status is super hud now its full title is super hot mind control delete had a patch pushed yesterday as of the filming of this video which lists steam deck compatibility as its number one update now this doesn't mean that it actually has received verified status yet though as it can take a while after a game build is submitted to the verification process to actually get reviewed by valve's moderation team but it is great to see that there are developers out there who are actively pushing updates to their games to get them supported on the steam deck now another interesting thing that happened in the world of the steam deck is that the half-life NUMBER_TOKEN games that's half-life NUMBER_TOKEN episode NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN as well as a few of the other miscellaneous ones have just received a beta branch now according to twitter user gabe follower the half-life NUMBER_TOKEN games have received a major ui upgrade that should support the steam dex controller inputs it's actually quite interesting to see this because this doesn't just add ui updates but it also fixes a few long-standing bugs within the half-life NUMBER_TOKEN games to activate this new ui you need to enable the beta version of the game and then you need to add the gamepad ui flag to the launch command now this new ui is obviously meant to make half-life NUMBER_TOKEN and its episodes compatible with the steam deck and it's truly cool to see that valve is supporting their old games on the steam deck valve's games are basically like nintendo's mario and zelda for us uh half-life portal uh left NUMBER_TOKEN dead team fortress counter-strike these games are the steam decks mario and zelda so uh until we actually get like a platformer from valve which i would be super cool with we're gonna call like team fortress and games like that uh part of the first party franchises that the steam deck should support so it's really cool to see those games getting support here it's just awesome to see other titles getting deck support as well every time a new title becomes playable or verified for the steam deck that's one more small step forward towards dethroning windows as the dominant pc gaming platform once there are enough steam decks out there to cause popular multiplayer titles to support the platform it's really only a matter of time before the average person considers linux a viable gaming platform so while you and i might know that it already is a gaming platform and that we're really only waiting for the critical mass of game developers to support the platform it's important to remember that this is the plan valve's plan is to launch the steam deck a bespoke piece of gaming hardware a console if you will that will have enough mass appeal to force game developers to support linux at the very least through proton and once linux has enough of a foothold i suspect valve will launch other hardware running steamos as well we've already seen some speculation about a console and a standalone vr headset from valve and i would love to see more from valve as well but anyway now i'm just blabbering would you like to see a video about what i think valve's real intentions with the steam deck are let me know in the comments down below i want to give a special shout out to my friends on patreon and my youtube members without whom
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