For me the first game to try is probably Everspace 2!
What a surprise, hm? :whistle:

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I really like how they created a pixelart picture extra for this update :)

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Backed it already... scaine influenced me indirectly with his tweet [External Link] ;)
Watched the introduction to the chapters and found it interesting immediately.

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Nice! I'm using xrdesktop pretty regularly to have certain desktop windows in VR, especially during streams a chat window is must have. Some games use mods to get a chat window shown (Synth Riders, Beat Saber), but xrdesktop makes it so you can use it everywhere.

I hope this will be integrated into SteamVR at some point, as there is already the feature on Windows, that you can have any desktop window shown in VR without 3rd party software. This feature is currently missing on Linux.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/250820/view/3011193195372911333 [External Link]

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Oh well, if it's really all just PR wording about not saying in public: yes, the hardware can run all, but our OS won't, so they just skip the OS part... people really will be disappointed. I would be disappointed.

With the "goal" to have every game of the steam catalog being able to run on the Steam Deck, I would understand it that I literally take the deck, as it is, and install any game from the Steam library, and it does work. No installing Windows, no further tinkering around.

Especially as they said, they have made progress with Proton that's not shipped to the public version of Proton. I would understand this as, yes, not all games work as of now with the public Proton version, but they will, when we release our currently much improved version.

But yeah, I see that this could all be taken as, we tested the hardware and all the games run with at least 30 FPS (on either windows or linux, with or without proton). Oof.

I am hyped for the device, as I do expect it to push Linux gaming also on the desktop a lot. Maybe this dream will go poof. Nice bummer to get back on the ground. Proton is still awesome, and Valve will work hard on getting things to run on it. Especially with selling hundred thousands if not even millions of devices. Then also publishers and developers will want to make sure their game runs on it. On the shipped OS. If not native, at least with Proton. It is still the biggest push ever for establishing Linux as a viable gaming platform.

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Quoting: strycoreNo, this is a way to integrate with the EGS client itself and does not replace it. You can have a fully native EGS replacement with the Heroic launcher. What Lutris does is allow you to launch individual games from the EGS client.

Oh, right on, thanks for clarifying! Well, so far my experience with the EGS through Lutris had been better than with Heroic, so it's totally fine for me as it works really well.

Quoting: strycoreSupport for Itch.io is planned for a future release, with Ubisoft Connect, Battle.net and Origin.

Cool!

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Nice! Removes the necessity to have the EGS installed via Lutris then.

As Lutris is meant the be the gamelauncher, is it planned to have itch.io integrated as well? Or is that already in and I am blind?

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Played the game today with 2 mates for 3 hours. Though I had one freeze which recovered after some seconds and one hard freeze where I had to kill the game, it was an enjoyable experience. Barely those typical shader stutter lags, mostly 60 FPS all the game. We played the first campaign with its 4 missions, and the first mission of the 2nd campaign.

Cannot complain about the performance, if you like you can check today's vod on youtube [External Link].

Can't wait to continue playing this.

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Aah, nice to see. I guess I know what to test this evening!
I'm such a big fan of the Alien franchise... I loved AvP 2010 and Alien: Isolation... yeah, even Aliens: Colonial Marines is not too bad (if you play coop, the DLC or Bug Hunt mode).

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That statement gives me hope for the future. Given Steam Deck is a success... native versions will become more relevant again. It will be a tough time to get there though. Fingers crossed!

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