Oh wow multiversus looks great... and that Steven Universe theme remix during the fight too, lol.

I have a friend who will not play anything else than Super Smash, which is a game I don't really like. That, plus I don't have Nintendo devices, nor am I into their ecosystem or games. I'll have to check this out!

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It's probably a good idea to use a breakaway cable as well :)

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It's a bit buggy for now. It worked with 1 joycon out of two, but the "nintendo button order" toggle didn't work, and it got confused when I tried to remap buttons, thinking it was an Xbox one controller suddently, inverting the y-axis.

On top of that, I still have issues with xinput emulation and at least the steam controller.

Apparently, the new nintendo kernel module might conflict with steam? https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/6651 [External Link]

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Quoting: amatai

Quoting: MayeulC

Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: RFSharpeYou have to respect a development team that bases their design/marketing decisions on logic instead of profit.

Someone should email this to Paradox!!

I quite like the paradox approach, though I haven't played their games much. If I had, I'd know what DLCs I'd be interested in. They also frequently release huge free updates.

Curiously, I never got much into Klei's games, though I love the art style. Don't starve was maybe a bit too punishing to my taste.

Paradox problem is that with N DLC they need to maintain 2 to the power of N games for every combinaison of DLC possible.
For example Europe Universalis 4 as 14 DLC changing the gameplay that makes around 16 000 different gameplay combinations.

That could not work and that deosn't work. They try to go to subscription based DLC so there would be only the base game and the full DLC games and to makes the DLC independent with each other by making change only to a limited geographical area.

While it sounds all right in theory, that's not exactly the case: making an interface modular by defining it well allows to plug different things on it. I'm pretty sure Civilization can add an endless (kinda) number of civs to their games.

There's also the approach of keeping everything included, and only enabling things if the user bought tbe DLC, which can help.

Yeah, for gameplay changes? You probably need to touch up the base game too. And it's very hard to balance a game once you add DLC (if the same game needs to be well-balanced with and without a new DLC unit, for instance).

Kudos to Paradox for making it work :P

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Quoting: denyasis

Quoting: RFSharpeYou have to respect a development team that bases their design/marketing decisions on logic instead of profit.

Someone should email this to Paradox!!

I quite like the paradox approach, though I haven't played their games much. If I had, I'd know what DLCs I'd be interested in. They also frequently release huge free updates.

Curiously, I never got much into Klei's games, though I love the art style. Don't starve was maybe a bit too punishing to my taste.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: Guestugly theme looks like Windows 98 Plus.

That's the point, except that instead of an ugly (IMO) gray and blue you get a nice military green and gold for retro vibes!

That's the original steam look, so definitely aiming for the retro aesthetics here.

They should also disable blur and most animations to go with it and make it feel solid, utilitarian :)

Edit: also, I missed the news about the SC being discontinued. I've been using my 2 quite intensively, and they do show some signs of wear. Also they can be buggy at times (only one registered on the xinput interface the other day, also steam Big picture is sometimes buggy with deadzones and activators not configuring properly, glitchy UI).

It's a shame, as I wanted to get more. I guess it also explains the lack of bug fixing and firmware updates?

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Quoting: denyasisSo, I buy this car for me put steam on. I'm home playing a steam game. My spouse then takes my car to do an errand, it turns on, logs into my steam account ( kicking me at home off). So now I'm trying to call my spouse while they are running errands to go back to the car and close steam?

I can kinda see the criticisms that these innovations are all thought up of people that don't have to think about family life.

Steam has supported multiple PCs being logged into the same account for some time now, since about the introduction of "remote play" (or "in-home streaming", as it was called years ago).

I'm pretty sure you can even restart in offline mode if you want to play simultaneously.

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Quoting: MalNice. It seems like a second choice alternative compared to buying a Tesla though, which promises to let you play for weeks with a single charge! :grin:

inb4 someone gets stranded because they used up their battery charge playing.

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Wow, so many fixes... Are those game-specific, or generic ones?

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Now if the steering wheel can be used as a controller when stopped, that would make for a neat car sim rig. Just pair it with a VR headset for extra immersion :)

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