supersquirrel
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- Comment on Epic’s holiday sale includes 16 free games this year 1 week ago:
yeah it really is a non-issue, with something like the Heroic Launcher it really isn’t any less convenient than buying from steam.
- Free & Moddable Tactical Shooter, Operation Harshdoorstop, Nears Major 2nd Anniversary Updateyoutu.be ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 3 weeks ago:
Oh they are but they are squished inside mechanical turks in countries you have never heard of doing the most inane or shocking things over and over again for horrendous wages to keep the dream of whatever “smart” “ai” nonsense they are currently selling alive but yes… I don’t disagree with the thrust of your point here, you are right.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
Ok clearly you know more about this than me, but I grew up using an xbox controller, I prefer it over touchpads by 1000% percent (with gyro on) but the touchpads are still integral to all of the complex steam deck bindings I have used and those I have made myself. Whether the touchpads are used for configurable virtual menus or as mouse and movement inputs, people are heavily using the touchpads. I hope they dont mess it up for touchpad users though.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
“Additionally, having this layout means it will match the Steam Deck, which should make all control profiles interchangable.”
Additionally an order of magnitude more indie devs who don’t have the cash for a steam deck could pick up used/new steam controllers for not too much cash and that is going to lead to an order of magnitude more devs actually trying out their game using steam deck control schemes and I think that will be hard to overstate in impact longterm on gaming.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
It would be cool if they made the next steam controller have two versions which are exactly the same both with two touchpads and with two with joysticks except one has the touchpads in the prime ergonomic spot on top the other with the two joysticks in the prime ergonomic spot.
I imagine a decent amount of people would like the “subpar” placement of their preferred inputs too because there is such a variety of hand shapes and sizes.
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
“…it clearly has both 2 thumb sticks and 2 track pads.”
Hell yes, I am very bullish on the two thumb sticks and two touchpads being the controller format that will establish the steam deck/handheld gaming pc as the future of gamepads.
It won’t necessarily be a quick, all at once change, but that is because it is a strategic longterm play to reframe what a gamepad is, what its limitations are, and what kind of games can be played with a gamepad.
It will be the kind of thing people look back and point to as the beginning of the whole industry shifting into a new paradigm where playing cool indie games with a gamepad is something people associate with pc gaming first, console gaming second.
They just better have a gyro sensor in there too!
- Comment on [Leak] Steam Controller 2 render thumbnail leaked in SteamVR drivers 3 weeks ago:
The steam deck already does in my experience!
- Comment on The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...? 3 weeks ago:
Definitely but that isn’t something inherent to gaming on a phone.
There are occasional actually good paid games on mobile but they get hopelessly buried, there is no reason it has to be this way though, this is a result of atrocious, catastrophic failure to steward a platform and ecosystem.
- The Black Friday sale for the most popular gaming system on the planet doesn't actually have any games on sale...?sopuli.xyz ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 7 comments
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 3 weeks ago:
Yeah no issues, dot mod (the mod ovehaul) works fine too.
“DW runs incredibly efficiently”
Honestly that is a such a huge prop
I’ll have to check out the sonar aspect of DW that sounds dope
- Comment on Driveloop is a mental mixture of Mad Max and Vampire Survivors 3 weeks ago:
Reminds me of Renegade Ops.
store.steampowered.com/app/99300/Renegade_Ops/
Maybe this game could get co-op someday?
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 3 weeks ago:
I downloaded Cold Waters (and dot mod) and have been slowly dipping my toes in. I think I like games with bright pixellated but clear old graphics when it is done well, I will have to put Dangerous Waters on the list.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 3 weeks ago:
have you tried Mutant Footbal League?
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 3 weeks ago:
How is the co-op?
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 3 weeks ago:
If you want a lower spec but stil gorgeous singleplayer and multiplayer (not a mmo type game though) game check out avorion. Somebody gifted it to me because they wanted me to try it so much and I am starting to see what they were on about with it.
No planets to land on and it ends up playing more like a 4x game late game I think but it is worth a look. Just download and use workshop ships if you feel overwhelmed with the building part.
