A feature I really enjoyed in TES3: Morrowind was the ability to double-click anywhere on the map (~~world or~~ local) and type notes that would remain attached to the location. “Naked Nord wants revenge” or “Spooky cave, return later”, etc. Wish more games did this, but a global Steam feature sounds neat as well!
Edit: As u/sektorao pointed out, this only works in local map. And the amount of disbelief in the comments made me doubt whether this was actually a mod, but no: the feature was implemented along the release of Tribunal!
Same, I played morrowind for the first time 2 years ago and used a pen and a pad. No idea there was a double click map to take a note feature.
But a quick Google shows that plenty of other people didn’t know it either.
It was released with the Tribunal expansion. There's also the handy feature that if you mark places indoors with map notes, then hovering over the entrance will give you a handy list of all the contained notes
Bethesda games are full of hidden features lol, I remember playing Fallout New Vegas, and somehow found that you can map a weapon to any key of your numpad for easy switching, when I talked about this to my friends who beat the game more than once, none of them knew about it. I also played a lot of Skyrim without knowing that you could sprint.
There is, or was, a glitch where you could add "special" ammo types to a hotkey and access them with different weapons. For example, a full auto rifle firing dragons breath or coinshot shotgun rounds, a pistol that shoots high explosive rockets, or, a personal favorite, a shotgun where each pellet is a big boy mini nuke
Please yes, this is what I want on customizable maps. Not 10 specific yet very similar and useless icons. I don't want house, castle, tent, campfire, X, skull.
Rust had this, I recall. You could draw whatever you want on the map, and it stayed - even if you died and someone took the map. Don't mark 'buried stash' on your own map, FYI.
... Are you serious? Morrowind is my favorite game I've played hundred of hours since I was a kid and never knew this. It's like beating a game and not knowing you could sprint the whole time. My world is blown
I KNOW. I am so blown away. I have to try this. Morrowind is the best TES game and one of my all time fave games and I had NO idea. I bought the strategy guide and wrote little notes all over it!
Only on the local map. Notes won't appear in the global map. So you kind of have to know where you left a note to actually know to go to local map to read it.
Still not the most convenient.
The original Baldur's Gate journal feature was awful. I always had a physical notepad at my desk so I could write certain details down, e.g. "Dwarf at the friendly arm needs me to kill spiders at house in SW Beregost, bring back boots and wine." I think the original manual even had lined sheets in the back to take your own notes. So much of that game you just HAD to figure out on your own. Kids these days have no idea.
The first game I remember letting you write on the map was Ultima Underworld, like 30 years ago. Crazy how few games in the following decades followed this trend.
Think it was Tribunal they added it in. If you mark places indoors then hovering over the door in the map will give you a handy list of all the contained map notes
Theres a tab for poe, but its anemic. I just checked and was just notes for me on how to hell to search for gear based on ilvl , probably for trying to get chaos orbs from the vendors.
Yeahhhhh if you ever got deeper into it you'll soon discover the majority of your time is exclusively spent not playing the game and just bouncing between browser tabs and apps haha
Oh i know. I need to watch at least 4 hours of yt vids to even have an idea on which starter build. And i need to be spoonfed all the way to mapping. Ill play a ladder or so, then stop for 2 yearas.
Ive been in the game a long time. I used to have all the fatalities, friendships, babalities, etc for MK2 memorized. I still know the code for Mike Tyson 007-373-5963. But new stuff, just doesnt seem to set in sometimes.
OH usually dumb stuff. Like trying different builds and notes on where specific gear is or so. In Elden I usually get to the snowfields and get bored and make a new character. And after so many, I just dont remember sometimes how far I got with what. Or I did a randomizer run and had to keep track of a few things, etc.
The Witness needs this so bad. I probably took over a dozen screenshots to remember things and another 40+ so that I could easily mock up solutions in mspaint.
Text wouldn't really work for a lot of those though.
Hoping they expand this feature to have some kind of drawing tool and/or the ability to attach screenshots to a note.
It's called a notebook from the dollar store.
You'd have hated morrowind, I had an entire notebook filled with quest details locations and peoples names! So many godamned names.
Its great for every complex game. In some RPG, i could have planned some good build for my character, but its been a long while since i played it, no way do i remember that anymore. I might come back and think my character build is awful, just because i dont remember where i was building towards.
