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circuitfarmer, do games w AYANEO 3 now officially announced with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and HDR OLED
@circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

No trackpads.

Out of consideration.

G0ldenSp00n,
@G0ldenSp00n@lemmy.jacaranda.club avatar

Yeah, this is the number one thing that keeps me from even considering the deck competitors.

Mango,

I literally never use mine. It’s a massive pain to set them up just right and I’m never happy with the results or the unintuitive settings options.

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

If you ever boot into desktop mode they’re essential (at least in my use case). Using thumb sticks for a mouse is so painful.

Mango,

I use a mouse for a mouse broski. Also touchscreen.

PerogiBoi,
@PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca avatar

So you bring an external mouse with your steamdeck? If that works for ya, more power to you.

Sometimes I need to pop quickly into the desktop so for my use case, bringing an external mouse would definitely inconvenience me. That’s when the trackpads come in handy.

LustyArgonianMana, (edited ) do games w Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update
@LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world avatar

I bought Terraria years ago for like $3 while it was still beta testing/first launching. I have played over 900 hours and still get use out of it. Some of the best $3 I’ve ever spent

chunkystyles,

I was so excited for the game that I got ahold of a leaked alpha before the game released and played that. And then of course pre-ordered the game and played it immediately​ when it released.

LustyArgonianMana,
@LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world avatar

I was just scrolling on Steam one day and saw it. Loved the music and the aesthetic and when it went on sale (back when the Steam sales were mindblowing and Newegg was also mindblowing), I got it. Love it so much but these days I use TEdit/a map editor to make pretty designs on my worlds. I have a lava swamp in hell, a drag stage/nightclub in hell, several glittering giant forests (snow, fairy, and halloween), an erupting volcano, an amusement park off a pier, lots of planets in space, and my mushroom surface biome is starry night themed.

Meanwhile my brother in law plays huge pvp campaigns with his friends on maps they mod together, and I had a friend who made those puzzle haunted house type maps. You can do so much in that game it’s wild.

Cethin,

Just a heads up (and sorry) but 1.0 released in 2011, 13 years ago. It was more than years ago when you (we) purchased it. Again, sorry.

LustyArgonianMana,
@LustyArgonianMana@lemmy.world avatar

What? 13 years ago is still years ago

ThermonuclearCactus, do games w Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

I bought Sea of Thieves about 5 years ago. Recently, they added kernal-level anticheat (which does precisely fuck-all to actually stop cheating). While that is annoying, I’m not particularly worried because the studio that makes that game is owned by Microsoft, and like all Microsoft products, it was banished to my windows partition with the rest of the spyware.

MoonHawk,

Well… kernel level software can access everything on your computer. That includes other partitions and unmounted drives

raspberriesareyummy,

Only if those other partitions are not encrypted. Sure, it could still wipe them - but that’s something that backups are good for, and something you would certainly notice immediately :)

ThermonuclearCactus,

Anything sensitive is encrypted and I never decrypt it while running windows.

Aielman15, do games w Fast-paced turn-based tactics game Warside for fans of Advance Wars launches April 14
@Aielman15@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll be honest, it doesn’t just “look like Advance Wars”. It looks like a rip-off. I love AW but I wish they went with a more original art style, like Wargroove did.

hyperhopper,

Some of the sprites look so identical that I cannot even point out a difference without going back to the original game to look.

tonytins,
@tonytins@pawb.social avatar

It’s like TF2 but with tanks.

CastorSulMush,

Yep, didn’t even try to make it look different. It’s pathetic.

Hyphlosion,

Fine by me. I’ve been wanting more Advance Wars. And that’s what we’re getting.

Obelix, do games w Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

Let me guess: Valve was not getting their cut from the ad money?

themurphy,

They are not, but they could have made it so. Instead they chose the win for everyone.

haui_lemmy,

Two things can be true at once:

  1. valve so far took tremendous care of the people using their product. They have outclassed afaik every other billion dollar company in the world in terms of listening to their customers and not exploiting them to hell (as others do).
  2. billionaire companies are cancer. If gabe ever gives up valve (through death or whatever), we are at the mercy of a monopolist that can extract as much as they want.

