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PayPalWell, here's a bit of a nuisance. Ghost of Tsushima DIRECTOR'S CUT is launching on May 16th and the developers have explained how it will work on Steam Deck but it's a mixture of good and bad news.
Sadly on Steam Deck and presumably desktop Linux too, since they both use Proton, you'll only be able to play single-player. At least, for now, until Valve can sort out whatever the issues are preventing the online mode from working.
Here's what the developer said:
Steam Deck support
We know many of you are eager to play Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut on handheld gaming devices like the Steam Deck. We're happy to share that the single player experience, including the Iki Island expansion, can be enjoyed on Steam Deck and similar handheld gaming PCs as we’ve worked extensively to optimize performance and deliver the best possible experience on these devices.
You may notice that Steam marks the game as 'Unsupported' for Steam Deck. This is due to the Legends co-op multiplayer mode requiring Windows to access PlayStation Network integrated features.
For those confused, the game will have a brand new never-seen before PlayStation Overlay shipping in this game first, which hooks into the PlayStation Network for things like Friends, Trophies and more.
It may very well be the case that for now, Proton (the Windows compatibility layer), is just missing some features that need to be hooked up in a future Proton release. We've seen this sort of thing happen in the past and eventually Proton updates catch up with what's needed. So, all hope may not be lost, we just have to wait and see what Valve have to say about it. Concerning to see though, because no doubt a lot of future Sony PlayStation titles coming to PC will have this new PlayStation Network overlay. I've emailed Valve for info on this.
Worth pointing out at this point too, just like with Helldivers 2, the game has been restricted on Steam with various places unable to buy it due to the PSN requirement for the online mode.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
If they revoke the PSN requirement and lift the ban affecting 180 countries for all thier games then I will be happy to reconsider doing business but until that happens they are on the ban list for all PC and PS5 purchases. I will not tolerate bullying tactics from any corporation.
slaapliedje May 15
Yet we have the issue that games are mainly made for and supported on Windows, so Proton will always have to catch up when new features are implemented. Which is the waiting game, sometimes we're lucky and it's implemented rather quickly after release, sometimes it takes ages... and maybe it'll never be implemented.
I hope at some point we'll see devs reaching out to Valve or the Wine project to get their game supported before official release. Seeing them optimizing for Steam Deck and testing it is amazing already though.
Quoting: TevurIt's a shame that Sony at first secures a place in PC Gamers heart for bringing great games like Horizon, God of War, Returnal, Last of Us and more to PC and than so clumsily tear it down with this absolut very bullshit.
Why?
WHY? It makes absolutely no sense at all.
Most likely the executives at sony decided that a large increase in new PSN accounts would be the marker for success to the stock market. Unfortunately it appears that their stock price has recovered from the HD2 furor in the last 24 hours, so now those executives have proven this strategy works.
Quoting: PenglingQuoting: CatKillerThere are people on the Internet who say anything.Yeah, I know.
This one's been flagged as having PSN integration for ages, and was always going to be part of having PSN as a Rockstar/EA/Ubisoft-style parallel store and launcher move. The lesson recently was that you can't accidentally sell games that need a thing in countries where you don't have the thing.My point was simply that there were statements made just a matter of days ago, when people raised concerns, that've aged rather like milk.
I just found it kinda funny!
Not just random people, but even the developer tried to calm people down by saying that PSN will be required only in multiplayer. I guess they didn't know that Sony will delist the game everywhere, where their shitty service is not available, making the whole game basically same as requiring PSN.
Now the developer is basically saying they couldn't get the networking working on Steam Deck. This is not developer's or Valve's fault, that's on Sony too because they have made some new broken online service. If Sony would have let the developer use Steam networking services, we would not have any issues.
TLDR: Sony is forcing their half-cooked PSN network on everyone and everyone suffers because of that.
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