Valve mentioned that she was going to update her old games – they should get along well with Steam Deck. Said – done: for Half-Life 2 an update has already appeared with a new interface imprisoned under a portable PC.
Since Deck has a small display diagonal, developers enlarged elements like inscriptions in the menu, cartridges and health meters. And instead of small gray windows, now large buttons and tabs – with them, control on the gamepad will become more convenient. In addition, a Steam Input configurator button appeared in the settings, where you can change the key layout and the purpose of the actions.
Similar updates appeared in Episode One And Episode Two. To look at them with your own eyes, you need to open the properties of the game in Steam, choose a beta -test and specify the launch parameter -Gamepadui.
Probably a similar interface will be introduced into other old games Valve. Apart from Portal 2 – She, according to the company, is already pretty friendly with gamepads and a small deck screen.
New interface in action.
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And they will update Half-Life V2 for PC and make Half-Life V3?
By the way, yes, it looks like, but still not the same
It is not clear why they did not make a new inteface standard and for PC. Recently launched Half Life in 4K and it is just painful to watch it
Lol, I have the same interface on Shield Portable in Half-Life 2.
To do this, now special marks about compatibility with Deck began to appear in Steam.
If you answer your question, it depends on the developments of these games. And this, in turn, depends on the success of the device. T.e. If Deck is sold in a large edition, then the development, of course, will be logical to add his support to his game and finalize the interface. With old games is more difficult, even with relatively fresh. Take the conditional take 3. Awesome game, but with an interface not sharpened under deck and too small subtitles. Correction of this will take time and requires investments of both human and financial. And here is the problem – most potential decs buyers have probably eaten in the library, and therefore the game will not be bought a second time. And for prostects there will be a reasonable question: “Why do we need to waste time and resources if this does not bring us profit?". The Port of the Witcher on the Fistula was justified by new sales on the new platform, but here it will not be. Of course, there is a chance that they will transfer all changes from the switch, just. But this will still not be pressing one button, especially considering that a third -party studio was engaged in a port on the switch. Not the fact that prostects generally know how to. And this is one specific game. With the rest and older games, the situation may be worse.
But, I repeat, much depends on the success of the deck. If she sells well and confidently takes her niche in the world of portable consoles, then, most likely, the outfits will roll up changes with the support of the deck, at least due to reputation and additional PR.
agree. Valve games interface have its own style, but everything is very small on large -format screens
It seems like he is in the end and just for the RS will be
The ending of HLA is hinting
Hmm, I began to value the original HL2 interface even more. Well, it’s bad, very. Just a set of geometric figures collected together.
The question arises: what will happen to the games of other publishers? Especially with old games? How much it will be readable?
By the way, it would be cool VALV to add an analogue of the loop from Windows to the deck to minimize the damage from the non -adapted Hud.
In fairness, they update the second halva from time to time. Textures pull up.
