[Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - December 2024

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Sorry, what game are you talking about?

Also for push to talk, are you wanting to use that inside a specific game or for discord or what?

Das it mayne

This game evoked a feeling of wonder and discovery that I’ve rarely felt since childhood

It runs beautifully.

Whoa. It runs on deck? I just finished it on desktop. Completionist wise it was such a burden and I wish it didn't have any achievements. Hopefully your sand trip is awesome!

I actually didn't understand this part of your config... I tried to do it but my left dpad is needed for strategems... And I ended up in game without being able to use any that required left to call lol

I also hate how the default was push to pull out grenades. Before I made it tap to throw and then the gun comes back out, I'd blow myself up way more than I care to admit lol

Thanks! I figured out how to do PTT, and m definitely going to remap what you said because I was finding the disconnect between using those defaults to be problematic. I kept grenading big holes but finding it awkward to switch back to a weapon before I got swarmed, or calling in strategems means I stand there like a doofus starting at my wrist while I up down left right, etc. Meanwhile, hoards are swarming me

I don't. But you can assign a key (paddle?) to it.

Edit: just checked - go to options -> controller -> change bindings -> then it's in the communication tab (third one).

I'd recommend binding your l4 to the select button, r4 to start, and r5 to left bumper. Makes it much easier to call in strategems and use the map during play. Use l5 to open comms then

Also change the grenade key to tap right bumper and unmap it from the right arrow d-pad button then change the right d-pad button to mark. If you don't unbind it, you'll mark and throw a grenade at the same time

I'm very tempted as I need something more fast paced than bg3

You could still use the mouse & keyboard combo on Deck if you prefer that. Just plug it into a monitor or tv and you're good to go. I'm just controller gamer primarily lol

Alright, I caved... I'm a level 11 cadet now, or works on the deck, and I'm having fun. I'm ready to move out of medium difficulty, I just need to squad up with good players, which had been hit or miss so far with the low level players.

So you know how to push to talk on the deck?

Thanks for the response, I've never really played fps on a controller so I'm dubious, but I'm tempted because it's the one thing I miss playing only on stream deck...i loved me a good battlefield coop, and this seems like it's one of those,when battlefield was good

I play level 8 without any real issues. It has a deck preset for graphics now. It definitely isn't a stable 30 but it is in now way unplayable. I routinely walk away with a death or two plus about 550 kills vs both bots and bugs.

It ain't the prettiest game especially when played on a TV but I've been gaming for 30 years and it doesn't bother me anymore if a game isn't the sleekest looking. That said, if you only play handheld, it still looks pretty remarkable. And I have no issue using a controller since it was built for PS5

Super Earth thanks you for your service, Helldiver!

Hopefully, they are back soon. Had a blast getting mowed down by the harvester lasers from outta nowhere and learning how to fight something completely foreign

Thanks for the suggestion of helldivers, I got in enough training on bots and droids just before the illuminate showed up. Had a blast mowing them down with my machine gun and orbital laser!

I'm tempted, how is it in the deck, fps seems hard to do with it mouse and keyboard

That’s exactly why I avoided it. It’s a second job rather than fun (to me, plenty disagree of course). Thank you for confirming that. I’ll stick with more action heavy games.

BG3 is a pretty impressive game really. It's clear that they poured a lot of effort and talent into it. It just feels... pointlessly complicated to me. There's like, 200 different spells to cast, each with their own effectiveness based on a dice roll, a multitude of different configurations for character development which all feel both too similar and like I'm closing the door on something I might really like. The story is... *okay*, but really not that interesting to me, and the pacing in combination with the very open world and constant fiddling with gear with a multitude of only slightly different attributes... it's just too much. The game feels more like a job than something I'd do for fun.

You can always stream from your desktop to your Deck too if the performance on the Deck isn’t great.

I do this with my PS5 sometimes. I played the majority of Miles Morales that way.

Hey, what was it that you didn’t like about BG3? I haven’t played it yet because my patience for RPGs is low these days.

Whaaaaat?? Friend you just made my night! Thank you!

with the latest 1.5 patch you can easily reach 60fps during normal gameplay (all low settings, FSR3 frame gen enabled). you can even reach 90fps incertain cases. its honestly impressive what they were able to squeeze out of the steamdeck.

https://www.protondb.com/app/2420110?device=steamDeck

I’m sure your desktop plays it better, but it should now work on the Deck despite the unverified status (this is the case more often than not).

yeah, I'm in the last 1/3 of the game and it's been really good. Getting used to the medieval script in dialogue bubbles took some time, but it's definitely worth it.

Is it good, it's been on my wishlist for quite some time waiting for a bigger discount.

Yes, became my absolute favorite game :)

Yeah, even the bundle of the base game together with both dlc is a steal.