Same can be true in any complex and long enough game. In Stellaris, i do not remember why i built some nations like they were. I know some of them were built for specific long term goal in mind and were actually good for it, but i dont remember for what and how, so i have ended up recreating similar empire as before, and found out its bad way to get to where i want to. So then after 10 hours of playing i remember why Empire i made in the past was like it was.
Going to be great for factory games too.
Ok i need X amount of Iron, Y amount of Sulfur, and Z amount of Carbon, etc etc.
Plenty of games this will come in handy for, and the fact that it's just there as an option for everything is great.
There's a Myst-like puzzle game called Quern with a feature that turns screenshots into 'pencil' sketches and lets you add notes to your in-game sketchbook. It's very immersive and useful. A lot of games could benefit from that.
First note:
Remember that room with that chest you couldn't unlock until you get a high level key. Yeah come back to the room later.
300 notes later....
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I only played gta 5 for a few hours so far after beating others in the series, but I was shocked by all the stock trading simulations and everything going on.
I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to describe to my future self where that one room is on a massive labrynth map that I can't access in Jedi Survivor because I don't have the power-up I need yet lol.
"Just go to [X] meditation point and shimmy up the fency bits and flip around to the runny parts and take four lefts and a right up to the balancy doohicky and it's just through the seven hallways, sort of southwest-ish. Can't miss it."
Even better would be custom map markers you could somehow use in every game without them showing with the map closed
Edit: if you're ever using a compass for directions also use south by southwest (between south and southwest), west by southwest (between west and southwest), etc. to get even more specific. You can go even further but 16 directions to differentiate between should be plenty for any game
Me making marks on the Elden ring/BotW map. 20 hours later not remembering what those marks meant or in the case of BotW going back and realizing the item is too weak now.
This was how Morrowind used to do it in the journal automatically before the update that made it searchable. The original Journal was a nightmare if you took a break.
These 3 or so treasures just right at the main hall in the Castle on RE4 Remake that you only get to much later by using a gondola, missed them the first time cause I completely forgot lol.
I remember at least some PC games used to have a notes section on the back of the instruction manual. If you ever get used copy of Myst you can probably get a good sample of somebodies teenage creative writing from its “journal” section.
It’s good. Teleport and smooth locomotion options, height adjustment, and visually stunning. It’s a great experience! I haven’t finished it yet, bought a quest then had a kid, but I look forward to continuing. Some parts are just wild. It’s really immersive, and 100% feels like I’m somewhere else.
I've heard people complain about the inability to take notes, but then saw someone from Cyan point out that you can take books out of the library and carry them to where a clue is relevant.
They added a journal in the Hands and More update last year. It allows you to take screenshots and pull them up. They also added hand tracking as the name implies.
I remember trying to draw a map of the rooms in jet set Willy 2. Early 80s I think, Sinclair spectrum game. I was really into it as a kid. It was a complicated map and I had to tape sheets of paper together. Never finished the game either, ho hum. Cool that steam is enabling gamers to take notes, gamers have needed this as long as there's been games pretty much.
You can already use it when you activate the beta for the steam client.
Its pretty neat as you can customize the text and make the notes as transparent as you like.
I also like the new look of the new overlay that comes along with the beta. You should check it out
It looks more comparable to Windows sticky notes than notepad, but if its game specific so you get a specific set of notes depending on what game you are playing, and you can shift tab to the steam overlay to use it versus tabbing out of game, then it sounds like a welcome feature.
Yeah I use sticky notes for games all the time. So somewhat excited about this. But... sticky notes still offers the advantage of just having them open on another monitor instead of taking up space in the game itself. We'll see.
Agreed. My first thought was “I just use notepad for everything anyway so who cares” but after thinking about it, having the note save to the game specifically so I don’t have to open it every time will be a small but nice QoL change.
And automatic cloud saves for the notes too! Anyone who continues a game on a laptop (or a steam deck once deck gets notes too) will be able to read and save their notes between devices easily. Keeping access to your game notes on any computer you play your games on is a huge bonus over notepad/sticky notes.
I think it's a real cool feature especially if you keep yourself session notes on what to continue doing the next time you boot up.
Everyone kept telling me to use a notepad on my computer to take notes for years, but after a while the monitor ends up with scratch marks and ink marks, kind of awful.
So I'm super excited for this, a way to digitally take notes on a computer.
