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Bungie has more to say on Destiny 2 for Steam Deck and it's still a no
7 Mar 2022 at 9:00 am UTC Likes: 2

Is Destiny 2 using a Kernel level backdoor method of Anticheat? if so then Bungie can go F themselves...

SICK of these backdoor let us hoover up all your keystrokes and web-browser history and everything even when your not playing the game anticheat methods. Should be illegal!

DXVK v1.10 and VKD3D-Proton v2.6 out improving Proton for Linux and Steam Deck
7 Mar 2022 at 8:56 am UTC Likes: 1

ELEX was fun, but I only got 90% of the way through it before I accidentally deleted my saves. I've just started ELEX-2 and am enjoying that, I already know most the ending of ELEX-1 anyway so not big loss.

I will say that ELEX-2 does have performance issues in area's such as The Fort and other bigger towns. Kind of wish they included FSR and DLSS options for the game or moved to DX12 (vulkan even) but it seems they mostly just updated ELEX-1 engine and stayed on DX11.

I know Piranha Bytes takes a LONG TIME to transition into new engine tech. Same issue happened with their Gothic and Risen games. They were fun and had the game-play mostly down (with jank) bu the underlying engine tech was a few years behind the rest of the world.

GOG suspends all sales in Russia and Belarus
7 Mar 2022 at 8:30 am UTC

Quoting: Guestyes one crazy person start war (that is evil) so as response lets make life on normal people in Belarus (that Hate Putin and Łukaszenko) more sad and hard be not selling them (because we can do evil thinks too and pretend that we do good think)
Not quite as simple as that.
The premise is that by making life harder on the people in Russia and Belarus by taking away their toys (GOG). It will trigger the citizens of those locations to pay more attention to the shit that's going down.

Remember Russian and Belarus CITIZENS are in the military killing Ukraine citizens. Their not some separatist military group. At the end of the day; the citizens are always punished, and sometimes when we're lucky, rich sob get hit too...

XCOM 2's multiplayer being removed but will still work on Linux and Steam Deck
7 Mar 2022 at 8:25 am UTC

One of the biggest pitfalls of centralized multiplayer login or authentication servers and not just handling it peer-to-peer or at the local hosts side.

Valheim updated with full gamepad and Steam Deck support
2 Mar 2022 at 10:04 pm UTC

I saw one person review this and they were getting 30fps.. (press review) good to see things got a bit patched at launch. Should still run better IMO

Valve expect to make 'hundreds of thousands' of Steam Decks next month
2 Mar 2022 at 10:02 pm UTC Likes: 2

Wonder if ANY of them are slated for Australia... probably not. I'll just keep playing with sand in meanwhile.

A round-up of our Steam Deck content — the videos keep coming
2 Mar 2022 at 10:01 pm UTC

Quite a few games will have odd performance hickups due to downloads in background (disable this on the deck) and also shader caching which should go away after a while.

There was also a outstanding bug with gamescope that causes certain (many) games to have a weird stutter after so many minutes in-game. Apparently it was fixed recently but I haven't confirmed it myself.

Also no steam-deck in Australia; probably not for a long while too given world events.

UnderRail is preparing for the Steam Deck, won't be perfect just yet
24 Feb 2022 at 1:02 am UTC Likes: 2

Basically answers the question to what Fallout 1 & 2 would be like if it just stayed same engine and got updated UI and resolution options. Pretty neat, definitely on my list of things to play. (The list that never ends)

Don't expect GOG to support the Steam Deck
22 Feb 2022 at 12:15 pm UTC Likes: 1

Ironically more and more games require GOGG2.0 for multiplayer DRM. So DRM-free; most stuff, not all.

Valve gives SteamVR and Linux a little love in the latest update
22 Feb 2022 at 12:10 pm UTC Likes: 2

Quoting: ikirutoOculus Quest 2 support added
AFAIK only ALVR has experimental Linux support; I've heard its not that great yet but unless Oculus release API support for Android and Linux then its likely not to happen.

They do have a Android app for Quest devices but its not quite the same thing as PCVR.