First we disliked Steam as a launcher (as it required an internet connection)
Then we disliked publishers leaving steam in favor of their own launcher.
No we dislike them for coming back and bringing their launcher with it... causing launcher-ception!

It's not too bad, and better having them again back on Steam for better deck compatibility, but it's still a bit annoying.

Funny though, e.g. for Starlink: Battle for Atlas they removed the Uplay-Installer... but it's mandatory for the game, so if you don't have Uplay already installed it neither launches on Windows. On Linux you have to use winetricks/protontricks to install Uplay into the prefix to be able to play it. Otherwise it works flawless, also on Deck, even with videos (which didn't work before due to mpflat).

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Now we "just" need the slow transition of devs actually doing native Linux build with it :woot:

Looks like there is now at least either some demand, or Epic finally sees some benefit in giving the productive usage of Unreal Engine on Linux a bit more love.

Thanks Valve, Steam Deck, etc.... again!

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyI'm sure this Miles Morales is a good character and all, but for me, Spiderman is Peter Parker. I've known Peter Parker for nearly 50 years, and I just don't feel right about Spiderman being anyone else.
It's like if someone said "OK, we're doing another LoTR movie, but this time the ringbearer is going to be Merry's cousin Doderic Brandybuck. We think it's time to move on from Bagginses."

I know what you mean.
But have you watched the Spider-Man New Universe movie? And Spider-Man No Way Home?
Both give good explanations, and help with understanding.

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Dang, haven't even played the previous Spider-Man Remastered :whistle:
And again so cool to get former Playstation exclusive titles directly Deck verified and thus also (mostly) Linux/Proton compatible.

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nVidia: nvfbc support for EGL, please!

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Quoting: scaineI never finished Cyberpunk 2077, despite nearly 50 hours played. There's so much in there, content-wise, I kept forgetting to progress the "real" story. Great game, lots of fun.

Keep it that way, I'm sad I finished it... didn't do all NCPD events, but all gigs and sidequests, before finishing the main story. And... I miss it. The atmosphere, the characters, the details... man, the details in this game are amazing. Environmental storytelling all over the place: a stray car on the high way bridge, a note, somebody having problems with their corporation, a corpse in the river below... so. good.

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Oh... now I have good reason to NOT finish my playthrough of The Witcher: Director's Cut, hihi.

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What are your current favourite games on Steam Deck?

For me it's currently Scorn [External Link] and Fall Guys [External Link].

Scorn is something I cannot stop thinking about. I dive into the world again and again, spotting more and more details every time I come back, making more connections and more conclusions. Even though I finished it almost two weeks ago, with every new theory I read about the "game" becomes better and better. Game in quotes, as it's more of an experience, an art work... with some gameplay mechanics. And I really enjoy how well it runs on the Deck.

Fall Guys is something I love to jump in again and again. Currently with the cute little Alien skin :) Also kinda perfect on Deck. Too bad there is no official support for EAC, and I expect it to stop working sooner or later. I have the impression many people play it on Deck though, either through Steam or EGS via Heroic, so if it stops working, hopefully the crowd will be loud enough to finally get official support.

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I think the renaming from Proton-GE to GE-Proton happened with rebasing it from Proton instead of Wine. So the last Proton-GE version was Proton-7.3-GE-1 [External Link] and GE-Proton's first version was GE-Proton7-1 [External Link].
Only a bit confusing :D

Great work from all contributors! From Valve for continuously improving Proton, From Codeweavers updating Wine, from doitjusin and joshua-ashton for DXVK, from HansKristian for vkd3d, of course from Glorious Eggroll for pulling in all the latest patches from various sources and bundling it into an easy to use bleeding edge Proton version and so many more.

And here are we... enjoying so many games that "just work" now on Linux, though they have initially not been meant to run on other platforms. Just incredible.

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We do have now (mostly unofficial) EAC support for some games. Fall Guys, Insurgency: Sandstorm, Apex Legends, Back 4 Blood (those come into my mind without researching). Though these are all games, where a cheater can ruin a session, but not really weeks of work. Nevertheless it would be interesting to see if now cheat devs are able to exploit the Linux system to cheat on these games, or if they are safe?

I did see someone cheating in Fall Guys recently, but I've heard that EAC didn't prevent cheating before they (tried to) enable EAC support for Proton/Steam Deck/Linux either.

Would be very interesting to know if there is some data on if people are cheating more easily on Linux nowadays. If Epic could collect this data, they could share it with Facepunch Studios, so they would be confident (or not) to enable EAC on a further platform.

But with Tim Sweeney's statement back then, they don't trust Linux for Fortnite with their Anti-Cheat... I'm not expecting much in that direction.

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