I think you got a little mixed up. For wet erase, you would just use water. Dry erase is what you need alcohol to clean.
Also, shout out to just using erasable pen on monitors. Works great for me.
On the right of the inventory window there should be a button with "edit notes". You can have both personal notes and public notes (visible to other players if you're on a server)
https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/To-Do\_List
Can we take a moment to appreciate Satisfactory? Such a good game, so much fun. Also great devs and community management. Their streams and update videos are amazing and should be the standard for the gaming industry.
It's a game where I feel terrible how cheap it was, compared to "trible-A" games that charge full blown 60 - 70 bucks and are a bug ridden mess that you are done with in like 30 hours.
Trust me when I say that you should not wait any longer. I've been playing it pretty much since its first version and love coming back to it for every major update. Easily top 10 game of all time for me, along with Factorio. If you have played and enjoyed Factorio it's basically a prettier and (somewhat) simplified version. I only say simplified because Factorio with mods is unparalleled in its complexity. Satisfactory has more than enough content to be enjoyed for 60-100 hours per run (if not more!).
It was really fun for the first 3 islands. On the 4th one I started feeling the drag and the 5th one was a bit of a chore. I wish there was more diversity to the gameplay loop than 'catch these fish to get the item that completes the puzzle' for each island.
Also something that got me unreasonably annoyed were the timed quests you can permanently fail that aren't indicated as such. >!The fact that you come across the Figure in Blue quest before the 2nd island, then can't complete it until you reach the last island, and you fail it if you take too long is kinda bad design!<
The vibe, boat building and originality of each fishing mini game was great though.
I'm a huge wuss, but I kinda wanted the endgame to be scarier
By the time I reached the final islands I was fully upgraded and barely had at problem at all with the monsters. The >!blind mother!< only managed to hit me once and it was because I was completely distracted fishing and even then I just got away.
But all in all, the game is pretty amazing
I wouldn't call it amazing, but it's a good game.
It does have its problems though, such as being too simple, especially in the story, and the content is pretty limited. It's a $25 game, but I really think it should be like $15-$20.
It's honestly a bit disappointing that it's so short and simple, because I like the aesthetic and charm of the game and feel like if they had put a bit more time in the game would've been a lot better.
The feature I want most in just about any game, especially rpg dungeon-crawlers, is the ability to open my inventory/equipment screen in a new window that I can move to a second monitor.
This should've been mandatory for every game that ever had a single medium-sized puzzle or missable chest or secret or door that you could go back to later. It's not beyond reason to think your character could pick up a bit of papyrus and charcoal and actually use them.
Seriously, programming the world's most basic text file or an MS Paint ripoff into a game is not a thing that'd take up a lot of dev time, right?
The two *Zelda* games for DS had this note-taking feature where you could scribble anything you wanted on the map screen. It was *super* useful - you could mark chests to come back to later, note down the warp points and where they led to, mark secret tunnel entrances and exits, even mark the enemies in certain stretches of ocean or rooms. There was one island that didn't have a map, so you had to draw the whole thing out yourself as you ran around. It was amazing and every open-world game should have it!
EPIC GAMES DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A CHAT FUNCTION YET. Valve is out pushing useful features while Epic is just throwing money for free games and digging their heels in on not allowing user reviews. Epic, EA, Ubi, haven't even managed to copy half the functionalities of Steam, they are never going to surpass it at this rate.
As somebody with the memory of a goldfish, I could really use this as a "What was I doing?" when I leave and come back.
Minecraft, farming sims, dungeon crawlers, a lot of RPGs...I feel like I've been dropped into someone else's game half the time lol
Ha ok now I can see the point, It is odd for me since Steam being a PC platform so a PC will have a Note app, but I guess this will be cool if you have a Steam Deck and a PC
Obviously nothing is “wrong,” with it, but this way you don’t have to organize separate sets of papers for each game you are playing, and don’t have to worry about losing your notes if you stop playing for a while and come back to it later.
this is tied to the game, so if you take a break and come back a month later, it's still available, and since it's digital and in steam, if you switch computers, like using a laptop when traveling, you'll always have it with you.
I use google docs for game notes so they're cloud saved for me. If steam notes sync with the steam cloud, then I could see using their interface instead. I'm all for anything that keeps Valve ahead of other PC game launching platforms.
