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Crack0n7uesday, do games w Court rules Gabe Newell must appear in person to testify in Steam anti-trust lawsuit

Is this why they were giving away all free steam keys on 4chan yesterday? I thought it was just Black Friday deals, shoulda known those anons don’t do anything for the sake of being nice.

Lettuceeatlettuce, do gaming w Embracer exec says laying off hundreds of people was an 'agonising process,' but that restructuring is 'how we win'
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I’m sure he’s weeping as his 7 figure pay stubs come into his bank account and he gets driven home to his mansion.

nekusoul, do games w SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer
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Seems like they won’t release it before it’s in a state where it’ll “just work” on about machine, which makes sense, since that’s the thing that helped the Steam Deck to success.

To that end it’ll probably be a while before they can get there, particularly for machines with NVIDIA GPUs, assuming stuff like multi-monitor VRR and bug-free Wayland support is on the list of requirements.

Jaysyn, do games w SteamOS will be coming to other handhelds before you can install it on your PC 'because right now, it's very, very tuned for Steam Deck' | PC Gamer
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I guess this is a different SteamOS than the one that has been freely available for years?

Goronmon,

It’s available, but not really built or supported for standard desktop installation, at least as far as I know.

Quik,

I think what’s meant is there isn’t an official ISO to download as it’s not yet that polished for PCs

Jaysyn,
@Jaysyn@kbin.social avatar

There used to be though. I have it on a DVD. SteamOS is much older than the SteamDeck.

Goronmon,

The name is old, but there are distinct distributions. Debian vs Arch.

Railcar8095,

The current, unavailable for general download, is Steam OS 3. Valve just refuses to put a number 3 anywhere, do they just pretend the other two do not exist.

BTW, there are a few “almost steam os” out there. I can vouch for Bazzite, it’s fedora based and really good. Very welcoming for beginners, but had a lot of options of you want to dig a bit.

puttybrain,

I think you’re talking about the really old version from the steam machines. The OS the Steam Deck uses (version 3.0+) is completely rebuilt and uses a different OS as a base (now using Arch instead of Debian)

doggle,

If you mean the old Debian based one, yes. SteamOS 3+ is arch based and released with the steam deck. Valve said they’d release a version for desktops, but have yet to follow through.

bionicjoey, do gaming w Every Bethesda RPG, ranked from worst to best

Weird that the author includes ESO. That’s an outsource game using Bethesda’s IP. They might as well include Fallout NV (which would of course top the list if it were included)

qfjp,

How is ESO outsourced? It’s made by a studio within Zenimax that was basically created just for that game.

crazyman, do games w Warfare MMO Foxhole is adding naval combat complete with huge multi-person ships

“Multi-person” doesn’t do it justice. The battleships are designed to be run with a deck crew of 16+. Submarines 8, and destroyers 12+.

It’s going to be a major task of coordination for these things to be run. I’ve seen players have a hard time coordinating tanks, and that’s usually just a driver and a gunner.

tal,
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There’s that game with untextured polygonal graphics about naval combat that’s aimed towards having several players running a carrier. Dammit, what’s the name of that?

googles

Carrier Command 2.

googles

Here’s a video of a group of 16 playing:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzjOkP_77fE

blackstampede,

Holy shit this looks like fun. Now I just need sixteen friends lol.

birbboidaseed, do games w Todd Howard says Starfield was 'made to be played for a long time,' but a month after launch I'm already drifting away

This game feels more like a chore with a million fetch quests. I never made it out of new Atlantis in my play through. Bg3 is so much more nuance and a way better game.

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

The one truly great thing about Skyrim is the ability to just wander and fall into trouble.

That simply doesn’t exist in a game where travelling is a loading screen.

birbboidaseed,

Yeah I don’t know why they can’t make space travel to work similar to NMS. That would have been so much better. I don’t really feel like I’m exploring anything jumping from system to system. Hell even planets to planets.

Kolanaki, (edited )
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Yeah I don’t know why they can’t make space travel to work similar to NMS

Because the Creation Engine is a pile of shit stacked on top of another pile of shit known as Gamebryo. The only way it even is able to handle high speed vehicles for the space combat is by having much smaller external cells with absolutely nothing in them.

What they could have done, though, is make the planets fully walkable. For some reason, those are also not seamless. You eventually hit invisible walls in any sector you land at. The engine is very capable of handling that, though. Especially if it’s just empty terrain.

Skwerls,

Seriously, I wish they had dropped that engine. It’s so hodge podge and lacking, they had a decade to make starfield in a new to them engine. Instead we get this shit in 2023

Edgelord_Of_Tomorrow,

Can’t believe Bethesda own id Software and at no point set them to work updating the engine to a modern standard.

Tunawithshoes, do games w Todd Howard says Starfield was 'made to be played for a long time,' but a month after launch I'm already drifting away

While I enjoyed my time I really struggling to find what I feel like I would different on a new playthrough making me worried about longevity of this game.

It really feels like unless bethesda (unlikely) or moders could do something drastic I would not return. Just pick the game back up and do the new thing.

Feels not enough to do by only stick to space. Not enough ammo to not use a variety of weapon. Nor that much other ways to deal with combat that it would warrant a new play through.

