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PayPalValve continue their usual polishing of the Steam Client, with the latest stable update including some fixes for Steam Play. That's not all of course, there's quite a bit to this update.
They've adjusted the new Steam Chat system, so now you can test your microphone in the Friends Voice settings dialog, a mute on/off toggle hot-key support for when using open microphone mode, it shouldn't try to open the friends and chat system if you're in offline mode and some bug fixes.
Steam Link gained the ability to do co-op by streaming to multiple devices and the ability to use an Android phone as a touch controller. There's also various Big Picture fixes and plenty of fixes for Steam Input too, Steam Input also had a Linux-specific fix when using Steam Input for generic gamepads.
Specifically for Linux, they fixed these troublesome issues:
- Fixed a Steam Cloud save issue with DOOM (2016) preventing specific files from getting properly saved
- Fixed install scripts for Steam Play games sometimes not properly running after using Big Picture mode
- Fixed missing DLC for some Steam Play games
Additionally, Valve have added support for Vietnamese and Latin American Spanish language support for Steam
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Is there a steamplay curator on steam itself? I know about SPCR.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/221410/discussions/0/1734336452596897848/
But AFAIR they found that a curator cannot recommend more than one thousand games.
Thank you. Was looking for something like that. Someone suggesting just the great games would be better though!
A while ago I read about a tool to backup your Steam savegames: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/02/steam-linux-backup-tool-slsk
Did anyone try that? When trying betas it might a good idea to backup the savegames with a tool like this.
Haven't tried it myself yet though.
DMCA'd? Appears gone from github now. Anyone have a mirror?
https://github.com/supremesonicbrazil/SLSK
Moved and renamed, it seems:
https://gitlab.com/supremesonicbrazil/GBML/blob/master/README.md
Ya know, it didn't even occur to me to check gitlab *sigh*. Thank you.
Me neither at first. The suspicious thing I found was here on the lower right:
https://github.com/supremesonicbrazil/
"IF_MS_BUYS_GITHUB_IMMA_OUT"
It's a bit erasing ones traces having a move and the renaming so close together...
Last edited by Eike on 13 October 2018 at 2:27 pm UTC
Does anyone understand how co-op streaming from Steam Link works? I guess it needs to be supported by the game?Steam Link Touch Controller Guide
Also, using an android phone as a touch controller - does that mean that the phone then appears basically as a touchpad to the Link/game?
https://steamcommunity.com/app/353380/discussions/4/1735462352489233412/
Thanks. That does feel like I have to use the Steam Link app on Android and stream into the phone, in order to use the phone as a controller. I imagined I'd use my physical Steam Link box to stream to the TV, and use the Android phone as a controller (so that I don't need to buy that many, e.g. for guests), but that doesn't seem to a supported use case.
Do you also know of a good info for the co-op streaming from Steam Link?
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