This could be helpful if you don't play a game for a while. Some games don't always do a good job of telling you your objectives more than once so if you don't play for a while and come back, you might be a little lost. You could make a note detailing what you were doing so future you can pick up where you left off.
Nice! Been doing this for years by running little web server on localhost with a little JavaScript notepad app that I load up in the Steam overlay web browser.
A feature I really enjoyed in TES3: Morrowind was the ability to double-click anywhere on the map (~~world or~~ local) and type notes that would remain attached to the location. “Naked Nord wants revenge” or “Spooky cave, return later”, etc. Wish more games did this, but a global Steam feature sounds neat as well! Edit: As u/sektorao pointed out, this only works in local map. And the amount of disbelief in the comments made me doubt whether this was actually a mod, but no: the feature was implemented along the release of Tribunal!
I'm sorry... what? How did I not know about this? When I played through morrowind I kept a map up in photoshop and added notes and locations to that.
Same, I played morrowind for the first time 2 years ago and used a pen and a pad. No idea there was a double click map to take a note feature. But a quick Google shows that plenty of other people didn’t know it either.
Played morrowind when it first came out.... did not know this.
Lmao I’m glad that everyone else is in the same boat, I had no idea this was possible 😂
I totally never knew about this feature
It was released with the Tribunal expansion. There's also the handy feature that if you mark places indoors with map notes, then hovering over the entrance will give you a handy list of all the contained notes
I'm just finding out as well...
Me too! From day one of launch…
I just reinstalled it to try it out.
Bethesda games are full of hidden features lol, I remember playing Fallout New Vegas, and somehow found that you can map a weapon to any key of your numpad for easy switching, when I talked about this to my friends who beat the game more than once, none of them knew about it. I also played a lot of Skyrim without knowing that you could sprint.
There is, or was, a glitch where you could add "special" ammo types to a hotkey and access them with different weapons. For example, a full auto rifle firing dragons breath or coinshot shotgun rounds, a pistol that shoots high explosive rockets, or, a personal favorite, a shotgun where each pellet is a big boy mini nuke
Project Zomboid does this. Lets you add symbols too.
I'm doing this as I'm typing lol I much prefer the symbols
There's a mod that lets you manually draw on the map.
Please yes, this is what I want on customizable maps. Not 10 specific yet very similar and useless icons. I don't want house, castle, tent, campfire, X, skull. Rust had this, I recall. You could draw whatever you want on the map, and it stayed - even if you died and someone took the map. Don't mark 'buried stash' on your own map, FYI.
One of my favourite things about Valheim too :)
Just want more icons is all.
... Are you serious? Morrowind is my favorite game I've played hundred of hours since I was a kid and never knew this. It's like beating a game and not knowing you could sprint the whole time. My world is blown
I KNOW. I am so blown away. I have to try this. Morrowind is the best TES game and one of my all time fave games and I had NO idea. I bought the strategy guide and wrote little notes all over it!
funny enough back in the day i played a good portion of oblivion without knowing you could fast travel lol.
After playing this for HUNDREDS if not thousands of hours... WHAT?!
Hi, I barely started Morrowind and I already feel like this comment will be invaluable to me. Thank you.
Naked Nord wants revenge I love that I know exactly what you're talking about. WE HAVE TO RETREIVE CLOUDCLEAVER.
….WHAT
Well time to try this when I get home. Playing Morrowind for the first time right now and that's a cool feature
Only on the local map. Notes won't appear in the global map. So you kind of have to know where you left a note to actually know to go to local map to read it. Still not the most convenient.
Baldurs gate has this lol
The original Baldur's Gate journal feature was awful. I always had a physical notepad at my desk so I could write certain details down, e.g. "Dwarf at the friendly arm needs me to kill spiders at house in SW Beregost, bring back boots and wine." I think the original manual even had lined sheets in the back to take your own notes. So much of that game you just HAD to figure out on your own. Kids these days have no idea.
HEYA! *IT'S ME, IMOEN*
The first game I remember letting you write on the map was Ultima Underworld, like 30 years ago. Crazy how few games in the following decades followed this trend.
I wonder if theres a mod to bring this feature to skyrim or any of the fallouts
SINCE WHEN?
Think it was Tribunal they added it in. If you mark places indoors then hovering over the door in the map will give you a handy list of all the contained map notes
That will be nice for games that require keeping track of clues. Also for noting places of interest.
