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doug, do games w The Long Dark gets a big free visual enhancement update out now
@doug@lemmy.today avatar

I kickstarted this, played it for 10 minutes, got my ass kicked by some wolves, and never played it again. I need to retry.

Drbreen,

Sounds like my kinda game!

PlantJam,

Is pretty great! It hits the right balance between survival and crafting for me.

Flemmy,

Lol I played TLD before the story mode was implemented, there was only open survival mode and starting points. The exploring and resource management is really fun, and wolves and cold snaps force you to move from barn to barn and sticking near car wrecks, getting a working hunting rifle was quite hard.

dinckelman, do games w ASUS reveal the ROG Ally X with more RAM, more storage, larger battery

Even besides the corporate issues, I just can’t help but not like this handheld.

It looks like a cheaply built gamer device, and it feels like a cheaply built gamer device in the hand too. Between them and MSI, it’s almost as if they’ve put literally no effort into engineering anything, and just threw together a whatever they could, on the basis of a generic shell.

Not to mention that having ArmoryCrate is literally a downside in every way, and having 2 years of warranty NOW, after they showed up on FTCs radar, is laughable

Defaced,

Because it IS a cheaply built gamer device in a generic OEM shell. Pretty sure Microsoft has gotten enough flak for handheld Windows that they’re starting to build gamescope type optimizations like directSR. It’s not enough for me to switch back but maybe it is for others, who knows, hopefully Microsoft can stop riding the AI hype train to eventually build something to make armorycrate obsolete.

BombOmOm,
@BombOmOm@lemmy.world avatar

Yeah, there is a reason everyone talks about the Steam Deck, it’s an actually good device that Valve put a bunch of effort into making soild. There is also the problem that many of these other handhelds, like this ASUS one, are running an OS full of background processes constantly sapping your battery. Again, Valve put a bunch of effort into making the Steam Deck good and it shows.

PonyOfWar, do gaming w Valve detail their plans to combat Steam Deck OLED scalpers

Some desperate scalpers on ebay are already trying to sell the 512GB version for 1000€. Despite the fact that you can still order one for half the price and receive it within 6-10 days.

azdle,
@azdle@news.idlestate.org avatar

Yep, the extra sad thing is that there are actually sold listings too: www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=steam+deck+OLED&rt=n…

Some people just can’t be helped, I guess.

beefcat,
@beefcat@beehaw.org avatar

it could be drugs or money laundering rather than people actually paying that price for a real deck.

shadowbert,
@shadowbert@kbin.social avatar

Does that make it better?

beefcat,
@beefcat@beehaw.org avatar

did i imply it does?

lambda,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

I could be wrong, but I would bet that launderers are probably not targeting this niche device. I’d guess that the people buying them are more likely from a country that they don’t sell in. Like Australia for example.

GreyEyedGhost,

That’s not how laundering works, but it probably isn’t laundering. The product is the excuse, the price difference is where the laundering happens.

lambda,
@lambda@programming.dev avatar

Yeah, I get how laundering works. I just don’t know why they’d pick this specific item.

GreyEyedGhost,

They wouldn’t, except for laundering on a scale too small to be worth going after.

mohab, do games w Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025, with nearly half seeing fewer than 10 reviews

How often do people leave reviews? I rarely see a profile with +100 reviews.

I only leave reviews after 100% completion or a lot of time (hundreds of hours) in case of fighting games where sometimes 100% is ridiculously difficult to attain (oh hi, Plus R)

I think the average time between my picking up a game and leaving a review is like 3~12 months. Definitely even more if I’m not vibing with the game.

justdaveisfine,

As I recall, its around 5%-20% of players leave a review, usually closer to 5% unless something about the game makes people want to talk about it, for both good and bad.

kazerniel,
@kazerniel@lemmy.world avatar

I recall an estimation that about 1/20 players leave a review, but this probably depends a lot on genre and other factors.

jjjalljs,

I leave reviews when the game does something exceptional (good or bad). Or sometimes when steam nags me to leave a review.

It’s funny: if you leave a negative review and keep playing it asks you if you want to change your review.

Sabata11792,

I’ll click the thumbs up button then get intimidated by the text box that pops up. I’m not mentally prepared to give out a useful review.

mohab,

Same. I’m often in the process of breaking down why I like/dislike the game, what works about it, and what doesn’t as I’m playing. I can’t give honest feedback with incomplete thoughts.

pipe01,

I just say “I like it”, it’s not very helpful but at least it counts for the rating

demonsword,
@demonsword@lemmy.world avatar

How often do people leave reviews?

Speaking only for myself, I only leave a review if I loved or I hated a game. A “meh” game doesn’t get a review. I’d hazard that many people do something similar.

prole, do games w Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom

The ability for anyone to fork a project is one of my favorite things about FOSS

omarfw,

Imagine if this was all proprietary and these conflicts were resolved with costly legal battles or the abandonment of entire projects and IP.

oh right that’s exactly what happens with corporate software every day.

LiveLM, do games w Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom

Looking a bit further into it, a bug report on the GZDoom GitHub page titled “Project management” was opened that gave a little more detail noting issues with the lead of GZDoom pushing untested code, using an LLM to write code and hiding “not insignificant changes in commits, which has people worried that you’ll randomly rip out features that they rely on”. In reply, the project lead simply said “Feel free to fork the project under a” (yes, that really all they said).
A later comment before the bug report was locked points out the specific change in GZDoom that was made with ChatGPT.

