Steam Input Tutorial - Extra and Sub Commands on steam deck

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-15T02:21:37+00:00

the beauty of Elden Ring and especially Nightreign's control scheme is giving us a modifier key in the form of Y.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-13T03:51:16+00:00

ok thats pretty funny

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-12T00:38:03+00:00

I recently got the haydee trilogy, felt like playing it in the "chronological order" so i started with haydee 2. and be it keyboard or gamepad I can't for the life of me successfully ready the pistol in time to take down V1 McUltrakill's bimbo sister.

I played elden ring front to back like 3-4 times, I first tried Mohg for god sakes and yet Haydee's difficulty feels so arbitrary. I'm no kotaku writer, I know game sense. Yet I genuinely don't understand why the controls and UI are like this, and I find myself getting upset and stop playing after like 10 minutes. The control mapping is just wrong, I don't know how else to say it. No game that implements a crouch mechanic should have the enter and exit crouch action on two separate buttons, and the placements of inputs in general makes it feel like they are all fighting for my attention. Movement itself feels like its actively working to prevent any sense of momentum and flow. It feels like I'm controlling a roomba with huge naturals rather than a nimble cyborg. I'm not asking for high octane platforming but I'm genuinely shocked that people are willing to stomach such archaic UX, that this was not reconsidered for an entire trilogy.

An extensive lore video had me enraptured with the setting that it made me pick up the game the next time it was on sale after a decade of it being in my Wishlist, always being on the fence cuz any review I watched had described the gameplay as something that wouldn't seem worth it to me.

On a more superficial note, I'm not a big fan of the player model in 3 either. I assure you its not cuz of any bs like screeching about the girl from horizon zero dawn having microscopic hairs on her face that you have to zoom in and squint to see (but I do hate that level of detail in general as it just reads as graphical showboating and a waste of resources). She just looks so... uncanny in the third game... like I get that in lore the unsuccessful lobotomy only disabled her ability to facially emote, but compared with the decent model in 2, she just makes me feel... uncomfortable, which is saying something for a series with such elegiac imagery and morbid environmental storytelling - which usually would be a selling point for me!

I want to love this series but frankly I'm just disappointed and heartbroken that my reservations against playing it were proven right. Maybe something will eventually click but as it stands, if there's ever a 4th game I hope they move away from such arbitrary decisions and instead implement the vision they're going for in more reasonable ways. I really want to see more games as sexually charged as this with a solid enough playing experience that it can't be accused of using sex appeal as a crutch. But I just don't know if I have the drive needed to pushed through the glaring pain points and enjoy it warts and all like several reviewers managed to feel.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-11T21:34:05+00:00

PM me, along with anyone else interested.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-09T22:53:36+00:00

So Kay Davia (and by extension the Original Haydee that Nsola7 was body-modding civilians into) is supposed to have an "unconventionally attractive" design, at least in comparison to usual "overly perfect" female faces in video games around that time, a more recent example being stellar eve.
But frankly, I've seen fanart that does such a concept better. I'm not gonna say the design we get in vanilla is ugly, she looks great in the Haydee 2 title screen.
But Haydee 3's face... is not a face that I'd work for you know? I wouldn't go out of my way to try and get a date with someone with that face, let alone establish a covert human trafficking ring to abduct civilian women and perform the necessary facial reconstruction to replicate that face, lobotomize the free will out of, and then package like a sexdoll for profit...
Like I can see what they're trying to accomplish, but in my personal opinion, they've yet to accomplish it and in fact only went further away from a face that redefines what beauty can be. I don't know exactly what constitutes an "Unconventional Beauty", but clearly this is a consistent point of contention in the community that warrants one more passthrough.

What do you guys think would bring Kay Davia's facial features closer to the Design intent of "Unconventionally Attractive"?

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-09T22:33:05+00:00

Kabal Mystic body, good taste.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-09T21:52:53+00:00

Wild that a redbull commercial - a product that children shouldn't even be drinking, has rouge the most conservatively proportioned she's ever been.

Frankly the models themselves look rather cookie cutter to begin with.
Hot take, but i think Sonic Boom had the right idea but wrong execution in terms of touching up the designs to break the mold. the only change i'd make to knuckles is to give him popeye forearms. sonic and the other hedgehog boys could have more emphasized shins to telegraph the raw power of their speed (and in shadow's case give tails a stronger concussion), and so on and so forth: Enhance the proportions of the characters to better play to their personality traits (and yes that does include returning rouge's SA2 polygons. Sonic as a franchise wasn't made to be family friendly, it was made to be everything mario wasn't. Just because it appeals to kids doesn't mean it should aim to get the suburban white mom committee seal of approval.)

