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- Comment on Palworld is getting anticheat, but it shouldn't cause issues for Steam Deck/Linux because it will be mostly optional 10 months ago:
Basically, just official servers will require anticheat, so worst case you can run your own.
Not the point of the article, but this is nice and reasonable:
This emerging "Palworld has lost X% of its player base" discourse is lazy, but it's probably also a good time to step in and reassure those of you capable of reading past a headline that it is fine to take breaks from games. You don't need to feel bad about that. Palworld, like many games before it, isn't in a position to pump out massive amounts of new content on a weekly basis. New content will come, and it's going to be awesome, but these things take a little bit of time. There are so many amazing games out there to play; you don't need to feel guilty about hopping from game to game.
- Comment on Almost replaced the shell on my brand new deck... got caught out by the display 10 months ago:
It can definitely be done.
But when all the actual experts who do it every day are telling you "fuck that shit; it's too much work", it's probably a pain in the ass.
- Comment on Using multiple machines to stream to one source 11 months ago:
It won't happen because the negatives outweigh the positives. There's so much extra overhead to keeping the cards synced that it's not worth it.
Other workloads can do it because they're inherently different. Gaming is all about extremely precise timing.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you're thoughts on a Steamdeck with a PSP Go form factor? 11 months ago:
Those keyboards are designed to be used with your thumbs while holding it from the side. They don't really function any other way. You can't reach the keyboard from the side because of the width of the controller. There's no possibility whatsoever that the device will balance if you hold it from the bottom where your thumbs could theoretically reach, ignoring that your thumbs also don't bend that way.
It's quite possibly the least ergonomic device ever made.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you're thoughts on a Steamdeck with a PSP Go form factor? 11 months ago:
lol at the sliding form factor for a keyboard you can't reach.
- Comment on [Discussion] What are you're thoughts on a Steamdeck with a PSP Go form factor? 11 months ago:
It needs the space for battery and cooling.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal 1 year ago:
It depends on the game.
What the Xbox calls "haptic feedback" is pretty damn close to just "on" and "off". The Switch blows it out of the water, and the PS5 is way better than the Switch. It feels equivalent to a pretty high quality sound effect transmitted through your hands. Forbidden West, as an example, uses it to provide "audio" cues for a wind up power attack with multiple release times for different actions. It adds an incredible amount of thoughtless control, without taking away from the game's audio, and enables incredibly responsive combat. It's a very rich stream of information.
The adaptive trigger are on top of that. You can map partial vs full pulls on other controllers via steam input on PC, but actually executing that consistently is difficult for most people. The PS5 controller allows you to actually set a physical breakpoint for a partial pull, or pull through for a different action. It also allows even more information to be communicated through the amount of resistance on the trigger.
I think it's really unfortunate that the launch coincided with Covid killing in store console demo units. Getting hands on with Astro's Playroom would have showed a lot of people just how insanely impressive the tech is.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal 1 year ago:
It doesn't even have gyro, and that's ancient at this point lol. Let alone the adaptive triggers that are entirely game changing or the way the vibration allows for extremely precise haptic feedback.
Many PS5 games are massively worse with any other controller.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal 1 year ago:
That's entirely preference. There are just as many people who prefer the PS's layout.
There's no comparison on function.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal 1 year ago:
It's not that debatable.
The feature set murders the Xbox controller.
- Comment on Steam Deck OLED now supports HDR Remote Play from PS5, unlike PlayStation Portal 1 year ago:
You have to do additional setup to do Chiaki from outside of your network. With the PS Remote App, they handle everything.
I don't think either are acceptable local, let alone outside the network, for anything that demands any kind of reaction time, but it's OK enough for turn based or slower games.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 1 year ago:
Anticheat.
The casual friendly hyper-monetized nonsense that needs to install malware to "ensure fair play" (or sell loot boxes and spy on you) doesn't run.
- Comment on The Steam Point shop has a collection of new Deck startup movies, including ones themed for Elden Ring, Hades, Persona 5, and Vampire Survivors. 1 year ago:
Sure, but the points don't buy anything real, so might as well use them if you like one.
