Why are steam game updates so big?
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Everything in one place Show Find a whole new world of useful information and content on your game detail pages. Everything in One Place We've brought together everything from the developer, your friends, and the community into a single place to make it easier to keep up with what's happening outside the game. Post Game Summary The post game summary appears at the top of your game details page and makes it easy to see your achievements, screenshots, and trading cards earned during your most recent play session. Friends Who Play Want to know who plays this game? Maybe you’re stuck and need some advice, trying to build a party, or just want to know you’re not alone in the universe – fear not your friends are here now. Friends' Posts Posts from friends including shared screenshots, achievements and status updates now appear in the game details feed. Leave a comment or like a post to keep the conversation going without leaving the library. Community Content Steam users are already creating amazing fan art, game guides, videos, and memes for some of your favorite games. We spared no pixels bringing that content to the bottom of your game page so you can easily see what’s new in the community and join the conversation. Steam News - kaci Are you ready for an entire week filled with tens of thousands of discounts? The Steam Autumn Sale is underway! From now until November 29 at 10am PT, browse through every genre imaginable to grab games on sale for the perfect additions to your Steam library. This is also the time to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the Steam Awards! We have 11 different categories this year, including a brand new category for games you love playing on portable devices:
There are a couple of ways you can lock in your nominations: You can do it directly from the store page or the event post from the developers of the title you like, or head to the Steam Awards Nomination page. You can even earn a badge for nominating in a single category, and level up from there with each additional category up to 11. We've made a video all about it: We'll be revealing the top five nominees in each category leading up to the Steam Winter sale and you'll be able to vote on them during the sale until January 3rd at 9am PT. Have fun this week, and don't forget you can also pick up a title or two for the lovely folks (or even the less-than-lovely ones) on your holiday shopping list! Not only can you gift specific games, we also have digital gift cards up for grabs. See you HERE for the Steam Autumn Sale, now through November 29th at 10am PT! Steam News - kaci The Steam Autumn Sale is fast approaching, with an entire week filled with tens of thousands of discounts! From November 22nd at 10am PST (UTC -8) until November 29th at 10am PST (UTC -8), browse through every genre imaginable to grab games on sale for the perfect additions to your Steam library. In fact, while you’re there, pick up a title or two for the lovely folks on your holiday shopping list! Not only can you gift specific games, we also have digital gift cards up for grabs. Steam Award Nominations Start Nov 22 The Steam Autumn Sale is also the time to nominate your favorite games from the past year for the Steam Awards, in 11 different categories (including a brand new category for games you love playing on portable devices):
There are a couple of ways you'll be able to nominate games for the Steam Awards: do it directly from each game's store page or the event post from the developers of the titles you like, or head to the Steam Awards Nomination page (via the Steam homepage). You can even earn a badge for nominating in a single category, and level up from there with each additional category up to 11. Get ready to stock up on games for you and those special (or non-special, no judgment) people in your life during the Steam Autumn Sale: November 22nd at 10am PST to November 29th at 10am PST! The sale will be live on this url: https://store.steampowered.com/. See you soon! Steam News - TomB (Valve)
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Team Fortress 2 - Valve An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
Steam News - Alden For players that speak Indonesian, Slovak, Malay, Arabic, Hebrew, Serbian, Hindi, and any other language currently supported by Windows, it's now possible to easily find the games that are available in your language. You can now pick from a much expanded list when indicating your language preferences on Steam, and when searching for games. Set Your Language Preferences To Find The Right Games (Edit your language preferences here) You can select a primary language and any number of secondary languages.
