Steam doesn’t have non-Linux games enabled by default. In the settings, you’ll find a compatibility tab. From there, enable the setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”

That’s what lets it use Proton for everything by default.

People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.

Real fans of the series will surely follow it wherever he takes it. Right guys?

That’s unfortunate. Did you try anything with the warranty? I’m curious what that experience is like.

I have a SF4 arcade stick that’s more than 15 years old now, still going strong.

Hori are well-known for their high quality controllers of all kinds. It’s pretty sad that they put out a piece of garbage like this.

The lack of ammo is solved with the chainsaw. That’s why they give you puny zombies in every battle. They’re easy to kill for a little health, and it only takes one charge of the chainsaw to fill up on ammo.

Doom rewards you for playing aggressively, much more so that the OG game did. They want you to get right up into the thick of it, not corner peek with your shotgun.

Definitely fair if that’s not your type of game though. It’s plays quite different from the original.

It took me a while to figure out how important higher level pictos are for their stat boost. Your base stats become basically irrelevant at one point when you can give a character 500 defense with one picto.

Sounds like Satisfactory might be what you’re looking for.

It’s very particular in its style and pacing. I liked it at first, but wasn’t able to stick to it. I’ll have to give it another go at some point.

You’ll get a popup on Steam telling you about the sutvey and asking you to share info. You click yes or no, and that’s it. I’ve gotten them a few times.

There are no questions to answer, it just takes freely available system info.

It’s not a manually filled out survey. It’s just a box that pops up on Steam, you click OK to share info, and that’s it. I think there’s very little bias involved in it.

I had to change Proton version and use Gamescope to run Expedition 33, and it runs quite well.

I watched a stream of it. It looked like a good time with friends in voice chat, but I wouldn’t want to play it with randos.

I also don’t think it would keep me hooked for very long. Probably a session once in a while. I can’t see myself playing dozens of hours of it.

The characters are modeled to look like their actors, Charlie Cox in the case of Gustave. Though he definitely has a Robert Pattinson look to him.

I’m gonna say just play the 3rd one, and if you can bear the clunky gameplay and dated graphics, you can play the other two after.

Witcher 3 stands on its own, and the lore of the previous games isn’t relevant to its entertainment value.

The third one is a significantly better game in pretty much all aspects.

The intro act is a bit of a grind, but once you make it to the main story, it’s really good.

Americans have the means to remove their tyrant, but I guess most of them don’t care enough to use those means.

I think those glitches work because some menu interactions slow the game down intentionally (for like half a second) and players have found ways of abusing the slowdown’s interaction with game physics. So I don’t think framerates are relevant to that, but I may be wrong about that.

Doom Eternal had similar glitches where the weapon choice menu slows time down to let you make a selection, and you can abuse that slowdown by spamming the jump button to launch yourself really high. I believe speed runners bind the mouse wheel to jump so they can super launch themselves.

Oh look, a common cutpurse in full Daedric armor!

The game looks way better than the original. I’ve only seen a stream of it, but literally everything is improved, at least visually. Better meshes and much better lighting everywhere.

SnapMap is a built-in map editor. It lets you build simple maps made of prefab rooms. It’s clunky and very limited. Really nothing particularly interesting considering the history of OG Doom’s decades-old fan-made map scene.

This guy makes one of these posts a day. Is that what you call flooding?

I find they kick my ass because they’re often hard to see until they’re already shooting at me

More important than who you choose not to give your money to is who you do choose to give it to.

There are entire AAA games with less content than Phantom Liberty

I watched a bit of a stream of this, but I wasn’t a big fan of the streamer so I didn’t stick around. This has been on my radar for a while. Is it any good? It’s currently too expensive for my tastes, so I’m going to have to wait a while anyway.

I see, it’s unfortunate that it requires dedicated hardware, but I guess it makes sense when the main competitor already has that.

Is it? I haven’t used an Nvidia GPU since the GTX series, but my understanding was that DLSS was very effective. Meanwhile, the artifacting on FSR bothers the crap out of me.

I’m still surprised how well received it was, not because I disagree, but just because of the numbers. It’s currently sitting at 95% positive ratings on Steam, and that’s with 229k reviews, for a game that plays so different from what gamers expected out of FromSoft.

Doesn’t the Xbox 360 have a sleep mode? Basically you’d only need to do it again if the power goes out.

It’s more cod-like right now, but it’s still more strategic and 3-dimensional. I think once people start getting to know the maps better and strategies start to develop more, the run-and-gun style of play will slow down and people will play more carefully and more objective-oriented.

When AMD was talking about RDNA4 one or two months ago, there were rumors that it would be for the new Steam Deck, and Valve claimed that it wasn’t, and that it was still a long way out.

It’s just a mod for HL2, so I imagine it can be modded the same way as HL2

It’s also entirely possible that you can’t host any of the games. If the host owns the game, anyone else can play for free through a browser. It could just be access to the jackbox.tv website from the TV itself.

I strongly suspect that some money changed hands for Valve to present this angle to consumers

Maybe? It’s certainly a reasonable expectation. I mean I agree it’s probably not something that people actively seek out in general, but they have all kinds of sales based on themes that people don’t necessarily think to look for either. As a gamer from Quebec, I don’t actively search for games made in Quebec, but it’s nice to be able to look at a collection like this and know that they’re all made locally without having to make an active search for that. It’s a factor that’s generally not advertised very explicitly.

These sales are pretty regular. I see them at least yearly, it’s not a political context-dependent sale on Steam’s part.

Quebec also has a pretty big gaming presence, with Ubisoft, Behaviour, Eidos, EA, WB, Bethesda, and many others big players having studios in Montreal.

PS4 and PS5 games are much easier to port to PC since those consoles are essentially PC hardware.

Older games need to be rebuilt for completely different hardware, so it’s actually a lot more work. Not to say it wouldn’t be nice, but it’s not as easy and may not be worth the money, and there is less interest for a lot of that stuff.

“Old PS5 games”
PS5 is a 4 year old console

I got it a couple years after release, out of a sense of nostalgia for the NES game.

It was bad. It really didn’t have much going for it. It did so much wrong and so little right.

Network test where nobody can manage to queue with other people :/

A network test showing that the testing was required.

If you sign up for a network test, you have to be expecting issues like this.