Probably asking too much, but can anyone test the game after the 3.6 updates on steamdeck? Any performance improvements to speak of?

Hi all, Game used to work fine but something has gone awry and when I try to launch the game it says "launching" and then nothing happens and reverts back as if I had never launched it in the first place. I tried various suggested fixes (closing done epic online services tasks when game is launching, disabling firewall, reinstalling game, integrity check, praying to Jesus, offer a burrito to almighty Gabe as a sacrifice) but to no avail. Running on a 2070 laptop win 11 Anybody got any ideas per chance? ...

Between returnal and last of us. I can only take one. Which one? Thanks. Also Helldivers 2 but I'm pretty sure that's easily the weakest of the 3.

... why did they make the protagonist an unattractive old woman? Sorry if this sounds shallow or bigoted or whatnot, but I don't want to play as an unattractive old woman.

40% is the best i've seen this go and it's still almost 40€.