I game much more and buy more games because of my deck.
Also, whoever was on here chatting up rimworld as a fun simulator game…
Fuck you. That was my winter break. I had planned on doing things.
When you get bored of rimworld in a few thousand hours and are ready for something similar with a larger scope ceiling, try songs of syx.
Song of syx is much smaller then rimworld. So much of the game is fake hand waving to make it feel bigger.
The ai not having to follow like any of the rules the player does and so much of the world being a fake sim hurts it massively.
larger scope
Yeah, it’s a cool game, but no way it’s larger in scope than Rimworld
i feel you, but you obviously haven’t had a colony with 400+ civilians and no lag. Rimworld can’t do that. Songs of Syx can.
It’s apples and oranges
They’re different games, focused on different things. Taht’s why I said Scope Cieling, not just scope.
but I like knowing the colonists!
that’s fair
Wait until you try the expansions. Biotech alone completely transforms how you play in a horrifically addicting way.
(enters steam store)
Also, does this thing like, never go on sale?
It’s so worth it at full price. The DLCs add so much that I can’t even imagine playing without them at this point.
Biotech literally adds genetics, and Ideology adds religions. All procedurally generated and modifiable
Hoping the Steam Machine can match the Steam Deck in success and get pre-build desktop/minipc wins like Lenovo having Steam OS versions of the Legion Go. Steam Frame dethrone the Meta Quest hopefully
I just hope Steam frames aren’t too pricey, desperately don’t want them to fail.
Exactly. With PC VR headsets there is viable competition, but we desperately need real competition for Meta Quest headsets.
@Anivia@feddit.org @FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca Quest is hard to compete with since Meta has driven the cost fairly low, pretty sure Frame is going to have a somewhat higher price tag, hopefully so much less than the Index that it matters.
I would not mind a higher price. As it stands the Meta Quest has no serious competition regardless of your budget. Paying a premium to have the peace of mind that Zuckerberg isn’t spying on what I do in private while using the headset would be a fine tradeoff. And potentially having access to the SteamVR library without needing to connect to a gaming pc would be the icing on the cake.
I’m expecting to pay around what the Index costs. I can get a Quest for quite a lot less but I’m refusing all of that Meta business.
With the current RAM prices I wouldn’t be suprised if the steam machine gets delayed indefinitely. No one’s gonna buy it if it costs 1000+$
No one’s gonna buy it if it costs 1000+$
Console prices are going up as well. So long as the price of a console + online subscription + higher game cost is comparable to the Steam Machine’s sticker price it could still sell
People can still decide to not buy anything at all
I have a pretty good desktop pc that runs linux, and I still choose to use my steam deck 2/3rds of the time simply because it’s more convenient
Steamdeck with emudeck installed is a game changer
What does emudeck do?
Sets up a bunch of emulators and a frontend for them
I’ve been playing through monster hunter generations ultimate using it, it’s been a great time
Ha jokes on you, as now my pc is broken I even use linux steam deck env as my main pc. Power of having linux on a cheap small device, albeit locked system files make some advanced setups a headache. But hey it runs all the good IDEs and Godot, with bluetooth keyboard & mouse I can code ez.
albeit locked system files make some advanced setups a headache
You could install something like CachyOS Handheld Edition. It still has SteamOS’ game mode but also comes with pacman and paru.
Thats lower than previously. Wasnt it 32% before?
That suggests linux gaming is growing faster than decks are selling, which makes some sense to me.
