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Nice, that game was an old favorite of mine. Time to revisit, I guess :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Craggles086Anyone else find headphone jack on the PlayStation controller annoying. My sound is always connected to external speakers on my computer. As soon as the PlayStation controller is connected I loose all sound.

On Windows it is a pain finding the setting to disable controller audio every time. Hope Steam gives us a setting that stays on if their controller gets audio out

Your desktop environment and/or sound system should have an option to disable any sound sink, no?

Probably easier to setup on Linux, on Windows I have to disable it every time in settings. Buried three or four deep. Will look for disabling sound sink options..

Wonder how long till second round of Steam Controller sales. Did they underestimate demand do you think? Or did they do a small release to test the waters?

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-statement-steam-controller-stock

We covered that news on the stock directly...

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: Craggles086Anyone else find headphone jack on the PlayStation controller annoying. My sound is always connected to external speakers on my computer. As soon as the PlayStation controller is connected I loose all sound.

On Windows it is a pain finding the setting to disable controller audio every time. Hope Steam gives us a setting that stays on if their controller gets audio out

Your desktop environment and/or sound system should have an option to disable any sound sink, no?

Probably easier to setup on Linux, on Windows I have to disable it every time in settings. Buried three or four deep. Will look for disabling sound sink options..

Wonder how long till second round of Steam Controller sales. Did they underestimate demand do you think? Or did they do a small release to test the waters?

https://www.eurogamer.net/valve-statement-steam-controller-stock

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They even got their reviews from 2015 (and before) back. :D

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It's a good one!

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Why didn't they name it differently, like, let me be creative, "Steam Controller 2"?!?

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Quoting: Craggles086Anyone else find headphone jack on the PlayStation controller annoying. My sound is always connected to external speakers on my computer. As soon as the PlayStation controller is connected I loose all sound.

On Windows it is a pain finding the setting to disable controller audio every time. Hope Steam gives us a setting that stays on if their controller gets audio out

Your desktop environment and/or sound system should have an option to disable any sound sink, no?

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Hum, one of the few survival games, I'm still thinking of buying. Maybe it's now worth a look, after Valve fixes the Proton issues.

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Quoting: scaineThis isn't of interest to me, so I can't say for sure, but I can't think of many other big-name vendors that would do this. I mean, I expect they'll already have given this to skin-creator vendors like dbrand, but making the schematic public, directly? That's pretty cool.

There certainly aren't.
Physical design publications are pretty sparse and often restricted.
Even source code is more often published than CAD files.

This's exactly, because "it's not of interest to you".
Physical garage development is monumentally more expensive than software development.
Meaning that a much smaller group cares to do it and thus cares to advertise it.

Edit:
The most major party besides Valve that does this seems to be [framework](https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Framework-Laptop-13).

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There are new crafting and repairing Quality of Life enhancements too.

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This isn't of interest to me, so I can't say for sure, but I can't think of many other big-name vendors that would do this. I mean, I expect they'll already have given this to skin-creator vendors like dbrand, but making the schematic public, directly? That's pretty cool.

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Using beta I've noticed the battery indicator in Big Picture for the original "classic" Steam Controller today. A nice little detail ☺️

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Honestly? I'm over it. I do try to be there, and try to make it so that I contribute to the amount of users Matrix, Fluxer, and Stoat/Revolt.

But it's, like, whatever. I'm using these things to talk to people. I'll be wherever the people I want to talk to are.

I will say that it actually IS annoying to listen to people who are pushing for alternatives act like most of us, fellow Linux users, haven't tried. A lot of us have, and we are open to moving if things if it gets better... But it's just not good enough yet, for one reason or another.

(I am very looking forward to Fluxer app for mobile tho, that's definitely a major reason why I haven't opened the GOL Fluxer server as of late)

Also, someone commented about Discord looking at processes. Here's the thing: if I open the Discord app, instead of a tab on my browser, it's because I do want to show what I'm doing to my friends. You might not be into that, but I like to show what I'm playing/watching because it can be a fun conversation.

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Just in time for when the Steam Controller arrives :)

Maybe I should give it a go then.

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Quoting: JohnologueI'm sure with this first run, people were ready to just keep buying until it sold out.
I assume the next batch will be more normal.

Maybe they should just charge extra for the first run with full transparency that the price goes down after. People who want it NOW can pay, and scalpers are told upfront "you are going to lose a lot of money".