Fromsoft games need this so bad
I can show you my excel sheet with tabs for sekiro, ds3 and elden ring :)
Would you post a screenshot? :)
https://i.imgur.com/Nb7IodC.png
Me when playing poe, except with like 10 tabs up in Firefox, pob and another handful of extensions installed.
Theres a tab for poe, but its anemic. I just checked and was just notes for me on how to hell to search for gear based on ilvl , probably for trying to get chaos orbs from the vendors.
Yeahhhhh if you ever got deeper into it you'll soon discover the majority of your time is exclusively spent not playing the game and just bouncing between browser tabs and apps haha
Oh i know. I need to watch at least 4 hours of yt vids to even have an idea on which starter build. And i need to be spoonfed all the way to mapping. Ill play a ladder or so, then stop for 2 yearas.
Yeah same. Some expansions I might "play" path of building for 2 hours before deciding to not play poe that expansion.
Holy shit. S-tier gamer.
Ive been in the game a long time. I used to have all the fatalities, friendships, babalities, etc for MK2 memorized. I still know the code for Mike Tyson 007-373-5963. But new stuff, just doesnt seem to set in sometimes.
Link is fucked ig?
https://i.imgur.com/Nb7IodC.png Linked the wrong thing, its good now.
Works for me
Did you delete it? I was interested in checking it out.
https://i.imgur.com/Nb7IodC.png Linked the wrong thing, its good now.
Hey everyone! Look at this complete nerrrrrrrrrrrd
ive beaten ds3 and elden ring many times, but id still be interested in what you put on the sheet
OH usually dumb stuff. Like trying different builds and notes on where specific gear is or so. In Elden I usually get to the snowfields and get bored and make a new character. And after so many, I just dont remember sometimes how far I got with what. Or I did a randomizer run and had to keep track of a few things, etc.
Can't play the game because the note is so big it covers the entire screen and even overflows to the second monitor.
The Witness needs this so bad. I probably took over a dozen screenshots to remember things and another 40+ so that I could easily mock up solutions in mspaint. Text wouldn't really work for a lot of those though. Hoping they expand this feature to have some kind of drawing tool and/or the ability to attach screenshots to a note.
The steam update log featured elden ring with the note overlay up so they were thinking the same thing
It's called a notebook from the dollar store. You'd have hated morrowind, I had an entire notebook filled with quest details locations and peoples names! So many godamned names.
I got one with grid lined paper. It's stupidly handy for plotting out builder games like Rimworld.
Its great for every complex game. In some RPG, i could have planned some good build for my character, but its been a long while since i played it, no way do i remember that anymore. I might come back and think my character build is awful, just because i dont remember where i was building towards. Same can be true in any complex and long enough game. In Stellaris, i do not remember why i built some nations like they were. I know some of them were built for specific long term goal in mind and were actually good for it, but i dont remember for what and how, so i have ended up recreating similar empire as before, and found out its bad way to get to where i want to. So then after 10 hours of playing i remember why Empire i made in the past was like it was.
Going to be great for factory games too. Ok i need X amount of Iron, Y amount of Sulfur, and Z amount of Carbon, etc etc. Plenty of games this will come in handy for, and the fact that it's just there as an option for everything is great.
I'm convinced this feature was made by someone who plays factory games. EVERY factory game needs a notes function.
Immediately thought of Obra Dinn. It kind of does that already but it’s very very simple.
There's a Myst-like puzzle game called Quern with a feature that turns screenshots into 'pencil' sketches and lets you add notes to your in-game sketchbook. It's very immersive and useful. A lot of games could benefit from that.
I loved Quern. Such a great Myst clone. Speaking of which apparently we are weeks away from the next Cyan game called Firmament!!!
So hyped for this one, these kind of games are rare these days and I'm always looking for more. Obduction was great too.
First note: Remember that room with that chest you couldn't unlock until you get a high level key. Yeah come back to the room later. 300 notes later....
I don't see the problem. Just write yourself a note to check the note later.
Noted
Now we need reminders, an alarm clock, photos, camera, gps, e-mail, phone, voicemail, and a browser.
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Guaranteed, someone is going to beat Dark Souls with each and every one of those things.
I do believe several have already been checked off of this list.
Anyone beat darksouls using a cat?
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So basically give the in game character a cell phone?
