Has been with us for a few days now, and I just thought it would be good to talk about it.

One bug I've noticed that has yet to be fixed is that if you are in-game (eg CSS) and you send a message in the external chat window (not in the game chat window) it says in game that the message came from the person you were chatting to. It also makes the chime noise. I have to say wtf there.

I'd post a screeny but I don't have steam on this pc. Maybe later.

So all in all, what do people think of it?

I really haven't used it much, but this is because I rarely play any Steam games/apps.

Not that impressed. It uses a separate overlay .exe to make it work in game, which really isn't that efficient.

They've updated it so it now shows people what custom game you are in as well.

Another bug is that it doesn't alert you to new messages if you keep the in-game chat window as the one 'on-top'. That's irritating as it means you take ages to reply to people's messages (sorry Si).

What do you mean on top?

By on top he means the active selected window on the overlay, it still treats it as fully active when the overlay is closed so it doesnt give any notification that someone speaks

Which I might add is completely gay when you're in-game.

Ah yes, I get you. It does that because the overlay is a separate program and thinks it is always active.

No, as in the steam chat window for the person is the active window within the overlay.

You mean the overlay as part of the active window is the steam chat window?

I'm just pulling your leg (or other)

Yes, Met, but if the overlay wasn't active it should still make a sound no matter which window was ontop, but it thinks it's active, so the topmost chat window doesn't notify.

Skillers is correct, the application is always active as it embeds itself so it can pick up the Shift+Tab command. The fix for them would be, is the overlay actually showing...

Simple fix: Make it have another random window appear whenever leaving the overlay. Poor code but seeing as they're using an overlay...

Yar, like the Friends window. I hope they fix this soon.

They should change the implementation, overlays are inefficient.

I'm sure that, what with it being a beta, then they would be open to suggestions from peoples such as yous.

Heh, well I cba to suggest.

HNNAAARRRGHHHH!!!! KILL!!! KILL!!! KIIIILLLL!!!!

Relax, I'm just being lazy.

Woah, careful there, don't go overboard, its just Steam.

No, he hatesme saying cba, and tbh, I cba to say anything else.

All the people in my friends list have vanished after friends went offline for ages. Wtf's happened???

EDIT: There has been a steam update by the looks of things. I'm just updating it.

Restarted Steam to open my friend list (can't do it any other way) - Platform update.

Some friends don't seem to be showing up that they are online when they are according to others. :/

Mine seems pretty consistent on showing everyone, actually, unless everyone gets problems (servers go a bit funny).