• Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
    15·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been playing a whole lot of Monster Hunter Rise. It runs really good, great performance and battery life (which makes sense considering it was originally a switch game). It’s my first real Monster Hunter game and I’m having a great time with it.

    Only issues I’ve encountered: switching between docked and handheld play causes a minor fps drop until I restart the game. The game also has a utterly bizarre bug where if you’re playing with a controller designated as the 2nd player controller, any monster roar will drop the fps to 0 for like a minute. Super bizarre, no idea what kind of spaghetti code could cause that.

    Edit: for anyone interested, Fanatical has a build your own monster hunter bundle right now that’s an incredibly good deal. Can get MH Rise + it’s big Sunbreak expansion for $11, previous best deal I had seen was $18 for the two. They also have MH World and a lot of other past MH games.

    • n0xew@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      It does look like a nice deck game. I only ever played World, but I eventually got tired by the endless grind. How is Rise in this regard?

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzOPMEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        I haven’t played world, so unfortunately I can’t make a comparison. There’s definitely grinding to do though, hopefully someone who has played both can comment about it.

  • Aviandelight @mander.xyz
    13·
    2 months ago

    I recently bought the Cat Quest trilogy. I played the first two on my switch but the third one just came out and Steam did the whole bundle at a discount so I snagged it. Been enjoying replaying the first two before I start on the new one.

  • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
    9·
    2 months ago

    I use moonlight to stream my pc to my steam deck. It automatically sets the resolution and refresh rate when i connect. It amazing.

    I’ve been playing red dead redemption 2 and i just finished crime scene cleaner yesterday. and as always, genshin impact.

    • twistypencil@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 months ago

      Can you say why you do that? It’s it because you can play with better quality settings because you offload the work to your pc?

      • scutiger@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Not OP, but that’s one part of it. You can turn down graphics, and games will still look fine on the small screen, but some games just need some extra power.

        I haven’t played RDR2 but something like Returnal runs okayish on the Deck, but runs great on my PC. If I want good framerates on the Deck, I need to turn everything down, and it’s acceptable on the go, but at home I could run it at 60 fps easy with better graphics if I stream it.

      • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 months ago

        Yeah i like it that i can play the game on the highest quality and it makes the steam deck less hot and the battery last waaaaay longer :)

        I also have it connected to my tv a lot so i can play pc games in 4k on the couch.

        I also tend to switch between the steam deck and pc multiple times in a day, so having everything on one system is really nice.

        Games like vampire survivor, emulators, bind of isaac, olders games etc, i play on the steam deck directly. But having immediate access to my xbox games pass library is also really nice ^^

    • thetreesaysbark@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 months ago

      Any (especially input) lag? When I was using steam stream about 5 years ago any quick reaction based game was a no go die to the input lag between my well specxed pc and crappy laptop.

      • RageAgainstTheRich@lemmy.world
        3·
        2 months ago

        Honestly non at all. I even took a video once with my phone of my steam deck screen next to the pc monitor and the frames were perfectly in sync. The input feels native and i have zero latency with that. I remember years ago it indeed wasn’t that good. But nowadays its so perfect!

        I even play competitive counter strike that way.

        The stats show around 1ms. And that is network and decoding combined.

        As long as you are at home, its indistinguishable from directly plugging in a mouse+keyboard and monitor.

    • Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      2 months ago

      Is it pretty feasible to install kotor 2 restored content mod? I vaguely remember it being available on steam workshop.

      • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
        3·
        2 months ago

        There are instructions for both games on reddit and they even give tips for Linux. Important on Linux is that the directory is set to case insensitive. Otherwise you will have problems because files from several mods are duplicated.

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          1·
          2 months ago

          Yeah I don’t necessarily disagree with the idea of making file paths case sensitive (i.e. usr/Folder/ is a different directory than usr/folder and same for files), but it is definitely a big mind fuck coming from an operating system where things aren’t really case sensitive in that way.

        • Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          2 months ago

          Nice! Yeah I will do my own research when/if I decide to play them again on deck. Thank you for the heads up.

      • gothic_lemons@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        So sadly I have Kotor via Gog so I don’t have access to the steam store.

        I believe if you have a steam copy the restored content mod is available via the workshop

        I’ve been too lazy to install it via nexus or elsewhere

  • Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 months ago

    For some reason I’ve played Noita for the past month. Every time I’ve started to get bored I get a good run and the game dumps something new and interesting on my lap.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 months ago

      i havent tried it but you arent alone in feeling like it has staying power as a roguelike, people talk about it really highly even after long amounts of play time in my experience.

  • Noxious@fedia.io
    5·
    2 months ago

    I’ve been addicted to Unrailed recently, it’s genuinely a great game that (at least for me) never gets boring. I’m desperately waiting for Unrailed 2. Even the multiplayer works really well on the Steam Deck/Linux in general.

    • scutiger@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 months ago

      I’m gonna pick up Selaco again at some point, but my experience with it so far has been just okay. I’m particularly annoyed at the color schemes and the dark areas combining with the low resolution to make enemies really hard to see. Sometimes I’m low health and sneaking around to avoid being seen, and I look down a dark hallway, see nothing at all, and then bullets start flying at me and I don’t see the enemies themselves until they come closer.

      • _spiffy@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I keep getting lost! But then I find secrets I walked by and vacuums I can pet so it’s worth it. But the colours can be really difficult. I find I use the flashlight quite a bit while exploring. I’ve been playing half on the OLED steam deck and the other half on my PC(standard LED) and the colours seem better on the steam deck.

  • Water_Melon_boy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    Elden Ring & Resident Evil 6!

    Elden Ring: Man this game is so long but fun. I just can’t help myself playing this game everywhere. Somehow getting my ass kicked, and winning a fight or two time to time, kills time so efficiency.

    RE6: Despite it’s bad rep, it’s a really good game for couch coop on a TV. The performance was great, and just really enjoyable when laughing at bugs & absurd writing with friends.

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 months ago

      If at first you crash and burn… well I mean it is Beam Ng so doesnt that mean you are actually playing the game right?

      • Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        Tbh the physics makes crashes pretty fun. I do a lot of driving for my job and try to be a responsible, careful driver. So it’s nice to fire up the steam deck sometimes and drive like a complete wanker!

        • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          1 month ago

          careful just like how violent video games will make you a stone cold killer addicted to violence eventually the addiction to speed will consume you until you become a lawless street racer straight out of midnight club. I have seen it happen over and over again to friends, eventually consequences always catch up with them… and they always end up losing their car in pink slip races to some new guy to the street racing scene who is shooting up the ranks improbably quickly and even has the eye of the coolest-most-badass street racer’s hot ex (who also street races)… it is a damn shame .