Romkslrqusz

How’s performance with Banjo Kazooie via Xenia on Steam Deck?

It’s been decompiled but I have yet to see an actual Windows / Linux port yet

Neuroplasticity

And Epic has had a lot more financial resources available when they launched their store. Estimated valuation of $15 billion in 2018, Valve’s was half that in 2022.

I don’t really see an excuse for Epic to have ever had missing features, they entered the market with plenty of templates for what does and doesn’t work

To my knowledge you still can’t easily discover / reuse existing game files, the launcher usually redownloads them anyways.

Even the Xbox app supports this (for most games)

I’ve played every Battlefield since 1942. The series does a great job creating large-scale warfare while keeping it action-packed, avoiding the longer lulls found in other milsim games. There’s a degree of intensity to the combat that I don’t really feel in most other FPS titles.

They’re regularly on sale on Steam for $1.99.

Battlefield 4 is coming up on 12 years old and still has a fair amount of active servers. Might just be me getting old but I find the gameplay really holds up. Compared to Battlefield 3, the whole battle pass / premium currency aspect was really souring at the time, but it’s not all that bad now.

For me, each release since then has been increasingly disappointing, though I still played them and had my fun. I was hyped for WWI combat in BF1, but they had to go and put fully automatic weapons with reflex sights in every soldier’s hands. Thought maybe we’d wind up with bolt action only hardcore servers, but that didn’t really pan out. Battlefield V brought things back to WW2 again, but it felt ruined yet again with an overabundance of attachments and letting everyone spawn with any other faction’s weapons. Completely immersion breaking.

The best modern Battlefield game was BattleBit Remastered, which wasn’t even developed by EA/Dice and had very simple Roblox graphics - seems like things aren’t going so good anymore.

If you like Star Wars, the Battlefront games are pretty amusing.

A lot of the Battlefield games have a single player campaign that ranges from generic FPS to actually having some pretty cool mechanics sprinkled in.

I had read elsewhere that the anti glare etching also makes things look a little ‘off’ if you use a screen protector

Upgrading to a 2TB SSD is pretty trivial, I saw no reason not to go with the lowest capacity model

No Man’s Sky and Cyberpunk 2077:

Hold my drink

Matrix, Revolt

…which came out 7 years ago

I meant that I was on the beta branch for SteamOS / Decky Loader, thoygh perhaps Junk Store too. I figured it was likely a conflict with another plugin (probably something in CSS Loader) but hadn’t bothered to diagnose which.

I’ll totally be giving it another shot since it seems awesome :)

Seems like I should give Junk-Store another shot I had installed it back when I was on beta branch and it was… funky. It had me sign in to Epic and then the frame / overlay wouldn’t go away, I had to force restart my Deck just to make it usable again.

I tried a few times here and there and ran into the same issue, so it’s just been sitting installed as a spooky button.

I’ve had a Switch since it launched. For the most part, it collected dust - it saw use around certain major game releases and that’s it.

My Steam Deck has completely displaced my high end (well, for 2021) gaming PC - anything that doesn’t run well natively is easily streamed over the network from that PC. I can hang out in the living room watching TV with my partner.

The emulation capabilities have allowed me to conveniently tap back into my entire childhood of gaming, even extending into some titles that I had missed.

The biggest thing has been having access to the entire PC gaming content library. Sales, free Epic games, Amazon Prime Gaming - it’s all there. It’s a far better value proposition than the Switch.

Garry’s Mod

It’s hard to think of any one mod that got remotely close to changing a game the way GMod did for HL2/CS:S/source engine titles. I spent thousands of hours in GMod as a kid, it added infinite teplaya ility to the HL2 campaign, forums like Facepunch and PHWOnline became my second home. There was a ton of content to be loaded from there and FPSBanana, the thriving webcomic scene was truly special.

Absolutely love Shift 2. I feel like it really captured the intensity of Battlefield 3, but transposed to the Racing genre.

Recently revisited it on the Steam Deck and was worried that it wasn’t going to be as good as I remembered, and I’m pleased to say that it has remained every bit as amazing as it was.

Also makes me wonder what the hell simcade games have been doing the last 14 years. Nothing else really matches the sensation of speed and intensity that Shift 2 has. It’s also weird to me that the reactive helmet cam is not a staple in every single racing game.

Whole thing is really quite dumb. The cat just walks towards / stares at the drone, it does not physically prevent it from landing - the operator just gets spooked and flies off.

Not to mention that this is an article about a video that links to another article about the video.

The OEM Steam Deck LCD screen is $65.

The OEM Steam Deck OLED Screen is $95, $145 for the version with the anti-glare etching.

$140 is totally reasonable for an aftermarket product like this.

It might not make sense for most to purchase and install as an upgrade on its own, but it’s the same workflow as a shell swap so the two upgrades can easily go hand in hand. For users with a broken screen, it also provides a repair option that is also an improvement.

Also, just want to point out that flashing a BIOS is a pretty trivial task, strikes me as a bit weird to list the mildest of inconveniences as a deterrent.

I don’t get the impression this is being presented to anyone as “a massive benefit over just buying an OLED model”, but it does cost ~$400 less and reduce waste.

Reminds me of “And Yet It Moves”

I like this game a lot. Played the Colin McRae and Sega Rally games as a kid, this game captures that feeling.

Normally play rally sims in my sim pit, it’s nice to have something very casual to play on Steam Deck

In terms of storyline, it doesn’t really matter too much.

I still think you should play through the first one. If you need something that feels less 1998, Black Mesa is a remake of the original Half Life and it is very fun.

Might be cozy because of the nostalgia more than anything else, but I’ve been cruising through the Turok remasters