Great vids as always Liam, thank you for the latest Steam news update 😊

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All of these updates are great but goddamn; I think one of the biggest issues Steam Deck has right now is developers (mostly from Asia) just outright preventing linux/proton users from accessing their games due to their heavy handed anti-cheat measures. The big exception is obviously FFXIV but that's purely because they make most of their money from subscription and thus don't really worry about people cheating to get outfits etc. Unfortunately it seems that F2P is completely the opposite and any game that I've been interested in trying out for a few hours is completely borked; including Black Desert Online, Lost Ark and even that new Honkai Rail. I know I can dualboot with windows 11 but I only have a 64gb and plus, that's a work around that shouldn't really be necessary. I don't know if this will ever be fixed but maybe Valve can try and come to an agreement with NCSOFT and NEXON to try and get some of their games working on SD.

[ 2023-05-30 12:24:32Z ] 👍 0

@@novelezra Lutris is a game manager that has many automated scripts for setting up games

[ 2023-05-30 11:48:11Z ] 👍 0

@@valorix Cool! I didn't realise that's how it handled its anti cheat. How does Lutris help by the way? I'm not familiar with Lutris

[ 2023-05-30 11:40:25Z ] 👍 0

@@novelezra Overwatch never used any rootkit anti-cheat solutions and always sticked to a server-side anti-cheat solution. That's why I was able to play OW and OW2 with no issues. And with Lutris, installing Overwatch is dead simple.

[ 2023-05-30 11:21:54Z ] 👍 0

@@jbullforg Well it's easy to port them to console or mobile because they know that the lengths you would need to take to cheat on those platforms is quite extensive; however if you wanted to mod the PC version it takes a few steps. All of their anti-cheat measures rely on Windows protocols; checking the registry and other programs running. Some of the anti-cheat is actually pretty impressive, I remember the guy who did that Tarkov video said that he installed cheats for Tarkov and Valorant recognized it even though it wasn't even made for Valorant (and Vanguard, the anti cheat for Valorant is the reason that game also doesn't work on Steam Deck) It's funny that even though it's a ballache, you can get OW2 running on SteamOS

[ 2023-05-30 11:11:39Z ] 👍 0

If there has ever been a business case for those games being ported to Xbox, or Playstation, then I could see an argument being made for them to bring it to the Deck once it has sufficient market share. What counts as "sufficient", I can't say though.

As a follow-up to the section at the end on Sony's Q-lite, perhaps you should consider doing an updated video covering Chiaki4deck, helping remind Deckers and potential Q-Lite buyers that they can do PS5 streaming on Deck instead.

I think playstation hide something in the handheld well come out later maybe android gaming or something like that

The dolphin story is unfortunate. I really hope the devs can address the issue just so they don't end up in more trouble. Not being avaible on steam is not the end of the world. I get that Nintendo might be in the right here legally speaking, still it's unfortunate.

[ 2023-05-30 14:22:51Z ] 👍 3

@@Kiaulen The problem with Dolphin as of right now, is that they used a Wii Common Key. Nintendo was able to strike based on using the Wii Common Key. The way forward would be for them to require users to use their own keys, like Cemu does.

[ 2023-05-30 13:32:46Z ] 👍 1

I'm not sure Nintendo is in the right here though. Emulation (especially as a means of preservation) has been proved legal in court. Saying "Emulation makes it easier for pirates" is true, but restricting legal use to combat illegal use will not work. Pirates gonna pirate regardless of what Nintendo does. I am sad that Valve didn't turn a blind eye here though. It would have been easy enough to do, and Valve doesn't need Nintendo to like them (or they'd never have launched a handheld that semi competes with the switch)

That was a dick move from valve... to ask nintendo

[ 2023-05-30 12:27:02Z ] 👍 7

Valve has to follow certain rules just like other companies, don’t agree with you here.

[ 2023-05-30 12:17:19Z ] 👍 1

True

Isn't it funny when one of the absolute worst gaming companies complains about emulation? Of products they refuse to sell.. Let me play the world's smallest violin.

[ 2023-05-30 17:51:07Z ] 👍 0

@Christopher These keys are not system firmware files (often referred to as "BIOS"* files), which are copyrightable, of course. They are merely encryption/decryption keys. They are not "open source;" they are not "closed source;" they are not "source" at all (nor object code based on source code). They are more like passwords. You wouldn't copyright a password; you'd just try to keep it secret. Passwords are not considered copyrightable. System firmware files (BIOS files) must not be shipped with an emulator because they are copyrighted object code. These keys are instead prohibited to be included because they are part of a copy protection scheme. Though the reason these are prohibited is different, the effect could be essentially the same, making it so they cannot be included with the emulator. *("BIOS" stands for "Basic Input Output System," which is what the firmware for x86 computers used to be called. Because of this, system firmware of all types is often referred to as a "BIOS." Even the newer EFI/UEFI firmware in x86 systems is often referred to by people as the "BIOS.")

