supersquirrel
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- Comment on I love Easy Red 2 on my deck! 15 hours ago:
It is good, idk, it isn’t flashy but if you give the gameplay a try it is just good. It isn’t really arcadey like bf2 though, everything is very lethal.
Also the big “swingset frame” looking structure repairs and rearms vehicles.
- Comment on Using the Steam Deck docked has been a dreadful experience for me. Is it just me going wrong? 18 hours ago:
Nah it isn’t ideal, I wanted to make a post about it eventually but I wanted to try some third party docks and/or see if updates fixed it.
What I have figured out is that the best way to use the dock is to boot the steam deck up not connected to the dock, get it to the home screen and then connect it to the dock. I find this has the best chance of inititating everything right.
Make sure to check the controller order under the control settings for a particular game, use change who is the number 1 control input easily once you learn where it is, and that can help some of the problems that arise.
I don’t have any performance issues, but not that if you try to run a really high resolution tv at anywhere near a native resolution the steam deck just is going to quickly be outclassed by the performance demands. So idk, 720p sounds suspiciously low though, try checking the settings (under the lefthand bar) and examining how the display settings are set. Change it to native or some other setting and see if that helps, it might be that the settings are keeping your steam deck from jumping up to a higher resolution. Same thing with framerate lock, which you can check under the righthand bar, I recommend setting framelock settings (maximum framerate) on a pergame basis.
- Comment on HP hasn't made an OMEN gaming handheld because of Windows, but they are open to making a SteamOS-powered handheld 18 hours ago:
Look, same, but just for the fun of it I like to imagine there is some magic point here where HP decides to make a steam deck os handheld, but doesn’t give a shit enough to focus on loading it up with shovelware, they just sort of say ok lets make a handheld that can run steamos and just focus on the hardware, leave em to the wolves I mean steam support.
They can make decent hardware, at least on their business laptops, it can be wildly inconsistent, kind of reminds me of like an audi car (at least in the US) some of them are actually pretty decent and reliable but some of them are fucking horror stories that never end for the owner lol…
- Submitted 23 hours ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 4 comments
- Easy Red 2, a cross-platform multiplayer, big map vehicle battlefield-like, announces new Shanghai-Nanking DLC and PS4/PS5 release!store.steampowered.com ↗Submitted 23 hours ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on land games? 4 days ago:
Stunt Rally 3 and it has splitscreen.
- Comment on The UN contacted Helldivers 2 studio about giving a talk on "psychological defense against manipulation" 5 days ago:
Yeah, the vibe of most Helldivers streamers I see is not “this is satire” rather it feels like they lean as hard as they can into the military propaganda vibes, but it doesn’t feel subversive to me at all even though on paper it is.
- Comment on Virtue or Vice? A First Look at Paragon’s Proliferating Spyware Operations: Researchers name several countries as potential Paragon spyware customers. 6 days ago:
Why is that framed as a question? How the fuck is this a virtue? Israel is wildly out of control and actively commiting genocide of Palestinians.
This is bad, period.
- Comment on Steam Deck / Gaming News #6 6 days ago:
hell yeah on the revolt server
- Comment on Trump plan to fund Musk’s Starlink over fiber called “betrayal” of rural US 1 week ago:
This had the potential to change so many lives for the better :(
- Comment on [Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube 1 week ago:
they have been acting sketch af
- Comment on [Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube 1 week ago:
FYI it is a good time to move away from firefox given recent events at mozilla.
I have been liking Librewolf which is on the discover app downloader in desktop mode.
- Comment on Cheat Sheet Solution For Steam Deck Control Schemes? 2 weeks ago:
Here is a quick dirty outline I made in inkscape, lemmy won’t let you upload .svg files or anything, but whatever, maybe this will be a helpful quick starting point for someone.
