It‘s also an industry full of enthusiasts with a passion for what they do. Well mostly. I don‘t have to tell you how much that gets exploited. The workers who got the boot over joining a union actually seemed interested in returning to office again in interviews, though not without joining a union first.
Same story for almost every passion industry. I remember being surprised at first to learn how underpaid Formula 1 engineers are when some of them are literal rocket scientists, for example.
I welcome this…I love my steam controllers so much and it’s crazy the revival in their form factor … people hated on the og so bad … Sure the learning curve is real but I use it for everything… Yes, TF2 included.
I think the touchpads lend themselves especially well to otherwise KBM titles, like simulation or RTS games— really any game that heavily relies on a cursor. I think they’re a good option for other titles too, especially with Steam’s powerful controller configurator. I don’t deny the learning curve, though!
But the gyro features alone are game changing! I more than anything want to see it become the standard for all controllers and games, with capacitive sticks or buttons for enabling it, the way the Steam Deck has integrated them.
Beside the triggers, I really did like the Steam controller. My favourite is the touchpad which makes noises which I associated with Fallout which is oddly pleasing to hear
I don’t know if (a) it’s real and (b) it’ll be like the original Steam Controller, but if so, the point is that it’s the most-viable mouse alternative that you can have in a gamepad form factor.
If a game can be played with a traditional gamepad, then sure, there are a bunch of good options. But not all games are like that.
The original was useful for someone who wants to play a mouse-based game on the couch.
I usually avoid PvP games and I didn’t like ARC Raiders at first, but it has grown on me.
Unless you use the starter kit, you’ll always have at least one safe pocket slot, allowing you to bring back at least one item (or a stack) even if you get knocked out. Moreover, so often my stash is full even after multiple expansions, so the game encourages using those resources to craft weapons, which again makes it less of a problem if you get knocked out.
Later quests are not easily completed, but you can focus on completing the daily tasks for battle pass progression. There will be simple tasks like having to open containers or doing damage to the ARC robots, so you can just go out with the stater kit and do those, not worrying about losing your loot. With that mentality, at least sometimes (though often in my case playing solo), you’ll extract and get a lot of loot on top of your XP and tasks progression.
None to speak of. You can earn the in game currency all in game, and they only thing you would use the “paid for currency” is for cosmetics, but again, you gain plenty of free cosmetics and even earn the currency required to buy the other ones.
I will say getting the currency is more difficult than say getting helldivers super credits, but it’s still a fair rate and the game just came out. I expect more “packs” or ways to make the currency.
Is there even a way to get the currency? The battle pass doesn’t count, that probably gives enough currency to buy the next battle pass when it releases.
There are no battle passes. You get “Decks” which are free and give you a few pages of cosmetics, or more currency to spend on other cosmetics in the “Store”. Idk it’s hard to explain but there’s no reason at all to spend anything besides the base game. Definitely not the deluxe version if you don’t care about cosmetics
The Raider Deck is like a battlepass, where you can spend Cred in order to unlock cosmetic rewards. There are a number of rewards to unlock per page in order to progress to the next page. The number of pages in each Raider Deck may vary. At launch, the Raider Decks will be free, but you can expect a mix of paid and free Raider Decks as new ones are added.
Raider decks are battle passes. The industry standard is that the one that comes with the game (or a paid expansion) is free while all others require money.
And there’s no reason to spend money if you don’t care about cosmetics, but most people do care and the cosmetics are way overpriced.
I misunderstood the other guy. Cred is earned in game, but cred can only be used to unlock stuff in the battlepass. When it comes to the actual in game store you can only use raider tokens and raider tokens (with the exception of the ones in the battle pass) have to be purchased as they can’t be earned in game.
dude 3D movie maker was my shit. Glad to find another former movie maker stan - I used to put entire evenings into making stupid little animations. That was the game that taught me what it feels like to be completely immersed in a creative project. McZee still haunts my nightmares, tho…
Even more worrying that it’s not disclosed in Steam’s AI usage section on their store page:
AI Generated Content Disclosure
The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:
During the development process, we may use procedural- and AI-based tools to assist with content creation. In all such cases, the final product reflects the creativity and expression of our own development team.
They also make the game “The finals” which also uses AI voices. If I recall correctly, they paid some people to offer their voices to be used for AI generated voice lines.
I wish they didn’t though because the rest of the game is really good. It’s like they took the look of mirrors edge and combined it with battlefield gameplay in a smaller map design and no vehicles.
i mean, if they have a Series X and it still runs all the modern games, there ain’t a strong reason to upgrade at exactly this moment. That console will keep chugging along for a few more years at least.
The rumor is that the next Xbox will also just be a gaming PC. If Microsoft has an offering similar to Valve, except it’s on Windows so there is better game compatibility, does that not entice you to stick with Xbox?
(tbc I’m not saying you should stick with Xbox - M$ is morally bankrupt and Windows 11 is a bloatware-ridden mess. Just inviting you to elaborate on your thinking, if you want to)
I had reasons for switching to using my dual boot desktop for Linux 95% of the time. Windows 11 became too annoying and bloated for me to want to deal with, and I found Proton could adequately run the games I play (including some old or foreign ones Windows struggles with).
I continue to use my Xbox because it’s unladen with Windows’ recent bullshit, and as a limited machine, it gives me less security concerns about trying games with connections to Russia, China, and Israel.
An Xbox running full Windows is one I would wecome existing but would never buy. I’d just be thankful all their games were PC compatible and use my Linux PC and streaming devices running Steam Link or Moonlight or even xCloud (until that service inevitably enshittifies).
Yeah I have to admit it’s tempting, but lately I want to distance myself from the Microsoft bullshit as fast as possible. Linux pc will be the best option but I’m scared to make the jump :s
If you don’t want to play mainstream multiplayer games, it should be pretty painless for you! Obviously we don’t know yet what Valve will reveal, but if they announce a new “Steam Machine” that is basically a Steam Deck in desktop form, it should be pretty smooth! I hear there are some games that require some Linux finagling, but everything has guides online.
At that point, why not just made the entire bottom of the control a touch pad (akin to PS5s top) - seems a little silly to have to source two pads and have those squares…
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