I really appreciate this. But color me skeptical that the late game will work on SD. It chugs on PCs. Hopefully they conjured a miracle!
Chugs on PCs? What kind of PC?
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Baldur's Gate 3 Steam Deck – Native Version
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#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't brag about that if I were you. That sub is mostly pictures of "jUsT bOuGhT a StEaM DeCk", sob bait, random steam sales, and rarely ever anything useful related to the Deck itself. Every now and then I go to check top posts from the past month to see if anyone has posted anything significant, like the DeckMate or EmuDeck or actual useful stuff. Inevitably, it's all standard reddit garbage.
That type of community may not be your cup of tea or what you are looking for but that doesn't mean GP shouldn't be proud of building it. The world is plenty big enough for all types of communities. Its okay for people to be proud of the things they lead, even if they aren't things that are interesting to you or me.
I agree, building a community is very difficult, I've built a few myself.
But sometimes something merely existing can prevent other things from flourishing, e.g. due to the mechanism of Schelling points:
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#124Bought the game when it came out, but still haven't had the time to play. Just flew out for a three week vacation with my Steam Deck in tow. Unfortunately, I left it on the plane and I haven't heard back from lost and found yet (seems unlikely I'll get it back considering it was an international flight). Oh well.
How did you leave it on the plane!?!
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I use Arch since I enjoy having control over what packages I have and how I configure some stuff.
use cachyos repos, they are doing some good work if you are on one of the new amd cpus, it turned my TOASTER into a RACECAR.
I'm not going to use cachyOS repos. I am an AUR developer and my target is the Arch repos.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's any consolation, the Deck LCD is discounted by 20% for the next few weeks if you need to pick up a new one.
May as well get a Switch 2 at this point. Then at least it’s something new.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with my Switch 2, but due to its size I find it far less ergonomic than the original.
I spent like 98% of my playtime on the original in handheld. That has switched completely. It’s not just the size but especially the weight I think.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every distro is a bit different though. And there's kernel / libc versions and the whole gui server on top of that. Windows gives you a few configurations to check, Mac does as well. But Linux means hundreds of possible setups before you even get to hardware differences. They just don't want to deal with that.
Steam runs all games in a container called the Steam Linux Runtime, so the only difference is the kernel and host Mesa drivers.
Not to nitpick, there is a 'native' option. Atleast it has been available on Arch for many years now (when SteamOS was on Debian?). In most cases we just the symlink the newer versions of libs to the older versions and the games run fine / better.
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#129I just finished playing all the acts in the game. An amazing game, what can I say ?
Yeah it really was a revelation. I didn’t know much at all going in and was constantly amazed. I’ve since tried a number of highly touted recent CRPGs and RPGs… and gave up on all of them; BG3 really spoiled me I guess, but I’m also a pretty selective gamer.
If you have the tolerance for dated visuals a lot of the best stuff is in the long since past - Planescape Torment and Baldur's Gate 2 are amazing. The Neverwinter Nights series is also great. Fallout 2 is probably one of the best games ever in terms of atmosphere as well as gameplay, but the visuals there are extremely dated. And finally there's also Arcanum: Of Steamworks and Magick Obscura.
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#130>Larian does not provide support for the Linux platform. The Steam Deck Native build is only supported on Steam Deck. huh? but Steam Deck is just normal Arch Linux with x86_64 ~~aarch64~~?...
I think their point is: don't complain to them if you have an issue, unless you can reproduce it on the Steam Deck.
They don't want to deal with esoteric Linux bugs.