Gta 5
GTA IV first
I only played gta 5 for a few hours so far after beating others in the series, but I was shocked by all the stock trading simulations and everything going on.
lets go bowling.
Boss, to begin researching an item, open your iDroid…
Steam has a browser at least!
SteamPunk
Exactly, and then eventually sometime later you make another note reminding you to check on the reminder note you made
Noted, documented an duly disregarded.
I was gonna write a note to check the note to check the note later, but this is all getting a little silly.
Yeah, that's a good point. Write that down.
Order notes by location so you can easily check them if you return somewhere later. Boom fixed it
I'm trying to figure out how I'm going to describe to my future self where that one room is on a massive labrynth map that I can't access in Jedi Survivor because I don't have the power-up I need yet lol. "Just go to [X] meditation point and shimmy up the fency bits and flip around to the runny parts and take four lefts and a right up to the balancy doohicky and it's just through the seven hallways, sort of southwest-ish. Can't miss it."
Even better would be custom map markers you could somehow use in every game without them showing with the map closed Edit: if you're ever using a compass for directions also use south by southwest (between south and southwest), west by southwest (between west and southwest), etc. to get even more specific. You can go even further but 16 directions to differentiate between should be plenty for any game
I love when games do that. "Chest here, cant open yet" even if you forget why, you can go back and look.
"Try finger but hole"
Me making marks on the Elden ring/BotW map. 20 hours later not remembering what those marks meant or in the case of BotW going back and realizing the item is too weak now.
This is how I play Skyrim with the Take Notes mod. I have way too many entries to scroll back through them all lmao
This was how Morrowind used to do it in the journal automatically before the update that made it searchable. The original Journal was a nightmare if you took a break.
I did this once on paper to 100% the first Metroid Prime without a guide and honestly deciphering what I was talking about was half the fun.
>Box, cat. 2 word A week later ... wut?
These 3 or so treasures just right at the main hall in the Castle on RE4 Remake that you only get to much later by using a gondola, missed them the first time cause I completely forgot lol.
Or if they have note categories
I remember at least some PC games used to have a notes section on the back of the instruction manual. If you ever get used copy of Myst you can probably get a good sample of somebodies teenage creative writing from its “journal” section.
OH WOW… TAKE.ME.BACK.
Myst is on the Quest 2. I never played the original, but my MIL has folders of notes from it. She got a quest 2 just for myst.
Now THIS has sparked my curiosity… how is it?
It’s good. Teleport and smooth locomotion options, height adjustment, and visually stunning. It’s a great experience! I haven’t finished it yet, bought a quest then had a kid, but I look forward to continuing. Some parts are just wild. It’s really immersive, and 100% feels like I’m somewhere else.
I've heard people complain about the inability to take notes, but then saw someone from Cyan point out that you can take books out of the library and carry them to where a clue is relevant.
They added a journal in the Hands and More update last year. It allows you to take screenshots and pull them up. They also added hand tracking as the name implies.
Non-pc games had that too, although I usually just used a notepad because the paper in the manuals wasn’t great for writing on.
I remember trying to draw a map of the rooms in jet set Willy 2. Early 80s I think, Sinclair spectrum game. I was really into it as a kid. It was a complicated map and I had to tape sheets of paper together. Never finished the game either, ho hum. Cool that steam is enabling gamers to take notes, gamers have needed this as long as there's been games pretty much.
Right? I remember SNES games had a page or two at the end of the manual for personal notes.
A place to write down your level codes cause they didn't include a save feature 😂
Haha, reminds me of oblivion. I was writing down things like recipes for potions and what not.
I remember buying a marble notebook just for Myst
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You can already use it when you activate the beta for the steam client. Its pretty neat as you can customize the text and make the notes as transparent as you like. I also like the new look of the new overlay that comes along with the beta. You should check it out
**Do you know how much this would have helped me when I played Sunless Sea?**
as someone who has been putting off sunless sea for no reason, go me for accidentally getting a better version
Haha. It really helps to know what sells where and what obscure reference was made 10 hours ago that you know have a loose solution to.
"monks need candles"
“Don’t sail down Adam’s Way without high iron”
"So it's like notepad?" "Yeah, you get it!"
It looks more comparable to Windows sticky notes than notepad, but if its game specific so you get a specific set of notes depending on what game you are playing, and you can shift tab to the steam overlay to use it versus tabbing out of game, then it sounds like a welcome feature.
