Been playing the hell out of Haste.
I love endless runners and this does have an endless mode, but the main story and levels I’m loving more than I thought I would. It’s an amazing game. I came in with low expectations and was blown away
Eternal Strands. I’m loving it! I almost quit playing a few times in the first couple of hours but once you get into the loop of it and learn some more skills and combat techniques, things get amazing.
It has that same sense of wonder and exploration that I got from BOTW, even though it’s broken up into zones instead of one open world. It also takes a lot of great parts from Dragon’s Dogma, Shadow of the Colossus, and Monster Hunter, while still very much being its own thing. Plus, the loot is not overwhelming and feels meaningful, and you can re-spec all gear without penalty.
It’s all really streamlined to maximize fun.
Just wishlisted it. How’s it running on the deck?
It runs great. I haven’t checked FPS but it runs smoothly and I’ve never noticed any stuttering. I’m also super impressed with the draw distance. The ground sometimes has some graininess to it but it doesn’t bother me.
Fallout 4 for those end world vibes.
Waiting to see if Clair Obscura gets any performance patches. Heard mixed reviews about it running on Deck.
I’m playing Clair Obscur. It runs at about 30 fps if you put everything on Low and use TSR with 60% resolution.
Are the biomes really big? Have you experienced any dips in fps in higher demand areas?
So far every area seems to be relatively small. Like Doom 2016 arenas. Dungeons seem to be self contained and the Overworld is zoomed out, so it’s not so large either. Only stutters I have noticed where shortly after resuming from standby but they are gone after a minute. But I don’t play with an FPS counter visible so that’s only based on my feelings.
At the beginning there are huge crowds of people but that doesn’t seem to influence FPS at all. And at some points I was astonished at how good a cut scene looks, thinking it was pre recorded but then I noticed the characters wearing my custom clothes
In the end FPS are only important in the fights to hit the QTEs. And they are very limited in scope. Only effects could be a problem, that’s why they are most important to keep at Low.
Thank you. I was worried that it would slowdown in bigger areas. I heard the QTEs are punishing but happy to hear the game is playable.
I’m playing Clair Obscura and it’s running acceptably well by my standards.
The game hides some graphics settings on deck by default and uses a deck specific present. You can re-enable the settings by using the launch option
SteamDeck=0 %command%, and customize it to your liking. I’ve been following this video’s settings and have been pretty happy with the results. Basically it’s TSR to low, shadow and post processing to low, film grain off, chromatica off, motion blur off, any other option to medium, FPS cap to 30.Thanks for the video. Looks pretty good to me. I’m usually more concerned about stable framerate even if it’s 30fps. I’ll probably pick it up this weekend now.
Clair’s default graphics on Deck are unbelievably ugly, doing the SteamDeck=0 thing is mandatory. I was never great with reaction games, so the slight framerate loss means I go from “missing counters 98% of the time” to “missing counters 98.2% of the time”. I’ll take that.
not a deck, but a legion go and I am enjoying satisfactory a ton.
Valheim.
Valheim somehow still feels underrated to me even though it is a massively successful game, it is just so damn good at it’s fundamentals.
Astral ascent just got a new 2.0 update for like 10 bucks. Great little roguelite and I’m excited to play it again with the new content when I get home.
Pkmn unbound, magicraft, modded balatro
Heck of a time
V Rising. I’d rather play it on my desktop most of the time but I just want that couch chill at the end of the day
Have you had a chance to play it since the recent update? They completely re-did the controls on the Deck, right? I’d love to hear how it plays now, I’ve been eying it for a while.
I’ve been playing a lot of Nexomon Extinction, Slay the Princess, Sonic Mania, and Resident Evil 7
Currently playing:
- Senran Kagura Estival Versus
- Atelier Sophie DX
- Dragon Quest Builders
- Street Fighter V Champions Edition
- Kandagawa Jet Girls
- Langrisser I
- Muse Dash
- Fantasian Neo Dimension
Nova Drift, and then some more Nova Drift. Followed by a long session of Nova Drift. I think I need help.
Death Must Die. Just a few more runs, I swear.
I dont have one but for those that do can you play gta 5 online and rdr2 on the steam deck?
Rockstar recently switched to a kernel anti-cheat program that doesn’t support the deck, breaking online. You can still play the single player versions of those games, but not online unfortunately.
Darn you Rockstar.
Aurelia
Having looked that up, I’m curious how you hold your deck with only one hand.
https://getmechanism.com/en-ca/products/gaming-pillow
If there’s a will, there’s a way.
Late to the party, but I recently closed a (re-)playthrough of Mass Effect I Legendary Edition.
I’m now moving onto Dishonored, a saga that I completely ignored being massively bad at stealth games, plus a bit of Spacebourne 2 here and there
