Wow, this popup in my youtube feed for those who may be interested. With Lutris you can easy install other launcher, in this case Battle.net.
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I hope the game anti cheat won’t falsely flag it and ban him, like early last year where some people got falsely banned for playing through wine.
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Yea. I mean I would be interested in OW2 if i can definitely play it on the Steam Deck. Moving forward, my game purchasing decision will be influence by whether or not it is possible to play it on the steam deck or not. If it’s not on steam, will I get bad playing it steam deck.
For those that do not know, you can install non-steam games/applications on the steam deck and have it show up in the steam deck library. This is done by booting into Steam Desktop (KDE: https://kde.org/) mode to install the app.
The last alternative is to install Windows on the Steam Deck, or get the Ayaneo devices.
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The question is why would want to suck by playing the PC version with a controller.
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It’s because people like the convenience of not always having to play at the desk.
When you’re at the desk all day working, you just want to rest on the crouch or lay down on the bed to play. But if your back is not tire, I agree with you, it’s better to play FPS with a mouse and keyboard.
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I’m Q2 so I get my order email around April.
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Honestly with the release of the steam deck and Microsoft buying blizzard I want overwatch on steam for 2 things
- Flex my 100% achievement collection
- Switch controller support
This looks dope tho
It’s a little finicky in my experience but you could DS4Windows to use a Switch controller today.
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I can also use BetterJoy, it’s pretty messy tho, as 3rd party controllers usually don’t get read by the apps or make them crash, so I have to plug in my default switch controller
The problem with the first party pro controller is that it feels like it needs Bluetooth, since my motherboard doesn’t have wireless adapter (and I’m lazy to buy one) I encounter many bugs
The controller gets recognized but
- I can’t use it anywhere (I could use it on laptops through Bluetooth)
- With translators/emulators of Xbox controllers the pro controller desides to randomly unplug
So I could try DS4 just to see if it works, thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t have much hope lol
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The ONLY reason my profile isn’t private or friends only.
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This is incredible! Thanks for sharing this. I would be very interested to play overwatch on the steam deck with this software. It appears that it doesn’t manage to quite hold 60 FPS but it gets quite close. I imagine it would dip into their 40s or 50s during very intense team fights. So a native port would still be preferable. Nonetheless this is very cool that he managed to get it working at all. Does it require technical knowledge of Linux?
I have some reservations about purchasing a steam deck. First of all the size. It is very very big and at that point you might as well just buy a gaming laptop which will come with a keyboard and mouse which would be the more optimal way to play the game in the PC pool.
Secondly the screen is said to not be particularly good and especially when it’s only 1080p I can’t see that being very good for a fully fledged operating system because there would be a lot of small text.
Lastly and my biggest reservation it would be the fan noise. Reportedly it is quite high-pitched and goes above 50 dB which is too loud for me. Hopefully they do rectify the fan ramp.
Can’t wait for people to throw my games playing handheld overwatch!
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Yep. This is a definite possibility now.
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The first thing I would have done is install windows on that thing. Not only it is going to be legal way to play the game but the whole thing was advertised as a PC to begin with.
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Razer has done the handheld gaming pc way before this
Is that supposed to make me feel better?
I would honestly wait for Valve to release the Windows driver of the Steam Deck first, otherwise it will not function properly.
Btw, the video does not show it off, but the Steam Deck also has a gyro in it for more accuracy in FPS games. It also has flick-switch for instant 180 degree turn as well (which may trigger false flag imo), so be wary if you are using that feature.
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I mean its a game on PC. People will play with various control schemes, screen sizes, and system specs. If that bothers you than you might want to consider a PS5 
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Hilarious joke you just told
That’s a solid way to lose every match. 
At least until you get to the bottom of the mmr pool.
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