Probably still a bad idea for a lot of reasons. If it was an easy problem, I'm sure people would've had a fix for it by now.

I'm not so sure the next batch will be much more normal. A DigitalFoundry YouTube poll with 20K responses had the following results: 8% got one, 9% didn't get one, 33% would get one later and 50% didn't want one.

The amount of people who didn't get one is just as large as the group that did. So Valve can sell that amount again. And possibly more, as there's even more people who might try to get it next batch as well.

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I dont get why the scalpers are such a big factor at all. No one has gotten just one controller yet, and still their scheme seems to find customers. We know that there will be enough controllers for everyone, so in my book, anyone who pays the scalp-extra can´t be helped. I want so many things very bad, but the anticipation for things is a nice thing, right? It just sucks if you don´t know if you get a chance to get a toy.

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Quoting: Jarmer^ what's also frustrating about that, is even when you have steam itself set to use whatever version of proton as the default (so for me it's proton-cachyos-11) - if there's a native linux build, you often won't even know it's running on that instead of proton.

It's a little hidden, but in the Steam library, if you click on the (i) to "Show game details" there is a "Runs on this computer" section that indicates what runtime is used. That could be Steam Linux Runtime, Proton, etc.

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Since we are on the subject of alternative voice communication programs, I was wondering if anyone has any experience with GameVox:

http://www.gamevox.com

Here is a rather limited comparison of GameVox to Discord on their website:

https://gamevox.com/compare-discord/

It is currently in "public beta." There is a Linux client in addition to clients for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows. The applicaiton works in a web browser and there is self-hosting option. According to the website:

No Personal Data Harvesting: Unlike many competitors, GameVox does not require an email address for account creation and does not use ads or data mining.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

It's definitely a better headline than "$vendor gets rid of unwanted inventory in a massive firesale," that's for sure.

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There is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

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I have now seen two or three games where the difficulty factor is about a bloodsucking landlord demanding more. I feel like that says something.

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Finally we can give lazy and talentless people money for generic and thoughtless AI slop games! How long have I waited for this day!

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Quoting: HendrinMckaySadly, there aren't any mitigation's that folks won't find a way around. There was already a cap of two steam controllers per account that people were already getting around by buying non-limited steam accounts. Also, the level stuff does nothing, there are already sites that let you pay to level up steam account levels faster. Having had to deal with this for a company in the retail space with GPU's a few years ago, it is very hard to combat this in any meaningful way unfortunately. The scalpers will find a way, short of having some kind of lottery system which just pisses off paying customers.

there is one fix, make a shit ton of steam controllers, so they dont get sold out in the first place, but that is kinda of asking too much for an device no one knows how big the demmand is.

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i forgot to mention, some scalpers are puting ridiculous prices, i mean, if you can purchase one controler for 400 you can just wait a bit more and purchase the machine for whatever price valve puts in.

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i think this is good news and bad news at the same time.

the bad news is, valve is completely under estimating their demands, i mean, not only the controller should have a bigger demmand than the machine, but the machine should have an bundle that include the controller as well...

the good news is, those controllers are most likely sold at a profit, the more they sell, the more they can make not just controllers but the machines as well, that might be sold at a loss, not to mention purchasing then togheter with the bundle probably is cheaper than separatedly, the more expensive the controller was the easier to make the machine bundle seems like an good deal since they include it.

then, if they can relase the machine togheter with half life 3 in a bundle...

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Quoting: melkemind

Quoting: ArehandoroBloody scalpers.

There are like 4 listings on eBay. Is there any real evidence a large number of sales went to scalpers?

Just after release in the few hours after there was up to 500 listings, most selling at there buy it now price within 15-30min or so.

Fair enough, but next to the tens of thousands or maybe even hundreds of thousands Valve sold, that's a drop in the bucket.

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Valve still hasn't shipped my controller. I'm starting to get antsy. Might have to write a sternly worded letter...

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Godot is free forever and supports C# for programming by the way

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great game btw gets my ever so desirable endorsement

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Seems like I was very lucky to get mine when I did! I spent about an hour trying to get one and kept being hit with the "There seems to have been an error initializing or updating your transaction" error. I watched it in my cart slip from 3-5 Days to 6-10 Days...

I hope more stock comes in soon and stays available! I really want to get one for my girlfriend. Or maybe I'll just get myself a backup one. 😆 Now my worry is getting myself a Steam Machine and Steam Frame.

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