The mic sounds fine. You can find samples online, ofc, but people have never complained that I’m unclear or quiet. It’s not as good as the wired sets, and I think that’s down to the wireless connection, but it serves the purpose of communication, and doesn’t pick up on too much background noise, either.

The charge port not being USB C is unfortunate, but my G915 keyboard is also still micro usb.

Unfortunately neither peripheral has a newer equivalent that is as good.

I am regularly the first to identify the presence and location of enemies in multiplayer games with friends, purely based on audio. Using audio to outplay opponents on my 370s has been easier and more intuitive than on anything I’ve used before.

The excuse that “gaming” headsets are “optimized” for footsteps or are improved by the “virtual surround” software they often come with, is bs.

The 370 is their best model, IMO, simply due to the bonkers battery life and sleep behavior. The other models require more frequent charging. I hope you can find a pair.

I literally haven’t used the power switch on mine, except to turn them off and on to reset the connection sometimes.

I do not turn them off, they automatically sleep when audio isn’t being played, and they will instantly wake when receiving an audio signal. Like you can’t tell they aren’t just on 24/7, I just put em on like a wired set and don’t think about it, and they will last WEEKS when used this way.

Whenever they notify me that the battery is low, which they do infrequently enough to ignore without getting annoyed for the rest of a gaming session, I plug em in when I’m done playing for the day. After which they’ll be ready for another week (or more) of use without any thought beyond what you’d give a wired set.

Not on this one. It folds up and turns off when in that position. There are other models that apparently allow complete removal.

No.

Do not buy steelseries. Ever.

I bought one of their controllers, once. I really liked it, but it broke. When I RMAd it, they didn’t have replacements in stock. I said fine, I’ll wait.

They said no. Here’s a 60 euro certificate to buy something else you don’t want. Also it expires in 30 days, just to make sure you can’t wait for something you actually want to buy, like the controller, to be in stock.

All complaints ignored.

They effectively stole my controller with zero compensation. Their warranty policies are literally just “fuck you, eat shit”. Everything else I’ve ever used from them has only barely outlasted the warranty.

I recommend Epos headsets. My GSP 370 have now lasted four times longer than the Steelseries Arctis I had before. The battery is finally dying, but you can literally undo just 3 screws and replace it.

When new, the battery lasts 100 hours per charge, and when you finally do get the low battery warning, you don’t need the swappable battery bullshit because “low battery” still means they’ll last two more days. Which means you can just ignore the infrequent low battery sound until you’re done gaming, and then plug them in.

They function flawlessly on linux, and have excellent audio quality for both input and output. Since, you know, they’re by Sennheiser, not a “gaming” peripheral company.

TFW ur stuck and just desperately scouring every inch of the guidebook for clues.

Apparently you can set Phasmophobia to use “VOSK” for the speech recognition in settings, which is built-in, and does not rely on a built-in windows feature. It’s not as good, but works on linux and pre-windows-10.

When I played, you could only use windows recognition, so that’s new.

Crying Suns is really cool. Neat to see someone else who got hooked in the wild.

The bouncing around isn’t a bad thing.

In fact, if anything, I try to be sensitive to when I start to burn out on a game, and when that happens I avoid playing until the desire is really strong again.

Sometimes looking for something to play means having a LARGE number of false starts before I find the thing, but I make a note of not trying a bunch of similar games whenever something isn’t scratching the itch. I make each attempt with something very different.

And coming back to a game can take years.

That’s kind why you need a TON of games if you don’t want to take breaks from gaming entirely, because otherwise the medium just doesn’t have enough variety to keep the human brain engaged.

You should try shorter games, and completely ignore whether something is “big” enough to be worth your time. The big stuff is what’s boring you right now, so don’t waste time on trying to force the enjoyment.

Plus, if you’re restricting yourself to stuff that achieves critical acclaim, you’re limiting yourself to games everyone likes. That means you’re probably missing some stuff only you and people like you would like.

Not all good things are enjoyed by everyone universally, some things are just for a subset of people.

Sone more suggestions:

• Journey
• Donut County
• Furi
• event[0]
• Inside
• Katana ZERO

And you know, the led shouldn’t be fucking firmware controlled!

It’s a really good idea, but to work reliably, it should be HARDWIRED to light up when the cmos is receiving power.

Does in-game proximity chat work?

These games rely on windows speech detection to interpret words, and hence the gameplay features of stuff like “talking to ghosts” in phasmophobia quetly fail when the game is run on linux.

It’s not that the game doesnt detect the audio, it’s that game can’t then turn the audio into text.

I think there’s some way to get it working, but it doesn’t function out of the box.

Pretty well summed up. I checked in on things now and then when kbin was still fairly functional.

Ernest went radio silent for long stretches of time, where before he was pretty active on kbin. He resurfaced a couple times to let people know he wasn’t dead or anything, and explained that some fairly serius medical issues were keeping him from doing much work.

He expressed a desire and hope to return to running kbin, but it wasn’t to be. Eventually the main instance just broke, and without Ernest around to fix it, it stayed that way.

As mentioned, we now have mbin (fedia.io) which is being developed by other developers and building atop kbin.

Hopefully Ernest is able to take care of himself, whatever he is now up to.

Steam doesn’t do updates asap anymore.

Update downloads get scheduled for off-peak hours, sometimes leaving games un-updated for days. That means sometimes you go to play something, and it isn’t up to date.

This isn’t linux specific, it’s like this for everyone. It prioritises keeping games you play a lot updated, and lags behind more on games you almost never play but just have installed.

There is no way to circumvent this. Steam wants to spread out when people download updates, so there isn’t a giant spike in download server load whenever updates drop.

Updates only go out immediately to people actually playing the games, and then trickle out over time to the rest.

Also the constant “updates” that happen aren’t game files. Steam is keeping up with the files it needs to keep shaders compiled for your games in advance (which has to be re-done every gpu driver/game update). If you don’t want that, you can disable precompiling in steam settings.

Steam re-downloading these files constantly is a known issue, but to be clear, your game files are fine. Their updates work no differently from windows.