 Search And Filter By Your Languages Your language preferences impact the information that is available at a glance on game store pages and in the various filter options throughout Steam. Game Store Pages: Your selected languages will automatically appear first on game store pages if that game supports the language. Additionally, if you are looking at a game that doesn’t support any of your selected languages, there will be a prominent note communicating that fact. Search & Filters: Your selected languages will appear first as options to use in areas of Steam that offer filtering. This means you can quickly select one or more language to find just the games that are available in those languages if you wish. As an example, here is a search for games that support Indonesian language: https://store.steampowered.com/search/?category1=998&supportedlang=indonesian Languages Are A Factor In Steam Discovery Features Games available in your languages are more likely to appear in discovery features such as the Steam Discovery Queue and in recommendations on the homepage of Steam. Background Starting a few weeks ago, we made it possible for developers to tag their games with this expanded set of languages. In the time since, we've seen over 500 games add indication of support for one of these new languages. Of course this is just the beginning, as more developers make use of these new tools to indicate support that may already be available in games, as well as when releasing new games. You can edit your language preferences here and search for games by language by visiting the store search page and selecting languages from the right-hand set of filters. Steam News - Lawrence We are preparing to update Big Picture mode with the new interface we designed for Steam Deck, and today we’re making it available for testing. This update has been a long time coming, and we’re very excited to start gathering community feedback. This controller-first interface was designed for Steam Deck in handheld and docked mode, and is perfect for all the scenarios Big Picture mode currently handles. The updated Big Picture mode includes features like:
The team is still polishing rough edges - but the interface is at a point where we’re ready to gather community feedback. If you’d like to help test, please:
If you’re up for helping us test the updated Big Picture, please provide feedback at the Big Picture forums. Thank you! Steam News - andrewl624 Continuing our monthly series, we're happy to unveil Steam's Top Releases for the month of September. As always, we look at every release for the month, highlighting the Top 20 games and Top 5 DLC releases based on their first two weeks of revenue. We also highlight the top 5 free-to-play games, ranked by the number of unique players they acquired after launch. The Top Releases of September 2022 Don't be scared With the Steam Scream Fest underway, Steam is currently haunted with ghastly updates and spooky characters of all kinds. If that's all a bit too frightening, we're happy to showcase September's Top Releases, which provided a wholesome amount games with cozy, colorful and cute themes. After a successful journey through Early Access, Temtem made its 1.0 debut with an abundance of colorful characters and comfy fun for everyone. Filling the Early Access void, Slime Rancher 2 arrived five years after Monomi Park introduced fans to this revolutionarily cute slime-wrangling universe. Check out the full cast of cozy content on this month's Top Releases. A DLC Paradox? For several months now, we've featured the Top DLC releases with each month's latest list. September brought something unprecedented in this category, as each of the Top DLCs for the month were published by Paradox Interactive. It's amazing to see games from 2013 (Europa Universalis IV) and 2015 (Cities: Skylines) continuing to release popular content all these years later. Paradox's domination of September's Top DLC releases dovetailed nicely with their triumphant in-person return to the annual PDXCON in Stockholm. New Devs Finally, we'd like to congratulate the teams that are releasing a product on Steam for the very first time. A big welcome and congrats go out to these development teams on their successful Steam debuts. -- If you're curious about previous months, head over to our new Steam Charts overview page. Steam News - jennyj Join us October 25 - November 1 as we don our costumes and celebrate things that go bump in the night during Steam Scream Fest! Featuring discounts and demos on current and upcoming games, as well as special Halloween-themed gameplay, come fuel your nightmares (or your candy bucket) with terrifying thrillers, haunting horrors, and festive Halloween romps. This event is for games and in-game events focused on all things Halloween: the supernatural, the scary, and the spooktacular. Don't forget to check out the Points Shop where you'll find over 10 all-new thrilling Game Profiles from some of your favorite scary games. Perfect for decorating your Steam profile for the Halloween season. Steam Scream Fest runs October 25, 10:00 AM PDT (GMT-7) to November 1, 10:00 AM PDT (GMT-7). Check out the official Steam Scream Fest page now. Team Fortress 2 - Valve An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:
... ...Why are Steam updates so big now?Steam updates quite often because it is continually adding new features. In addition, there are often problems with bugs and other issues that will need to be fixed. The process of waiting for the Steam updates can be quite tiring, and many users will find themselves looking for alternatives.
Why are game update files so big?Games used to use lines of code, but in the modern times games use engines such as Unreal or frostbite. Game updates are so huge because they include hundreds of textures, physics, animations, and many more. Games are incredibly complex now and are nowhere near as simple as they seem.
Why does Steam say games are bigger than they are?The download files are compressed to make them as small as possible so that you are not spending 5 hours waiting for the files to download. However before they can be used they have to be uncompressed. So the final game will usually be larger than the download.
Why are my Steam games always updating?This happens whenever you restart your PC (resulting in Steam being updated). This is normal so don't worry. This happens to ensure you have the latest version of steam when playing games.
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