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I haven’t played wordle since they put the “streak tracker” behind a “paywall”, fuck you all that data is shit you’re keeping from me without my consent anyways, now you want me to pay you for the privilege?
I’m not a huge privacy guy, but when you ask me to pay for the data I provide you, you can get bent.
Even the different problems between the LCD and OLED models make me content for valve to take it slow.
Don’t diminish the support with multiple sku’s, work on fixing the small but persistent problems with the current operating system, let other companies keep the hardware manufacturers pushing forward, continue making sure the operating system works well on the more modern hardware, and release a single product when the time is right.
There should be no decimal after the deck 2, keep the product focused, don’t divide your labor and multiply your potential bugs.
Also please have your operating system developers try using the deck interface for things besides gaming, trading, forum posting and even browsing the store is hampered by easily replicable bugs.
Why does the terrain take more (much more) bandwidth than a video stream?
And what the heck do you mean they’re “streaming the terrain” surely it would be a one and done date transfer, much smaller than a live video packet stream, that amount of bandwidth is insane, you could do multiple 4k streams.
I have trouble with this game, it’s trying just a bit too hard to be edgy and capture the Hades market.
But it’s kinda enjoyable and has a couple unique additions to the Hades blueprint (albeit they were taken from other games/genres)
The gameplay is fun enough, but the parts that required creativity caused me to cringe. I try not to slip dialog/plot, but for my enjoyment of this games offerings that was required. Maybe they fixed it a bit upon release?
I mean… Welcome to 4x! There’s so very much out there. Have you really played no sid Meier’s civilization? That’s just a half step up on the empire building complexity (and a quarter step down on combat, which you don’t have much interest in if I understand correctly.) there are a number of other civilization inspired games that are coming out right now, as well as some older ones that have a different spin on the civ framework (I don’t have a list in front of me). Galactic civilization 3 is another half step deeper into the empire building genre, Stellaris and sins of a solar empire are also rubbing elbows with greatness of space 4x (sins is a very slow rts which might be intriguing to you). Back on earth we go for the much more involved 4x, crusader Kings, Victoria, and Europa universallis, those are entries that will make creative assembly, and their total war series, look like children playing with blocks and a peg board.
Right there with you, at this point it’s absolutely a question if I want to fire up the laptop and hope the battery doesn’t explode, or pull the desktop out of storage and take over the living room television. That deck is too damn versatile and portable, anything that doesn’t run on it doesn’t get added to the library any more, unless it’s free!
Tips for the first timer, BE PATIENT WITH THE FIRST STARTUP AND PATCH, it’ll look non responsive/stuck in updating, but it is working, it might not progress for 5 or 10 minutes, believe me, it’s working. The second one I bought (for a family member) had me nervous (was refurbished) at how long I had to wait at some %'s of patching, but it went through and both work like a charm.
It is very very easy to emulate games, the guides on YouTube work perfectly and explain everything in multiple levels of detail. However it is hard to locate game files placed by steam, especially if you have a lot of games.
Don’t shy away from games that aren’t typically controller friendly, the community control layouts bring many creative and natural feeling solutions to games that you wouldn’t expect to be able to play, on top of that you can fine tune any given layout to make it truly work for your own needs.
The in store “deck compatability” guide is pretty useless, green/verified works 99.9% of the time (unless a recent patch has broken something, and it’s usually corrected very quickly) yellow/playable works 99.9% of the time but usually with “text inputs that require the keyboard overlay”, unverified/untested seems to work about 75% of the time, the only one that Ive put much weight in is “not supported”, usually there’s some overlay window or codex that just won’t work properly, but even then sometimes the games work, don’t rely on the steam window, check out the proton compatability website protondb . Com, it’s a much more extensive and thorough list, and will tell you how to get games working that valve claims the deck cannot handle.
Play aperture desk job at least once, it’s a great fun time, and will teach you a couple things about the deck you might not have expected (conductive joysticks that enable gyro controls),
Take a screen shot (steam button+r1) of the shortcut tips screen , so you can easily reference it whenever you’re trying to remember a chord command (like steam button+r1 for screenshot, or how to bring the overlay keyboard up).
If you have slow Internet and you want to download a ton of games, do it in “desktop” mode, and you can set the screen to turn off after a period of time (in case you’re worried about burn in, which I was at first but I’m much less concerned about now).
I mean…
I’m glad there are so many Pokemon, and that Pokemon were not unique enough for the most part to be trademarked, but if you think they didn’t lift very heavily from a single source you’re fooling yourself and making flippant accusations of your straw-manned opposition.
Also I’m questioning if it was actually “way better” or just edgier for the memes that games would latch onto and vehemently defend. It seems to have been very successful in the latter even if it wasn’t their intent.
Me too, thinking I’ll finally have some enlightenment as to how to kill the first night or twos zombies without getting killed and rage quitting.
I’ve even watched “beginner tutorials” on that game game, and conveniently they ended the first video just after nightfall of the first night, and started the second video during the second day, but that’s not how it friggin works, you need to murder the enemies lest they murder you, and in 5 different starts of the game, across 3 different devices, I’ve yet to kill the first or second nights horde without them breaking down my doors and wrecking my shit.
That game is one of my biggest regrets, I bought the 4 pack when it first came out thinking my friends and I would all have a great time, it makes me feel like I’m old and disconnected that I can’t enjoy that stupid (supposedly fantastic) game.
I didn’t realize it wasn’t fully released, haven’t thought about it in almost a decade, I wonder how it’ll handle on the deck