This may overlap a lot with the discussion on what people are buying during the Steam sale discussion, but here it is anyways.
Tomb raider GOTY through the heroic launcher.
Got my hand on a free copy of dredge last week, so i’ll play that for a while.
Warzone 2100. You gotta dl it through the steamos explorer, but its fantastic on the handheld once you configure the controls
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 bitch 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.
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.
Fallout New Vegas with Viva Las Vegas. Plays great.
Currently Metal Gear Rising.
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.
Mouthwashing, which I should finish tonight, Selaco - this one required a bit of tweaking but can mostly hold 60 now - and Balatro.
Bluey: The Videogame. Worked past the resolution issues, the control issues, and now it is great fun with the 4 year old.
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.
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).
Whaaaaat?? Friend you just made my night! Thank you!
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.
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.
One of the games I picked up on Steam Sale was Cobalt Core. Fantastic game, it ate my entire Thanksgiving break lol
Playing Pentiment right now
Is it good, it’s been on my wishlist for quite some time waiting for a bigger discount.
Still playing Helldivers 2 since I got it. Fun game that
I’m tempted, how is it in the deck, fps seems hard to do with it mouse and keyboard
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
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
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?
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
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 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
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
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!
Tiny Tina’s Wonderland, Rocket League, Silent Hill 2
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