Quoting: Doktor-MandrakeI wish it was actually called the 'gabecube' lol, gamecube was the first thing I thought of when I saw the reveal

Edit: I use the "target acquired" portal 2 gun turrent movie intro for few years now, for when I'm on big picture mode :)

The thing I don't like about "GabeCube" is that having two "B" in the same name, where one of them is replacing an "M", makes it sound like you have a cold.

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Imagine a 60FPS@1080p LCD built into the device. Heck, at that size it can be 720p. I could take it with me on the train to play while traveling, powered by plugging it into the train's regular power outlet. It would be super portable without needing an external monitor. Not that I expect people to do that, but it would be cool.

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I wonder, since Valve is now the OS vendor, if it can't implement its own kernel-level anticheat and let the game devs or anticheat devs make use of it.

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Why don't they put it in the Steam store?

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Quoting: TheSHEEEP

Quoting: LestibournesSounds like the usual case of cultists banning anyone who doesn't subscribe to their doctrine, and I'm so tired of that.

It has the very distinct smell of that, doesn't it?

However, it could also be a case of people just being extremely thin-skinned - say anything they don't agree with, maybe don't sugarcoat it, and it's immediately harassment.
Some also just really go out of their way to take anything said as a personal offense, especially if they know the person in question disagrees with them about something.

If you refuse to walk on eggshells around people, the internet can quickly close some doors on you.
It's also one of the reasons I don't really communicate much on Discords and such - context gets immediately lost as nothing is really backed up or searchable from the outside.

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What about cloud saves?

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Sounds like the usual case of cultists banning anyone who doesn't subscribe to their doctrine, and I'm so tired of that.

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Quoting: Julius

Quoting: edoThe game itself is awesome (and by game I mean the engine), have you never tried the editor mode? You can do a lot of things there way easier than on a normal engine

As a sandbox and mod platform it seems quite cool indeed, but the official story campaign is very lackluster.

The game itself (meaning the campaign) is short but super fun. It has brutal, challenging, natural, fluid, original combat mechanics and the opponents feel intelligent. It lets you choose a few different approaches to how you beat your opponents. You can sneak around and kill them from behind like an assassin, take them one on one or a few at a time, pull all of them to you in a giant melee, try to leg-canon everyone (kind of a built-in cheat). Enemies will go for help if they're being beaten. They'll spread out and try to take you for multiple directions. They adapt to your fighting patterns. Allies also feel strong and useful.

The platforming part is okay. The environments are beautiful and each environment truly feels unique due to level design details. Jungle levels are hazy and full of foliage, tree roots, ruins, that impede movement and visibility. Wolves are hard to see in the snow. Ice is slippery.. Different weapons feel truly different from each other. There's good signposting that looks natural. In the jungle it's shiny green moss. On stone or ice it's scratch marks. If you look around, you can always find the way from those hints.

What I would have wanted from the game is for it to be bigger. Take all those mechanics and put them inside something greater. It's still a great and unique experience even with such a short campaign.

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Musk buying Twitter gives me hope. Twitter was a social media platform that turned partisan. Musk is the biggest chance for it to go back to being a neutral platform. If it doesn't, it likely won't be worse than it is now. If he turns it into a partisan platform for the other party, then at least there will be one platform that's for a different party, a different ideology, compared to all the other big platforms that are all partisan for the same side.

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Quoting: ShabbyX

Quoting: LestibournesI haven't read the article yet, but before reading it this is what my opinion is:

The big steps in verification should be:
1. The developer tests the game internally.
2. The developer submits the game for review.
3. Valve tests the game.
4. Valve either certifies the game or sends the developer back to step 1, with notes on why the game failed.

Steps 1 and 2 are missing from Valve's process.

To be fair, the majority of the games on Steam are too old for the developer to want to or even exist to do anything about it.

Your idea only makes sense for games released in the last O(months) time.

Older games are more likely to work anyway, but Valve is likely focused on games that are popular or highly anticipated right now. They should be working with developers to have the games be tested like they are proper ports to a new console platform, even if that platform is Proton.

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