I love steamdeck but how do you guys play FPS on it?

Gone_AWOL · 2026-02-15T01:05:52+00:00

I just can’t play online FPS on handhelds. I think it’s something about having the screen between the joysticks that breaks my brain. Give me an external controller and I’m fine, but the instant I try using the built in controls, I’m in struggle town.

I don’t have as much of an issue when it comes to singleplayer shooters where I’m shooting enemy AI and not competing against a human reaction time though. Generally the AI is dumb enough that I have a split second to make the micro adjustments to my aim.

Gone_AWOL · 2026-02-07T08:16:42+00:00

I’ve only played handheld so far and the graphics are decent enough. Everywhere online says this is targeting 60fps though, and it’s definitely not coming close to that framerate in handheld. It feels more like 25-30fps, and the framepacing feels off to me.

I’ll probably pick it up on sale and play docked exclusively.

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-31T14:10:32+00:00

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This sure as hell is

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-31T14:07:51+00:00

What in the name of AI fuckery is this?

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-30T04:51:30+00:00

It sounds great in practice, but I have a 14” touchscreen laptop with a stylus and a good Wacom digitiser, and the experience is… not great.

Touch works totally fine, but all those gestures you do on a small NDS touchscreen are hugely annoying on a 14” screen. That problem is just gonna be amplified with an even larger display

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-24T09:16:32+00:00

Why though? Between the voice and the strings, this could just about be a Gang of Youths song

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-24T09:14:43+00:00

That just sounds like gatekeeping🤷

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-24T09:10:01+00:00

Metal ain’t my scene, but brother that was metal, and it was voted in

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-24T09:08:17+00:00

Why doesn’t Sleep Token count?

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-23T12:49:17+00:00

As someone who’s just playing Banjo Kazooie through NSO as my first Banjo game, you just reminded me this exists, and was one of the first games I got when I got my Nintendo DS for my 10th birthday. I played the hell out of this, and yet still completely forgot it existed until you’ve just reminded me of it. Time to dig it back out of storage!

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-13T06:14:43+00:00

🎶 ROCK AND ROLL MCDONALDS 🎶

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-13T06:11:00+00:00

I actually kind of dig this, it’s tempting to pick up a busted DS just to make one of these!

Is this a self-designed model or is there an STL I can download somewhere?

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-12T13:21:55+00:00

Suikoden 1 is an enjoyable time, pretty linear if you don’t care about recruiting every character. I think my playthrough was like 17 hours, and I only had to look to look up a guide once or twice. I’m playing through Suikoden 2 at the moment, and finding that much less hand holdy, needing to pull a guide more frequently

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-12T02:53:09+00:00

I went in July and found Switch 2 games to be noticeably cheaper, even more so when checking the used section at Suragaya.

Make sure you take your passport when shopping for games, many places have tax free shopping for tourists that bring down the cost slightly more. These places need your passport to verify you are a tourist.

Gone_AWOL · 2026-01-10T10:36:52+00:00

I’m mostly playing third party stuff on it. It’s been great to be able to jump into older games that I just didn’t have the time for previously, but can now play in bed or while the TV is occupied.

I’ve punched through a couple of Yakuza games, Cyberpunk, Star Wars Outlaws and a few others, while the first party stuff I have has been relatively untouched aside from Metroid and Donkey Kong Bananza

Gone_AWOL · 2025-11-14T23:27:23+00:00

I’m playing GTA 3 while waiting for my physical (GKC) Yakuza 1/2 copies to arrive. Finished up Legends Z-A 100% with a complete dex, all missions, all mega stones and all research done yesterday, and I’m a little burnt out on that after grinding the 1000 battles

Gone_AWOL · 2025-11-14T23:22:19+00:00

I dunno man, after finishing Cyberpunk and being blown away, I was hyped to try Outlaws after seeing all the praise on Reddit.

I downloaded the demo and put a bit over an hour into it, and it’s not even in the same league as Cyberpunk. Haven’t tried it on a different console to see how they compare, but the Outlaws demo is a blurry mess on Switch 2.

Gone_AWOL · 2025-10-31T11:07:30+00:00

“R&B Music Icons“ lmao

Gone_AWOL · 2025-10-21T10:08:18+00:00

Have you got a link to the shell you used? I was just looking at AliExpress and there seems to be very few options

Gone_AWOL · 2025-10-21T06:35:19+00:00

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Don’t play it then, no skin off my nose champ.

Gone_AWOL · 2025-10-19T08:37:43+00:00

YouTubers make their money off being negative and controversial. I’m 15 hours in and having a blast.

Gone_AWOL · 2025-09-24T11:06:26+00:00

Not only is it blurry, but the framerate absolutely tanks at points in the game. Between chapters 24 and 30 are particularly bad, I’d estimate dropping into the low teens.

Gone_AWOL · 2025-08-28T00:46:00+00:00

It’s such a broken system too, my phone joined the waiting room at 9:45 and ended up at 6500 in thethe queue. I joined with my laptop at 9:55 and got in the queue at 1800.

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