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[–] 46 points 10 months ago (6 children)

In my personal experience, the only games that don't work are those that explicitly choose not to :

  • Fortnite
  • PUBG
  • Roblox
  • Valorant

I'm not much into competitive games myself, so the only one that's inconvenient in this list to me is Roblox. There are a few really fun games on their platform that I wish I could play on Steam Deck, as used to be possible.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    I play a lot of Space Engineers, and it randomly crashes... No idea what's causing it.

    And Space Engineers 2 just doesn't launch for me.

    There's likely a config option that could fix things, but I don't know it.

    Every other game I play is fine.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    You know about protondb already? Gives a good list of potential fixes if you come across issues, it's been a godsend on the rare occasions something doesn't work first try

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I know. Tried a few things from that site, but no luck on SE, and SE2 is under active development so I'm waiting on it for a bit.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Fair, good luck with it. Just had to figure out that a drive from a windows install was causing huge permissions issues and any game installed on it wasn't executing. Sometimes the problems can be really obtuse.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Have you changed which version of proton it uses? It's in the compatibility options for the game, sometimes going to an older version solves some issues.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    For SE2, it's likely a version issue. But that game is under active development, so I'm waiting on it.

    For SE1, well that one is a bit of a mystery... It probably isn't. I have a few mods.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    That's because of the awful spaghetti code that is the basis of Space Engineers. I gave up on that game years ago, because those devs were vibe coding before it was cool, and it shows.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    I will say, the game is remarkably stable compared to what it was a few years ago. Especially pistons and rotors.

    But yes, it still crashes randomly. About once or twice an hour.

    And I got SE2 running. No crashes there, but I don't like creative mode, so play SE2 much less.

    I am excited for the upcoming SE2 survival mode

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Rocket League as well; it's the only reason I haven't gone full Linux for gaming.

    ...you'd think after 8+ years of playing I'd be bored, but it's just fun.

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  • [–] 9 points 10 months ago* (1 child)

    Rocket League works on linux? Unless something changed recently, because I used to play it on my Steam Deck all the time.

    https://www.protondb.com/app/252950

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Rocket league is inside fortnight now.

    Basically they want fortnite to be a complete (malware) gaming package with every game inside it sp youre tied to epic.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    I played Rocket League yesterday on Bazzite through Steam without issues

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Not too surprisingly, you can add League of Legends (another Riot games title) to the list. While I'm not a fan of kernel level anticheat, I do love most of these games, and it's really frustrating how I don't see any change in the future. After more than a year of struggling, I finally managed to get my Mint working (turns out my old mobo was faulty), but it looks like I will still have to keep Windows for basically all multiplayer titles I play.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    really sucks that League doesn't work . . . I know some people who play and the fact that it used to work just sours the pain.

    I guess, at least Dota 2 works? I know they are very different, but I'd say similar enough and worth a shot so long as one isn't too tied to LoL.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Thanks for the tip, I should give it a try. I'm not sure I still have the energy to invest months until I start to understand stuff while sucking and losing all the time, but I will get there eventually.

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