u/TheNewerFlisker

I know a lot of high of great players whose rank are lower than what their skills shows and the consensus seems to be that the number of hours it takes to get back to their career high every season simply isn't worth the amount of hours when the game just rips it away from them anyways

Kind of sucks because it also means that the people who do belong to the lower ranks just ends up facing opponents that are borderline impossible for them to 1v1

https://discord.com/invite/rNGrkUY

It wont let me join

When looking at a replay how do you tell the difference between a Mercy succeeding a rez because she's good at it vs. a Mercy succeeding a rez because she got lucky that the other team didn't killed or CC'ed her?

I often ask myself that question when looking at my own replays. I dont know if i am doing it right or if it's just a habit that won't work once i try to climb

At launch i remember constantly hearing about Top 500 players being thrown against average Gold players and how unfun it was to play against

Do you ever feel like a lot of players in Gold aren't actually interested in ranking up? They just dont wanna play Rivals without hero bans.

Back when hero bans were introduced from Plat into Gold it feels like a lot of people just stopped trying so hard. Like not like they were actively throwing or griefing their team but you could kind of tell they weren't bothered to change their playstyle if something didn't worked

Similarly if hero bans were introduced in all ranks, far more people would probably be content with staying in Bronze and Silver

Seeing many of the people who live there and how their behavior is treated by the people working there it often feels like all it does it to enable the worst parts of their personality

Like there is a guy in his late 20's who constantly goes up to people to tell them how much he hates women and Jewish people or to show them videos of gore he find online but he makes sure to only talk like that to the people working there since they can't ostracize or otherwise respond in kind to him which ends up with them just treating it like a perfectly normal and acceptable topic.

Whenever he interacts with anyone outside the assisted living he always makes sure to act like a typical, apolitical centrist so it's not like he have no idea what he is doing

Idk maybe i just don't much about autism pedagogy but this just feels inane

Or at the very least wait until the folks from launch have all gotten their units

There is no way Valve is gonna ship out units while people from launch are still missing theirs

So basically i'm trying to find some proper headphones for competitive hero shooter games (and the occasional CS Source and arena shooters) and listening to FLAC music. So far i have whittled my choices down to the below:

Sennheiser HD 490 Pro

Beyerdynamic DT 900 PRO X

Beyerdynamic DT 700 PRO X

Initially i settled on DT 700 but i've heard both HD 490 and DT 900 have significant wider soundstage and depth perception so i've started to doubt if i made the right purchase and i'm anxious if picking the closed back headphones were truly worth the trade off. It won't arrive for some time so i more than enough time to consider the purchase and return it

Budget - Just trying to choose between the above headphones. Otherwise i'll say 500 USD is really my upper limit

Source/Amp - Don't have one. Just plugging them into the front of the PC

How the gear will be used - Just home use. PC can be noisy during load (30 dBA – 44 dBA) but i also still have options left to remedy the issue so not an entirely lost cause

Preferred tonal balance -  Just balanced i guess.

Music - Darkwave, symphonic metal, gothic metal, hard trance, progressive trance, heavy rock, electronic rock, alternative metal, nu metal, J-pop, eurodance

Past gear experience - Have a pair of Sennheiser HD 650 but they broke so long time ago i kind of forgot what they were like

I remember when the OG came out and nobody back then complained about it not working on their PS3? It was just treated as a given

Now when looking online so many people are acting as if it being a PC gamepad is some sort of flaw of dealbreaker

This is based on the same SteamDB data that applied to the Steam Controller release. I expect it will stay the same for the Steam Frame

1. Australia (Excludes: Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
2. Austria
3. Belgium
4. Bulgaria
5. Canada
6. Croatia
7. Cyprus (Excludes: Northern Cyprus)
8. Czech Republic
9. Denmark (Excludes: Greenland and the Faroe Islands)
10. Estonia
11. Finland (Excludes: Åland Islands)
12. France (Excludes: French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna)
13. Germany
14. Great Britain (Includes: England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland) (Excludes: Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, the Channel Islands) (Excludes: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and Turks and Caicos Islands)
15. Greece
16. Hungary
17. Ireland
18. Italy
19. Latvia
20. Lithuania
21. Luxembourg
22. Malta
23. Netherlands (Excludes: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and Caribbean Netherlands)
24. Poland
25. Portugal (Excludes: Azores and Madeira)
26. Romania
27. Slovakia
28. Slovenia
29. Spain (Excludes: Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla)
30. Sweden
31. United States (Includes: 50 US states and the District of Columbia) (Excludes: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands)

Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are not on the list as Valve as KOMODO STATION owns the distribution rights for Valve hardware in those countries

https://steamdb.info/sub/1558609/info/

If your country is not on the list, now would be a good time to find an alternative so you are not stuck relying on scalpers

I added the note about Great Britain since a lot of people outside of it tends to conflate it with the United Kingdom as a whole

This is based on the same list that applied to the Steam Controller. I expect it will stay the same for the Steam Machine

