Never occurred to me to use it this way until my brother came to visit.
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.
This is how I play BG3 with my husband! Works great
ETA: my husband did set up his PS5 controller to work on his laptop so he doesnt have to hunch over to use a mouse/keyboard, highly recommend
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.
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.
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.
I finally bit the bullet and bought a Razer Turret when it was on sale for like 190USD. It blows every other lap-board combo Ive used out of the water.
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.
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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
In some games, using the trackpad is super useful. Like if mouse-aiming in X3TC.
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)
My partner and I are playing through Bokuro this way, and it's so much fun :D
How is co-op mode?
That's badass!
Cool with regard to the Steam Deck, but ugh, Helldivers 2 is sooo pay-to-win...
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.
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 )
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.
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