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supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Xonotic by far and away!

You might wonder how the hell you play one of the fastest Quake multiplayer derived shooters in existence using the joysticks on the Steam Deck (the answer is Gyroscope massively complements Joystick aiming once you get used to it). Check out my post on the Xonotic forums detailing the important bits of the control scheme.

forums.xonotic.org/showthread.php?tid=9846

I am dead serious the Steam Deck should just come preinstalled with Xonotic and a control scheme like this, it is brilliant and Xonotic is probably the most resource efficient 3D competitive multiplayer game in existence.

Of course I love the shit out of open source games and the communities that maintain and love them so there are gonna be a bunch.

Beyond All Reason

www.beyondallreason.info

Beyond All Reason is the latest in over a decade of Total Annihilation inspired games made on the open source Spring Engine. Brilliant game and like the original Total Annihilation being able to hold shift and que up many commands as well as easily instruct units into formations makes playing BAR so much less of a headache than trying to micro the shit out of everything in a game like StarCraft. Also unlike StarCraft the fighters and bombers actually fly around like planes instead of being land units except they hover.

Really all you have to do to get the Steam Deck’s controls working well is bind a key to toggle gyroscope so you can use it for making your quick fiddly mouse movements with the joysticks perfectly precise and figure out what key you want to bind shift to in order to make queuing orders up for a unit easy to do.

Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead taught me that in the apocalypse bicycles and slings (NOT slingshots) will be your two most useful tools. Or roller skates lol. Seriously though I love this game and the community around it from the bottom of my heart, what a stunning tour de force of an open world survival game. Check out the Sky Islands Mod if the main game doesn’t feel focused enough to you. Also please join the Lemmy community around Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, there is a decent amount of activity and it would be a perfect place to ask new questions as a newbie!

sopuli.xyz/c/cataclysmdda@lemmy.ml

I don’t have a control scheme for this one yet, but I have no doubt it will be easier to play this game on a Steam Deck than a normal laptop without the number pad (we can just use one of the joysticks!).

Rigs Of Rods An odd one, an old one, but it is an open source driving game with advanced physics. If the point of the Steam Deck is to play games in contexts that you otherwise would never have been able to, having a game you can mindlessly drive around and crash into things while watching how pretty and cool it looks is a no brainer. This game has years and years of updates and is a quasi-predecessor to BeamNG which is another superb game (though not as resource efficient I believe). It also actually has a more generalist, capable engine than BeamNG appears to (with vehicles being able to have fully articulating parts like cranes that interact with the world).

I really think this game will just keep chugging along doing it’s own thing long into the foreseeable future.

rigsofrods.org

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