Quoting: Skylead

What would you like to see improved next in the Steam Client?

I'd love to see them support friend streaming in the linux client. I like being able to have people drop in and check out the games I'm playing.

I was just going to say this! :) One of my good but, er, less tech-savvy Windows friends keeps forgetting that I can watch him play but not the other way around and I have to keep telling him "No, sorry, still can't stream for you to watch." I saw they had some improvements to game streaming in this update, so maybe there's hope?

Maybe I should just try streaming on YouTube one of these days in the meantime. :S:

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Funnily enough I was just playing this with a friend last night. :D Lots of fun, though I'll need to wait for this update to come to Debian. (Luckily I'm in no hurry.)

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Quoting: BeamboomWhat do people use that overlay for, when gaming? For Steam chat? I just simply never enter that mode other than if someone happen to message me during a session...?

I use it for checking achievements—either to see which ones I have and decide which one(s) I feel like going for in a particular play session, or sometimes I'll get one seemingly at random and I'll pull it up to check and see what I just got it for. :D I'll also use it for referencing guides, since there's a handy link right there. And as mentioned, some games rely on it for inviting friends to play with you. Actually I barely use Steam chat itself…

I encountered this issue in Seasons After Fall, and checking now…it looks like it's fixed, so yay! ^_^

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Quoting: 14There are story details you can gather out of RimWorld, and I did appreciate that creativity. But...what can I say? I liked it but didn't fall in love with it. I feel like Dwarf Fortress will be similar except you have to invest a lot more time to learn its un-intuitive controls. Not sure if worth it.

Having played both (30 hours in RimWorld, probably well over a hundred in Dwarf Fortress), I've found that RimWorld never really "grabbed" me like Dwarf Fortress did. I'm not completely sure why, but I think one big difference is the 2D/3D split. In Dwarf Fortress I can build crazy 3D contraptions, mountain homes, giant statues, endless waterfalls, what have you, while in RimWorld I'm limited to a 2D plane, and I just really enjoy building things.

This isn't to say one's better than the other, or that you'll automatically like Dwarf Fortress, just that they're different enough in certain ways that I don't think liking (or disliking) one automatically means you'll like (or dislike) the other. Hope that helps.

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For those weirdos like me who learned to play using the ASCII art and can't actually play with any sort of graphical pack, I asked on the Patreon page about the possibility of having ASCII as an option and got a reply saying that that's a planned feature. :)

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Interesting. I wonder if this new game will be a non-grand strategy? Since if it were I'd expect they'd just develop it with Paradox Development Studios. Something to watch! :)

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That's interesting that Age of Empires II is getting so many platinum ratings. When I tried it, I needed to rename a launcher file (which would make it gold, since it runs fine after that tweak). And I only learned about that from a number of gold ratings mentioning having to do the same thing.

I guess if it's really working out-of-the-box like that for so many people that's a good thing!

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Yep, I've been making use of this feature since it was first brought up here. :) I stick all the non-Linux games at the bottom so they don't mess up my ordered list of games I really want at the top. Of course in my case, the only two people likely to ever actually buy me something from my wishlist are my brothers who are gamers and know about things like "platform exclusivity", and just because it works alright in my specific circumstances doesn't mean that it can't be improved!

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Quoting: tuubiBrave or impatient?

Why not both? :D

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I'm planning to be the brave soul to try it with Proton and put my findings on ProtonDB…once I get time this weekend, that is. :)

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