Definitely one of the better startup movies.

My favorite is still the one for Vampire Survivors, because I just love the chest animation in the game.

Definitely, but according to Steam, it looks pretty good.

800+ reviews, Overwhelmingly Positive (95% positive).

According to the Wayback Machine the banner looked the same as for all other big game releases (like right now for Where Winds Meet).

Even on my 1600p screen, with the window on full height, the Daily Deal is halfway cut off. You might as well argue every big game that gets featured on the front page is ruining some sale or another. Where are the clickbait articles for those games?

Saying Valve ruined the sale is weird to me. Are the Daily Deals from today ruined, because there’s a banner for Where Winds Meet on the front page right now?

You can also see on SteamDB, that the game got a (relatively) sizable increase in players, following the sale.

I mean, it’s supposed to have touchpads. If you don’t need or want those, there’s little reason to choose this controller over a more standard one.

Still grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. New phase started this week, along with the next raid. I’ve been playing so much the last couple of weeks, that it’s definitely getting stale, but I’ve been saying the same thing for a few weeks already, and I’m still playing, albeit a bit less.

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I basically skipped Legion back in the day, because of how ass the Legendary system was on launch, and never went back, so I never really did any of the raids.

I guess you mean getting knocked around by some orbs, which might instantly kill you because you fall off the platform? Stuff like that is basically the only thing that could be an issue.

From what I read in different comments, the final raid, Antorus, is supposed to have another boss, that could be a problem, Eonar.

Blizzard has actually changed one boss so far (Il’gynoth, where you have to use some blobs to blow up this big eye), although that was probably more because people deal too much damage and would regularly blow up the blobs on accident, the second they spawn, which was just annoying and extended the fight needlessly. Maybe they’ll do more changes, since you can clear these raids daily for the time of the event.

Still grinding World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Less raiding this week, I’m only clearing each raid twice a day, instead of three times, but did a couple more Mythic+ dungeons to knock out achievements.

The next phase will start in a few days, along with “new” quests, but more importantly another raid to farm every day. At that point, I’ll probably only be running the raids on the highest difficulty, and skip all the others.

The Finals is rated Playable on Steam Deck and also uses Easy Anti Cheat, just like ARC Raiders.

The latest ProtonDB reports (~3h old) for ARC Raiders also say it works, but I don’t know if that’s for the playtest.

At this point, it would be weird if it doesn’t work on Linux/Steam Deck.

The Copilot part for the Game Bar is a Widget, that you can independently disable.

Even then, from what is written in the thread, it’s not like it actually does anything, unless you specifically use the Copilot feature for the Game Bar.

The only thing that might rub people the wrong way is that the widget is enabled by default.

The source is one single user on ResetEra, that doesn’t post any proof.

Another user refuted the claims and posted logs, that show what gets sent, which seemingly doesn’t include any Copilot data. The AI part only happens, when you actually ask a question to Copilot (duh). So the thread gets closed.

The article omits the second part of course, and everybody in this thread is just foaming at the mouth, because it’s Microsoft, so it has to be true.

I’ve been grinding that World of Warcraft: Legion Remix. Monk is a lot more fun than Demon Hunter, so I’m glad I made the switch. I’ve done basically everything for now, most of the quests in all the zones, and I’m at the gear cap. For now, there are raids to clear daily, which I’ll do, and clear Mythic+ dungeons over and over for that “infinite” power, which I won’t do. In a few days the second phase will begin, with more quests, a raid and other things, so I’ll keep playing, but wind down afterward (until the next phase).

I finished the Forza Horizon 5: Rally Adventure DLC. It’s alright. The courses are more difficult than the base game, but the map is also so small, but still packed with courses, and you’re constantly driving through the same parts. Since you also need to do each race at least twice (one rally, one normal race) everything just kinda blends together.

