This is the closest I've seen someone get to Starfox 64 superficially, but a core part of a rail-shooter is scripting out cool cinematic sequences and it seems like its lacking strong direction in that regard. It's coming across a lot more arcadey and silly. 😅

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My only issue with frame generation is them requiring newer hardware and that its more prone to noticeable artifacting when using lower frame rates as an input.

Which is a little counter productive, since you'd mostly want it at lower frame rates on older hardware. 😅

On Steam Deck even with the artifacting, I do find myself preferring a generated 60fps to the heavy stutter of 30fps.

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Peripeteia turned me off from getting the bundle, it's early access which is a red flag, plus the reviews mention that the developers are wildly toxic to their customers and trans folk. 😅

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There's been patents showing that Valve is working on a standalone/wireless headset solution which involves major changes in how the compositor works, including the reprojection method. I wouldn't expect any attention to the Linux stack until that's released...

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Under AMD, the compositor has some issues that are causing it to stutter and async to glitch out for a frame every now and then. Generally I would like to see Valve try to close a lot more of the issues on github, there's a ton of problems that have just been sitting there unaddressed.

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As an AMD user, the current experience is still nausea inducing.

Mostly due to Linux missing features like direct-mode rendering (to reduce latency, prevent tearing and improve the user experience) and GPU priority scheduling (so the compositor isn't competing with the game for resources) that are still in development.

Valve has been funding a lot of great work, but we'll probably have to wait until next year for all those pieces to start falling into place.

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I was under the impression that Epic Games does very little work on Unreal Engine's Linux support. That the vast majority of fixes were contributed by the community? If that's the case, I don't think waiting on them is going to help much.

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WebSocket support is an odd choice, WebRTC is better suited to real-time updates.

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Was the Steam Machines even available outside of the US? I wanted to buy one but none of them appeared in Australia.

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In a lot of places it's a lot better, including big-picture mode and the discovery queue.

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