Playing Helldivers 2. My brother on the desktop on the living room TV. Me on the SteamDeck on the couch next to him. Playing co-op together.
This is how I play BG3 with my husband! Works great
Never occurred to me to use it this way until my brother came to visit.
Submitted 7 months ago by helenslunch@feddit.nl to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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girl@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
scrawdaddy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How does bg3 play on the deck? Enjoyable?
girl@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
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.
HeapOfDogs@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What desk is the RGB keyboard on? I play a lot from my couch so always on the lookout for anything that makes keyboards and nice easier to use.
Xanthrax@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If you look up “Couch Desk” on amazon, they have a lot of similar options. Some that look even better. I use a lap desk personally.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
It’s one of those end tables that slides under the couch. Not ideal. I don’t know how he played like that, I would have been horribly uncomfortable.
DaCrazyJamez@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
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.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
The most use my steam deck has had is playing guild wars 2 couch coop style with a friend. I have a wireless mouse and keyboard* and it’s been fun.
- Actually 3 keyboards because the company shipped the wrong one twice. I’m keyboard rich.
Crowfiend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
My brother in Christ, how did couch co-op on steam deck take this long to become an idea? Did you think they would need a steam deck as well in order for it to work? Did you never consider the steam deck’s biggest selling point (mobility)?
This is some low-bar NoStupidQuestions level shit. Downvote me for being mean if you must but anyone reading this knows I’m right.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
how did couch co-op on steam deck take this long to become an idea?
Well I most play single player. When I do play with others, it’s usually from our respective homes. But my brother found himself in town and we both wanted to play and that forced me to think about how we could both do that.
Did you never consider the steam deck’s biggest selling point (mobility)?
I did. I play it all over the house and even at my office sometimes.
Downvote me for being mean
Okay.
Rooki@lemmy.world 7 months ago
couch co-op is something a game has to implement, not the console. You could do that over with a dedicated pc where all the steam decks remote steam play on it and boom you have 4 remote controllers ( Untested because i dont have so many friends with steamdeck )
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
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)
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
You know you could do that since forever with a laptop, yeah?
Dunno, gaming laptops never appealed to me.
thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 7 months ago
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
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Oh I have no advice. Aiming with a controller is just terrible. I’m just not a “serious” gamer, and 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.
muse@fedia.io 7 months ago
The controls are near-exact match for match to Metal Gear Solid V, a game made for controller and kb+m. I prefer gamepad/steam deck to this game, hard disagree it's terrible
TheRedSpade@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Aiming with a controller is just going to be terrible.
In general I’d agree, but on the deck why would you not use the trackpad as a mouse for anything first-person?
aniki@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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.
Dragonmind@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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?
Pea666@feddit.nl 7 months ago
Not a Steamdeck or PC user but it works just fine on console with a controller.
Zoot@reddthat.com 7 months ago
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.
saintshenanigans@programming.dev 7 months ago
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
nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
In some games, using the trackpad is super useful. Like if mouse-aiming in X3TC.
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Clean your camera lens
GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 months ago
They aren’t nudes, chill
PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Doesn’t matter; finished anyways /s
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
It’s not dirty, fool.
It was using night sight and indicated it was done before it actually was, which led to the smearing.
thurstylark@lemm.ee 7 months ago
My partner and I are playing through Bokuro this way, and it’s so much fun :D
ricdeh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Cool with regard to the Steam Deck, but ugh, Helldivers 2 is sooo pay-to-win…
saintshenanigans@programming.dev 7 months ago
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.
Firipu@startrek.website 7 months ago
Pay 2 win? Where? Genuine question. Played it for 40h after launch, never once felt like paying money?
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
You’re paying with your time in the queue
Crashumbc@lemmy.world 7 months ago
How is co-op mode?
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
I don’t think there is a co-op “mode”, it’s co-op only.
HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 7 months ago
That’s badass!
Senseless@feddit.de 7 months ago
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 7 months ago
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.
aesopjah@lemm.ee 7 months ago
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