Then World of Warcraft: Legion Remix has started. This is the second time they’ve done this mode, and the first time was some of the most fun I’ve had with the game ever. This time doesn’t hit as hard, but it’s still fun. I started out as a Demon Hunter, but found it kinda meh to play. So I’ve switched to my normal main class, a Monk, which is a lot more fun.

Finally started the Forza Horizon 5 DLC. First up, Rally Adventure. The DLC adds a new, small, but densely filled map (at least more densely than the base game). The new races also get a new game mode, a proper Rally mode (as you’d expect from the name). It’s just you alone on the track, trying to make it to the finish as fast as possible, while an NPC reads pacenotes to you.

As someone who doesn’t play normal rally racing games or watches real life ones, it’s fine. The game also asks you if you want to disable the visual racing line, which I did. That makes it a lot harder, since you can’t just immediately tell when you’re supposed to break, but with the rewind or just trying the race over and over again, it’s manageable. I also constantly switch cars, so I don’t get a consistent feel on how a specific car handles.

Then I also started playing Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. I wanted to get to this before all the GOTY-talk at the end of the year. I’m in Act 1, dunno how early, because I’m just running around, exploring everything, ignoring the main quest as much as possible. As you do in RPGs.

The game plays well, it’s pretty responsive, and hitting those parries feels good. The story is intriguing so far, but I haven’t seen a lot of it. Performance has also been fine for me, but I do have a pretty powerful PC.

A few annoying things are, every time you pick up an item on the ground a character has to comment on it, and there are not a lot of different voice lines, so that gets kinda annoying. Then certain parts of the game, like the cutscenes, are filled with pretty ugly post-processing effects. You can disable that stuff for normal gameplay, but then a cutscene plays that has just super heavy depth of field, chromatic aberration, weird artifacts around character outlines (that might be tied to the DOF), it’s weird. These are pretty minor complaints.

Also, in a fight it’s like Super Mario RPG, where you can hit specific keys at the correct time to deal extra damage or for the dodge/parry to avoid any damage. Hitting the offensive buttons is not much of a problem, but the game does some stylish camera angles and shakes a bit, which can make it difficult to time button presses for the defensive moves. There are options to disable these, but the camera shake option doesn’t seem to affect combat, and if you disable the camera movement option the battles look so much duller, with just a terrible, static angle. I think I just have to get used to it. It also doesn’t affect every enemy, some are definitely worse than others.

Still, I’m having fun, just gotta play more of the game.

Two weeks is ancient, when it comes to stuff like this, in my opinion.

The thing is, the article doesn’t make it clear, that this is about technically SFW games, that add NSFW content later down the line.

I don’t know if that’s a new policy because of the recent issues or if it was always a policy, just not enforced.

This is an old article BTW, and it’s apparently not really true? Or at least different than what the article makes it seem.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2343900/view/539991294395549714?l=english

Rumors are not facts

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I’m sure you’ve all heard the rumors that Steam doesn’t allow NSFW games to release free updates, only paid DLCs.

This is simply not true.

Since our game’s release, we’ve rolled out numerous free updates, with the latest major content update dropping just three days ago.

Steam hasn’t officially changed its policies, and there’s no rule in the Terms of Service supporting this claim.

These rumors stem from a handful of vague NSFW game developer announcements with no solid backing.

We will continue to release free updates in the future.

Have a great day!

(I can’t view the link myself, because of a regional block, so I’m trusting another comment, that the quote I copied is correct.)

The article talks about games that are marked adult-only with warnings, but apparently the problem is only with games that don’t have any NSFW content yet, so they are technically SFW, and they want to add it through updates or patches. Games that already have NSFW content will be able to receive patches as normal, and add more.

And since then it’s back again with Dragonflight, The War Within, going into Midnight.

WoW probably will never die.

I use Arch btw

I have no strong feelings one way or the other.

The only thing that looks a bit weird is that the top menu bar is wider than the rest of the page.

I have never used the side menu, so I don’t care that it’s gone, and have never thought the store pages should fill the whole screen, so I’m fine with the new look.