My conclusion: force companies to behave like valve does now, but forever. Let them make money without exploiting people. And in case if valve: break any monopoly.

Down with shareholder value.

Katana314,

There’s a very good bill for achieving this result by a senator from my state, which requires companies to elect their board members through employees.

wbur.org/…/warren-co-determination-capitalism-act

haui_lemmy,

That would be a great solution. Another would be to put quotas of employees, customers, owners and the community (people living around a plant for example) in there. Just an idea though.

Agrivar,

She’s my senator as well, and I love what she’s doing - but THAT bill is ~7 years old and dead in the water given the current administration. :-/

Katana314,

There’s an alternative, to make it popular with the American people. Republicans look bad to their constituents each time they vote against policies that would relieve the American people as a whole, such as net neutrality and healthcare for all.

Make some noise about it! Make it known that Democrats fight for everyone, and that a certain sect is very vocally rejecting that fight.

Blackmist,

But they don’t fight for everyone. If they did, maybe they wouldn’t be in this state.

Zacryon,
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If the “win for everyone” includes shipping a game as microtransaction-based instead of ad-based, I doubt it’s really a win. Microtransactions usually come with dark patterns and rely on techniques from the gambling industry.

reksas,

something like this would also harm their business in general. Garbage like that has no place anywhere.

otp,

Garbage like that has no place anywhere.

If app developers can’t get money from paid apps, then it makes sense to run ads. Especially if they do offer a paid (ad-free) version.

But if it’s a paid app already, like in Steam, it should definitely be ad-free.

sunzu2, do gaming w Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games

Fuck ads based business, they are cancer. Deny the parasite engagement.

Fiivemacs,

Still waiting on a good sports games not ruined by ea

sunzu2,

sports vidya game gamers are the most cucked market segment within the gaming market...

my condolences.

supersquirrel, (edited )

You mean like Mutant Football League 1 and 2??

https://sopuli.xyz/pictrs/image/2cc7dd4a-9840-4a52-93cc-9493d96066f8.webp

store.steampowered.com/…/Mutant_Football_League/

…steampowered.com/…/Mutant_Football_League_2/

If you want a local multiplayer arcade basketball game check out Dunk Lords

store.steampowered.com/app/612640/Dunk_Lords/

If you want a shockingly good local multiplayer arcade volleyball game check out Super Volley Blast (seriously how is this game so good, it is just volleyball??)

store.steampowered.com/app/…/Super_Volley_Blast

it looks like the same indie devs have an arcade tennis local multiplayer game too called Super Tennis Blast but I haven’t personally tried it yet like I have the rest of these games

store.steampowered.com/app/…/Super_Tennis_Blast/?…

If you are willing to stretch your definition of “sport” here a bit check out the local multiplayer handball brawler Hyper Brawl

store.steampowered.com/…/HyperBrawl_Tournament/

Lastly, check out the airhockey meets top down action team based hero game Omega Strikers. This game isn’t pay-to-win and it really deserves a lot of love! Don’t pass it over just because it looks like it could be another live-service casino disguised as a game.

store.steampowered.com/app/…/Omega_Strikers

edit silly me I forget to recommend the absolutely phenomenal Lethal League Blaze

store.steampowered.com/app/…/Lethal_League_Blaze

fuck you EA

edit 2 - does Rock Of Ages count as a sports game? It certainly has lots of balls, a clear goal for those balls to go in and a set of sensible and logical rules to how those balls get there which leads to mythical stories about heroes, sounds like a sportball game to me so what if the sportball is made of living sheep

…steampowered.com/…/Rock_of_Ages_3_Make__Break

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

This is just Blood Bowl, but in real time.

I am immediately sold on this.

supersquirrel, (edited )

I can confidently tell you your impulse isn’t brash here, Mutant Football League is exactly what you think it is, has splitscreen and is fucking awesome.

