QuoteThe Steam Awards voting

Totally expect Baldurs Gate 3 to win yet another game of the year award.

QuoteSteam Winter Sale 2023 is live

Excited sigh, I hope I find more Steam Deck PvP stuff to play. Golf with Friends was pretty fun, but I thirst for more LAN games to play in the living room on Decks.

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I got put in low priority when doing a "fun" 10v10 and mistakenly playing Axe -- obviously axe has a really hands on play style, and the enemy team whooped my ass, my team got mad and accused me of feeding when in reality I just didn't snowball like I was used to doing. Wrongly reported, stuck in DOTA jail.

I think I'm still in it too because I refuse to play Jail "People" Games to get out when my only crime was "sucking".

I'm sure their new ban and punishment system are great and all but after buying gift and in-game content I've gone a bit sour -- sure I occasionally play my bot games for low-stress fun

All my other peeps have bailed after the new map, which I was willing to give a chance and I thought their tweaks with the warp towers coming back were a decent improvement along with minor terrain edits.

But if Valve is reading this -- I dunno man, I don't really think it's right to be a hardass on "all" people games, the 10v10 was in the arcade, and it's not exactly clear what you'll be punished for when you don't play people games daily. And maybe you accidentally are in a game and need to go to the hospital -- sure your problems are bigger that that point -- but it makes the whole experience pretty sour.

Centralized Gaming Servers are fine for ranked and stuff, but there's a part of me that misses the 1990s when RTS like StarCraft didn't have companies acting like Helicopter Parents and the 4th reich ready to pounce on you for every thought crime.

It's not fun. And I suspect there will be resurgences in gaming spaces where the rules are not so overbearing. It will be interesting to see who fills those gaps and claims that territory.

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QuoteFortnite on Linux / Steam Deck?

No thanks. Timmy Tencent doesn't know how to run a business I don't want his garbage contaminating my pristine gaming consoles. He can go hookup with Gary Newman and circle jerk about Lunix and soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos hacking into your stereo to steal your music using the stolen program mp3 [ Archive.org ]

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Golf with Friends

https://store.steampowered.com/app/431240/Golf_With_Your_Friends/?curator_clanid=4218320

This one is pretty fun, played 6 player on decks last weekend, its not for everyone but i find it chill and enjoyable and there was a update recently i heard too which has some cool new maps.

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Oh man these screenshots are going to give me PTSD, memories flood back of things like being the only guy at the LAN party with Loonix and screwing around with WINE trying to get stuff like counter strike 1.6 or counter strike source running.

I am a fan of these kinds of articles and this idea though, I love the ackward beauty of projects like ( https://github.com/B00merang-Project/Windows-95 )

If I was going to do this though I would at least like to cheat a little and use a newer wine when emulating, maybe this is the time for appimages to shine no idea (but maybe 32-bit go brr idk) ;P

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Seeing as how this isn't a thing yet, the developer response regarding Steam Deck is sufficient for me. To me Steam Deck support is equivalent to Linux support.

I totally understand buying from publishers/developers that make a commitment.

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This looks awesome. I wonder if 3-4 Steam Deck players will be able to play Co-Op, it seems like the Steam Deck PvP gap is starting to fill in a little.

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Quoting: robertosf92Not sure I wanna participate in the Capitalism and Economy fest tbh

Well if you want to disolve all private property maybe I can borrow some of our stuff ;P I can't wait to take our computer to the LAN party and I am looking foreward to using our car tovarish.

Has anyone seen our girlfriends and wives? Remember what's mine is mine and what's yours is mine too. You're the best tovarishes a torvarish could ask for.

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Quoting: Highball

QuoteFor people using some form of Wine / Proton in Lutris you can add WINE_SIMULATE_WRITECOPY with a value of 1 as an environment variable in the system options inside a Wine runner you're using.

Also works great for Bottles too.

<battle.net bottle>->Options->Settings->Compatibility->'Environment Variables'

Prior to this tip. As a work around I opened the file explorer for the bottle and deleted the battle.net.14542 version under the battle.net installation directory.

Worked, thanks :)

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Instant Certified Banger. Looks like from the video the dev still has the magicsauce too if he's doing it himself.

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Quoting: RonDamonIt seems that the market is worries of the UE5 near-monopoly. This is good.

This is an excellent point. If I was a pushing 100 million in sales with a Unreal 5 game, it would be in my interest to keep Unreal Engine on their toes, and what better way than to sling a tax deduction at their competitor.

That way my money strengthens my interests that business partners (Epic) continue to behave fairly and don't try to pull some mickey mouse Unity BS like -- oof we're gonnna charge you every time your game is downloaded or installed like WTF?

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