Quoting: pbHow is the game on steam deck? Is it now possible to reassign controls? I played it years ago and it had only a few predefined controller schemes, but they were all awkward so I preferred playing with mouse+kb even on the couch. :unsure:

I can't speak for the Deck, but I started playing it a few weeks ago with a Steam Controller. The default is pretty good although I did some tweaks (changed the camera control to be more trackball like, added basic gyro aiming, a few other minor things). I'm not much of a controller person, so it probably took me longer to get it "right" than most.

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Quoting: gradyvuckovic

Quoting: mt>"then he went back to his van and grabbed us each a Deck."

Were those extra Decks meant for other people who ended up not getting one, or were those already meant to be for being given away?

I imagine they were fully expecting someone to approach them and say 'Hey can we have a Steam Deck!?' and came prepared just in case.

The more skeptical/cynical side of me wonders if it's all a marketing stunt.

But it is super cool if some random people did get some freebies. Very classy

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Really good game, lots of fun. I do kinda wonder how it would do with the smaller screen.

It worked be a fun one while
To play while waiting on the bus/sub/train... Until you get too into the game and realized your missed your ride, lol.

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: elmapulyou need an comparision point... eg: test it on windows too.
i saw a lot of reports on protonDB from people who never played an particular game saying it run flawless on linux, then you open the game and... where are the cutscenes? where is the video behind the title screen?

If they didn’t notice something is wrong, then Proton did its job nicely :grin:

Lol, until the players review bomb the devs because the story "was too confusing" and the ending was "abrupt". J/K.

While I say it in jest, I do remember seeing a post a long time ago where a Linux user "discovered" the opening cutscenes for Witcher 3, having never known it was missing.

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I'm not sure I want a simulator of my day job, lol.

Although, simulated "work gossip" could be amazing!

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That makes sense.

I do have a question for those that own one. How is the desktop mode on the deck, like not with an extra keyboard and monitor? For some reason, I guess I worry it looks a little small?

I'm imagining this use case say for traveling/commuting, but maybe I'm wrong?

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Dwarf Fortress is awesome. It introduced me into the whole "small scale" builder thing. I don't think I would have played RimWorld or Factorio (two of my most favorite games) without Dwarf Fortress.

I remember when I had this "genius" idea to make an underground power station by rerouting the river via a subterranean channel under my fortress... Apparently dwarves do not float well and my colony got swept away by the current...

...I'll never be civic engineer....

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Thanks for the article! This actually looks very nice!!

In regards to remote play:

In my own testing, over WiFi the experience was not great

To be fair, that might not be the Deck or your Network. That may just be Remote Play. For me, over the past 2 years, it's gotten worse with audio/video corruption on the same hardware (wired network). I actually see the criticism you mentioned concerning Valve flip flopping as potentially being valid here.

Feel free to let me know in the comments what other types of Steam Deck content you want to see!

I'd love to know more about the battery's longevity over a longer term. Has it shown any signs of degradation so far?

Also, how hard/awkward is it to play while it's plugged in?

Thanks again for the review. That was wonderful!

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Hope the developer and their family/friends are ok.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: EssemI'm kind of confused in regards to how it was verified when the game doesn't seem to work out of the box.

Verified for Deck, which is different to all the distros on desktop.

I was kinda wondering the same thing. Thanks for explaining it. Hopefully they get the Linux desktop part sorted out quickly.

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