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35 minutes ago, bradigor said:

 

RailRoute is so wonderful. Glad others are starting to find that out.

Only because you mentioned it! It’s so good. 

With Train Valley and Rail Route, Steam Deck has become my ‘huh I didn’t realise I was into train stuff’ device. Love it. 

The Last Clockwinder was probably the biggest PC VR thing I wanted to get. Awesome.

Got back into this (still a novice, really) after seeing the chatter on here. Was having a great early game as Rome, scrambling to control a vertical stripe on the map with not one but two natural wonders in reach.

Focused so heavily on settlers that some guy absolutely obliterated me with his army because one of my settlements was too close. 10/10 would play again.

Has anyone had any luck installing mods on Paradox games (CK3 in this case)?

Whenever I try, it says the mid failed to install. Wondering if it’s a path issue on the deck - could really do with getting this UI scaling thing working though. 

Possibly resurrecting a very dead thread but: decided to try this for the first time on the Deck, got as far as Fort Joy and felt stressed, overwhelmed, lost and confused. 
 

So it was nicely reassuring to see loads of people in this thread saying the same — enough for me to stick with it!

3 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

I want to buy that so badly but.. I can't put down bloody Parkitect. Its so damn annoying, addictive and good at the same time. Lost hours to it, even restarted a campaign park this morning cos I wasn't happy with the results. Need more money for Steam! 🤣

This has been a real ‘validate the purchase’ game for me — I absolutely love it, and wouldn’t have played it unless I got the Steam Deck. Such a smart little twist on the RCT gameplay. 

18 hours ago, rumbletum said:

My friends list on my Deck is very very empty, so any of you looking for SD friends, please add me:  mr_rumbletum

 

 

17 hours ago, Lorfarius said:

Added! Mine is Lorfarius in case anyone wants to join us

Added you both - I’m sunversusmoon. 

Still enjoying this a whole lot -- although last night I ended up on the final enemy of a mission, who kept going into camouflage mode, and I had no ways left to get him out of it. I just had to keep skipping turns until he forgot to go sneaky.

12 hours ago, Siri said:

 

 

Also, 2K games are wank after they shoehorned their own launcher into it. If the above doesn't work, look into going into desktop mode and changing the properties of the game so it points towards the game executable, not the launcher.

Cheers! Haven’t cracked it yet but I’ll continue to tinker ways around the launcher. 
 

Looking forward to the warm glow of making it work, then playing it for a sum total of ten minutes. 

Has anyone had luck getting xcom Chimera Squad to run? Not sure how it’d be to play on deck, but protondb seems to reckon it works. 
 

I try to run it, get the controls splash screen with a message ‘downloading content’ and it just stays there forever. Tried an older Proton (suggested on protondb) to no avail. 

Interesting to see people playing with the difficulty levels -- I'd ignored the alerts so far (playing on normal). I think it's flashbacks to starting harder XCOM campaigns and getting absolutely destroyed instantly.

Next time it pops up, I'll give it a boost!

More generally, I really like this. I've seen a few reviews etc that talk about it not being XCOM enough but, in its own right, I think it's stellar. I don't know anything about Marvel, I don't know any of these characters, but I think the Persona/Fire Emblem stuff is a nice addition. And the combat just seems incredibly apt -- I can 100% see why XCOM x Superhero wouldn't work, but the positional stuff here is so much fun.

One thing I would like to see happen next (I'm not even through act 1 yet): something that makes me need to think more about what's in the decks. Maybe the difficulty increase will help with that. And one thing I would like to see in a far distant dream: some kind of 'Be the Midnight Suns just doing day-to-day work' campaign mode - while the combat obviously needed to change, I think the 'Do random missions while working toward some overall win/lose condition' would be excellent in here for replayability.

I was just coming on here to report how painless it was. Sure they literally said 'We have enough for everybody' and then didn't.

Seemingly busted on steam deck, will give it a go on iPad!

Loving Rail Route thanks to the recommendations on here. Not played much but it just unlocked auto signals and I’m incredibly hyped for automation (once I figure out how they work!)

Only realised Cunk had been made into a ‘proper’ show the other day, so I’ve been enjoying these. 
 

Mainly for the video game jokes, of which there are more than I’d expected!

Dorfromantik's on my list. I've had to stop buying things so I actually play something on it!

Shame to see Grounded is having issues with the xbox live login pop-up -- would be great to have the native version on there so I can successfully set up multiplayer with the kids.

I’m getting some weird stuttering/framerste stuff on a Master System game — any ideas? I tried turning off framerate cap which someone mentioned but didn’t seem to help. 
 

Been years since I tried any of this stuff so not sure if I should be tweaking in Retroarch…

Oh free is welcome! I’ll get it downloading 

I’ve already gone way over my ‘buy some games to get me started’ budget BUT is there a go-to PC rhythm game I should be getting for the deck?

Wondering if any might have custom dlc even, which would be amazing. 

10 minutes ago, yakumo said:

Ohh what about itch.io stuff on the deck?

Came here to ask the same thing!

Making a list of stuff I want to sort — ideally Itch, Epic, and then Emudeck if that’s the best way to start sorting emulation. Love a tinker. 

Those mad lads at Evri actually delivered. What a day. 
 

Don’t know where to begin (Vampire Survivors, I know). Maybe the real game was the tracking all along?

How’s the rest of the Evri nightmare crew getting on? Do you all have yours yet?

Getting a bad feeling about my replacement - very messy, back and forth tracking since it hit the UK at the weekend. I thought it might go smoother this time as it’s headed to a Parcelshop! 
 

Not sure my F5 can take a third attempt, so hoping it surfaces. 

Crunch time time for attempt 2 - loads of weird back and forth on the Evri tracking, it’s either imminent or never coming. I reckon 50/50!

10 hours ago, moosegrinder said:

The Fleeces seem really pointless. The downsides outweigh the up. Has anyone every used them?

Just finished this half hour ago and didn’t use them. 
 

I think that’s a theme: various things in the game that I didn’t feel pushed to really engage with, including follower traits by the end. 
 

But that’s my only critique really - I think this had a great balance to it, I loved that the runs were so short, and I’ll be back if they do any interesting updates!