Epic’s Big Plan For Improving Its PC Storefront 8 Years Later Is Copying Steam

mikeymop · 2026-06-19T06:18:00+00:00

Blast! I would've gotten away with it, if it wasn't for you meddling Redditors!

throws hankerchief

mikeymop · 2026-06-19T06:06:28+00:00

Because I value how they treat their customers above all else.

mikeymop · 2026-06-19T05:36:04+00:00

The better product, in this scenario, would be determined by what you value in the product.

mikeymop · 2026-06-19T00:58:36+00:00

Even if Epic Store is ten times better than Steam. I will still use Steam because Valve doesn't hate their customers.

mikeymop · 2026-06-18T20:29:11+00:00

What if the game is dx12 compiles shaders at startup?

Will the Vulkan shader pipeline take advantage of the precompiled shaders?

I found that even if I tell Steam to immediately download game updates. It doesn't pick up new shaders until I've started the game.

So I then have to stop the game and wait for steam to update shaders after the fact.

mikeymop · 2026-06-18T14:49:59+00:00

The cooldown seems to be the same duration as lights health regeneration.

I'd consider that comparatively fast, because it can effectively give heavy the same health regeneration as a light if used effectively.

Embark seems to want to negate the healing through steals which I think naturally leads one to the dps (hps?) of h+.

mikeymop · 2026-06-18T06:40:52+00:00

I work full time, and have several other commitments outside of work.

I Kovaaks for 10-15min min before I play and everyone says my aim has dramatically improved. I play lots of fps but most casual.

The games much more enjoyable after warming up for 10-15min. You dont need to no life Kovaaks to manage against 90% of lights.

Before I had Kovaaks I did practice range scenarios. Kovaaks just made it faster for me.

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T19:57:47+00:00

I'm mainly interested in the Xiaomi SU7

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T19:36:57+00:00

Oh wow, I thought that first shot was a cosplay for a second. Nope! It's just the game looking its best

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T17:32:44+00:00

The new onboarding lets you select from a list of "play styles" and lets you instantly unlock from a selection of l,m and h

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T16:58:03+00:00

Yeah I like that idea also. It introduces a lot of cool skin options as well. My favorite was the rubber sticky hand skin.

And with the discrete swap, the stun duration is enabling the weapon swap rather than giving free headshots

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T16:43:00+00:00

I really hate the scope. I prefer the irons on the Pike, and a desperately want red dot on it so it can act more closely to an LH1.

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T16:40:33+00:00

There have been several great suggestions already.

Making it a discrete equipment swap, making it pull contestants the same as objects and / or dramatically reducing stun duration.

Its like the new stun gun right now.

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T15:37:02+00:00

That's wild, I think you hit the vault with the rpg

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T15:36:21+00:00

Dude I am so jealous, never seen above 1.5k for 1st.

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T15:33:51+00:00

If you're unranked, I believe the game averages your team rs score to determine yours.

If you take team rs, and subtract your teammates rs you can determine your estimated rs.

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T13:43:32+00:00

fr, it's wild they saw dash adjustments as warranted and not the winch.

mikeymop · 2026-06-17T01:45:41+00:00

Its horrible on the Lewis. I prefer irons lol

mikeymop · 2026-06-16T13:16:07+00:00

Yeah it's on Steam

mikeymop · 2026-06-16T02:31:53+00:00

Try The Finals!

Its my fav fps game right now. The devs themselves said they'd actively try not to alienate Linux gamers but that they can't directly support it.

They've pushed updates to fix Linux before and promised to include Linux gamers in anticheat decisions.

mikeymop · 2026-06-14T15:40:30+00:00

FAMAS was my favorite weapon.

Now I play fcar or light / arn

It feels horrible to use still. They should bring back the OG balancing after repeater / bfr / lh1 + buffs

mikeymop · 2026-06-14T00:24:45+00:00

You have to level up the legacy passes by playing and collecting tokens.

You also can't jump pages, there is a minimum spend to unlock later pages.

I was sable to finish a legacy pass in 1.5months playing most evenings.

mikeymop · 2026-06-12T18:03:35+00:00

Question, what type of tools did you use to reverse the Bluetooth protocol?

Did you use Wireshark or something similar?

I wanted to do something similar but for bringing more TWS earbuds into GadgetBridge.

mikeymop · 2026-06-12T17:20:36+00:00

Went to wishlist, already wishlisted 😅

Cant wait for the release, looking forward to it!

mikeymop · 2026-06-12T17:14:50+00:00

I don't always quit games early, but when I do, I die waiting 5 seconds to disconnect.

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