1. Australia (Excludes: Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands)
2. Austria
3. Belgium
4. Bulgaria
5. Canada
6. Croatia
7. Cyprus (Excludes: Northern Cyprus)
8. Czech Republic
9. Denmark (Excludes: Greenland and the Faroe Islands)
10. Estonia
11. Finland (Excludes: Åland Islands)
12. France (Excludes: French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Mayotte, Réunion, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Wallis and Futuna)
13. Germany
14. Great Britain (Includes: England, Wales, Scotland, Isle of Wight, Anglesey, the Isles of Scilly, the Hebrides and the island groups of Orkney and Shetland) (Excludes: Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, the Channel Islands) (Excludes: Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Montserrat, the Pitcairn Islands, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha and the Turks and Caicos Islands)
15. Greece
16. Hungary
17. Ireland (Excludes: Northern Ireland)
18. Italy
19. Latvia
20. Lithuania
21. Luxembourg
22. Malta
23. Netherlands (Excludes: Aruba, Curaçao, Sint Maarten and the Caribbean Netherlands)
24. Poland
25. Portugal (Excludes: Azores and Madeira)
26. Romania
27. Slovakia
28. Slovenia
29. Spain (Excludes: Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla)
30. Sweden
31. United States (Includes: 50 US states and the District of Columbia) (Excludes: Puerto Rico, Guam, American Samoa, U.S. Virgin Islands and the Northern Mariana Islands)

Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan are not on the list as Valve as KOMODO STATION owns the right to distribute Valve hardware in those countries

https://steamdb.info/sub/1558609/info/

If your country is not on the list, now would be a good time to find an alternative so you are not stuck relying on scalpers

I added the note about Great Britain since a lot of people outside of it tends to conflate it with the United Kingdom as a whole

Just remember the Steam Machine will run out of stock much, much faster

I'll estimate you got a couple maybe somewhere between 8 and 15 minutes after launch

1.   Denmark
2.  Australia
3.  Austria
4.  Belgium
5.  Bulgaria
6.  Canada
7.  Croatia
8.  Cyprus
9.  Czech Republic
10.  Estonia
11.  Finland
12.  France
13.  Germany
14.  Great Britain
15.  Greece
16.  Hungary
17.  Ireland
18.  Italy
19.  Latvia
20.  Lithuania
21.  Luxembourg
22.  Malta
23.  Netherlands
24.  Poland
25.  Portugal
26.  Romania
27.  Slovakia
28.  Slovenia
29.  Spain
30.  Sweden
31.  United States

https://steamdb.info/sub/1558609/info/

Should be correct this time! Sorry for the misinfo last

I have yet to see space for people to do this and the built in community sharing isn't exactly the greatest way since it mostly rewards people for being early rather than necessarily having the best layout

I am already starting to see posts where it's not even clear which controller people are talking about because they didn't bothered to specify it

Thanks for the big brain naming scheme, Valve

I feel like consumerism is a spectre looming over the gaming community, whether that's the rush to buy new games, buying a ton of older, cheaper games you will never play, and—including this case—having a peripheral paralysis.

This Steam Controller situation particularly interests me, regardless.

The Steam Controller isn't a controller for everyone. Not because it's a bad generalist controller, but because it's expensive, limited, and offers less than what you can get for less than half the price from AliExpress manufacturers and 3rd party companies. So, let's look at what it actually is.

The SC, ultimately, is a controller that was made and marketed as a device for playing traditional PC games on your couch....or desk or whatever. Those 3 aspects of the SC;

• the fully customizable, native Steam Input, with extra buttons •

• the Gyroscopic capabilities •

• the trackpads •

are what justify the price and headache. You can certainly use the controller to play games born off the incestuous relationship which PC gaming and console gaming have had for the past 20 or so years, and most reviewers will naturally focus on these games, for they are the most popular. Yet, a company like Valve would not make a standard controller, and would probably prefer not to compete with the Chinese industry, not at their own "game", at least. Let's think of "PC gaming"; what is it? Contrary to popular belief, it's not the all encompassing digital library of games that *released on PC*. Think Homeworld, QuakeWorld, Sid Meier world simulation, Bullfrog, etc. Think of games which aren't simply on the Personal Computer, but could really only be played on the Personal Computer, with the famous and trusted mouse and keyboard. *That's* the Steam Controller design philosophy, the front and center trackpads, Grip Sense and customisability emphasis; a controller that makes the experience of playing those old and new traditional games, which you could previously only experience on the PC with MnK, actually manageable, and *fun*. And naturally, someone who would want to experience their entire PC library on a controller, a competitive FPS gyro player or an RTS addict, or someone with a game near and dear to them that's not the most "built for controller experience"—would have nowhere else to look.

The average PC gamer doesn't give too much of a fuck about the "pure and holy PC gaming experience". They just wanna play good games and not have to look very far. That is the big feature of the Steam marketplace, isn't it? So why should you spend 100 USD and stay up at night for the SC? You shouldn't. You already have a perfectly good controller which will play anything and everything you want to enjoy. And in the 1 to a thousand chance you don't, there is probably zero reason to spend more than 40 USD on any controller, I mean seriously, those boring, old (2 years old) controllers on Ali are terrific!

But, if you are the type of person who is all about those good ol' games, maybe there's a reason to consider it.