Quoting: 14You guys' comments don't make me want to dip my toes into this game despite it becoming interesting again (haven't purchased yet). Why are the review stats so amazing if it's frustrating? Is it the MMO players that like endgame grinding for specific loot drops? Because that's not me.

The reason is simple, because most of the reviews are written after few hours in the game, at which time it's awesome experience and real fun. The frustration starts later.

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I wonder if they fixed the issue with difficulty. In original game it was really frustrating then fun to play endgame. I don't mind difficult games, but this was mostly grinding new members for exp than anything else.

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I'm now finishing Disco Elysium, really interesting game. And I really like the filter for games you didn't played yet, till I got Steam Deck that number is shrinking. :-)

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I remember that in LTS they usually have really old version of flatpak, so some things didn't work as they should anyway.

I'm not sure why Canonical doesn't want to have flatpak installed out of the box, but they sometimes do strange decisions, like Mir or Unity. Not bad projects but they were the only one using them and dropped them after some time.

The packaging is something that should be addressed across all distributions. But in case of Flatpaks, Snaps or AppImages it's just about adoption downstream, which is more difficult for deb, rpm etc..
But in case of snaps I'm not sure if there is anyone packaging apps as snaps outside Canonical.

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I played ELDEN RING whole January (finished it :-)), not surprised it's a first on the list.

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I actually liked the game when I first saw it, but the dealbreaker for me was Denuvo as protection with only 5 activations!

It's sad to see good game being killed by something that probably won't work in few years.

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QuoteA word of warning though: this game has Denuvo Anti-Tamper, and so swapping around Proton versions and going between PC and Steam Deck a lot will get you locked out (as it did for me).

I recently removed few games from my wishlist, just because they have Denuvo with limited amounts of activation. It looks like you are no longer buying a copy of the game, but you are just buying a license to play it, which is sad :-(. I sometimes wonder if these kinds of "protections" are the reason that there is plenty of people just pirating the games.

Otherwise good job sharing these kind of guides :-)

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Quoting: matiaslavikThis is why I think software rendering is the future of gaming.
You should all start playing some DOOM and Wolfenstein3D again, to prepare for the change that is to come

At some time ago, I was surprised by Euclideon technology, it was running on CPU alone and had really detailed models, but they never really prepared it for gaming (you can see some experiment on their site). Now we have Unreal Engine 5, which has similar level of detail with GPU and doesn't really need that beast of a card to run it. So I think we are on the good track, when even older GPUs could be able to run the newest games in future, because it will be more on smart usage of resources in the engine than on the brute force of GPU.

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I thought that the ship shortage is over and the prices are getting back to normal. This is a nasty surprise for me.

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Quoting: einherjarIt worries me a bit, everytime I read "how to get xy to work again on Steamdeck".

If it does not become a "just works" experience, it will fail over time.

Hopefully this will get better over time. Now it seems that some developers don't test it on SteamDeck before pushing the update out.

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