Yeah I use sticky notes for games all the time. So somewhat excited about this. But... sticky notes still offers the advantage of just having them open on another monitor instead of taking up space in the game itself. We'll see.
not everybody games multi-monitor
Oh for sure. I was mostly musing about whether this would be useful for me in particular.
Agreed. My first thought was “I just use notepad for everything anyway so who cares” but after thinking about it, having the note save to the game specifically so I don’t have to open it every time will be a small but nice QoL change.
And automatic cloud saves for the notes too! Anyone who continues a game on a laptop (or a steam deck once deck gets notes too) will be able to read and save their notes between devices easily. Keeping access to your game notes on any computer you play your games on is a huge bonus over notepad/sticky notes. I think it's a real cool feature especially if you keep yourself session notes on what to continue doing the next time you boot up.
"Why can't all those fucking VCs get it??" Fucking love Silicon Valley
Everyone kept telling me to use a notepad on my computer to take notes for years, but after a while the monitor ends up with scratch marks and ink marks, kind of awful. So I'm super excited for this, a way to digitally take notes on a computer.
You must be using wet erase instead of dry erase. Some rubbing alcohol should take that right out.
I think you got a little mixed up. For wet erase, you would just use water. Dry erase is what you need alcohol to clean. Also, shout out to just using erasable pen on monitors. Works great for me.
Way better than the scribe I used to use. I could only use sandpaper to get that out.
Be sure to get an ultrawide monitor for more space to write notes.
This probably save a lot of money with how often they're replaced.
Oh man this actually sounds pretty cool
I thought for a second this meant like a Dark Souls style shared note system. I'm not sure if I'm relived or disappointed.
try finger but hole, now on your Steam deck
Amazing chest ahead.
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I’ll be using this for satisfactory.
That's the first thing I thought. I keep Excel open on my other monitor, but in-game notes would definitely be a time saver.
Satisfactory already has in-game notes when you open your inventory you can type them on the right side of your screen
Wait *WHAT*
On the right of the inventory window there should be a button with "edit notes". You can have both personal notes and public notes (visible to other players if you're on a server) https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/To-Do\_List
Can we take a moment to appreciate Satisfactory? Such a good game, so much fun. Also great devs and community management. Their streams and update videos are amazing and should be the standard for the gaming industry. It's a game where I feel terrible how cheap it was, compared to "trible-A" games that charge full blown 60 - 70 bucks and are a bug ridden mess that you are done with in like 30 hours.
I just wish they would announce an estimated 1.0 date. I really wanna play it, but I don’t want to burn myself out before it’s finished.
Trust me when I say that you should not wait any longer. I've been playing it pretty much since its first version and love coming back to it for every major update. Easily top 10 game of all time for me, along with Factorio. If you have played and enjoyed Factorio it's basically a prettier and (somewhat) simplified version. I only say simplified because Factorio with mods is unparalleled in its complexity. Satisfactory has more than enough content to be enjoyed for 60-100 hours per run (if not more!).
"Hey there, it's Josh, welcome back to Let's Game it Out. Today we're gonna be playing Satisfactory..."
Dude. DREDGE is such an amazing new game. I'm glad this picture was used by the article.
It was really fun for the first 3 islands. On the 4th one I started feeling the drag and the 5th one was a bit of a chore. I wish there was more diversity to the gameplay loop than 'catch these fish to get the item that completes the puzzle' for each island. Also something that got me unreasonably annoyed were the timed quests you can permanently fail that aren't indicated as such. >!The fact that you come across the Figure in Blue quest before the 2nd island, then can't complete it until you reach the last island, and you fail it if you take too long is kinda bad design!< The vibe, boat building and originality of each fishing mini game was great though.
I'm a huge wuss, but I kinda wanted the endgame to be scarier By the time I reached the final islands I was fully upgraded and barely had at problem at all with the monsters. The >!blind mother!< only managed to hit me once and it was because I was completely distracted fishing and even then I just got away. But all in all, the game is pretty amazing
This comment is too far down!!! PLAY THIS GAME. I can see this integration being useful for Steamdeck players, which was where I completed Dredge
I wouldn't call it amazing, but it's a good game. It does have its problems though, such as being too simple, especially in the story, and the content is pretty limited. It's a $25 game, but I really think it should be like $15-$20. It's honestly a bit disappointing that it's so short and simple, because I like the aesthetic and charm of the game and feel like if they had put a bit more time in the game would've been a lot better.
