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New Steam Library Beta Out NOW!
- Thread starter R.T Straker
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Kind of shocked by how few devs updated their library art, though some of the new art is a really fucking awesome.
What's irritating is that some devs don't bother updating some (or one) of their games. Final Fantasy and Dark Souls are some of the examples.
Just put in 3 suggestions: a dedicated Workshop button under the Play button (for easy mod management), ability to launch games from the Steam overlay, and replacing the antiquated manual addition of games with automatic options like Galaxy does.
Yeah, I found it funny each game had such pretty, thoughtful art except Dark Souls Remastered, which wasn't updated, lol.
Also interesting that a dev like Cave, who stopped releasing their stuff on Steam, applied such nice, new library art but a lot of indie games like Braid, Fez and Super Meat Boy which have sold a billion copies on Steam weren't updated.
I just put 3 suggestions in.
- Hide the Search/Filter/Home/Categories buttons
- Smaller text for game list
- Jump to Top at the bottom of the game list instead of at the top of the library menu
My suggestions:
- Bring back collapse all / expand all functionality
- Ability to choose what community content you want to see globally that affects all games (screenshots, art, videos, etc)
- Ability to change the custom content you want to see per game
- Ability to sort games in a category by recent reviews or all time reviews
That being said, do we have a thread for custom steam game art?
- Bring back collapse all / expand all functionality
- Ability to choose what community content you want to see globally that affects all games (screenshots, art, videos, etc)
- Ability to change the custom content you want to see per game
- Ability to sort games in a category by recent reviews or all time reviews
That being said, do we have a thread for custom steam game art?
I can get with this. The way news articles pop up from the Home page looks great. Only wish the rest of Steam behaved this smooth.
I forsee a lot of absentminded google searching for custom artwork in my near future though. goddamn you Valve..
I forsee a lot of absentminded google searching for custom artwork in my near future though. goddamn you Valve..
Whoever is doing these updated cover arts really deserves some credit, almost all of them look so much nicer than before. I wonder if Valve mandated certain style guidelines finally, because they all look so crisp, clean, with very elegant artwork and devoid of marketing bullshit. Exactly how it should be. Really liking the look for the most part.
I have a few small issues with it (would like to be able to hide What's New/Recent or have them accessible by a button, and be able to collapse the left sidebar), but I imagine they will be smoothed out since they're pretty obvious.
I have a few small issues with it (would like to be able to hide What's New/Recent or have them accessible by a button, and be able to collapse the left sidebar), but I imagine they will be smoothed out since they're pretty obvious.
Love it.
Only feedback I got is let me disable community content on the game pages and I'm good.
Only feedback I got is let me disable community content on the game pages and I'm good.
hidden achievements not being hidden in the Social Media Feed (please post things and tell others about your #experience. this is important enough to take up half of the screen width) is completely baffling
a friend got the update and showed me what it's like with nier and uh... shit's gotta be fixed
a friend got the update and showed me what it's like with nier and uh... shit's gotta be fixed
You can already do this, go into the options on top left corner, library -- > square dimensionWish there was a way to resize the collections squares, they are too big.
The HOME page with all the games is a bit laggy, don't think I will ever use it if it's always that laggy.
If you go into steam options and go to the Library tab and click Low Bandwidth mode it will disable the community posts from showing up.
Yeah, it rules. Shame whatever resizing algorithm they are using makes everything so less detailed/blurry in small size. No idea why they wanted the covers to be so fucking tall.
The text is anti-aliased, but not blurry at 1440p here. Does it look different from the text below to you? If it does, are you using DPI scaling?
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Putting the user generator content section on a game page is a really risky thing: spoilers, some questionable screenshots/artworks (opened the Bayonetta page and the first thing was a screenshot from a mod that makes Bayonetta completely nude during attacks) etc. all there, looking at you the moment you open the page.
You can deactivate it by selecting low bandwidth mode on the Library settings.
Thanks, will check it out. But since it isn't just "disable this section" option it probably affects more things than just that.
Dynamic collections are useless for me because of wrong tagged games. Valve should have added the possiblity to tag your games in the library while ignoring the user/dev tags.
Also, there is no way to exclude tags. My Point'n Click adventure collection is muddled with Hidden Objects games. How do i filter them out? :(
Also, there is no way to exclude tags. My Point'n Click adventure collection is muddled with Hidden Objects games. How do i filter them out? :(
This defeats the purpose of the dynamic collection if i have to manually remove unwanted games.
Another thing is that i can not add games with different tags into a collection or shelf. It's not possible to put RPG and CRPG into one collection. Maybe i do not see how to do it.
They need to have the option of OR and NOT operators for the filters, instead of them all being AND filters.
- "Point & Click" NOT "Hidden Object"
- "Top-Down Shooter" OR "Twin-Stick Shooter"
I've generally found the dynamic collections to be a good improvement though, and have replaced many of my manual collections with them even if they are not perfect.
I agree that users should be able to edit tags and game names though.
It would also be good if non-Steam games could be linked to store pages, if they're available on Steam but owned on another client. I'm not seeing the option to mark a game as "owned elsewhere" in their new recommendation tool for the store now though, so maybe they don't like that idea.
Just updated. Looks a bit cluttered, though some elements are nice.
Also feels kind of cheap, as if it were web-based.
Hopefully we'll see some refinements and polish throughout the beta.
Also feels kind of cheap, as if it were web-based.
Hopefully we'll see some refinements and polish throughout the beta.
I heard from a friend who installed the beta that it borks the "Activate Steam Key" menu. Can anybody confirm?
hidden achievements not being hidden in the Social Media Feed (please post things and tell others about your #experience. this is important enough to take up half of the screen width) is completely baffling
a friend got the update and showed me what it's like with nier and uh... shit's gotta be fixed
I didnt play Nier yet. I have seen too much! Should have read spoiler text before clicking it!
I just checked it and it does! (cuts off the buttons to confirm the EULA)
Guess I'm not buying any keys any time soon lol.
The OR and NOT operators are exactly what i want. Thanks for formulating it better than me. :)
This is a very good idea and I actually think it could help Valve immensely. Let me explain. People tagging games on the store might purposefully tag it incorrectly as a joke or over generalization, and since tagging something on the store largely doesn't effect them personally, they'll continue making humorous or only loosely accurate tags. However, users tagging games for the immediate organization of their personal library are almost certainly doing it with the intention of being accurate. In algorithmically deciding which tags to consider for games, Valve could weigh tags made in this way significantly higher than general store tags and get more accurate results. Never underestimate the tenacity of somebody who knows exactly how they want to organize their things.
The updated library page should be a data gathering gold mine for Valve if they provide the proper tools.
Woof. One job, Gabe. Sheesh!
Guess I can't join the beta fun just yet, I'm subbed to Humble Monthly and cant take the risk of this issue being fixed on Valve Time.
Thanks for checking, VN1X, appreciate it! 😄
Fwiw, you can also just redeem all your keys on the website.