Grumpy,

I only played like 15hrs of vanilla Skyrim. But played like 1000+ hrs of modded Skyrim. I’ve now played about 30hrs of starfield. If the modding scene gets as big as Skyrim, I think it would have merit in longevity.

wildginger,

So, what, bethesda games are now just fancy Little Big Planet sandboxes? Where the main game is just something to keep you busy until the real content creators arive?

Tunawithshoes,

Honestly feels like that.

They given many things in the base game fells like that they where more showcase.

Here is background it exists we barely doing anything with it but maybe you find it useful.

Here is new game plus it erases the whole world so if you want to reset world.

Here is enormous skybox. We have no reason why you can fly across the star system but tons of space for you.

Tunawithshoes,

Oh definitely the modding is going to carry. But what point I tried to make is I will need something big for me to consider a new playthrough. Not just adding in bunch of mods to existed save file.

Unlike Skyrim where I felt start over for mods I could actually feel like I had choice and it kinda made a difference in play style to be a mage or a knight.

CluckN, do games w The modder behind Burps of Skyrim and Snores of Skyrim has made a breakthrough in the field of customizable flatulence with Farts of Skyrim

Nvidia nerds are quaking in their boots while gazing upon the peak of gaming.

optissima,
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Nvidia quaking in their boots because of a Fus Ra Fart

ChaoticEntropy, do games w Peter Molyneux is ready to disappoint us again with his latest game, a blockchain-based business sim
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You can’t keep a good grifter down.

mojo,

He definitely delivered on Fable though

chiliedogg,

The game that was missing so many features promised by him that the studio had to stop him from doing any more interviews?

ChaoticEntropy,
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Most of “his” genuinely good games seem to deliver despite him, not because of him. Beyond his ability to deceive enough investors/gamers to get funding for other people to pull something good from the fire he creates, what else does he do.

snooggums,
@snooggums@kbin.social avatar

Is he the Elon Musk of video games?

ChaoticEntropy,
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk avatar

He’s more of a snake oil salesman than a Musk, who makes the pitch, takes the money and vanishes off to another scheme.

Musk likes to become very involved and get his hands dirty, even if it’s often just from his own faeces that he is throwing at the wall.

curiousaur, do games w Games consoles are infuriatingly exempt from California's otherwise important new right to repair bill

Ok, hear me out. My intuition tells me its because consoles are subsidized. The manufacturer loses money or breakes even in order to make money back in the games sold. I think Nintendo is an exception. So having the additional expense of having to support them harms the hardware subsidy model.

Kolanaki, (edited )
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Nintendo has been the only game company I’ve seen be directly vocal against the Right to Repair stuff. 🤔

moody,

I assume that they managed to get it exempted based on piracy concerns.

Frying your console’s motherboard attempting to install a mod chip is not a big deal if you can replace it yourself on the cheap.

curiousaur,

Even better, it would mean those selling mod chips could just buy the motherboards and sell pre modded motherboards.

Cethin,

Maybe, but why should that exempt them? If the model doesn’t work anymore then it doesn’t work. Who cares. They’ll still sell consoles and make money. They might cost more upfront or something, but they’ll still sell them.

Potatos_are_not_friends,

Gotta admit… That sounds like a “them” problem. If they want to sell it at a loss, that’s on them. Make console prices more expensive.

Bring more gamers to the PC & Steam Deck.

bob_wiley,
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Seems like repairs would increase the usable life of the console, thus allowing the user to buy more games for it, letting the manufacturer get over more money out of that purchase.

What’s the alternative, they fix it for free in a recall instead of selling parts? Someone buys a new console which is another loss for them with limited chance to make it up? The person gets upset and buys the competition’s console?

renormalizer,

Wouldn’t that be an argument for right-to-repair? If the user has to buy another console because theirs broke, the company has made twice the loss for the same number of games bought (or fewer, because the user has less money to spend on games). Reparing looks like a win-win here.

vagrantprodigy, do games w Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'

lol, no they didn’t. They didn’t even test adequately, more than a few GPUs that meet the requirements didn’t work when early access launched.

marx2k, do games w Todd Howard asked on-air why Bethesda didn't optimise Starfield for PC: 'We did [...] you may need to upgrade your PC'

Damn, glad I didn’t buy it on day 1. Got baldurs gate instead and am enjoying that

balderdash9, do gaming w Bethesda says most of Starfield's 1000+ planets are dull on purpose

I’m getting no mans sky release flashbacks. Hopefully they keep working on it like the no mans sky team did

Faydaikin, (edited )
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I guess that depends on the amount of copies sold and the ‘refund ratio’.

If both are within acceptable parameters, they won’t do anything. Just leave it to the modding community to fix whatever needs fixing. They already have your money, don’t they…

It’s the Bethesda way.

supercriticalcheese,

I really don’t think it’s anything like that.

It’s a design decision, in the sense a bit like elite dangerous where the planet generation is realistic, as far as we know, even at the expense of being boring.

Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w Japanese PC gaming saw another year of explosive growth

Proud of these numbers.

The more PC gamers in Japan, the more likely we will get PC releases.

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