As much as I have no desire to play either of those games, their existence on Windows affects me exactly zero. I’m still a mixed Linux and Windows user (and a couple of Macs I don’t want), I manage a lot of machines between my family and my small nonprofit. I like Linux a lot but I doubt I’ll ever be able to walk away from Apple or Windows completely. But a man can dream! People keep dragging me back in…
Not with that attitude
I run a nonprofit that owns a few venues with great sound systems, so I deal very closely with a lot of musicians. And man do they all love their Macs. The windows attachment mostly has to with older large donors involved in our accounting. But neither of those things are going to change super quickly. I just keep switching over more machines one by one.
The new Call of Duty games do some SCP level containment for everyone sane in this hobby. Let Windows have that!
presses F to that
I definitely want it. If it’s cheap, I definitely want two.
Actually everything they recently announced looks great. I really want to try to frame.
I gave up on VR after the oculus CV1 got canned. I bought one, got a few decent years out of it in spite of “meta” buying the company and making it shit, but when they stopped selling the connection cables for the CV1, which was the part that broke most frequently, I just backed the hell off and thought to myself, “this shit is cool, but it’s clearly not established enough to be predictable, maybe some day”.
Whelp, I think we’re finally there.
Until now, you had the “option” of either something mainstream like the quest 7 (or whatever number they’re on), or you can pick from either the index, which was on the pricy side for what you were getting, or the bigscreen beyond, which required an iPhone to scan your face so they can make a custom face shield just for you (and to get more you had to scan those people in and get face shields for them at a premium). Anything else was so niche that you probably were not getting support, if the company even existed in a few years to support you.
Now? A first party VR that actually looks good and works natively with steam…
So yeah… Where do I sign up?
I’ve wanted a steam deck for years but I don’t game on the go so I can’t really justify it, but the rig I’m using for couch gaming is getting pretty dated… So this seems like a great time to get back into everything… Though, finding the money I need to get the systems is going to be a challenge…
Would 700-800€ be cheap to you? That’s a reasonable estimate I’ve seen.
Probably not. That’s basically a full week of take home pay for me.
I’m with you. When I heard about the deck I was excited. When I got one, I was not prepared for how good it is. The quality is amazing. They thought of (it seems) basically everything.
And I’m hoping this translates to all the new shit. Exciting!
So happy that I’m blessed to not like 95% of online multiplayer games, or mostly the competitive ones. People cry about not having CoD and Overwatch, and I just sleep easy knowing that none of the games my mom and I play are affected 😌
More people need to like RPGs and single player games man
Overwatch can be run on Linux no problem. The shitty matchmaker though has buried the game for me anyways
LOL
Hopefully it’s priced reasonably.
Not after the Great AI Cucking of 2025.
I hope this name sticks.
$500000000000000000000
Still a bargain.
Still cheaper than moving my main computer to DDR5
It’s crazy that under 2 years ago I got like twice the memory for my laptop I had intended to because it was so cheap I just figured why not.
I bought 96gb ram for mine about 6mo ago because I also figured why not, wasn’t even the most expensive part of my machine go big or go home. Cost me like $200 after tax, that same ram now is almost $850 before tax
I’m SO glad I overbought a couple years ago too. In fact I’ve had a lucky streak of buying at just the right time with my 3080 back during covid too.
I wonder how much that’ll be worth by next year.
Ehh. It’s definitely going to be more than traditional consoles. Whether it’s worth it to you depends on how much you care about having a console like experience on your TV, except with your steam library, and all the goodness that comes with a Linux-based OS.
I’m pretty sure there are a lot of Call of Duty games that do work on Linux
Black Ops 3 zombies is all me and my friends need! :)
Only the ones worth playing.
No League of Legends either. Truly a wonderful system.
It runs Dota 2.
Now, I am a huge fan of Dota 2. But it sucked up so much of my free time.
I used to play LoL, and Dota is by far more addictive.
Heroes of the Storm also works in Lutris
It used to work, and now it doesn’t.
Good riddance.
I love the sentiment, but… a custom pc running windows is likely to be cheaper and more wise.
Has anybody heard any news on the HDMI issue Valve has been working on? I really want one but I use my PC connected to my TV so HDMI is pretty necessary.
Ah, the eternal repost
I just bought a 10m HDMI cable. Almost 30€.
Yes!
It will be a instabuy for me
I’m personally buying the controller
“I’m going to buy a new PC”
“But you already have one with better specs?”
“But this one has the logo for my favourite monopoly”
The irony that some people still think that the Gabe Cube is for people that already have top-end gaming PCs… Or any PC to begin with.
I’m on the fence because I don’t think it would be an upgrade for me. I want a new PC, but, like… A better one and not just the same overall power but with RTX and DLSS.
I’ve got a Ryzen 5 3600, 1660 Super, and 16GB of RAM. Very little that has released this year performed poorly, and those that did had problems everywhere for everyone (like Stalker 2) when targeting 1080p@60fps. Or even 4K for some games (mostly 2D ones, but Civilization 4, 5, and 6 all play well at 4k too; IDK about 7 only because I don’t have it and the changes to it sound awful anyway).
But I want more power for VR. It’s a great flatspace rig; it’s low-tier as a VR rig. I want it to be silky smooth in VRchat even in the gnarliest of rooms with a ton of high quality avatars. It would be hella expensive tho… 😮💨
Regardless of the SM tho, I 100% want a Frame. The biggest gripe I have with the Quest 3 is the goddamn system software. The fucker is capable of so much more but they limit it with the locked down OS. Having a set running on Linux means I can do everything I want.
@Kolanaki @The_Picard_Maneuver i’m not sure if any existing hardware can handle vrchat smoothly. This piece of udon and photon cannot work smoothly with more than dozen players
I wont be able to buy one til next year, prices are up so much I done even want to, might as well save up more and wait til the steam vr headset drops, idk ive started reading more, everything seems expensive, pirating comics is free
