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I imagine there will be for some games, but it relies on the game developer implementing it. Whereas foviated streaming works for all games.


One of the shots of the steam machine had a “SoonTM” sticker


This is foviated streaming. The PC still renders everything at full, but the streaming compression is optimized for where you’re looking


Yeah same. I’ve seen other people stockpile intermediate resources to try and smooth out bottlenecks, but I think that’s wasteful. Build extra throughout, and have as little product sitting there as possible.


Factorio sucks for perfectionists. You have to be able to embrace the spaghetti, and not everyone can


Lutris for mods. You can point it at the game exe downloaded by steam in many cases (not all), and then run arbitrary exes inside the same wine prefix.


Steve: “Hey Jim, what did you say that other extraction shooter was called?”

Jim (muffled): “Escape from Tarkov”

Steve: “Oh yeah Escape from Duckov, thanks mate”




Nah this is pretty concrete. There’s a flat screen single player game in active development with features being added like vehicle physics, surface temperatures, NPC AI handling for non standard gravity, etc. And there are half life related strings all through it. HL3? Who knows, but it would explain why they actually acknowledged their two anniversaries…


Them being able to offer this service, and them proxying 30% of the internet are completely unrelated. Any other company could offer this scrape protection if they wanted, with roughly the same cost of entry.

You can hate cloudflare all you like, but only a certified dumbass would try to pretend this feature is somehow enabled by their market dominance…


I noticed this soon after posting. Tried to edit them, but must have missed this one




























The release notes don’t mention it much, but the map detailing and art is getting massive improvements in each update