very generous of you! kudos.
New & Noteworthy
Many users rely on our charts for quick snapshots of what's new and popular on Steam. These are now accessible from one menu,
New & Noteworthy, which also provides direct access to the biggest events currently running Steam—including game festivals, publisher sales, and other seasonal celebrations.
Categories
A basic list of genres, while easy to browse, falls a bit short given how large our catalog has grown. Our new Categories menu helps users quickly discover and dive into the breadth and depth of interesting games on Steam. This menu serves up dozens of new categories of games, which can then be explored further.
It's not enough to simply offer good games on Steam—we also need to make sure they're easy to discover. And to do that, we need to organize them in ways that make sense without being overwhelming. You might be able to fit the same amount of goods in an open-air bazaar as in a cramped warehouse, but you're far more likely to find what you want in the former.
The first step in building such a system is to present meaningful entry points which reflect the various ways people typically want to browse a store full of games.
New Entry Points: Genres, Themes, and Player Modes
This experiment exposes entry points modeled after the three chief ways players tend to browse Steam—by genre, by theme, and by player modes. Each of these motivations broadly answers a different question:
Genres
"What kind of game is this? What is it like to play?"
Strategy, RPG, 3D Platformer, Metroidvania, etc.
Themes
"What is the game's content like?"
Fantasy, Science Fiction, Cute, Relaxing, Anime, Horror, etc.
Player Modes
"Who can I play the game with?"
Singleplayer, Multiplayer, MMO, Co-op, etc.
These player motivations can be organized and expressed using our existing tags and metadata. Categories grouped under the Genres and Themes
entry points are defined by tags, whereas categories grouped under Player Modes are defined by metadata provided directly by the developer.
We arrived at these three top-level categories through a mix of formal research and intuition. But there's also strong precedent for this scheme on Steam itself in the form of Steam Curators. We noticed many curators are building lists of specific types of games, almost all of which fall under one of the above three patterns: Gameplay and genre-based lists like City Builders, theme-based lists like Games with Dogs, or player mode-based lists like Games to Play with Your Significant Other.
New Browse Views
Among these three entry points we are currently surfacing 48 genre categories, 8 theme categories, and 7 player mode categories, for a total of 63 new categories. Clicking on any of these will take you to a dedicated content hub, a landing page dedicated to that kind of game.
Each of these destinations has its own URL, so you can bookmark them or share them with friends. Each features a carousel highlighting featured games, top sellers, and specials, as well as five specific tabs listing
Players can narrow by popular tags within these hubs as well. The left column of tags surfaces popular genre and sub-genre tags common to this category, and the right column surfaces other types of popular tags (such as mechanics, visuals, themes, and player modes).
- New & Trending
- Top Sellers
- What's Being Played
- Top Rated
- Upcoming
Clicking on any of these will take you to a sub-view of the content hub. In the illustration above, we're viewing Building & Automation Sims, but now we're viewing only those which also include the Space Sim tag. Each of these sub-views gets its own unique URLs too.
Viewers can return to the parent category any time by toggling the filtering tag previously clicked, or by clicking another to display a different sub-view of the category.
Steam's Special Sections
This experiment also moves some items previously found in their own top-level menus (such as Software and Hardware) into Special Sections under
Categories. Now these and other potential points of entry are all consolidated in a single categorical browse menu..
Played some of the demo, I really like the artstyle, need to play more to have a complete opinion on the combat but can't right now.
hello how do you do I'm doing fine thanks for asking oh what's this nice thread btw
yeah I dig the artstyle too, but combat looks a bit meh - I'd love to hear more about the combat when you get a chancePlayed some of the demo, I really like the artstyle, need to play more to have a complete opinion on the combat but can't right now.
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if I misinterpreted your enthusiasm then I would like to offer my sincere apologies =)
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I don't think it's officially live yet, no?man know what would be really cool
if I had an easy way to access the current promotion (sale/demo festival) from within the gosh darned steam client instead of going to the front page and hoping for RNG (or never seeing the sale page at all in the case of smaller sales), forcing me to google the event and access it from my browser instead
It is
Oh maybe it is, I just thought it'd officially be live tomorrow since there hasn't been annyouncements on any of their official channels yet (Twitter, Steam news).