- Comment on [Question] Does the steamdeck/emudeck support wireless multiplayer? 1 year ago:
Yuzu is switch.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
How is saying "the switch isn't a viable alternative to the steam deck because it's not a PC and can't do anywhere close to the bare minimum to be a PC" promoting a locked down ecosystem?
A console cannot be called a PC or replace a PC. It is a lesser category of product.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
A chromebook runs arbitrary software without any sort of hacks. Before this was the case, Chromebooks were very obviously not PCs. So do immutable OSes.
Account restrictions are the owner of the hardware "running arbitrary software" to control what someone else can do and completely irrelevant.
There is no scenario where you can call a Switch a PC, any more than you can call a phone a PC, an ATM a PC, or a pregnancy test with a chip in it a PC. It's not a misunderstanding; it's a lie.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
You can't "jailbreak" any current switch without replacing hardware.
You can install Windows software on a Mac.
Calling a switch a PC is a lie. It's not ambiguous, and it's not a gray area. It's a malicious, bold faced lie.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
Yes, it does. It cannot possibly be described as a PC if the end user can't install arbitrary software without restriction.
Calling a Switch a PC isn't slightly incorrect. It's complete and utter horseshit.
- Comment on The Steam Deck's budget price tag is the reason I still rate it nearly two years on 1 year ago:
No, the Switch is not such a device.
The article is very obviously about PCs. The Switch is not a PC.
- Comment on Deckverse Video - 1200p Screen Replacement 1 year ago:
I'd think about it for OLED. I give no fucks about resolution I can't drive and will mostly not notice at that screen size anyways. The pixel density is fine.
Ship a whole front panel replacement with a larger screen displacing the bezels and the higher resolution? Then I'd listen.
- Comment on [News] Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh - The Verge 1 year ago:
They're proud of "withered technology" as a philosophy.
My point is that even if they changed, it doesn't matter. The fact that it's nvidia means that it can't get close on real world performance with anything that uses the CPU meaningfully. Even if they did match graphics benchmarks for some reason, it would be way off from actually playing most current gen games.
- Comment on [News] Here’s the first proof a refreshed Steam Deck is nigh - The Verge 1 year ago:
The biggest barrier is that Nvidia has shown no capability to make a CPU that isn't unconditional dogshit for gaming, and the CPU is the Switch's problem.
The only company that's made an ARM CPU remotely interesting is Apple.
- Comment on The Steam Deck, nay Linux, is crying out for an official GeForce Now app 1 year ago:
It's stadia but without the bullshit where you have to buy games just for their platform.
It also works better.
- Comment on The Steam Deck, nay Linux, is crying out for an official GeForce Now app 1 year ago:
You're describing GeForce experience.
GeForce Now is the cloud gaming service.
- Comment on Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck - Wired 1 year ago:
It's not cheaper if the manufacturing capacity literally doesn't exist. You can't just wave a magic wand and have a company be capable of making millions of units.
- Comment on Everything Should Be As Easy to Upgrade As the Steam Deck - Wired 1 year ago:
There's a massive difference between being able to get the quantity to serve the small number of people willing to tinker and buy niche controllers and being able to get the quantity to serve a mass market.
- Comment on Xbox PC USB Adapter still doesn't work on SteamOS 3.5 1 year ago:
It doesn't work with nothing else in the room either.
I've done it several times with different people. I never prompted anyone. Every single one took 3-4 plays of Madden (which, until the most recent one, worked perfectly fine handheld) to ask why the controller sucked.
That's never happened with the adapter on my desktop.
- Comment on Xbox PC USB Adapter still doesn't work on SteamOS 3.5 1 year ago:
Without the adapter there's massive input latency.
- Comment on [Discussion] How has the Steam Deck changed your habits with playing video games? 1 year ago:
The switch did.
All handheld, all the time.
The steam deck means it's less painful, and I can play more complicated games. My switch is basically untouched since.
- Comment on How to use your Steam Deck as a PC controller 1 year ago:
The right stick not existing was a massive limitation with certain games.