After some more testing, one thing I have found on Steam Deck is that you can use the built-in gamepad controls. However, they only seem to work correctly in battles. The entire menu / lobby and god selection seems to not work with gamepad controls. So you can use touch screen, emulated mouse input or hold the STEAM button to activate mouse cursor. Seems this is a problem even on Windows going back years [External Link].

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Quoting: GuestI just spent all last night dragged in by some friends who got a sudden interest in the game, some good timing on this working. Desktop controller seems to work for me after setting the Enable Steam Input override in controller settings (rather than Use default) for the game; after that the game recognized it. My DS4 works fine now with no custom layout needed.

I have the exact same issue across Fedora and Steam Deck. The gamepad controls only work in battles, not in the main menu / lobby. Disabling / Forcing On Steam Input makes no difference on desktop (you can't do that in Gaming Mode on Steam Deck).

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Quoting: Farmboy0I get this error too sometimes but SteamVR works anyway.
One way to get rid of it I found is to delete ~/.steam/root/config/steamvr.vrsettings
Make sure you are on stable SteamVr the beta currently has problems.

Sadly that did not help in this case.

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*me remembering being killed by the boars quite a few times when first starting* :whistle: :whistle:

The difficulty absolutely isn't for everyone, and even some bits that aren't "difficult" can certainly be a challenge for people. Valheim is quite a brutal game, and anyone saying differently probably has played it a long time now.

Their upcoming upgrade with difficulty sliders should solve the early rough starts for people to learn it more.

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Quoting: melkemindThis is a game I'm definitely not going to play on the Steam Deck. I'll likely play it on my TV. While I'm glad Linux creators are making Steam Deck content, it would be nice if someone was still running tests and doing benchmarks on desktop Linux for games like this.

Well, this article is clearly for people wanting to run it on Steam Deck. For desktop, I noted in my original article it was running fine.

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Quoting: undeadbydawn

Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: undeadbydawnHalls of Torment is also excellent (the native build is currently bugged, so use Proton)

I just did a full game with the Native build without a problem...

Shield Maiden War Hammer did zero damage over 4 runs, making the 'Direct Hits' achievement somewhat tricky. Worked perfectly under Proton, allowing me to hit 100%

Have you reported the issue to the developer?

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Quoting: CGull

Quoting: Liam DaweIf it was financially worth it, they would do it and they would have kept it up with other changes in the background. Debate the finer details of what it all would entail, and what they should have done, but the reasoning is exactly as I said and anyone saying otherwise at this point is deluded.

As the renowned Dr. Pangloss teaches, this is the best of all possible worlds. It follows that no company would ever do anything unwise or unpleasant, unless it was to do something even wiser and more pleasant. If they removed the ability of a large number of existing customers who bought a game as Linux native, they must have had sufficient reason. No game publisher can ever be criticized for anything it does in this, the best of all possible worlds.

But doesn't this argument mean that nobody should ever write Linux native games? And can't we extend the same argument to cover other software as well? If we have Proton, why do we even need the Linux userland? The entire purpose of Linux is to run Windows applications.

It’s not complicated. Game devs and pubs are a business in it to make money. Linux isn’t worth it enough to support Native. See my video [External Link] for more.

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Quoting: undeadbydawnHalls of Torment is also excellent (the native build is currently bugged, so use Proton)

I just did a full game with the Native build without a problem...

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Have removed my previous comment, as I can understand the sentiment about the Native talk considering Frictional’s history.

Just please keep in mind the posting rules, as complaining about Native ports in general on articles about games run through Proton is not something I keep wanting to see but here I get it.

Happy gaming ✌️

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Quoting: DrMcCoy

but the ultimate reason is pretty much the same as always — Linux and Steam Deck together hold a less than 2% user share on Steam

Sorry, but no, that's wrong. The reason is this:

due to the Linux version being on an older version of the PAYDAY 2 engine

I.e. a terrible development environment, the developers being bad at their job.

What I said still isn't wrong. If it was financially worth it, they would do it and they would have kept it up with other changes in the background. Debate the finer details of what it all would entail, and what they should have done, but the reasoning is exactly as I said and anyone saying otherwise at this point is deluded.

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