[ 2023-05-30 15:36:54Z ] 👍 0

@Christopher Just to clarify this: the keys are not Nintendo's intellectual property and are not copyrightable (encryption/decryption keys by their nature are not copyrightable). The reason Nintendo has a legal basis for their complaint is the DMCA provision of making it illegal to circumvent copy protection. The keys allow Dolphin to circumvent copy protection, and therefore violate the DMCA. Because copying is legal for things like backups and format shifting, this part of the DMCA is controversial, but on the other hand there are a lot of illegal copies of old games out there. Liam covers this point correctly in the video.

[ 2023-05-30 15:11:57Z ] 👍 2

@@Bananahandler At the same time, numbers shouldn't be copyrightable, and Nintendo put them in there in the first place with the sole intention that people can't easily make their rightful copies of the software they purchased, in order to play them legally on their emulators. It shouldn't be possible to do this for Nintendo to begin with. It's an archaic and poorly thought-out law that only hurts paying consumers for no good reason

[ 2023-05-30 14:33:01Z ] 👍 5

I like how they claim it stifles innovation. In what way? Where is that even coming from? The only thing that stifles innovation are these ludicrously lengthy copyrights.

Rest assured Nintendo will fail at this attempt. As a Nintendo fan I am fully pissed off at them for this petty move. The law is on Dolphin's side. I keep hearing about these "keys" shit. It's blatantly false that engineering your own keys is illegal.

How dose nintedo loose mony by letting us play games they don't sell? Where's my kirby air ride with city trile online mode for Switch?

I wanna ask here: New proton require GPU that support Vulkan 1.3 What happened to the one that only support vulkan 1.2 such as the intel HD 6000?

Deck sold out,except top tier version

I can see why PC Gamer made the mistake, isn't it strange for a C&D to look like a DMCA letter? It's really confusing that Valve forwarded it like that. Remembering what happened with Valve and Morality in Media back in 2018, I hope this was just Valve being slightly over-careful and not a sign they're going back to being more proactively censorial.

What can anyone say but, fuck nintendo! They aren't selling any of the games people would emulate, and if people have backups of their games, emulation lets them preserve the physical media. And most importantly, fuck nintendo! There is nothing morally wrong with emulating video games, the law is not synonymous with morality

In regards of Steam deck and retail sellers. In Czech republic Alza which is the biggest electro shop has listed all 3 decks to be available on 15.6 2023 ;)

Seriously, fµck nintendo. Piracy does not effect sales whatsoever and the prime example is tears of the kingdom. LEAKED 1 WEEK BEFORE AND STILL 10 MILLION COPIES SOLD

Nintendo needs to get there head of out there asses and maybe understand that games can exist on systems outside of the Nintendo consoles and that the biggest thing they should be more worried about is there IPs of there games (just like Xbox and Sony do now and even Sony now embracing the PC versions of games now) and not the Nintendo consoles itself. The whole reason why Emulation exist for Nintendo games is one reason: they can only be played and is only OK with Nintendo to be played on the console it was released for or re-released for, nothing else and people want to play these games on hardware that is better than Nintendo consoles itself. If Nintendo would support doing PC versions of all of there games (which will never happen it seems with Nintendo), people would be buying there games like absolutely crazy. Reverse Engineering Nintendo games seems to be the only safe legal way to play there games right now as they haven't gone after groups like Ship of Harkinen. Yes we know its the only legal way according to Nintendo but since Emulation has been proven legal, maybe NIntendo needs to start thinking about dropping this whole shenanigan in stopping people doing things to their games (because it won't ever end as long as there is physical copies of there games getting released). Honestly, I think the whole cracking down on users doing emulation to there games is frankly quite exhausting for Nintendo and at some point, they really need to just give this up. As long as Nintendo doesn't do PC versions of there games, people are going to just keep emulating the games or reverse engineer them.

Emudeck works just fine

Cheers, Liam! Any plans to look at System Shock remake? Early reports indicate it's running well on deck.

[ 2023-05-30 17:41:52Z ] 👍 0

For not covering, I mean. Not failing to provide you with a key.

[ 2023-05-30 17:40:50Z ] 👍 0

@@gamingonlinux Ah bummer, but fair enough!

[ 2023-05-30 17:37:59Z ] 👍 1

Nope. Publisher did not reply to my key request.

Man when will person 5 strikers work in regular proton and not just GE

Anybody else having issues with the ubisoft launcher not working with either proton 8-02 or 7-06? Got AC Valhalla to launch with proton experimental bleeding edge tho

Just when I thought: „TotK is so good, maybe I will pay for it“ Nintendo is doing the next shitty thing.

Nice to hear the situation with Roots of Pacha has been resolved.

500k copies at 30 dollars... 15,000,000 dolars... steam deck price is between 400 and 650. in order to compete in sales, steam deck need between 23.077 and 37.500 units sold. that isnt much...

yes, stifle innovation for a console that has been discontinued by nintendo over 10 years ago.

No chapters on a YouTube video makes for sad viewers

Why do Deck channels feel the need to dump on Project Q? Let alone talk about it at all? It's not a Steam Deck competitor, it's not a Switch competitor, it's not a handheld at all, it's a PS5 controller with a screen, nothing more. You can get this as a second controller for your PS5 and play in bed, if you want.

[ 2023-05-31 10:58:35Z ] 👍 0

Because I thought it was funny so I commented on it.

Top 10 modification for Half-Life 2???

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