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.
I've been playing it by streaming from my home PC using moonlight. runs well and the battery lasts a long time.
still have the issue of trying to play helldivers with controller, but it's better. and theoretically since it's not doing the rendering you can hook up an external monitor plus m+k and it'll still run well
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.
I finally bit the bullet and bought a Razer Turret when it was on sale for like 190USD. It blows every other lap-board combo Ive used out of the water.
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)
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
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.
I've played a few FPSes on my Deck and I always map the joystick to medium sensitivity and the right track pad to low sensitivity and then enable gyro if the left stick is being touched so I have two ways of precision aiming. If the game supports it I map left stick click with 180 spin which covers almost all of the necessary movements.
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?
Try weapons like the punisher. I'm a deck only user, and while I've gotten rather good with the dominator, the punisher helped me get good so to speak with lots of spraying and praying.
I play on helldiver difficulty with my deck, so it is possible.
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
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.