I would see what digital foundry says before playing it on deck. They have been very good at settings recommendations and performance reviews for games.
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beto@lemmy.studio 10 months ago
Has anyone played it on the Deck yet? What’s the experience like?
Usereric1@lemmy.world 10 months ago
quinten@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Hope the text is not too small though
MimicJar@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Played for the last few hours on my new Steam Deck (the one with the big disk). Game wouldn’t load and I had to select Experimental Proton or whatever it’s called.
Once I did everything has been fine.
Playing handheld and I’ve had no issues.
The text is readable, but it is smaller than I’d like. I haven’t played with any settings so maybe I can fix that. But not an issue while playing.
I’m sure some graphics aren’t optimized or something but the game plays and I’m happy.
Bluefold@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m playing docked on the Deck. Animations, and cut scenes play really well. If you can, I’d recommend using a Bluetooth controller as I’ve found the deck specific controls to not be the best. The controller UI takes a little getting used to but it is pretty good now I’ve been playing a few hours.
The biggest negative is, naturally, the graphics. It’s smooth enough, there is just a lot of blurriness and weird edging I can’t get rid of on any setting. In the close up cut scenes that pretty much goes away. That said, I’m still having a lot of fun and none of that was a deal breaker for me.
The one ‘annoying’ thing that has happened is I’m the video cut scenes there is quite a significant audio delay. It is not there for the in-engine ones or during combat. I’ve only seen two of these though and they’re right at the start of the game. I just watched on YouTube to see them properly.
Madiator2011@lm.madiator.cloud 10 months ago
Not tested version that came today but saying do not think it’s perfect game for deck as most actions relay on using mouse. Also game has some issues with Vulcan so for now I’m using Direct X
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 10 months ago
I have. One small caveat is that I was using the deck to stream it from my Desktop where I have much better hardware (and I’ve noticed that some games play differently locally on the Deck vs streaming, so YMMV).
I played probably 2 hours so far. I wasn’t able to get the controls to work comfortably. I tried 2 of the top listed control configs without much success.
There are a lot of camera controls, like camera rotation, elevation changes, etc and they just aren’t intuitive. One mapped camera rotation to L1 and R1, one mapped it to the back L and R keys (L4 and R4 I think).
None of the configs seemed to support using the analog sticks or d-pad to navigate/make ui selections so instead you’re stuck using the right touchpad to control the mouse cursor and R2 for selecting/left click.
If anyone has any suggestions, I’m itching to play it, but until I find a better solution keyboard and mouse might be the best way.
treefrog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Thanks!
I don’t have a steam deck but do have chronic neck issues so playing mouse and keyboard is no longer an option for me.
If the controller support isn’t good I’m going to pass for now.
Sharpiemarker@feddit.de 10 months ago
It’s like looking in a very hunched over mirror lol. Same neck issues, friend. It’s been a difficult transition to couch gaming but the steam deck helps bridge the gap. Can’t recommend it enough.
Bluefold@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Controller support is pretty good. I’m playing with a PS5 controller and pretty much the whole interface has been redesigned to fit it. It feels like it was an experience designed to fit the systems of the game opposed to fit a controller onto the PC release of the game.
Most annoying for me was End Turn was mapped to Y/Triangle and I kept pressing it. I swapped it to R2 and haven’t had any more slipups.
There’s refinements and QoL changes to be made for sure, but I’ve been surprised at how well it plays so far.
treefrog@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Cool I use a ps controller too.
I’ll have to check the game out once my cash flow improved.
KiofKi@feddit.de 10 months ago
I’m playing with controller and it works just fine. Only thing I could not yet figure out was how to make t gf e whole party sneak at once.
beto@lemmy.studio 10 months ago
Thanks! I guess I’ll wait a little bit then before giving it a try.
hoodatninja@kbin.social 10 months ago
Thanks for the insight this answered a lot of questions re: playing on my deck as well