- Comment on Cheat Sheet Solution For Steam Deck Control Schemes? 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if you could make a script that would read a steamdeck control scheme file and convert it to an html or .svg or equivalent along with editable text boxes for putting a short description, author name, game name etc.
- Comment on Cheat Sheet Solution For Steam Deck Control Schemes? 2 weeks ago:
I am kind of confused, I seem to remember the front steam deck control page didn’t really display all the information.
I have two main complaints with this display.
I think the button that switches between Action Sets should be highlighted and unmistakably obvious given how important that is to learning the control scheme (and how utterly confusing it is when you switch into a different action set by accident in a new unfamiliar control scheme for a game).
Virtual menus should also be displayed on the control scheme front page as they appear when they are displayed on screen in use, there should be a view that displays all of the keybindings visually for the steamdeck and then below it should be a display of all the virtual menus used with indicators of what control inputs those menus correspond to.
I also think there is a deeper issue with the steamdeck control scheme display here though, any good control scheme is going to be best conveyed by a visual aid and a short text description of not only the specifics of the control scheme but more importantly the motivation and general concept of the control scheme. Adapting a complex games with many keybindings like Beyond All Reason, Armored Brigade, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, Cold Waters, Wayward etc. require not just an intuitive and practically usable mapping of the game’s full core control scheme but also a thoughtful approach and organization of the control scheme into something that can be saliently encapsulated by a keybindings cheatsheet.
What I am trying to say is that the endgoal of any good complex control scheme for the Steam Deck that adapts a complex mouse and keyboard game to the onboard controls of the deck is to have a control scheme that you can easily make a keybindings cheatsheet for, so why not include some functionality of creating a cheatsheet WITHIN Steam’s interface itself? Make it purely basic .svg graphics, no raster images so there isn’t a big risk with offensive content or anything, it takes up basically no additional storage space either.
You are right though, the default control scheme display has gotten a lot better.
I think what I will do is take a screenshot, convert the main shapes into an .svg image and then maybe upload/share it somewhere? Is there somewhere that would make sense to share an .svg template for steam deck control schemes to this lemmy community? Can I just directly upload an .svg?
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz | 6 comments
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 2 weeks ago:
oh yeah it is more of a 2$ game
- Comment on What are some light-hearted, feel-good, comforting games to play on the deck? 2 weeks ago:
big list
___ Alba Mutazione Farm Together 2 (looks like a mobile game, it is fun! It is a great co-op optional game (splitscreen too)) Original Peggle and Peggle Nights Crops! Monster Train Death Road To Canada Everdell Flipon Garden Galaxy Holocure Intergalactic Fishing Jelly Car Worlds Lego DC Villains Liftoff Luck Be A Landlord Master Of Potter MixoLumia Monster Hunter: Worlds or Rise Monster Sanctuary Moonring MotorTown Mountain Mutant Football League Nickolodeon Kart Racer 2 Old Market Simulator Omega Strikers Ozymandias Panorama Urbo Paperball Petal Crash Patron Pikuniku Placid Plastic Duck Simulator Original Plants vs Zombies Plateup Raid: World War II lol i know but its 2025 so shooting nazis is relaxing for me Rock Of Ages 1-3 Roadwarden Rubber Bandist Roundguard Peglin Sailwind Samorost 3 Saleblazers Shipped Shovel Knight Slipways Snakebird Snowrunner Steep Strange Horticulture Suika Shapes Super Indie Karts Ultra Karting Super Volley Blast Switchball Tangledeep Terraria (of course like… of course) Tidalis Trailmakers Tricky Towers Valheim Wayward Witch It! Wobbledogs Wobbly Life Wizard Of Legend Yokus Island Express World Turtles Chuzzle Deluxe Chronicon Caveblazers Bone’s Cafe Boneraiser Minions Besiege Luanti The Sea Will Claim Everything Vintage Story Battleblock Theater
- Comment on Warhammer: Vermintide 2 gets an Easy Anti-Cheat upgrade - finally works properly on Linux 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it is a fun game, I like that it does a zombie game but shifts the theme to something more refreshing.
