The Witcher 3 got bumped up from Playable to Verified for the Steam Deck around the initial Deck release, and developer CD Projekt RED has released a statement on it now.
A game that was supposed to gain official SteamOS support back when the original Steam Machines released, with Valve showing a huge splash image on the Steam homepage to announce it coming. It was quickly removed, which Valve and CDPR stayed silent on afterwards. How things change huh?
In the announcement the developer said they're "working closely with Valve on the compatibility and performance aspects of our games on the Steam Deck. The goal is to provide the best possible Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 experience on this platform, while keeping in mind its unique hardware characteristics" and they also said not to expect any updates for their "legacy" titles like the original Witcher game.
Here's a video of it running on Steam Deck:
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Nice to know more developers are paying attention now. Let's hope this continues for a very long time.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
slaapliedje Mar 15, 2022
Quoting: EhvisThese are specifically in some city sewer area. Like I had a hard time taking one out, and there are 5 in this small little area that you get locked into as you're escorting some people through the sewers. They're the nastier undead guys that you can normally roll away from, and then strike, but it's kind of hard when there 5 in an enclosed area! It is an optional bit, I believe, but since my most recent save game is right next to them...Quoting: slaapliedjeI still need to figure out how to beat five over powered bastards in the second game to progress and beat that!
The only overpowered enemies I remember in the 2nd game were a few mages in an optional fight. And not five of them.
Quoting: tpauQuoting: LamdarerStill waiting for that one: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linuxLutris, Minigalaxy and Heroic will help
Quoting: tpauAn Official confirmation would still be better(or renewing the old one with a time frame/estimate).Quoting: LamdarerStill waiting for that one: https://www.gog.com/wishlist/galaxy/release_the_gog_galaxy_client_for_linuxLutris, Minigalaxy and Heroic will help
areamanplaysgame Mar 16, 2022
Quoting: soulsourceQuoting: rustybroomhandleWow, the comments on that announcement seem to be 90% Russians yelling about nazis and calling CDPR "traitors" and stuff.
It's saddening what propaganda can do to people.
Are you assuming these are all organic people falling for propaganda? Don't discount the prevalence of state-run troll farms.
Quoting: areamanplaysgameIndeed. Plenty of that kind of thing (well, and private sector troll farms) on all sides. I understand the estimate for twitter is half or more of retweets are by bots.Quoting: soulsourceQuoting: rustybroomhandleWow, the comments on that announcement seem to be 90% Russians yelling about nazis and calling CDPR "traitors" and stuff.
It's saddening what propaganda can do to people.
Are you assuming these are all organic people falling for propaganda? Don't discount the prevalence of state-run troll farms.
And you know, it's really hard to take that kind of thing into account. I know lots of people who are aware in the abstract that corporations and intelligence agencies have major league PR/propaganda operations, but for any given news story or social media rumour it doesn't occur to them, seems like conspiracy thinking, that it could be an actual example of that stuff they know intellectually exists. One's normal channels of information feel familiar and ordinary, there's this presumption of reliability.
Last edited by Purple Library Guy on 16 March 2022 at 2:00 am UTC
It's hard to not make a judgement on some behaviour that are supposed to be condemned, there surely should be another approach.
Nonetheless I'm pretty impressed by Witcher 3 on steamdeck! It's looking very nice, the performance are impressive using proton and it seems quite amazing to play as well.
Last edited by Jahimself on 16 March 2022 at 2:05 am UTC
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