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You can now make video clips using Steam’s built-in game recording feature, as an update rolls it out to all usersfunnyclip.mp4
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Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Critical Reflex
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun / Critical Reflex
Steam’s built-in game recording feature has been usable in beta since the summer, but it has now been properly launched for every user, following a client update to Steam yesterday. It’s basically another method of capturing funny ragdoll glitches and posting them on the “lol-games-are-dumb” channel of your friend’s Discord. Or for posting that flukey knife throw in Call Of Duty to Twitter, as if you really meant to kill the man from across the map all along. Or saving a clip for your personal records, like the footage of that time you yeeted an innocent citizen off the 50-foot wall of a castle town inDragon’s Dogma 2. We all do that, right? Right?
Our Jamestried out the recording tech during its betaand quite liked Valve’s method when compared to other video capture programs. It’s easy to find your mp4 files, he says, and you can scrobble back through your footage instantly using the Steam overlay. If a game has special timeline features included, it’ll show you icons above certain important moments, like boss fights and deaths.
“I employed this feature to replay my perishing at the hands of some knife-spammingElden Ringbullshit merchant,” said James, “quickly studying his moves in preparation for a more successful rematch. Neat!”
Meanwhile, I will be happy so long as it is less cantankerous than Nvidia’s own capture method using GeForce Experience - the video grabber I had been using until it recently decided it doesn’t want to record anything if there is even the slightest whiff of Spotify or YouTube running in the background. Awww, is da widdle video capchah softwah afwaid of an iddy bit of copywight infwingement? GROW UP, NVIDIA. Jesus.
Elsewhere inthe client update post, Valve note that this new client won’t work for users still sporting Windows 7 or 8 (plus some old versions of Mac too). Alongside that there are some fixes to Big Picture mode, controller input, and the remote play feature. But that’s all very boring. Go yeet a dude and clip it.