I honestly don’t even give a shit about 'murican football, it doesn’t even matter (though make no mistake, this game has good arcade football gameplay, it isn’t “just a joke game”), Mutant Football League is a journey on a road paved with footballs but it is about the experience along the way not what type of sportsball the road was paved with that you walked your pilgrimage on.

HipsterTenZero, do games w Paradox Interactive has completely cancelled "Life By You"
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

boo. Oh well, at least there’s that other sims-like in development i’m blanking on the name of.

SleepingInTraffic,

Paralives?

HipsterTenZero,
@HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone avatar

Yeah, that’s the one!

DarkThoughts,

That also looks like it isn't performance like complete garbage. When I saw the first videos for Life By You I was kinda shocked that they even put that out to the public. I'm really not surprised they canned it.

Phen,

I wonder how that’s going. When the devs started they were clearly overpromising things that they thought would be cool to have without any idea of how long it would take to implement them. I always suspected it would remain in development for many many years, but apparently it’ll be playable next year.

deus,

There’s also AlterLife.

SplashJackson, do games w Netris is an open-source cloud gaming platform with Stadia-like features using Proton

Why did they name it like a multiplayer tetris and then not even offer tetris on the platform

woelkchen,
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Name is probably more a reference to Lutris

dingleberry, do games w Microsoft - keep your filthy hands off Valve, leak shows MSFT would buy Valve

Chill. Valve is not a public company, so no risk of an acquisition.

Cheesus,

Private companies get acquired all the time and hostile takeovers haven’t really been a thing since the 1980s

kakes, do games w Vampire Survivors co-op and new game engine upgrade is live

Ngl I wasn’t all that interested in this game, but with local coop mode? The idea of just chillin with my wife on the couch watching numbers go up together does have an appeal to it.

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

It’s more than watching numbers go up, it’s absolutely more than a clicker because positioning, upgrade path, and when to use abilities are very important

kakes,

True. I’ve watched streamers play it, and I’m being overly reductive, but I guess what I mean is that it seems like a good game to zone out to and just get into that “flow” state.

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

It is 100% a flow game

Kaldo,
@Kaldo@kbin.social avatar

There are abilities you can use now?

NOT_RICK,
@NOT_RICK@lemmy.world avatar

I worded that poorly, I meant when you pick up one time use power ups like the exp magnet or the enemy freeze.

WarlordSdocy, do games w The Long Dark gets a big free visual enhancement update out now

Dang I didn’t realize they were still updating this game, it’s been around for a long time.

TomSelleck,

A sequel was recently announced so it’s probably good to stir up some interest.

Senal,

They could stir up interest by actually finishing the first game.

There are supposed to be 5 story episodes, i think the last released episode (4) was three years ago.

Since then they’ve released a full DLC and are close to releasing the second game from what i can tell.

I’m not bitter or anything, i haven’t got past the second episode yet, so this makes zero difference to me personally.

shasta, do games w Terraria hits over 60 million sales with Terraria 1.4.5 shaping up to be another big update

1.4.5 is a major update? Then why isn’t it 1.5.0 or 2.0.0? Use semver, people!

Nelots,

Well, Terraria 1.4 was initially going to be version 1.3.6 until they kept adding more and more. This could end up the same way.

Railcar8095,

The problem is that they have been for far too long “just one last small change” that then ends I’ll becoming huge.

From 1.0 to now it has changed enough that it could be a complete sequel.

RarePossum,

RIP Terraria 2. Rest in piece

tigeruppercut,

And Otherworld

chunkystyles,

I was really excited for Otherworld.

tigeruppercut,

Me too bud, me too

thejevans, do gaming w Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages
@thejevans@lemmy.ml avatar

I’ve been able to return some games based on news that they will be adding kernel-level anti-cheat. I’m glad Valve is doing this right.

TrismegistusMx, do games w Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding
@TrismegistusMx@lemmy.world avatar

I have big hopes for an open source future.

Dremor, do games w Monster catcher Cassette Beasts adds Steam Workshop support and a new battle mode
@Dremor@lemmy.world avatar

For those who never tried it, it is an excellent “Monster Catcher” game with a lot of good ideas.

mesamunefire,

I had a good time.

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