Metroidvanias feel good on the deck but I can’t handle any shooting on it. I just ain’t programmed to shoot on a controller
every time I try I end up going back to kb/m but also miss stick walk.
I saw some thing before about using right stick to snap to a clock orientation and gyro for fine aim but it just makes me want a mouse with a thumbstick for snap and regular mouse aiming.
For the life of me I could not get into RDR2. Not my idea of fun gaming.
Wonderful cinematic experience. Boring game.
I had more fun just hunting and camping in the wilderness in that game than playing the actual missions. It looks beautiful, the voice acting and story is great
Same for me, beat the full game once, now I only advance the plot to get better guns, put on an audio book and run around doing hunting challenges
It took me a long time to get into it. The first time I gave up and stopped playing, but came back a year later. It clicked a bit more, but even then, towards the end of the game I was begging for it to end. It’s a pretty great story, but the gameplay is run-of-the-mill and bland.
I am continuously shocked that people play things like BG3 or Cyberpunk on their Steam Deck. I love my Deck, and play it lots, but those games run like absolute garbage on it.
BG3 actually runs great now. Larian has been grinding away at it all year. Native Linux and all.
Cyberpunk is playable if you avoid the expansion areas.
Agreed. Have put in close to 200 hours on deck only. Occasionally it bugs but overall the experience has been great. Especially at the bar.
It runs well enough, especially if the steamdeck is your only gaming device.
I read about their native implementation and think that is awesome of them. I have been meaning to try it again since but honestly remain skeptical that it’s an enjoyable experience, for my standards at least. I think that is a game that will remain on desktop for me.
It’s definitely not 60FPS but it is a smooth 30 finally. Bigger deal in my opinion is it hits 30FPS without overly strong FSR as it was previously. The picture is more than just barely playable now.
I played before the full Linux build, and I even used to do it with Ps5 controller on my 55’ TV.
The game worked great honestly, it did crash once or twice, and it did slow waaaaaay down when getting into fights with 20+ people, but that was always due to my own mods and what not. Definitely not native experience.
All that to say, it worked very well before they made a deck/Linux specific version so I’d imagine that it works darn near flawlessly now.
I just enjoy games more on my Deck. The controller is by far my favourite, I can resume where I left in a second, I can take it everywhere, the OS is completely out of the way unless I need it.
I have a reasonably powerful gaming PC but haven’t really used it in the past few years because of Steam Deck.
So long as it runs at a stable 30 FPS I can tolerate the limited performance.
I understand the sentiment though.
I’m surprised Cyberpunk runs on the Steam Deck as well as it does. It truly is an incredible little machine.
I am continuously shocked that people play things like BG3 or Cyberpunk on their Steam Deck.
When one has no other choice, one plays one’s favourite game under any conditions. When I was little, I played Minecraft at 15 to 20 FPS and the lowest draw distance.
yep, I got through about 50 hours of Subnautica at ~15 fps back in the day.
Even portal with RTX is kinda playable on the steam deck though if you use that config that one person made to enable fsr3 and do some default settings changes, and put the gpu clock up to full
I mean the human eye can only see 30fps
This takes me back to the Xbox 360 era.
This is absolutely untrue. Most people can see the 60hz strobe of the US electrical grid. This is why cheap night lights seem to flash.
It’s a meme
I assure you, the US is very real
When I played games I gta3 worked on my pentium 3 like shit, minimum resolution, probably less than 10fps and very slow. Still played a reasonable amount. The vice city arrived and played much smoother without constantly blocking. Managed to play it to the end.
Any potato can run any game.
Yeah that’s fair. I definitely made do with less than ideal playing conditions when I was younger and it was all I could manage. Bit of a privileged take from me.
they run fine on my deck.
if you’re looking for a 4k, 200fps experience on a handheld device, you will not find it. that’s not what the steam deck is for.
That’s a nice straw man you’ve built there, but me and my opinion are over here.
I don’t believe that means what you think it does.
Seemed like you attacked a position that I did not take. If I misunderstood, then my bad.
I just said that the games run well on my steam deck. I wasn’t attacking anything, I don’t think.
Well, no, that’s not all that you said.
With Decky LSFG-VK and Power Tools i get around 100 fps in cp2077 and 80 fps in BG3. I haven’t reached anywhere in BG3 that really taxes the graphics like the lower or inner city yet.
I’ve even been playing Starfield around 100 fps outside new atlantis. Graphics are choking everywhere my nv3080 was.
Not on my deck they don’t
You just have to use lower graphics settings, I haven’t had any issues running C77
I used the steamdeck graphics preset and thought it ran and looked great.
I honestly have GeforceNow on my PC so I also have it on my Steam deck. Imo it makes it run much nicer and I can choose which system to play it on.
Skill issue
I wanted to play red dead so bad but fuck that entire launcher process. 😟
When I tried playing 2077, BG, or Elden Ring they basically ran like they were on a Potato. I’m surprised anyone could do anything playable on those games.
Elden Ring is the only one I have extensive experience with, and it ran great on the Deck.
Check if framegen is on. BG3 randomly turned it on and it ran like a potato and looked horrible
you might need to tweak your settings, man.
Do you have a SteamDeck OLED? Maybe try BG again, for a lot of this year I had problems with it too mostly around HDR. Then I tried again this fall after a substantial bug fix and it ran great. Just a little stuttering loading assets once in a while.
I got Elden Ring to run at stable 40fps which was fine for me, but I can see how folks wouldn’t accept that.
Yeah I’m happy to have a Playstation 5 alongside my Steam Deck for demanding games like Cyberpunk.
Skill issue
I stopped playing it after s few hundred hours and a couple of DLCs, but I’m glad to see Vampire Survivors is still doing well
Not only are they doing well, they have a new 3d mode or game coming out, not sure which it was.
Kind of doing Megabonk, i suppose
Last time I played that game, I got so excited while playing it that I couldn’t sleep for 3 days 😂
I want to play it again but I’m worried it will affect my sleep.
I’ve played Stardew Valley for years. Vampire Survivors on the phone a bit. Never the others.
i played sonic, earthbound, og ff7, and seiken densetsu 3 a lot but it didn’t show up :(
I have almost all of them. Such a standarized gamer😣
This image is what appears in my mind when I think “quality game”
Ive got 4 of those…
And i need to play more
Twice the number I have.
Balder’s gate works on Steam Deck? I’m on Bazzite (desktop PC) and it doesn’t work*.
Well, it launches, but can’t click on anything. Its like the game can’t recognise the mouse and keyboard. Same with Satisfactory.
Anecdotally, Satisfactory works fine for me, also on Bazzite (on a desktop PC).
ProtonDB rating is platinum.
This is almost certainly a problem with your hardware or configuration, rather than the game.
It works on my Arch+i3 side of my computer. As well as baldurs gate 3. Can only think of Wayland on Bazzite vs X11 on i3.
But I will reinstall balders gate again and see if that helps.
Can confirm, satisfactory works great for me on (fedora) linux aswell
actually bg3 now has a linux version that runs much more smoothly than running the proton version.
highly recommend it. it seems to fix the fps drops I had in act 3. its quite smooth and lovely.
BG3 has been runing just fine for me on steam deck and arch.
Yep, I’ve played both cyberpunk and bg exclusively on deck this year
Skill issue
I don’t understand how people play some of these games. Things like The Witcher or Elden Ring will juice the Deck’s battery like a lemon during a heatwave.
I have long ass usb cables. I used to have a ceilig retracting thing that held cables above all the comfy lounging spots before I moved. Also one for vr headser because that munches battrry eaven faster
They probably play tethered to either a dock or at least a power outlet.
