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The internet has ruined me... "Horse Fest" made my mind go to straight to furries (which is fine, no kink shaming), but then it also made me think of the probable NSFW nightmare fuel games that are also on Steam too. Though I'm sure that people will like saving money on Barbie's Horse Adventure or whatever. lol

While "Ocean Fest" sounds like a crappy Red Lobster promo, but I'm sure that some of the furry games will be on sale then as well. XD

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Horse Fest

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Quoting: LoftyI can't believe nobody suggested GOLverlay 😝

lol

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I for one am also left sad by this, I currently have the app installed on my Linux desktop and guess I will be uninstalling it now. I honestly wish it was easier to get the Windows version of Vortex running through things like Wine, but it just has too many dependencies from Windows that just don't play well under Wine.
Sure there are other ways to get games like Fallout New Vegas or Fallout 4 to use mods under Linux, the most straight forward way is to just use the games own built in method for loading mods, or in the case of other games like my current favorite, Unturned and RimWorld, they just use the Steam Workshop. But once you try to venture out to other games that dont have such a straight forward to load mods, or in the case of Bethesda games, if you try to really push the limits of just how many mods you can load in, using a tool like the old Nexus Mod Manager, or with its newer Vortex, having something that puts more effort into maintaining that load order was really helpful.
But yah there are other apps for managing mod load orders, some like the ones built for games like Fallout 3 are pretty old, but it looks like people here have mentioned other options so I will have to keep my eye out.

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Quoting: doragasuThey must trust FEX a whole lot if they are not encouraging devs to make an ARM build...

They only need to trust it more than they trust game devs to do a good job porting to an unknown architecture on an unknown platform.

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The important part is the builds.
Too many of them depend on libraries that are no longer available in modern Linux Distros.
Also i think they should get rid of that weird shellscript installer that has an archive wrapped in a .sh file.
I also like to see one general gog script interpreter shipped by galaxy that executes allt changes after the game updates instead of each game shipping its own temporary copy. Doesn't work well with firewalls on all operation systems.

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I have some lyrics in my head "how low can you go?" ;)
Very nice to see so many people working on game compatibility improvements.

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Quoting: Cley_FayeIt was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

Me too. For me the steam machine looks like some kind of on-desk box I've been looking for. Depending on the price, I have to get that pitch through my finance minister (my wife).

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Hey, you cant begin your headline with "Valve reveal all..." when everybody is hoping for more news on the Steam hardware any day! Think of our poor poor hearts 😆

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It was unlikely, but I kinda hoped there would be some hardware release date announcements too :D

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VR fest for our new VR goggles where? 😭

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text scaling was always a stupid point against verification honestly. it's just too arbitrary. a bunch of indie games with perfectly legible text might have one line that's kind of small and get a tick off of verification, meanwhile games like Elden Ring are composed almost ENTIRELY of tiny text and are verified. should just be removed from the verification process

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Quoting: eldarionI don't know about the cross platform app, but Vortex is a buggy and overcomplicated mess. I miss the days of Nexus Mod Manager...

It's funny the NexusMods is best known for Skyrim modding, because this really reeks of Bethesda being adamant that the Creation Engine totally isn't just a Gamebryo rebrand and is totes the best at modern game development actually.

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Liam, do you happen to know if they make a distinction for stand-alone optimized games and games to stream for best possible graphics?

The former would be great to have on Frame when traveling, while the latter would be great when at home.

As an example, VR devs often released ARM64 optimized titles for the pico/meta platforms at the cost of graphical fidelity. On Steam these titles would be released targeting higher specs and thus a better experience.

Although I understand their concern about bad ports, there are cases, especially for VR where I think it would make sense to have both.

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The most important game I want to run on it is a 3D desktop that can run a bunch of *readable* wezterms and maybe a few browsertabs.
I am still between xreal glasses on my steam deck and a steam frame...
The steam frame will be a desktop replacement, so if either the frame or the deck breaks, I can still use the other.
In the end I might stream desktop from my cluster. But for travel: deck+xreal or frame...
I reckon the deck+xreal is more expensive than the frame.

