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Hi folks, it's Will here! Rich is away this week, so I'm filling in*. Fresh off of our weekly content meeting, here's what we're all working on for this week!

* John has finished off the much-requested PS5 VRR analysis, together with Alex, which should be arriving on the channel later today. For the week ahead, he's testing out Switch Sports (and trying not to smash up his TV with an errant Joy-Con).

* Alex's Chernobylite analysis is also coming soon, with early access expected by tomorrow. For this week, he's taking a closer look at the recent Steam Deck 40-60Hz update following our first impressions on the last DF Direct.

* Tom is comparing PC to the PS5 in terms of latency and image quality - do falling GPU prices mean that PC can now compete in terms of value?

* Oliver is taking a fresh look at GTA DE - after a few major patches, is the remaster up to the level of quality we'd expect? Oliver's also set to appear on the Direct for the first time this week, which we're all very excited about - and he'll have the power of the edit too.

* Will (it me!) is learning how much Rich does on a daily basis... and publishing some DDR5 testing and our (well-late) RTX 3090 Ti review.

* Audi is still away and hopefully having a lovely time.


Is there anything we've missed that you'd like us to cover? Anything that you're particularly excited by that we have mentioned? Let us know in the comments, and we wish you a fantastic week!

(*I wasn't sure what to put as a thumbnail on this post, so I've gone with a cute cat I used to foster. His name is Panda.)

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Mike Carter

The cat picture was unexpected, but very much appreciated!

Anonymous

Awe Panda is cute. Much excite to finally see Oliver on a DF direct.

d0x360

Yes id love it if John would cover something like BFI on PS5 if possible 👀😱

Anonymous

Cat! :P Share more pictures of him on our Discord group, please.

angETF

Cat

angETF

I guess Panda nearly outshined the news of Oliver getting on the Direct. Nice try Panda, but I can't wait for this video now.

VeryProfessionalDodo

Adorable cat! Also, this looks to be a very exciting week, always pumped to see what you guys produce!

Ray

My god, Panda is very cute!

Anonymous

Catotal Foundry❤️

Anonymous

The main thing I hope you folks cover is Switch (and Wii U, Wii, GameCube, etc.) emulation on the Steam Deck. I'm not saying have a bunch of B-roll of Nintendo games being emulated, as I'm aware of the Phawx takedowns that were alluded to previously (though I will reveal that Nintendo apparently only seems to care if the games are specifically named and show up in a search; "bad" B-roll that simply isn't talked about in the title or description seems to just sneak by unnoticed FWIW on some Deck channels). But I do think it would be a disservice not to at least mention in passing the fact that the Steam Deck can emulate the Switch at full speed seemingly flawlessly. I just tried Mario Kart 8 Deluxe again; with rendering set to 0.75x, and CPU SMT disabled using a slightly older version of NGnius' power tools plugin (which removed that setting because it crashes mangohud), I get locked 60 (likely due to having played enough to have a bunch of pre-cached shaders already). Bayonetta 2 actually runs better than the original hardware. None of that is special on PC, but in this form factor, it certainly is too significant to leave unsaid. I've reinstalled all of my favorite Switch games on my Steam Deck, which makes my main Switch obsolete. I've copied over my emulation resources from my secondary, modded Switch, as well. So both of my Switches were made obsolete by this one amazing device. No piracy (of store-buyable goods) is happening here in my case. I get to feel good about enjoying the best of all worlds, and I'm sure your other viewers would as well, if you at least let them know of this possibility.

Anonymous

Just seen GTA DE is on sale this weekend on PSN, hopefully Olivers video will be out in the next few days so I can decide if its finally worth picking up. I've been playing the GTA V remaster recently which has been fantastic.