Vermintide 2 works now, thought they couldn't get the EAC working correctly?

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Remember that the Steam Deck is likely to be a user's auxiliary gaming machine, the percentage shown is not an actual representation of the number of Steam Deck users. It's likely to be the case that was the percentage of users using a Steam Deck when the survey was initiated.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: kit89DRAG is also on sale with 75% off and has native Linux support.

While I adored that one when I played it, since the sale they've not really announced much of anything and it's a little worrying right now.

I can definitely appreciate that position, for me I couldn't warrant the purchase at full-price, but for a £5 I am happy to give it a spin.

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DRAG is also on sale with 75% off and has native Linux support.

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I tried out Heroic Launcher the last time you brought it up and I've got to say: it's great.

Over the weekend I picked up Soldier of Fortune 1 and 2 (nostalgia), and was impressed by how easy it was download and run with very little in the way of hurdles.

Superb application.

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To be fair to Digital Foundry and co they are used to playing in the console and Windows PC sandbox, and they are very much fish out-of-water in terms of Linux.

Give it time and they will become technically astute Linux users too.

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I think a lot of these handheld game device manufacturers are ecstatic over how the Steam Deck has legitimised the PC handheld game space.

From what I've read and watched folk enjoy the SteamOS interface, it integrates so much more nicely than what was previously possible with Windows based handhelds.

I think game device manufacturers really want a slice of that game oriented integration that SteamOS provides especially if Valve is footing the bill.

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That was quick.

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Quoting: toorWouldn't it make sense for Valve to have a report game not working button in the steam deck UI to at least have some statistic of which games should be focused.
They could also have a report game working button for games in the unsupported or unknown category.

They should probably introduce that feature for all games on the Steam platform.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: RichardYaoLiam, as I said previously, being Steam Deck verified is not an official announcement of support because the developer has no control over whether Valve does it. The only thing close to an official announcement that we received was the developer merging its steam deck compatibility branch into master, which is not a promise of long term support.

Please stop treating Steam Deck verified status as some kind of official announcement going forward. Steam Deck verified status just means that the game passed Valve's compatibility checklist. Consequently, the steam deck verified status is likely to be revoked unless the developer fixes this ASAP.

That being said, if you restore a backup of the `easyanticheat_x64.so` file (default location: `~/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Apex Legends/easyanticheat_x64.so`) after the update, the game will continue to work. Since a number of people at Valve play Apex Legends, I imagine that they will be contacting the developer about this, so it is possible that another update will restore out of box support soon, assuming that they do not disable the server support. As long as the server support for Proton remains in place, it is possible that this was a mistake. If server support breaks, then we know that this is intentional.

I disagree. If Deck Verified is not confirmation that it's supported (by either Valve or the developer), then it quite frankly makes it pointless. This is one of the only things the Deck has, and I will continue to report on it.

Valve advertise Verified / Playable status on their store for everyone to see, and on their Steam Deck Library pages and in the Steam Deck Storefront itself has a dedicated section just for these titles that shows by default.

If it's not official, then Valve 100% should not show it. It's as simple as that, otherwise it's thoroughly misleading and I will continue to report on it the good and bad because it's important and this whole situations only highlights further as to why.

Hopefully this will improve overtime as developers consider Steam Deck a viable market and treat it as a 1st priority platform.

Looking at Apex Legends specifically it does appear that Apex was verified with developer engagement, the anti-cheat wouldn't have been there otherwise.

What it does highlight is that a game should really be reverified upon a new update.

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