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Quoting: MaathI don't blame Valve. I bet they took it on Naughty Dog's word that it was working.

It is likely that the promotional video was created by some graphics artist from various footage, and doubtful it even came directly from a Steam Deck. I mean, why capture from the Steam Deck in order to provide exact visuals when you can just take it from a PC. It's nice when you can do it but to save time I'm sure they skip that step.

In that case I would blame Valve. As Liam pointed out, the picture of it is running on a Steam Deck. So yeah, either it's fake, like you mentioned, which is a problem with Valve not being truthful to it's consumers or it is a shot from a Deck, which is a problem as Valve would known it didn't work much earlier but still encouraged sales.

Simulating the screen image for a PR campaign on the Deck is one thing, but when you do it you're implying the game is going to work on on the Deck... That's the problem.

Either way, I'm glad, Valve marked it unsupported, but it's still pretty sketchy they did it after initial release sales. As pointed out earlier in the comments, this isn't the first time Valve has done this with a hyped up game.

Yeah makes you wonder how Valves Steam Deck verification process is setup. Can a big publisher just pinky swear everything is golden thus skipping all the testing?

There's an earlier article about it, but basically, there's no requirement that a dev or publisher put it through the process although Valve might do it on their own. From the article above, the publisher/dev hadn't submitted it yet.

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Quoting: TheRiddickIt's a decent game, certainly brings the arcade feel to the sandbox game world.
I sometimes play it but ultimately the gameplay can feel a bit sterile at times.

This. I ended up playing the story line and then stopping. There just wasn't enough to keep me engaged from an exploration point of view.

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Quoting: MaathI don't blame Valve. I bet they took it on Naughty Dog's word that it was working.

It is likely that the promotional video was created by some graphics artist from various footage, and doubtful it even came directly from a Steam Deck. I mean, why capture from the Steam Deck in order to provide exact visuals when you can just take it from a PC. It's nice when you can do it but to save time I'm sure they skip that step.

In that case I would blame Valve. As Liam pointed out, the picture of it is running on a Steam Deck. So yeah, either it's fake, like you mentioned, which is a problem with Valve not being truthful to it's consumers or it is a shot from a Deck, which is a problem as Valve would known it didn't work much earlier but still encouraged sales.

Simulating the screen image for a PR campaign on the Deck is one thing, but when you do it you're implying the game is going to work on on the Deck... That's the problem.

Either way, I'm glad, Valve marked it unsupported, but it's still pretty sketchy they did it after initial release sales. As pointed out earlier in the comments, this isn't the first time Valve has done this with a hyped up game.

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QuoteKinda amusing their note about verification but Valve ran it through anyway

Lol. But that's on Valve for doing it, but, it's probably smart of Valve to take it out of the devs hands. Now Valve has a shield against complaints "Look it's unsupported, go harass the dev if you want it to work!!"

I will say, you are right in that Valve was kinda stupid too. If your gonna use something in your promo material, you should probably make sure it works in the first place.

Hopefully they work together to make it not sink on the Deck.

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oOoOO, I see Skyrim is on sale for 10$. That's pretty tempting, especially DRm free.

Seems like it might work well with mods, too. At least from what the forums seem to indicate!

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I've used it a while ago for the free month of Everspace back in September of 22.

It worked out of the box on Chrome. No issues. I did have to stream in 720 instead of 1080, but that was more a limitation of my laptop and WiFi.

I haven't really used it since as the free games aren't really what I'm into.

But the technology part and the streaming is just fine. Worked better than Steam's remote play (at the time, RP has gotten better that they are pretty much on par).

I will say I've only tried it because it is free (I've stopped buying games for the time being). But I can see the appeal of the subscription service; especially if you play a lot and are constantly wanting something new or some variety.

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Quoting: Trias

Quoting: Philadelphus(Though I feel like I've come across a disproportionate number of Stone Age civs on Tomb Worlds with the Survivor trait…maybe it's just random, but I'd be interested to hear if anyone else is seeing something like that.)

Currently there's an issue in the game when any pre-FTL civilization in atomic age has a 5% chance to start nuclear war event every month. And that can either wipe them completely, either throw back to stone age.

Should be fixed in a hotfix this week.

Little too realistic, lol

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Still haven't tried Skyrim yet, lol. I'm excited for something like this although I hope they don't fall into the pit fall a lot of scify open world game can fall into... Making it too big (geographically)... Wandering through forests is one thing... Wanting through empty space is another....


Edit: also does the thumbnail picture for the article scream Galaxy freighter from Privateer to anyone else??

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Saga 1-10 alone is worth the price. I just finished 10 from my local library and I'm sad I'll have to wait for 11.

I think the only game one played in the list is System Shock 2. I'd recommended it, but it's going to show it's age, specially if you are familiar with the more modern Bioshock games.

Definitely the scariest game I ever played, lol

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Quoting: denyasisI'm kinda curious if the use case for systems like this? Without a dedicated GPU, gaming seems like a stretch? But its way overkill for streaming? Non/lite-gaming desktop use maybe?

Quoting: gaboverstaOnce again it's time for my favourite game: Configuring systems I won't buy.
Also great to see continued preinstall efforts.

So what would you use it for? I'm genuinely curious ( I appear to be lacking in the creativity department today)

I wouldn't use it, that's why I wouldn't buy it. I just enjoy clicking on the high end options and seeing the price go up.
That said, when I was an office clerk this would have been awesome to have.

My last (and final) office job I had a Dell NUC. It was pretty capable, ran 3 monitors, SQL was pretty easy. It struggled with GIS on some things, but I think that was due to the lack of a GPU.

I've thought about getting my child an Rpi4, but the more I think about it, I think I'd rather get a NUC (or something similar). X86 and upgrade options keeps a lot of doors open. The price on this one seems a little high, but over 8 years of schooling, it's only $100 a year, which is pretty reasonable.

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