Idk why I've always thought and felt like it was a follow up side project to Continuum not something that came before it.
I guess because the Try! album features songs from Continuum before they were officially released. Ive been listening for years and just never processed it.
The idea of playing high resolution, high frame rate while saving my battery life was awesome. I really enjoyed it for a while. There were some difficulties setting it up though either having an ultrawide or having multiple monitors or getting stuck in keyboard and mouse mode or having it display the wrong screen.
It ended up being more cumbersome sometimes when it wouldn't just work as expected. I still stuck with it and mostly played small indie games natively and more demanding games remotely. Yesterday I kept getting stuck with the controller not being recognized remotely so I decided to just try running The Last Berserker Khazan natively and ... I completely forgot how capable the Steam Deck was on its own.
Totally playable with med+ settings and smooth frame rates. No issues with the controls or messing with display settings or getting different devices configured and synced properly. And best of all is rediscovering the suspend and resume feature which I totally took for granted especially for games that take a while to launch. I was like, Oh yeah I can just play the game from the Deck itself and have an overall smoother, more reliable experience.
It's not as pretty or quiet as streaming but the convenience of running things natively is nice to stumble back into.
Besides Infernal Conduit, which only truly shines on a couple champs, burn build doesnt get much love with augments. With all the hypertanks, that 2% dot or slight magic dps from Torch for team fights aint doing much.
It'd be nice to have it scale up like Collector's or Dropkick so it becomes more of a threat. All the other augments for AP are basically...ability haste.
I'm a bit confused on when and how things happen not in the story sense but the gameplay sense.
Sometimes scanning a body takes me into the past, sometimes it triggers a new cloud animation, sometimes it shows the title card, sometimes it takes me to the past again, sometimes it takes me to the present, sometimes it opens the journal or makes it seem like an act is starting. Sometimes I scan something, take a few steps then I start getting the pinhole animation and it takes me out like huh?
There was one time I feel like I was walking back and forth scanning the same body to take me in and out of a sequence but I thought doors were how you exit?
I'm trying to get through the game but not knowing what my action is going to do next is throwing me off because I can't reliably do what I think I'm going to do which makes it more frustrating than fun. Am I missing something about the core gameplay interaction because I can't seem to make consistent sense out of it?
Why do the tooltips SOMETIMES show scaling?
SOMETIMES show damage/healing/shielding done?
SOMETIMES show the stacks?
And others they just don't.