Playing Helldivers 2. My brother on the desktop on the living room TV. Me on the SteamDeck on the couch next to him. Playing co-op together.
I’m so happy Valve pushed the Steam deck the way they did. Didn’t expect many games, let alone, Helldivers 2 to run on Linux but it runs first try. No tinkering, nothing.
Yeah it doesn’t run great and I won’t be doing it often (I don’t like playing shooters with controllers anyway) but worked well enough for this particular use-case.
The desktop was Linux also 😃
E: to be clear, it ran very smooth at ~55FPS, with no frame drops, but with lots of jaggies. Icons are illegible even on my 75" TV.
You know you could do that since forever with a laptop, yeah?
Laptop gamers are having LAN parties every single day.
Even though I have multiple desktops, I couldn’t live without the flexibility of gaming wherever I want. It becomes so much more social if the person you are playing with sits next to you.
But good on you that you discovered the wonderfulness that is LAN. (yeah I know it is online, you get what I am saying)
You know you could do that since forever with a laptop, yeah?
Dunno, gaming laptops never appealed to me.
This is how I play BG3 with my husband! Works great
ETA: my husband did set up his PS5 controller to work on his laptop so he doesnt have to hunch over to use a mouse/keyboard, highly recommend
How does bg3 play on the deck? Enjoyable?
Absolutely, I love it. I play with medium environmental graphics, high cutscene/character graphics, and it work great 95% of the time. Sometimes parts of the environment take a minute to load, like the walls of building I fast travel near, and hair always looks kinda shitty no matter how high the graphics. Otherwise, no complaints.
How is co-op mode?
I don’t think there is a co-op “mode”, it’s co-op only.
Do you have any controller tweaks to make aiming easier on deck? Maybe a skill issue, but in the chaos it gets real hard to hit anything in my experience
Turn on gyro, gyro to mouse, enable on right stick touch. You’ll have to play with the sensitivity settings and practice some, but aim macro with stick and use the gyro to fine tune
Aiming with a controller is just going to be terrible. I’m just not a “serious” gamer, and we were playing beginner missions (literally my first time ever playing this game).
In theory you could probably get very good at it using the gyros but there’s a pretty big learning curve there.
Manually adjusting the deadzones will help a lot also.
The controls are near-exact match for match to Metal Gear Solid V, a game made for controller and kb+m. I prefer gamepad/steam deck to this game, hard disagree it’s terrible
Well you’re entitled to your (wrong) opinions 🤪
Agreed, which is why my post was a kindly worded “sounds like a skill issue bro” post
Little of column A, little of column B.
Aiming with a controller is just going to be terrible.
In general I’d agree, but on the deck why would you not use the trackpad as a mouse for anything first-person?
Because that’s even worse than an analog stick? 😂
Well to each their own, but the only thing closer than the trackpad to a mouse would be a mouse.
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Gyro on the LEFT stick is interesting. I usually have mine always on, but I guess with the track pad and everything you don’t need to reach for the d-pad?
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Always on is the way to go
Always on means you can’t ratchet the gyro to reset your hands position
There’s more then one way to gyro, so I guess I shouldn’t have said it’s THE way to go. But it’s my preference. I treat gyro as an aggressive auto aim without the auto. Large motions are still controlled by the right joystick or touchpad, I just gyro for the fine, fast aiming. I’ve never felt the need to ratchet, I can reorient by swiping the touchpad intuitively.
I don’t use my touch pad a whole lot, so maybe i should test it out some! Ill give your way a shot sometime soon lol
But in general i prefer my alpakka controller to the steam one anyway, super smooth gyro
Oh, I’ve heard of the alpakka! That one is pretty unique, looks really effective though once you get the hang of it. If you didn’t know, there’s also “flick stick”, which is a gyro technique distinct from either. Personally, I’m hoping for a steam controller 2. The deck feels much more natural in my hands than the original steam controller did
What desk is the RGB keyboard on? I play a lot from my couch so always on the lookout for anything that makes keyboards and nice easier to use.
If you look up “Couch Desk” they have a lot of similar options. Some that look even better. I use a lap desk personally.
Don’t use it to eat and watch TV, or you’ll NEVER use your kitchen table again.
It’s one of those end tables that slides under the couch. Not ideal. I don’t know how he played like that, I would have been horribly uncomfortable.
Clean your camera lens
It’s not dirty, fool.
It was using night sight and indicated it was done before it actually was, which led to the smearing.
They aren’t nudes, chill
Doesn’t matter; finished anyways
Own your brand, get that /s the fuck outta here
You right
have you ever even seen a nude
What are you, a cop?
Depeneds, do you have any nudes?
Cool with regard to the Steam Deck, but ugh, Helldivers 2 is sooo pay-to-win…
Helldivers actually has the least intrusive monetization model i’ve ever seen, please stfu if you haven’t actually played the game. You people are damaging the industry.
Pay 2 win? Where? Genuine question. Played it for 40h after launch, never once felt like paying money?
You’re paying with your time in the queue
They fixed that weeks ago
Haven’t seen a queue in ages tbh. Weak argument, not to mention that it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever
