Having a blast playing boltgun, really good
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Dark Souls 2 with a very nice lighting mod. It's called DS2LightingEngine SOFTS. I played DS1 and DS3 but could never get into DS2, partly owing to the visuals which I really didn't like. Now it looks cool and I'm getting a few deaths in here and there on the deck.
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Been slowly working my way through Shadow of War, between probably a bit too much Against the Storm, Surviving Mars, Stellaris, and Timberborn.
How does Against the Storm play on deck? I love it on pc but playing it without keyboard and mouse seems intimidating.
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currently we <3 katamari reroll which is such a perfect fit on the platform it almost hurts
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I just finished Trails in the Sky SC at just over 90 hours playtime. I didn't even 100% it. I have to admit. I didn't even much enjoy the first half or so. It mostly ended strong, but I was starting to get a little sick of kicking the same bad guys' asses over and over only to have them declare they're not even using their full strength in the post-fight cutscene before they mysteriously disappear to inevitably come back later.
I used to, does that count? I'm still an avid linux gamer, but mine was just sitting unused compared to my desktop before I decided to sell. Either way, currently playing Zelda Tears of the Kingdom on Yuzu. Hasn't been exactly smooth sailing but overall it's been pretty good. The main issues are the emu being so new (bugs) and not having an idea what mods and settings are best for my particular hardware, and TBH steamdeck is great in this area since they're all the same platform aside the storage.
My joycons are breaking and they are so expensive to replace that I am considering getting a steamdeck instead. How well does switch emulation work in general on the steamdeck?
I have a modded switch and I am happy to dump my game carts and emulate them, if they work somewhat well enough.
Full disclosure: I didn't use Yuzu while I had my steam deck, too busy working through my backlog of steam games laying in bed. But from what I've read performance seems to be just ok, not good not great not terrible. People are pulling around 20-25fps with I think? dips into the teens occasionally. The rule of thumb IIRC is expect to need 10x the computing power of the thing you're emulating with a mature emulator and I really have no idea if steam deck is powerful enough or not to emulate the switch smoothly even with fully mature software which Yuzu certainly isn't right now. So if you're only going to be playing in handheld it could really could go either way. Alternatively if you're willing to perform some surgery on your joy-cons there's a manufacturer called gulikit that makes hall-effect replacements for joy-cons (IDK where they're sold). I haven't heard of any reviews for the joy-con model but I've heard good things about their equivalent for steam deck's thumbsticks.
Thanks for the link to the parts. The problem with my right joycon is the shoulder button stopped working and that button is on the main board so you just need to replace the joycon. It was never dropped, but it seems that these buttons were constructed poorly. I am a bit disappointed with the joycons. I will not be replacing them.
Damn that's sad, I knew of the joy-con drift issue but the shoulder button issue is new to me. Wish there was some alternative I could think of to help besides new joy-cons which IIRC are pretty expensive. Sorry!. Steam deck hardware is awesome for what it's worth, very repairable, relatively cheap replacement parts, good performance for the price, and you can go very far down the rabbit-hole with software if you are into that sort of thing. Limited exclusively to switch emulation I wouldn't recommend it right now at least, but if you're looking for a more general handheld gaming platform it can't be beat IMO.
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Another one here! Mostly playing Witcher 3 at the moment. And before that Disco Elysium.
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Been playing TOTK too much to pick the Deck up… Was playing Lone Fungus before, which ran really well.
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✋ here. I've been playing mostly Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.
How is the performance?
great. It was a little rough on release day, but the fact that it ran at all was surprising. Also stuttered for a little while at the start since it was compiling shaders. Now, for me anyway, all the kinks seem to have been worked out and it runs great. Better than some switch gameplay I've watched actually.
Ah nice I was tempted to switch over to my deck to play it but then I got bored and set it down. What kind of FPS do you get on it? 60 would be nice but im not crossing my fingers.
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Played Marlow Briggs over the weekend and about to start Dead Space (2008) for the first time ever
anybody with a deck tried modded minecraft? if i get one and it works i’ll probably end up having another one of those month-long minecraft phases haha
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Recently: Skyrim yet again, Portal 2
Currently: Horizon Zero Dawn, Wreckfest, Emulators
Next: Probably Cyberpunk. I started it a few months ago, but have been playing Horizon instead.
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