- Comment on Leak: Valve is making a Steam Controller 2 and a ‘Roy’ for its Deckard 3 weeks ago:
In particular I want the two joysticks the steam deck has! Touchpads + joysticks NOT one or the other. If the steam controller came out with that and back buttons it would set a new standard and decisively reorient how people think about gamepads with respect to complex pc games.
If it just has two touchpads or two joysticks it really isn’t an evolutionary step up, more of a lateral step that improves precision (unless you include gyro… which the next steam controller needs to have).
I know this seems like an esoteric point but in my experience steam deck layouts for complex games all rely on the steam deck having 4 xy input devices.
The next steam controller should prioritize this scheme of the four basic inputs + triggers and buttons to help precipitate the concept in peoples minds that a steam style gamepad has two joysticks and two touchpads.
Longterm establishing this control “standard” as a noun in the collective minds of indie and strategy game fans and developers is by far the most important thing a new steam deck controller could do.
If an indie developer can buy a relatively inexpensive steam controller and physically test out and make some steam deck bindings for their game…they are that much more likey too.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 3 weeks ago:
I just found an indie autobattler called CROPS! and I am having a blast so far, highly recommended! Interestingly it appears to have duos for PVP so you could play with a friend against other players. Battling is async though like other autobattlers.
- Comment on Valve Steam Deck now have a new dedicated Official Bluesky accoun 4 weeks ago:
I mean honestly I am kind of surprised Valve/Steam doesn’t run it’s own mastodon instance already, it seems like EXACTLY the kind of thing Valve would do.
- Comment on Games you want on the deck 4 weeks ago:
Ok, I know it sounds crazy but I actually quite like this set up I made for playing cataclysm dda using onboard deck controls. The four pop up menus map to left joystick, left touchpad, right joystick and right touchpad.
(No mouse because it is cdda you don’t need a mouse.)
- Comment on Do you use your Deck for non-gaming purposes? If so, what do you use it for? 4 weeks ago:
What kind of workflow does this involve on your deck?
- Comment on Do you use your Deck for non-gaming purposes? If so, what do you use it for? 4 weeks ago:
Same I have been learning blender and using it on my deck! Super cool to hear about others doing so!
Also kdenlive is a nice linux non linear video editor available on flathub/the discover app browser.
I have been using kdenlive to, browse, edit and compose gameplay videos right on the deck, it is a really nice easy experience.
- Comment on Main Assembly is a must buy for the deck at $4! 4 weeks ago:
Good question, I think there is a bug maybe? Development on Main Assembly stopped in 2021 (which is why I recommend MA at this pricepoint) and the bug might have never been fixed. What a shame :( the game definitely wasn’t intended to do that.
- Comment on Main Assembly is a must buy for the deck at $4! 4 weeks ago:
Trailmakers is definitely very solid too, the building philosophies between the games are quite different but they are both great game.
- Comment on Main Assembly is a must buy for the deck at $4! 5 weeks ago:
Main Assembly’s workshop has some seriously good stuff, like someone modeled a realistic, working nissan gtr skyline!
- Submitted 5 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on Xbox boss confirms a handheld console is in the works 5 weeks ago:
Well I am planning to build a rocket and go to the moon but alas the hardware is still a couple years out :( no fear, it will be soon though!
- Comment on Netflix is removing nearly all of its interactive titles 1 month ago:
Wish they put all this money into funding indie game devs and connected small game studios with the professional film and live action apparatus netfix has access to.
I haven’t played it but Hellbade Senua’s Sacrifice seems like it categorically demolishes whatever netflix execs thought they were doing while they burned money.
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - November 2024 1 month ago:
Just install blender from the discover app on the steam desktop, add it to steam as a non-steam game and you can launch it as you would any other game.
As for controls I prefer joysticks + gyro, but that is just me.
- Comment on Stuck for what to play this weekend? DayZ works really nicely on Linux now 1 month ago:
Yeah it is actually pretty amazing how good performance dayz gets on the deck, even on deathmatch servers with 25+ players in a small area it runs great.
The gunplay is superb especially with some of the more common weapon mods.
Not sure why arma 3 runs so much worse in comparison, the difference is massive.
