Alright, I was probably going to play it anyway even with dips down to the low 20s. But if we’re not even at the full release yet and the modding scene is already squeezing more out of that bottom 1%, I’m just biting the bullet and buying the damned game.
For anyone in the same boat, Fanatical is selling the pre-release versions of the game for 17% off, packaged with a random “highly rated” Steam game. My freebie was Reventure, which is regularly $8.99 CAD.
It genuinely is my favourite facial tissue on the Citadel.
Well shit. This is a problem for me, since the Kleenex brand is the only one with a lotioned variety that stores in my neck of the woods seem to carry. My seasonal allergies get so bad that normal/un-lotioned tissues leave my nose rubbed raw, even if I’m medicated.
~~I read an article just this morning that said it’s expected to release with version number 1.6.35 or something, meaning they been patching and updating it ahead of release. That’s likely what the delays have been about — to polish it up in advance to avoid the kind of negative press that surrounded Cyberpunk 2077 at release, which came from a studio that had a great deal more goodwill from the community than Bethesda.
Edit: https://tech4gamers.com/starfield-build-update-version/~~
Edit 2: Man I’m dumb. Didn’t check which thread this reply was for and replied with unrelated gibberish.
Sure, if Valve ever releases it.
The physical device itself is pretty stock, but I’ve been having a grand old time using Decky, specifically the CSS Loader plugin, to tweak the interface. Nothing extreme, but I have a little over a dozen CSS plugins installed that really make it shine now.
I used to love QKSMS! I use the stock app on my Pixel these days, but back in the day QK was my go-to. Moez is a great dev.
I think suggesting that Valve need any given game (CoD) or even genre (“games like CoD”) to remain successful is silly at best. Of course Steam, the Steam Deck, and as a result Valve are only successful or even exist at all because of video game studios and publishers. But Call of Duty specifically? Nah man, it’s a blip on the radar for Steam.
While I disagree with your core argument about the success of the Steam Deck, I absolutely agree that I’d love to see a desktop variant of SteamOS become available for general use. To the point that I’d likely even finally make the leap from Windows.
The article you’ve linked seems to say the opposite of what you’re suggesting — that a second iteration of the Steam Deck is coming soon. That’s not the impression I get from the linked article at all.
But even that aside, I would argue that the Steam Deck has been uniquely successful. Sure, the Deck may or may not end up being a “one and done”, flash in the pan piece of hardware that fades into relative obscurity in the face of competing hardware… but it proved that the idea of portable PC gaming was possible and affordable, and inspired plenty of manufacturers to dip their toe in the same arena. And almost every single one of those devices, whether it’s sold by Valve or Lenovo or whoever, will be running — and selling games on — the Steam marketplace.
That was the goal of the Deck, and in that regard it’s been a great success.
Better GOG than EGS, IMO. Hashtag acronyms.
Yeah, I’m gonna have to wait for a good sale before I can justify buying yet another game to add to my backlog. I still have entire franchises I want to finally get to.
Best wishes to you and your dog, dear stranger.
Nah, I think the article and the image are both AI generated, so the “author” of the article really has no idea what the image actually looks like.
You enter the US illegally? Believe it or not, jail. You imprison a US national for entering your country illegally, also jail. Immigrant, emigrant.
When I first started modding Skyrim back in 2012, I spent a solid week solely on water mods looking for something I liked. One day near the end of the week I was walking to work, and I had to cross a bridge. I looked out over the water and had a momentary thought about checking what water mod “they” were using.
I’m really hoping for decent sales on God of War or Kena: Bridge of Spirits.
I’ve been playing around with Dreamerland for the last week or so. The app itself has almost no embedded ads which makes for a clean and usable interface, but it forces you to watch an ad every time you hit “generate” which can get tedious.
Something something bootstraps.
It’s very likely to become my most recent “doesn’t need all my attention” game, as I always need one of those on deck (if you’ll pardon the expression).