Wasn't there also a drm that affected performance slightly that goes away after launch? Might see better performance as wellTomshardware says that it's sub 40 FPS at high settings on a 1060, which is about 15-20% faster than a 970, so it might be okay depending on how well it scales with lower settings.
If I ever get the game I might try dropping the resolution and using the Geforce Experience sharpen filter, sometimes it works well to compensate for the blur from playing at non-native resolutions.
I'm sure it scales like a champ, otherwise the base model XB1 would catch on fire trying to play it. I guess I'm making a big assumption here.I'm doubtful but I'm hoping for a Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark to see if my rig can handle this beast.
I'm sure it scales like a champ, otherwise the base model XB1 would catch on fire trying to play it. I guess I'm making a big assumption here.
Very generous of you, thanks!
I think reflections and stuff will still look great without RT turned on. Definitely going to watch some comparisons that will come out later.It might scale a bit but after watching that video posted earlier with all the goodies turned on driving through the city...I just wouldn't play it all if I couldn't get it to look close to that fidelity you know!
https://www.mysteamgauge.com/friends this might work, but you get easily lost when your friendlist is hugeAny way to only see what multipayer games you and your friends have?
Any way to only see what multipayer games you and your friends have?
I remember people in this thread were a little down on the platforming parts of ghostrunner. But it looks similar to Mirrors Edge which was great
Hmm weird, I search for a specific friend there, and it says he doesn't have any multiplayer games in common with me even though we played co-op yesterday...https://www.mysteamgauge.com/friends this might work, but you get easily lost when your friendlist is huge
Manual way would be:
Go to your friends profile page and view their games list. Then tick the box that says "filter to games you both own"
I'm guessing you already tried clicking on the parameter icon next to the search bar and ticking multiplayer? It's not optimal, and you'll have to know your friends' avatars to check it at a glance.
Edit: actually, that's not very useful because it won't show them in the list if the game's unplayed in their library, so you'd have to manually check one-by-one.
So is Cyberpunk going to unlock on both GoG and Steam at the same time?
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Ok, so I need some help, this is driving me nuts.
Yesterday I had some games crash on me completely out of nowhere, I don't remember any changes to the PC, I guess I installed the new drivers and maybe the problem started there? But I can't really remember if I had played something for a decent amount of time after installing the drivers or not, I just noticed it yesterday after a longer play session.
Basically, the only game that gave me an error was Hell Let Loose, the error is the following: "unreal engine is exiting due to d3d device being lost".
Since a format is long due, and I'm waiting on my 3080, I decided to finally go ahead and format the PC. I played the game for almost two hours after formatting and it ran fine, with no crashes. I later remembered I used to have CRU installed (Custom Resolution Utility) because of some weird issue with GSync and installed it (the little flickers I see in some games are fixed by CRU) but playing those same games today resulted in crashes, Risk of Rain 2 gives a Unity error but I can't read it and it opens and closes with no message.
I'll probably format the PC again and won't touch CRU just to see if that can really be the root of this problem, but I'm not sure. Can my 1070 be dying? Temps are fine, like I said the PC is clean, just formated, no artifacts, nothing, just those weird crashes to desktop.
Still happening after another format, no additional programs installed, tested with the newest drivers and the ones before, and the game still crashes. It's fucking weird. Can it be a PSU problem? I think the PSU is more likely to shut down my system or give me a blue screen. I'm out of ideas... guess the true test will be when the new card arrives. Tried to see if any pin was damaged on my PCI-E slot, but nothing that I could see.
I'm thinking it's a graphics card problem for sure. I managed to grab a hold of the unity error that Risk of Rain 2 gives me: d3d11.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005). Googling these errors gives some solutions (some say they work, others say it doesn't), personally, I haven't tried all solutions, but there doesn't seem to be a true certain fix.
Played Wreckfest for a good while with some friends and it didn't crash. I gotta tell you, I'm so fucking confused right now. Red Dead Redemption 2 crashes, no errors though...
Could it be RAM? Is that a normal behavior of a faulty stick? Need to take them out one by one and run memtest86 to see if anything shows up, haven't had much time, unfortunately.
You some kind of brain genius?