You are up for a treat. This game if phenomenal

Hell yeah! Both DLC are so cheap on GOG during black Friday .

it was a little bit intended as the joke (although a true one)

I get what you're saying, but the sentence order definitely sounds like you needed to upgrade to 1TB of storage in order to play bigger games like Vampire Survivors.

Ah, interesting - I meant against the storm, but I don't think I've scaled the text! That might be my issue. Thank you!

For which game? I haven’t played Hogwarts yet but I just scaled up the UI for Against the Storm and have no issues reading the text.

How do you deal with the janky text? I found it hard to learn the game with it all so aliased.

This one is such a banger. Look up guides on how to parry consistently if the game didn’t explain it well enough. It’s crucial to the enjoyment of the game, yet it is explained oh so poorly.

After finally upgrading to a 1TB ssd yesterday, I can finally splurge on some bigger games.

So right now I'm mostly playing vampire survivors

Tunic. This game is beautiful and sessions on a full battery can last a while without charging. Highly recommend.

The Witcher 3 two DLCs, now that I finished the base game.

Currently Metal Gear Rising.

I broke down and bought Baldur's Gate 3. I really tried to like it, but I did not.

So now I bought Horizon: Forbidden West, but the Deck can't play it, so I'm playing that on my desktop.

Playing Pentiment right now

I spend hours setting up mods for games I’ve never played before so I can play the “best” version of it just to either get it working and play for a hell of a lot less time than I spent setting it up or giving up and going back to one of my comfort games.

Monster Hunter: World + Iceborne was on sale so I snagged it and I've enjoyed it quite a bit. Runs just fine on the deck and even though the game is clearly intended for multiplayer it works totally fine as a solo game.

The main issue I had with the game is that there's no pause button (as mentioned, it's a game oriented towards multiplayer) which isn't really compatible with my current life but with Decky Loader and the Pause Game plugin installed I can easily pause the game mid-quest without worrying about failing the time limit.

Mad Max, snatched it for 2 bucks during the sale. Pretty good and chill game and well worth its price.

Nearly done with Metaphor ReFantizio, and also playing some Astalibra and FEAR.

I recently found out that FEAR won't run well on modern windows PCs, and installed it on my Deck to see if it ran better on linux. Turns out it runs fantastically, with the Deck able to outperform any windows machine. I intended to only test performance, but FEAR is one of my favorite shooters of all time and I quickly got suckered back in. So I guess I'm going to do a full playthrough now.

Bluey: The Videogame. Worked past the resolution issues, the control issues, and now it is great fun with the 4 year old.

One of the games I picked up on Steam Sale was *Cobalt Core*. Fantastic game, it ate my entire Thanksgiving break lol

Mouthwashing, which I should finish tonight, Selaco - this one required a bit of tweaking but can mostly hold 60 now - and Balatro.

My most played games continue to be Stardew Valley, Brawlhalla, Superflight, Just Cause 3, and Puyo Puyo Tetris.

Fallout New Vegas with Viva Las Vegas. Plays great.

Deus Ex

I bought Against the Storm a few weeks ago and that has taken most of my gaming time. Just bought Hogwarts Legacy from the sale, I’ll probably fire that up sometime soon.

I've just 100%ed Super Mining Mechs

I got Fields of Mistria during the sale. It's very similar to Stardew Valley, which I also enjoyed.

Tiny Tina's Wonderland, Rocket League, Silent Hill 2

Space Marine 1, A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, Slay the Spire, Cross Code, and Droplitz.

Half life 2, forza 4, tloz links awakening and vampire survivors.

I'm still mostly playing doom 2016.

I had a twenty year break from gaming and I've been trying to catch up since I got the steam deck but I remain pretty crap. I'm playing doom on little *removed* mode and still finding it a challenge. I'm about half way through, I don't get a lot of gaming time.

I keep starting other games but not getting into them. But I think I'm gonna give dishonoured a try too.

Steam deck is probably the best machine I've bought in years.

Tomb raider GOTY through the heroic launcher.

Warzone 2100. You gotta dl it through the steamos explorer, but its fantastic on the handheld once you configure the controls

Got my hand on a free copy of dredge last week, so i'll play that for a while.

Palworld when I want to focus a little bit

BG3 when I want to focus a lot bit

Balatro when I want to focus none bit

Started rim world again after a year break.

Castlevania Dominus Collection. I don't know how I ever beat the games way back when, now I have to rewind during boss fights _a lot_. Got bored with Dawn of Sorrow as it dragged on towards the True Ending, really enjoying Portrait of Ruin. Johnathan's mobility combined with Charlotte's "fuck you and everyone around you" make such a great team.

Been replaying Watch_Dogs recently. Works surprisingly well. Probably going to play Gestalt next.

Unrailed 2

Still playing bg3

Still playing Helldivers 2 since I got it. Fun game that