Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: MohandevirJust read a comment from a Windows user that Vampire Survivors has the same issue on Windows desktop. It seems it's not Deck specific.

Have you contacted the devs?

The developer didn't verify it, Valve did.

Not to sound too "tin foil hat", but isn't that the point? Valve has this really interesting position of being both necessary and almost invisible to the gamer at this point, especially with their involvement in the running of a game. No one's realistically going to blame Valve when a game doesn't work, even if it is genuinely Valve's fault ( proton, steam input... Etc). The fault is hidden from the user, we just see the game not working and blame the dev (who may not even be the source of the problem, let alone be able to fix it).

In a way it's a brilliant PR position to be in as Valve reaps the benefits of publicly supporting Linux (Proton! Steam Deck!) while dodging the major criticisms of hyping what is, essentially, an unsupported platform for many games (My games doesn't work!).

Either way, regardless of where the problems running the game come from, I do agree that if there's not some consistency with the Verified label, this thing is somewhat doomed.

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Quoting: BeamboomI wonder what their use case is for 15fps, that made it this high on the priority list...!

Battery life would be my guess. In a way, I would guess it's competing against the willingness of a person to carry it around. Like if it dies halfway through a commute, eventually one might not bother carrying it anymore and just use a phone, which they carry anyway.

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Quoting: EikeI wonder what I would want to play with 15 fps though.
Not even a point and click, right?

I'd venture almost anything turn based, puzzle, or where the animations are not fast or are secondary to the gameplay.

Off the top of my head games like:
Slay the spire
Dominions 5
RimWorld
Caves of Qud
Opus Magnum
Lit

I think there are lots of games that don't need a ton of FPS.

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Wonderful op-ed. I feel some of the problems mentioned here seem like the cavalier mentality of many tech corporations.

It if curiosity, did they onboard anyone for this? There's, what, 40+ years of console certification experience in the industry out there? I'd assume they'd bring an expert on board to help design the process.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyWith the magnifier, Stellaris looks surprisingly workable. I was not thinking that would be a game you'd want to play on the deck.

Me too. I'll admit I'm not the target audience for the Deck and am still a bit skeptical of it's success, but I must say it does appear to be a really nice device and launch (looking solely at the articles here).

I hope it does ok sales wise. It sounds like it certainly is.

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QuoteDestiny 2 is not supported for play on the Steam Deck or on any system utilizing Steam Play's Proton unless Windows is installed and running.

[J/k] So, I'm good running it in proton in SteamOs 3 in a VM in a Windows machine?
#LinuxWillHappen!
[/J/k]

Unless it's the same reasoning Epic gave with the Linux version of EAC for BattleEye, I really don't understand moves like this.

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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.

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

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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