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Inventory management in Arc Raiders is severely lacking. Since everything outside of the match in this game is managed with HTTP calls, it definitely would be possible to make a third-party app for managing it. Automatic crafting/buying, loadouts, etc…
I've tried using the 'for you' feed, and pressed a bunch show less like this, but the feed is still completely bad showing zero content I would have any interest in.
rip deck
still works, i haven't really looked
is it time to go back to IRC?
You can now walk in Source 2 Viewer.
Full release notes: github.com/ValveResourc...
is the game also doing it wrong?
It only depends on opengl bindings being available, and should work on any platform. Our shader validator in CI now runs on Linux with mesa llvmpipe drivers.
We've been slowly refactoring the S2V renderer to be self contained and now it's reached a point where it lives a separate package (and published to nuget). This opens the road to use the renderer for things like automating screenshots or implementing other viewers on top.
modern multiplayer games start sucking as soon as people start going for metas which ruins any fun. for example everyone now runs trigger nades in arc raiders, which can kill an entire squad in less than a second.
devs already confirmed a nerf is coming, but they took their sweet time
As I've been saying for a while now, the software quality has been degrading for a long time.
Steam(DB) has so many states a game can be in, a discord style tri-state toggles seemed like a good idea for filtering.
SteamDB has a new experimental filter on the sales page.
Highlight rarer new historical lows where either:
- Previous low was 1.5+ years ago, OR
- 50%+ price drop from previous low
Disk dying?
Next Source 2 Viewer update will be lovely
There's always a person that figure out how to fix a bug in winforms two decades ago (and the bug is still not fixed two decades later...)
www.codeproject.com/articles/Add...
it's still winforms, which is why it looks wonky in places
current release for comparison
source 2 viewer had a glow up
The bug I had was incorrect unzigzag16 simd version, so this is something that is not being tested by the current test cases I could find and copy from the meshopt codebase.
So valve's deadlock finally updated to use meshopt 1, and my decoder was failing to decode it correctly, but only in the SIMD path. So these small unit tests are not enough to cover everything 😭
Depends on how you look at it, but 4k games released this year had the AI content disclosure on the store page
Steam Game Releases by Review Count, 2016-2025.
Over 19,000 games have released on Steam in 2025.
Almost half of them have fewer than ten reviews.
Steam now warns if an item in your cart can be purchased cheaper as part of a bundle.
Any time you interact with Windows apis, you have to write a novel.
A lot of this work should help us eventually move to a better UI framework like www.pangui.io or something, I hope.
We've been working on making the loading and rendering threaded in Source 2 Viewer, as well as freshened up theme.
It's a surprising amount of refactoring to make OpenGL load and render in a thread and sync up with UI controls.
And styling winforms is really hell on earth.
Very cool!
They can't open source the C++ parts as Source 2 is obviously Valve's code.