Lately it feels like GenAI is gonna push FOSS projects and its maintainers to the breaking point. So much for this great future every AI vendor promised us 🙄

x00z, do games w Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom
@x00z@lemmy.world avatar

At a quick glance the community cares more about him hiding commits and doing other nasty things instead of the actual AI stuff. I think that’s important to know before discussing the AI angle here.

Mwa, (edited ) do games w Steam games will now need to fully disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

W steam/valve

ConstableJelly, do gaming w Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others

Via Kotaku:

Bloomberg previously reported that the vampire shooter’s [Arkane’s Redfall] troubled development grew out of a push by top Bethesda leadership to make a live-service game, a decision that ultimately led to sky-high attrition and multiple delays.

All reward, no risk for the executives demanding that their best-in-class immersive sim developer create an empty live service shooter. Stupid decision led to predictable outcome and the workers feel the ax for it.

LoamImprovement,

And they’re probably carving themselves a nice bonus out of the tax write-off for the studio closure.

PonyOfWar, do gaming w Microsoft closes Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and others

Man, the state of the games industry is just sad. Also makes me question my career working in an adjacent field, despite my job being safe for now…

Colorcodedresistor, do games w Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

as a life long gamer who has had to ‘grow up’ and learn trades to survive and pay bills. it would be hella fun and possibly cathartic to mess with a free game engine. I’ve been playing games for 30 years. Maybe it’s time i take all that knowledge and frustrate myself on a passion project. Thank You Unity for showing me GODOT.

ILikeBoobies,

You don’t have to pay for Unity/Unreal either

I’d recommend just using mod tools if you are looking to play around because it covers a lot of the work

Pistcow, do games w Steam Deck and SteamOS hit 20,000 playable games

How many are hentai manga games?

Jeez, I filtered for “rogue like” and the number one game was a hentai dating sim…

tisktisk,

rule 34 says at least half

Aurenkin,

Don’t fight it

SatansMaggotyCumFart,

Not enough.

altima_neo,
@altima_neo@lemmy.zip avatar

Become one with the goonsphere

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Rarely I’ll see something that I’ll go “that sounds like an interesting concept for a game” and then click on it and it’s just porn. It kills a lot of interest I have in using steam to discover new games because a decent chunk of them turns out to be porn

dil,

they are all either labeled as porn or censored so you have to click and show your age, but its always very obvious that its porn, also hidden by default I thought

Pistcow,

I mean, I have several MA, and it’s Mortal Kombat or something, so when I click a rogue like and it asks for age, im just thinking it has gory finishers, but instead…it has gory finishers =/

When the flip did porn become so prevalent on Steam!?

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Someone else had mentioned it was hidden by default, but also gave instructions on how to turn it back off. I must have turned it on at one point when messing around with settings and just forgotten, either that or one of the few times i’ve loaned the profile to close friends they turned it on

Geth,

You enabled in your settings to see porn, steam keeps it disabled by default. They even give 3 different options for the level of prudishness that you want. Go to store preferences and disable sexual content and you’re done.

MyNameIsAtticus,
@MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world avatar

Oh damn, i can’t believe i never found these settings with how often i mess with mine. Thanks! I’ve been itching to lose those for a while but figured it just wasn’t an option

SolidShake,

This is why I’ve used steam less and less. My epic library is pretty close to surpassing my steam catalog

Geth,

You enabled in your settings to see porn, steam keeps it disabled by default. They even give 3 different options for the level of prudishness that you want. Go to store preferences and disable sexual content and you’re done.

SolidShake,

Fun fact. I don’t enable it. I’ve edited my steam store heavily as well as reviews to be 10+ hours. But it always reverts back to how it was before

anon232,

you need to adjust your store content settings to hide these games. Adult games are hidden by default so you must have enabled it. You can filter out adult games and not see these things.

Pistcow,

Must of click that thinking it was like MA games but uh adult games are a different mix. Clicked the preview on one, rogue games are my favorite but there’s not a ton, and oh boi that’s something you dont want to preview in the 65 OLED in the living room with your wife.

Geth,

I wonder how a must of a click smells like. Ah, you mean must have clicked. Autocorrect am I right? Right? https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/e2535c9e-697c-440c-93a6-192c3dccb069.webp

fne8w2ah, do games w Godot Engine hits over 50K euros per month in funding

The power of open source!

GammaGames, do gaming w SteamOS massively beats Windows on the Legion Go S

Discussing battery life:

In less demanding titles like Dead Cells the difference is absolutely insane jumping from 2 hours 47 minutes on Windows to 7 hours 8 minutes on SteamOS.

Considering how indie friendly the deck is, this is a huge loss for MS. All other things equal that difference would easily make me drop windows.

Phen,

How big is the battery on the legion go? The deck’s battery drains so quickly I wouldn’t be surprised if it couldn’t last 7 hours even in the home screen.

ryujin470,

According to a PC Gamer article, it has a 55.5 Wh battery. https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/handheld-gaming-pcs/lenovo-legion-go-s-windows-review/ (This one is for the Windows version but the SteamOS version has (or may have) similar hardware.)

Phen, (edited )

So 7 hours on that battery would be approximately 5 hours on the deck.

I’ll download dead cells here to see how long the deck can run it in one charge, but I doubt it’ll reach anywhere close to five hours with the default settings.

Edit: I was wrong. Got six hours out of it even.

Hexarei,

I’ve gotten over 12 hours playing Stardew Valley on my Deck with the wattage down to 2W, something wrong with yours? lol

qevlarr, do games w Linux hits exactly 2% user share on the October 2024 Steam Survey
@qevlarr@lemmy.world avatar

2%

Linux users: 👐 it’s happening! 👐

ms_lane,

Year 👏 of 👏 the 👏 Linux 👏 Desktop!

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