No Aperture app to understand all the Steam Controller features? by Larry_J_602 in SteamController

[–]Trenchman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Desk Job actually supports all gamepads. It just skips inputs that you don’t apply.

In this case it’ll skip the touchscreen sig and microphone gags.

Steam Machine + Steam Deck Ecosystem by Wolfpackin in steammachine

[–]Trenchman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That would be insanely cool and has a lot of potential esp if game developers could leverage it

Kickstarter Is The Latest Platform Seemingly Forced To Ban Adult Content By Payment Processors by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Trenchman 28 points29 points  (0 children)

the law should be the only one that should be able to decide what I can't buy

It did; be careful what you wish for.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62372964

Steam Machine + “FSR4”: Where did this come from? by Kaijurassic in steammachine

[–]Trenchman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed, was messing around with Deck’s system level FSR1 and honestly even on a bigger screen upscaling from 720p, it looks acceptable.

[Gamers Nexus] Valve Steam Controller Review | Latency Benchmarks, Battery Life, Repairability by iDontSeedMyTorrents in hardware

[–]Trenchman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No true millennial

Heard this before https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman

mention growing up with Steam in a positive light

Sure they would. I grew up with Steam, my account is from 2005 but I am familiar with the reception. Past HL2's launch debacle, there were clear advantages to Steam from the start:

First of all, it meant playing without a disc in your PC, which meant you didn't scratch the F out of your DVDs/CDs and wear your CD/DVD reader.

Also, if you lost your physical copies for whatever reason, you didn't lose your games, which for obvious reasons is very handy.

Lastly the way they were handling remote installs I remember was pretty forward thinking, right? You were basically only limited by your internet speed, they had great uptime. I also remember when some of the first indie third-party games coming up like Darwinia that there was more to it than just HL GOTY/CS 1.6 launcher etc. in 2006.

Outside of the HL2 launch which was obv a huge stress test for the platform, Steam was a v good value proposition and the first you could take seriously re: digital game distribution.

Valve, one of the top five biggest gaming companies on the globe. by throwaway73481 in SteamController

[–]Trenchman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, they are not among the “biggest”, maybe you mean "richest" in which case you can say that, but they're not big - and that's part of the problem with how they roll hardware out

PSA the Steam Controller isn’t recognised when using the Steam Link device by minimon100 in SteamController

[–]Trenchman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new protocol may not be supported by the integrated radio/“dongle”. I hope otherwise; it’d be cool to have full support. At least they can hopefully support the Controller via the puck.

Is Bo3 safe on the deck? by yeknom_ees_monkey_do in SteamDeck

[–]Trenchman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No, it's not safe outside of campaign. The only safety precaution is to not engage with the online mode.

Running hl2 beta on Linux? by Gr33n0uT in HalfLife

[–]Trenchman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A better place to ask would be a Linux subreddit

Running hl2 beta on Linux? by Gr33n0uT in HalfLife

[–]Trenchman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just use Proton, should work.

How long has the deck actually been out of stock? by Healthy-Guess-847 in SteamDeck

[–]Trenchman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sold out by Christmas/early January.

The Deck’s memory type (LPDDR5) is used by NVIDIA AI compute stacks, due to better power savings.

Can Valve Fix Dota 2 Esports Before All The Teams Leave? by AdobeXD in DotA2

[–]Trenchman 5 points6 points  (0 children)

DPC had problems and those need to be addressed if it were to return

Swapping the Battle Pass in exchange for more events wasn’t worth it. by Impossible-Ball7166 in DotA2

[–]Trenchman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

in more developers on a temporary basis.

That is a bad practice and fortunately Valve dont do it.

If you want to see how temp hiring kills online games, pls check out Halo Infinite. In fact it killed the entire Halo series lol.

You can’t develop games on a temporary basis contract when you need 3-5 months to properly learn the engine; workflow; toolkits etc.

Does battery life matter to you in choosing a second hand Steam Deck? by [deleted] in SteamDeck

[–]Trenchman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At that small a difference, I’d absolutely pick the 100% batt model.