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Steam Deck

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[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 52 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Hot take: a game shouldn't be considered fully verified unless it can be played offline. It's a bloody handheld, I want to play on it while traveling!

[–] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it wrote on the market page of the game as requirement for play ? If yes, why it shouldn't apply to the deck ?

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

It is, but so is Windows. There is also a barely visible small text about it, right next to the trademark and copyright information nobody reads. It's quite well hidden.

[–] MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Don't you have a phone you can hotspot to? I think performance and input are really the two that matter. Everything else is secondary. Maybe they should simply put "requires an Internet connection."

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Does the Switch have any exclusively-online games? That's a genuine question that I'm interested in for comparison purposes.

I think it's a load of shit that any single-player experience requires an internet connection. I still know people with shoddy enough connections that they can't play games like Diablo 4 on their desktop pc. However, I don't think that it should disqualify a game from being Verified.

[–] TheEntity@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's a question that occurred to me during this discussion too. Please ping me if you'd get an answer. I'm not a Nintendo person, so I'm not sure where to even start researching that.

[–] RedNora@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Kingdom hearts cloud version for the switch comes to mind, however considering "Cloud Version" is literally in the name I feel like you should expect it to need online.

[–] Miclux@lemmings.world 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Literally nothing in the skill trees looks fun or interesting.

[–] Johnhones@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 year ago

I'm sure all 300 active players will be delighted

[–] WeebLife@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

I wish I could transfer my license from battlenet to steam.. sigh.

[–] jackoneill@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A little late guys….. already bought the game on the blizzard launcher and installed it on the deck that way. Then I played through the campaign, that was fun. Then I got to the seasonal content (that I was looking forward to as someone with hundreds of hours in Diablo 3) and I uninstalled it

If I get the itch again I’ll fire up 3.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Exact same experience on PS5, here. Aside from the campaign making my character an idiot in order to justify an ending that I would not have let happen, I very much enjoyed the story.

I got through an hour or two of season 1 and haven't touched it since.

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

D2r working a ok

[–] Ugurcan@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve been playing it on deck since the launch smoothly with Lutris. Does this mean Diablo IV now has a Linux native client?

[–] Dunstabzugshaubitze@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago

No, it just means that it'll run through proton without tweaks, show proper controller glyphs and default to graphic settings, that lead to playable frame rates.

[–] GreenAlex@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Until they drop the price and improve the game I'll just be plugging away at Grim Dawn.

[–] MrGerrit@feddit.nl 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anybody figured out how to update the battlenet app on SD?

Only way I found to do it is to reinstall it.

[–] deo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know how. I also have to just reinstall it, but i'm gonna leave this here in case you find out!

[–] Phegan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I played through installing the blizzard launcher and it works really well. Not going to rebuy the game, but good to hear.

I also have been very disappointed with the seasonal content, so I am unlikely to play for a while.

[–] skulblaka@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, now if only anyone actually wished to play the game. At all, let alone on Deck.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago

Maybe this will help bring down the price of Baldur's Gate.

[–] JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I question why this news is being posted at this point, let alone repeatedly.

[–] proper@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is the only post on lemmy I can see that confirms steam deck verification

[–] JoshuaSlowpoke777@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

My mistake, I may have seen a post previously that suggested something more like “Diablo 4 is now compatible with Steam Deck”, and my brain immediately saw the title of a rather controversial game and mentally blocked out the post.