Quoting: Kristian"or newer hardware only support Vulkan, which tbh, don't make much sense."

It surely makes sense to use Zink to run OpenGL games(and other software) on hardware that only supports Vulkan and not OpenGL. As I understand it Zink basically is a way to support legacy software in a post-OpenGL world.

AFAIK the development of Zink gets sponsored by Valve because in some specific containerized environments (Steam on Linux under ChromeOS) there is now Vulkan pass-through support, but no plans to ever support OpenGL.

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Oh, "criminally overlooked" indeed. Never heard of it and I am definitely interested in novel rhythm games. Thanks for sharing!

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I think this is rather a preparation for Steam on Chromebooks as those will only support Vulkan and not OpenGL (maybe with Zink).

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Release party was fun. 120+ people on the same server with very little lag and flying around in a giant airship ;)

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Quoting: AppelsinThey need to be in *normal* stores. Everywhere. Being only on Amazon (and barely there even, at that) is what made the Steam Link and Controller a mere bog unicorn. You'd heard of it, but not really.

Experiences obviously differ from country to country, but in the EU the purchase of Steamlink and Controller worked perfectly fine via the Steam store itself.

Oh and funny to read your experience of Amazon in Norway, because at least in Germany even people that don't like Amazon grudgingly admit that ordering from them is fastest, most convenient and returning anything is super easy and customer friendly. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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VR does work reasonably well on a PS4 and mobile VR ports from the Quest2 should work as well. I don't think Valve will make the SteamPal "VR-first", but I could imagine it being possible to connect an inside-out tracking HMD sometimes in the future.

However I would like to see a nice docking station that can also work as a SteamLink in stand-alone mode.

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Quoting: Calinou

Quoting: JuliusIf I remember correctly this actually uses a modified version of the open-source Doom3 engine.

It looks like modified Qfusion to me – the HUD reminds me of Warsow a fair bit.

Turns out to be actually Darkplaces based (Quake 1, same as Xonotic): https://www.indiedb.com/games/doombringer

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Played a bit of Hellpoint since I got it through the Humble Choice. Seems decent enough.

Otherwise a round of Jupiter Hell is always fun.

Hmm... coincidence that both have "hell" in their name? ;)

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If I remember correctly this actually uses a modified version of the open-source Doom3 engine.

Darkplaces based (open-source Quake1 based engine)

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Quoting: omer666I really hope some day they will get to the beta stage, it's such a great effort.

Not sure if joking or not. It has been what other projects call "stable" for years. It's just bad marketing :(

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