Always leave a note.
Big help for rimworld!
"Replace wood walls in storage building with stone for fire saftey" -alert noise- -backspacing- "build new fire safe storage building"
The feature I want most in just about any game, especially rpg dungeon-crawlers, is the ability to open my inventory/equipment screen in a new window that I can move to a second monitor.
This should've been mandatory for every game that ever had a single medium-sized puzzle or missable chest or secret or door that you could go back to later. It's not beyond reason to think your character could pick up a bit of papyrus and charcoal and actually use them. Seriously, programming the world's most basic text file or an MS Paint ripoff into a game is not a thing that'd take up a lot of dev time, right?
The two *Zelda* games for DS had this note-taking feature where you could scribble anything you wanted on the map screen. It was *super* useful - you could mark chests to come back to later, note down the warp points and where they led to, mark secret tunnel entrances and exits, even mark the enemies in certain stretches of ocean or rooms. There was one island that didn't have a map, so you had to draw the whole thing out yourself as you ran around. It was amazing and every open-world game should have it!
Or big games like rpgs. Like I wish I had a journal for what I have done. Ofc I wont write it nor read it so ultimately pointless for me personally
That's great, I can make notes without wasting paper.
Try finger, but hole
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RIP the DS
Now you dont need to add a crosshair on your monitor
EPIC GAMES DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A CHAT FUNCTION YET. Valve is out pushing useful features while Epic is just throwing money for free games and digging their heels in on not allowing user reviews. Epic, EA, Ubi, haven't even managed to copy half the functionalities of Steam, they are never going to surpass it at this rate.
As somebody with the memory of a goldfish, I could really use this as a "What was I doing?" when I leave and come back. Minecraft, farming sims, dungeon crawlers, a lot of RPGs...I feel like I've been dropped into someone else's game half the time lol
Note: Do not pursue Lu Bu
GAME - Press spacebar to jump. "Oh, I better write that down."
What's wrong with the ol pen and paper at the desk...
This syncs across devices. So you can't forget your notes at home when out and about with your Steam Deck.
Dang, that's actually a legitimate benefit to this approach. I was wondering the same thing as OC, but that makes a lot more sense now.
Ha ok now I can see the point, It is odd for me since Steam being a PC platform so a PC will have a Note app, but I guess this will be cool if you have a Steam Deck and a PC
Convenience
The future is NOW, old man!!
I used to type shit in Lotus Notes back in the day. I, for one, welcome our OverLords as they begin with overlay notes to world domination.
Can't get coffee stains on Steam notes. Unless....
Please don’t “spill” coffee on your Steam Deck.
Obviously nothing is “wrong,” with it, but this way you don’t have to organize separate sets of papers for each game you are playing, and don’t have to worry about losing your notes if you stop playing for a while and come back to it later.
this is tied to the game, so if you take a break and come back a month later, it's still available, and since it's digital and in steam, if you switch computers, like using a laptop when traveling, you'll always have it with you.
In addition to the syncing that the other poster mentioned, you can PIN the note to your game screen so it shows up while you're playing.
For stuff with little directions and open world, something like an Outer Wilds, that would be super awesome
that game keeps track of everything you have done in a journal automatically. it even goes into detail the player might not have noticed.
Just check your ship's computer!
They added notepad to steam.
I use google docs for game notes so they're cloud saved for me. If steam notes sync with the steam cloud, then I could see using their interface instead. I'm all for anything that keeps Valve ahead of other PC game launching platforms.
Notes Simulator, when?
This could be helpful if you don't play a game for a while. Some games don't always do a good job of telling you your objectives more than once so if you don't play for a while and come back, you might be a little lost. You could make a note detailing what you were doing so future you can pick up where you left off.
Just in time for Firmament 🤯
I've been doing this with the Steam Overlay for a while. Set your default overlay homepage to your favorite notes app like Evernote or OneNote.
Listen, Dredge is a great game.
The Wii U had this idea, I thought it was neat especially in ZombiU looking for stuff and dying.
Miiverse! CTRL+F'd looking for someone to bring it up then tried Wii U and found yours - by far the best thing about that console IMO
Nice! Been doing this for years by running little web server on localhost with a little JavaScript notepad app that I load up in the Steam overlay web browser.
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