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They must trust FEX a whole lot if they are not encouraging devs to make an ARM build...

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*A few old still not entirely closed wounds.

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Love this improvement! I'm going to do an Avowed replay after they release all the dlc / expansions / patches / etc... so probably at the end of the year maybe? Or next year? By then mesa should have a TON of raytracing improvements and my 9070xt can run with it all turned up. Should be gorgeous. It was already gorgeous when I played it on my 6800xt with no RT.

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Text scaling support is why Baldur's Gate 3 was the only game I played when visiting my sister for Thanksgiving. Even though the TV where my family was staying was 55 inches and I wasn't sitting far from it, I had to sit to the side of the TV causing bad contrast and it also had low pixel density. So I had a hard time reading text in games so I just when though what games I had installed and Baldur's Gate was like the only one with text scaling so that's what I played.

I don't always need accessibility stuff but when I do I'm usually disappointed at what a game supports. Stellar Blade did surprise me with a pretty alright list of stuff you can change. My hand was locking up from fishing you have to spam Square while using the analog stick to fight the fish and then hold the trigger in a certain position to real in the fish. Had to fish a lot for missions and the fact I had to do it quickly caused me pain. Luckily in the Menu you can turn on a setting to have each action turned into a single press so all you have to do use is the analog stick. There is also an option to just change the reeling in part to a timing game instead of holding a specific position.

Also FOV should always be able to go high its accessibility as well. I can't play a lot of games because I get extreme motion sickness from an FOV being to small I usually need a FOV of 110 sometime 90 is fine like in source games. Starting playing the Snowbound mod for borderlands 2 and needed to increase the FOV to 130 not to get motion sick do to that mods increased speed. I don't know if devs use this excuse anymore but it use to be devs would say if we let you increase the FOV to much cut scenes might look wrong. One that's a you problem and two I DON'T CARE IF A CUT SCENE LOOKS A LITTLE WEIRD I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY THE GAME.

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Proper Wayland support when? (Especially wrt shortcuts.)

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doing things so cursed that there's no plausible approach for supporting them

Ah, we call that classic Microslop. 🍌

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I hope a good scale in 720p is required for full verification, entirely because as much as the high end crowd is already beyond 1080p, a lot of average people still carry ~720p screens around (myself included).
It's still HD and actually looks fine!

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This documentation actually went up last month[…]

And this part shows that Liam is a pro.
In the meantime, a whole cohort of YouTubers, Redditors and Discorders want to make you believe that Valve put this up just a few days ago, only because one of them happened to stumble upon it a few days ago.

I was reading this on Christmas Eve, and I am certain it was up way before then…

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Very nice! Time to start a new Terraria world soon 😄

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Quoting: eevWhatever the price may be, I'm hoping Valve can at least make the new Machine a very stable experience with all the lessons learned through the Deck and with these updates. We should all care a bit more about the easy on boarding for people unfamiliar with Linux and PCs perhaps, especially in keeping performance up.

I agree. Even if the Steam Machine turns out a failure, the software improvements will hopefully be a huge boon for Linux distros.

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I thought this was about [Less MSIérables](https://lessmsi.activescott.com/) for a second. :P

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Not going to lie this pissed me off, disappointed.

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For anyone interested in running XFCE version 4.20 on Mint, install LMDE7 (Linux Mint Debian Edition v7). That includes Cinnamon by default. However, add XFCE via:
sudo apt install xfce4 xfce4-goodies xfce4-screensaver catfish

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Whatever the price may be, I'm hoping Valve can at least make the new Machine a very stable experience with all the lessons learned through the Deck and with these updates. We should all care a bit more about the easy on boarding for people unfamiliar with Linux and PCs perhaps, especially in keeping performance up.

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Things are continuing to line up for a much improved replay of Stalker 2 whenever "2.0" comes out...

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