- Comment on Princess Peach Taking the Bus by Calilo 2 weeks ago:
hell yeah mass transit
- Comment on OpenRA update brings a revamped Map Editor, high-quality Dune 2000 assets, more Red Alert missions 2 weeks ago:
OpenRA has already done more for the RTS industry and growing new ideas forward than EA will ever do.
It is going to be funny when all of a sudden the RTS industry comes back from the dead with a vengence because all of a sudden there are good moddable platforms for RTS games that massive investment companies can’t vacuum up and extract the spine and heart out of.
- Comment on Monster Prom 4: Monster Con now has a demo live on Steam 2 weeks ago:
Do the monsters know and are like “yeah, I mean you are cool as a lame normal human long as you aren’t dressed like a lame ass normal human” or is the clown in some kind of deep surveillance operation? Or is the human undercover as a monsterclown?
- Free & Moddable Tactical Shooter - Operation Harsh Doorstop releases Vehicle & Construction Updatestore.steampowered.com ↗Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Microsoft unveils Dragon Copilot, a new voice-activated AI assistant for doctors. 3 weeks ago:
Why the fuck would you trust Microsoft to not break the law with medical data privacy laws here?
It isn’t rational or ethical and any healthcare professionals who think it is are fooling themselves and putting others at risk for it.
- Comment on No support for Assassin's Creed Shadows on Steam Deck at launch 3 weeks ago:
That is ok, I dropped support for the idea of ever buying another Ubisoft game already :)
- Comment on [Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck? 3 weeks ago:
I have been messing around with blender and making a control scheme for onboard controls.
Also Kdenlive also works wonderfully in gaming mode as a video editor (even using onboard controls). Make a layout for browsing videos and switch between that and the normal editing layout and you are good to go.
- Comment on Steam Deck News 3 weeks ago:
I asked you all if the way I share mostly Steam Deck news here is okay, and if you’d enjoy more of these.
im fuming mad you put a bunch of effort into this post, how dare you!
- Comment on Opera integrates Bluesky, Slack, and Discord into its browser 3 weeks ago:
yawwwwn
- Comment on Payday-emup co-op shooter Raid: World War II is $4 and awesome on the Deck 3 weeks ago:
Supersquirrel, I really appreciate the effort you put into your game recommendations
longish response :P TL;DR thank you!
Thanks, I know I can be intense and word vomit up stuff sometimes, but I feel like the best way I can add to the fediverse is indie game recommendations at the end of the day lol… so it makes me happy to hear that, thank you! People spend a lot of time talking about how small the fediverse is, but in someways I am shocked by how small the rest of the open internet feels these days in certain niches. One of those is personal, good game recommendations for oddball or indie games that aren’t video format and aren’t hosted on ad-infested gaming websites that have long since had their soul ripped out by some company that bought them up… It is really fun to contribute recommendations here, this place already feels so vibrant for how comically obscure of a corner of the internet it is lol. I might as well spend my time contributing game recommendation here, because here I can know I am contributing to a community not a company’s property that can be shut down and locked away. I know that even if this instance gets shut down that my recommendations will have been copied by multitudes of other instances that interacted with the instance I put my recommendation on, and if people found it useful or helpful it will keep bouncing around somewhere. For me it feels then like a joy to spend an inordinate amount of energy and time on thoughtful indie game recommendations, especially because this is such a difficult time for the industry, I want indie game developers to get paid so they don’t give up on making amazing games!
- Comment on Three years later, the Steam Deck has dominated handheld PC gaming 3 weeks ago:
Honestly the Steam Deck could never become more powerful and I would be perfectly fine with it. Hardware reliability, ecosystem maturity and quality of life features are what actually matters.
Chasing performance to improve Steam Deck sales I think is a subpar play, though that being said more powerful hardware is always welcome.