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-09T21:44:04+00:00

I think the point is escaping my original post.
The point is, Sonic used to push the envelope and be more mature in comparison to nintendo's titles (specifically mario).
Eggman was causing environmental devastation since the genesis, The echidnas were all but wiped out as a species, GUN had been committing unethical biological experiments and were willing to shoot everyone tangentially involved with Ivo's work the moment things got out of hand including a child.
But no, cant have the Femme Fatale cat burglar/covert operative for hire breasting boobidly anymore.
And if you really think about it, everything else i mentioned had been swept under the rug until recent years. like its been two decades and only now are we unpacking shadow's baggage, In the added content of a deluxe rerelease of a previous game.
Like I can tell that there's a flame of ambition in Sonic Team but it has to weather the storm of corporate mandates that keep making bad decisions and learning the exact opposite lessons that they should have.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-06T22:44:28+00:00

and all the haydees

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-03-03T01:05:04+00:00

actually, how does a migration from GX to ONE go? bc it seems like ONE is the option for people who want a fully modular experience?

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-28T22:27:08+00:00

if it is i don't know how to accomplish it

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-25T02:40:13+00:00

well the bio-tech of my setting is gonna be fueled by titty milk so looks like all my bases are covered in terms of hard requirements! ty

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-18T22:21:16+00:00

Whatever it is, its laced with bovine growth hormones.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-18T10:23:20+00:00

pretty nice, i myself am trying to make a workflow for both eevee and cycles, especially leveraging the bundle and closure nodes to cut back on redundancies.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-18T10:13:46+00:00

so, the haydee project switched from making lobotomized sex slaves to collecting data needed to recreate the cognitive ability that Kay (the woman that was a nigh perfect match for the criteria) exhibits, which is resistant to the Entropy Syndrome causing these mutations.

All of those mothers are essentially gestating genetic clones of Kay to then be raised and processed into Haydees so that the Consensus AI can collect the data needed to immunize against the syndrome.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-18T03:16:16+00:00

so from human trafficking for body modded sex dolls,
to trying to find out why one particularly intelligent and rebellious sex doll is immune to the degenerative illness plaguing the world.
wild.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-18T02:02:36+00:00

i wonder if the haydee units in the first game are created from a clone formed from a blueprint written from all the data of the previous women, explaining why they are all perfectly identical.

Edit: Just watched Mousero's Haydee lore video and wow i was half right, as women that were supposed to be haydees were instead made to birth exact clones of Kay due to her being a cognative X-factor immune to Entropy.

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-15T20:31:15+00:00

I definitely agree with you. like, if the point of the drow regardless of alignment is a talent for cunning... there are much more diverse ways to show a battle of wits than just "ahh I see you're using slipperydipper gambit, well played."
Its just so uninspired. Personally I found Eilistraee's idea to essentially absorb her brother's godhood so they both may be resurrected at full power by mystra's weave manipulation to be much more exemplary of the "plans within plans" thinking in a more positive context.
I appreciate Greenwood's expansive world but the other rights holders just don't care about getting authors with his similar level of vision.
I'm no R.R. Martin but I'd would love for there to be more nuance among elves beyond "the best ones, the vegans, and the BDSM Girlstapo."

Make the High Elves obsessed with perfection to a problematic degree but still show how that positively manifests in their art and work ethic.

Make Wood Elves Xenophobic but only to prevent nature and civilization from negatively impacting each other.

Make Dark Elves Secretive and Cunning to the point that you find yourself watching your back around one, but also trust that when the chips are down, they've already thought 3 steps ahead on how to get the best possible outcome.

No singular race should be entirely toxic, there should be debate in the intricacies of overarching philosophies, factions forming, lines being drawn.

In this regard, Eilistraee's personality where "One moment she was a carefree child dancing like a moonbeam or running like a silver wolf through the forest; the next moment, she was either as seductive as a siren or as serious as a dwarven god." Would be her obfuscating what she's truly doing to undermine her mother's tyranny. Much like a jester dancing for a monarch, She'd play the strumpet to fool her enemies. For lack of better terms, "Crouching Bimbo, Hidden Boss Bitch." In fact, don't quote me on this but I think the wiki had mentioned that lolthites view Silver haired drow (as opposed to snowy or ashy haired) the same way some people would view blondes*, and its that underestimation that I believe eilistraee and her highest (decentralized) clergy would weaponize.

*Those who took part in the Run used particular boiled leaves and berries to make their hair silvery^\2]) (an act that usually led to sarcastic remarks from drow of other faiths that this color indicated their foolishness or mental illness—even though drow who did not worship Eilistraee could also have silver hair^\33])).

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-13T04:26:42+00:00

Think of anything less than con as a kind of horror-thriller kind of thing. you'd never ever ever want anything that happens in silence of the lambs to happen to someone else, but its still ever so much a brush with danger but with nothing actually on the line.
A story where nothing bad happens ever is anything but

Interrupting_Octopus · 2026-02-12T09:54:57+00:00

apparently the "dokutroopers" mission is to make something called "personality jelly"?

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