good, no issues so far - that's nice.

but there is one thing, that is really, REALLY, very, very annoying:

I am using a steam controller, and therefor I have 2 touch controlled 'sticks'. the game is designed either for keyboard+mouse or 'xbox 360 controller'. the issue is now, that it implements it's own deadzone stuff, making every movement on the touch pad either go 0°, 90°, 180° or 270°, so when drawing a circle with the touchpad, it actually moves as a square on the screen.

There is the option to change the game input from 'mouse joystick' to just 'mouse', which would fix that, as it behaves like a mouse then and allows 360° movement as it should (so much for the 360 in the xbox 360's name), BUT: this does not work! setting up 'mouse' leads to a unresponsive touchpad, since as stated, the game works with either a keyboard+mouse OR a gamepad.

The only one solution there is to map the entire controller as a keyboard+mouse, but then things go missing:

1. directional movement is just WASD, so there is no slow walking, just either walk forward (W) or don't.
2. no (experimental?) rumble emulation would be possible, whether it works at all here
3. no aim assist! I am not playing this with a mouse, so aim assist would be greatly appreciated

any ideas how to solve that issue? preferably just by using it as controller & having that touchpad working like a mouse.
I am very disappointed here, since it is obliviously ported without care to steam controller owners, which is sad, as it is intended to be for steamOS.

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damn i was just like one hour long starring at that "flash plugin required" message, thinking that you are about to start

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Windows 11

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It will feature:
Dan Ginsburg | Developer, Valve Software
Baldur Karlsson | Graphics Programmer, Unity
Dean Sekulic | Old Programmer, Croteam

3 High-Level participants ! HL3 confirmed!

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is someone else using Kodi via added library shortcut?

since that update kodi vanished for me and I can not add it again. There is no such entry in the list.
Even if I use an existing link in /usr/share/applications end change Exec=kodi (from for example: Exec:iceweasel), that iceweasel link vanishes as well. as if I can't use the kodi executable any more.

so wth? :huh:

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> [Y]ou won’t see an exclusive killer app for SteamOS from us. We’re not going to be doing that kind of thing.
you know, that's sad and funny at the same time.

Surely, and not even I would like that, I'd want to see some exclusive games there. Say Half Life 3.
But what do other companies, like e.g. microsoft do? Halo was exclusive and it was a really good game that made the xbox well known and successful. Now everyone knows what an xbox is.

Do people know what the steam machine is? It is still way too badly known.
Now, valve is one of the companies that surely has the funds to pay for exclusive material. They even make their own games.
I believe that HL3 is a title that has a really good history. Counter Strike and HL1+2 are very well known, and making it exclusive would surely lead to more advertising for a steam machine. So no windows, no xbox, no playstation.

What is to follow? A shitstorm, of course.
So I doubt they would do that seriously. And at the moment: personally, I don't care. Valve did so much to linux gaming like no other company has done before, they already turned into a class like shut-up-and-take-my-money. That's what happens.

I do have a xbox one, a 360 and the very first one. Guess what: all these were gifts, I never gave microsoft any money, I also had various other gaming machines.

My opinion is truly that the steam controller is by far the very best, the software is also better IMHO compared by e.g. xbox one menus. Some games are still missing - they may or may not come to linux, I don't know, at least there were announcements.
So by now, Valve has done a great job. There are minor things, bugfixes and stuff, and maybe something one may expect in SteamOS 3.0, we will see.

My steam machine cost me 600€ (4 core, 950 GTX + steam link + controller), I am satisfied very much with it, games run and they run very good and it even has multimedia (kodi) I installed afterwards.

Saying that, to answer the author:

1. make stuff like kodi "more officially available"
2. rumble and/or heavier force feedback is a feature that I miss at the steam controller
3. the boot screens should be replaced by something that offers full HD graphics, instead of the default plymouth debian linux start screen software with lowres

besides "get us GTA5" and a few other blockbusters, there is really nothing to add to it.

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so how much did you pay for that tripod

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according to UTC to localtime converters and stuff this should start in 35min from now on LOL

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well, most other consoles all had one `advantage`, if you will, which was that they had exclusive titles or at least top-titles on launch. honestly, I thought that could be HL3 here, I bet that this title would have kicked the steambox to a best seller.

Nevertheless, things are way better than they used to be, say 2 years ago. When the only linux titles were sim city 3000 and a handful others. no matter what happens next: I am very satisfied by now and how things turned to the good. not perfect, but clearly waaay better than these times when there was no steam for linux.

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nice to see these efforts, but hopefully wine will become obsolete one day. I have not been using it for months, lots of games and stuff runs natively by now - let's keep continuing that.

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