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.
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.
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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 )
My partner and I are playing through Bokuro this way, and it’s so much fun :D
Clean your camera lens
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They aren’t nudes, chill
Doesn’t matter; finished anyways /s
Own your brand, get that /s the fuck outta here
You right
have you ever even seen a nude
What are you, a cop?
Depeneds, do you have any nudes?
How is co-op mode?
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That’s badass!
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.
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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
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Moonlight on the deck, sunshine on the PC, tailscale for gloud gaming. Tailscale released a bash script for make the deck install very easy.
I did it the other day for be able to enjoy HFW when not at home and it works much better that Steamlink.
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)
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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.
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If you look up “Couch Desk” they have a lot of similar options. Some that look even better. I use a lap desk personally.
Don’t use it to eat and watch TV, or you’ll NEVER use your kitchen table again.
This is how I play BG3 with my husband! Works great
How does bg3 play on the deck? Enjoyable?
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.
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
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
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?
Always on is the way to go
Always on means you can’t ratchet the gyro to reset your hands position
There’s more then one way to gyro, so I guess I shouldn’t have said it’s THE way to go. But it’s my preference. I treat gyro as an aggressive auto aim without the auto. Large motions are still controlled by the right joystick or touchpad, I just gyro for the fine, fast aiming. I’ve never felt the need to ratchet, I can reorient by swiping the touchpad intuitively.
I don’t use my touch pad a whole lot, so maybe i should test it out some! Ill give your way a shot sometime soon lol
But in general i prefer my alpakka controller to the steam one anyway, super smooth gyro
I meant right stick, sorry.
Not a Steamdeck or PC user but it works just fine on console with a controller.
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.
In some games, using the trackpad is super useful. Like if mouse-aiming in X3TC.
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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
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Agreed, which is why my post was a kindly worded “sounds like a skill issue bro” post
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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?
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Well to each their own, but the only thing closer than the trackpad to a mouse would be a mouse.
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.Cool with regard to the Steam Deck, but ugh, Helldivers 2 is sooo pay-to-win…
Pay 2 win? Where? Genuine question. Played it for 40h after launch, never once felt like paying money?
You’re paying with your time in the queue
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Haven’t seen a queue in ages tbh. Weak argument, not to mention that it doesn’t make any sense whatsoever
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.
