New Steam Client Interface
Today, a new version of Steam is already available for beta testing. It includes many changes to the client core. The most significant of all is the interface ...
Since 2003, Steam has focused on the social component of games. But users wanted something more ... Now all the information you have is "in full view." You can see which of your friends are playing and what. Here you can invite them to your server (etc.). So, you can find out right on the purchase page of the game information about who among your friends already bought it and how many have played it. This will help you make the right choice. There is also the possibility of displaying recommendations that are based on the preferences of friends.
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For many players it is very important to be aware of all game events. For them, the news section was created. It contains information about the release of games, announcements, updates and much more. Each game has its own news channel, which also makes it easy to track interesting products.
Previously, not everyone understood how to follow up on achievements (to do this, you had to log in to your profile on the Steam website). Now they are available both in the in-game interface and in the library of games.
Over time, the collection of your games increased, and in order to help you manage it, we made some transformations ... Now you can divide the games into groups, for example, "What I wanted to play with UFOs" or "MMORPG, without which I can not live." In addition, browse the new library is much nicer, because she is more informative.
Surely someone had problems with tracking current downloads and everything related to them in one way or another. Now there is a separate tab “downloads”, in which all information about downloads is displayed (speed, time remaining, etc.). And, of course, it was not without a lot of fixes.
Main innovations:
Corrections:
Improvements:
Incomplete translation of the announcement from the official site Steam.
If you already have Steam installed, then you can participate in beta testing. Just go to the settings and then in the section for selecting beta tests specify “UI Update”.
Friend list
Since 2003, Steam has focused on the social component of games. But users wanted something more ... Now all the information you have is "in full view." You can see which of your friends are playing and what. Here you can invite them to your server (etc.). So, you can find out right on the purchase page of the game information about who among your friends already bought it and how many have played it. This will help you make the right choice. There is also the possibility of displaying recommendations that are based on the preferences of friends.
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news
For many players it is very important to be aware of all game events. For them, the news section was created. It contains information about the release of games, announcements, updates and much more. Each game has its own news channel, which also makes it easy to track interesting products.
Progress
Previously, not everyone understood how to follow up on achievements (to do this, you had to log in to your profile on the Steam website). Now they are available both in the in-game interface and in the library of games.
Game library
Over time, the collection of your games increased, and in order to help you manage it, we made some transformations ... Now you can divide the games into groups, for example, "What I wanted to play with UFOs" or "MMORPG, without which I can not live." In addition, browse the new library is much nicer, because she is more informative.
Downloads
Surely someone had problems with tracking current downloads and everything related to them in one way or another. Now there is a separate tab “downloads”, in which all information about downloads is displayed (speed, time remaining, etc.). And, of course, it was not without a lot of fixes.
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Main innovations:
- Complete interface change to increase comprehensibility and information
- Complete change to the in-game interface to provide more information about the game.
- New view of the details of the game
- A new news page that broadcasts news on Valve products, new in-game games and community information.
- A new look and feel for the downloads interface, which makes it easy to collect information about your downloads, speed, status, etc.
- New store design with an integrated social component (recommendations, videos, screenshots, reviews, ratings, etc.)
Corrections:
- Increased reliability of auto login to the store and the community from the Steam client
- Improved system "trimming lines" in some places of the program
- Fixes that reduce the likelihood of program hang
- Fixed the inability to delete manually added games to the library
- Corrected navigation errors
- Many improvements in performance and memory consumption
Improvements:
- Now, to display web pages in the client, the WebKit engine is used.
- Increased the speed of the built-in browser
- Improved search functionality on the news page.
- Web pages using the confirm () or alert () commands in javascript no longer cause the client to hang
Incomplete translation of the announcement from the official site Steam.
If you already have Steam installed, then you can participate in beta testing. Just go to the settings and then in the section for selecting beta tests specify “UI Update”.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/85398/
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