Quoting: WONTTEDTOMASHey guys, how do I install the beta on the steam deck?

Of the Heroic Game Launcher? There is a beta flathub to add. I do not recommend it though, caused my Deck to not be able to update anything in flatpak. Though of course it may work fine for you. I had two packages installed and I think it just got confused until I specifically removed them from command line.

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: elmapulhopefully they will be at stores by christmas.
if that happens they might explode in sales.

Even if they put them in stores (which I don't believe, they didn't even do it with the Steam Controller), there's still not the production capacity for an "explosion".

Gamestop supposedly had them at one point, they were always sold out when I checked though.

Brick and mortar shps don't even need to sell Steam Games, there are physical gift cards too.

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Quoting: iiariIs there any way to publically know what percentage of Steam Deck users have tried the KDE desktop mode? That is a number I would be curious to see.

All of the YouTube videos about how awesome it is for emulation have shown off the desktop.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: setzer22I'll save my anger for Microsoft's years of monopolizing the desktop PC market, or Facebook's (Meta :sick: :sick:) aggressive tracking and privacy-invasive practices.

Drifting way off topic, but I read where an iPhone privacy measure where people get to opt out of being tracked certain ways cost Facebook ten billion dollars in ad revenue. LMAO!!!
I'm not normally an Apple fan, but that had me saying "Go Apple!"

We need Samsung and Google and other Android distributors to do the same. Facebook should die in a fire.

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Quoting: slaapliedje@Liam
No fair! Do they somehow know to let you have fun with the juicy bits before others? I tried to update mine, and after switching to beta and beta channel, I end up with the build from 20220718.1, so do not have the theme available.

I have the theme available... :happy:

Wonder if it was just a case of time zone roll out. I'll have to check in a bit.

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@Liam
No fair! Do they somehow know to let you have fun with the juicy bits before others? I tried to update mine, and after switching to beta and beta channel, I end up with the build from 20220718.1, so do not have the theme available.

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So I had gone back to stable in an attempt to fix an issue I was running into, but it wasn't stable/beta that caused it, it was flatpak. I couldn't get it to install any new updates. This was due to having installed a beta heroic game launcher and some other package I don't remember at the moment. Flatpak apparently was confused that both were there, and I had to remove them via command line.

So now I'm going back to the beta version so I can get that theme!

Edit: What they need to do is update the libinput so that you don't have to have Steam running for the controller inputs to work... whenever I go into desktop mode, I have to wait for Steam to start before the controller input works at all (just like the Steam Controller).

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: slaapliedjeMad Max was so good, I rarely want to go back and play newer games, and even rarer does one capture my attention enough to play through to the end (including the new Tomb Raider games) but Mad Max was awesome. And after they added Vulkan, the performance boost was phenomenal.

I think it was the only Feral port I gave up on after some hours. Felt too tedious for me.

It was awesome; pretty much one of the very few games I've ever gotten close to getting 100% of all the things on. Wish they'd make a sequel. Then again, I am a huge fan of Mad Max (with the heat, oil prices and water issues lately... I can't tell if Idiocracy is the documentary or Mad Max is... Probably some combination of the two).

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Quoting: ElamanOpiskelija

Quoting: Deleted_UserAlthough i was a huge fantasy fan in younger days and even played Tabletop Warhammer myself i've left this series out. I just never got hyped and i didnt even know why.
Now i cross fingers that CA will develop a new game with historic setting, maybe along with a good ship to ship combat. Something in the Victorian Age is on my wishlist for so long.

... and you are being charitable. There has been certain gaming-focused media that only devoted half a sentence to the game, mentioned in passing as "a reskin of Total War".

I think the secret here may lie in the Total War part of it, where people don't seem to have enough of it. Be it TW: Shogun, TW: Three Kingdoms, TW: Troy, it seems that each launch is successful enough even though it's essentially another TW game.

I am surprised that reskin didn't include DLC for individual troops, and then a virtual painting program. I mean that is really what Warhammer is all about, right? Ha, I bet if they could figure out how to DRM STL files, they could sell a digital troop + STL and people would buy them...

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Quoting: dziadulewiczso Feral is doing these endless Warhammer games only now :huh: there used to be much more appealing stuff like Mad max, Tomb Raiders and what have you.

Mad Max was so good, I rarely want to go back and play newer games, and even rarer does one capture my attention enough to play through to the end (including the new Tomb Raider games) but Mad Max was awesome. And after they added Vulkan, the performance boost was phenomenal.

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