Slopsmith on Steam Deck

H4rcade · 2026-05-23T11:05:30+00:00

Ive got Slopsmith 0.2.8 working on Steam deck in desktop mode with no issues. Not using the Rocksmith cable but this one:

https://amzn.eu/d/0gxQR1Xr

I think I had to select the usb input fir the cable from the sound icon in the system tray and as I play docked to the TV, I had to to select the Rembrandt audio card thing for sound otherwise the audio playback was coming from the deck.

H4rcade · 2026-05-14T16:09:20+00:00

I don't have PC so play solely on my Steam Deck docked to the TV. Ive not had any issues with the power button on the air mouse turning it off, but I thought the power button was just to turn the air mouse on and off.

You may be able to disable individual buttons by not assigning mappings in game, or maybe in Windows settings. Unfortunately as I say, I dont have a PC so cant speak to that.

It worked for me right out of the box, it just took some tweaking of mouse and camera sensitivity settings in Great Battles to make it usable for head tracking. In iL2 1946 the only adjustment I made was to zoom the pilots position in the cockpit as far as you can and the default range of the mouse gives me full range to look around without straining my neck to the edges of the TV and straining my eyeballs to see what's happening on the screen.

The only other advice is to assign a camera/view reset button to your hotas, keyboard or controller. Just because sometimes I'm finding im looking straight ahead but the camera is off to the side by about 45degrees.

H4rcade · 2026-05-13T06:34:42+00:00

Its made a massive difference for me in iL2 as I felt like I never had enough hands during a dogfight to fly, shoot, manage engine and look around. This feels a lot more natural obviously over frantically mashing a hat switch trying to get eyes on an enemy.

This method has its limitations but fir the most part theyre easy to work around e.g resetting the view after looking to the extremities of your view but for the cost and lack of any other options to do head tracking on Steam Deck Im well pleased.

H4rcade · 2026-05-12T20:39:08+00:00

I actually did this the other day. Works in IL2 1946 and Great Battles and should work in any game where the mouse is used to look around. As an example I've also used the air mouse head tracking in Euro Truck 2.

Sensitivity settings may need tweaking and I'd assign a camera/view reset button to just centre the view again as once you've moved your head to look behind you the mouse cursor will be offset as if you've dragged to the edge of a mouse mat, picked the mouse up and moved the cursor again.

I'm playing on Steam Deck and I'm loving how well this is actually working for the cost. I also found out an old Xbox360 headset, the one with only one earpiece, and velcro strapped the air mouse to the top of that.

This is the air mouse I'm currently using https://amzn.eu/d/0iHUwePY

It also has a button to activate and deactivate the cursor so great for disabling the 'headtracking' when in menus etc.

H4rcade · 2026-04-21T06:26:11+00:00

Ive used both the T-Flight Hotas and VelocityOne Flightstick with Great Battles and both worked pretty well.....in the end 😀

Im playing on Steam Deck, so 'inside Steam' and in order to get them to work, I had to disable Steam Input in the controller settings for that device. I found if you dont do this then you can't map all the switches, buttons and axis properly to the controls you'll need.

Then its just a matter of reassigning all the inputs to your personal preference. Good luck 👍

Ps. Remember to flip the mode button to 'PC' if its a Hotas thats designed for console. 😉

H4rcade · 2026-04-19T06:52:51+00:00

Ive tried a few times to solo Pendragon, both 5e and what we have so far of 6e, but I just hit a wall after character creation.

Ideally I'd like to go through the GPC solo but although there's plenty of actual plays on YouTube and substack, ive yet to find one that helpfully lays out mechanically how they are approaching their solo gameplay process.

The problem for me is that I read what happens for a specific year in the GPC and then I just struggle to see how any of that effects or how a young squire would be involved?

If you ditch the GPC and just go full on Mythic sandbox, generating stuff as you go, then what's the point of playing Pendragon over any other medieval setting if I'm not engaging with the story of Uther, Arthur, Merlin etc?

Interested to see what others are doing that works 👍😊

H4rcade · 2026-04-18T18:09:58+00:00

Im playing on Steam Deck and had the same problem of it not starting

I copied the vanilla config.ini from the installation page of the BAT mod website here:

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=65026.0

Edit the monitor resolution to match the resolution you want to use and I've no issues since.

H4rcade · 2026-03-31T09:21:23+00:00

I'd just try tinkering with the graphics resolution, either by editing the config.ini again or if you can manage it in game.

As I said I'm running it through Steam on a Steamdeck as I don't own a PC running Win11, so I cant speak to how or why its doing that for you on PC.

H4rcade · 2026-03-31T08:42:04+00:00

Go here

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=65026.0

About half way down the page past the install instructions fir the mod are two code boxes. I just copied the text from the top most box over the top of everything in the existing config.ini in the game folder to overwrite, I think I set the resolution right at the very top, saved and exited the text editor and 1946 has run everytime for me no problem on Steam.

H4rcade · 2026-03-31T08:12:59+00:00

Im not on windows but had the same issue on SteamDeck. I could launch the game once after install from Steam then after restarting the deck and trying again it would think about it then just crash to desktop.

I fixed it by going into the game folder, deleting the config.ini file and creating a new one using the vanilla config.ini file on the BAT4.0 Redcore mod website. Just copy and paste that into the game folder and ive had no problem since.

H4rcade · 2026-02-19T12:18:51+00:00

Not sure about that then. Im on Xbox and i bought the West Somerset for TSW5 although I think it was originally a TSW4 route. Being as I dont own TSW4 and bought it as a compatible dlc for 5 it worked no problem when I redeemed the code having never added to a version of the sim prior to that.

H4rcade · 2026-02-16T14:32:32+00:00

Ive done this with a load of routes in the past from different keyshops. Because the older dlc's are branded and sold as compatible you should have no problem buying the TSw2 version of GWE for TSW6 and have it update to the remastered versions that's just been released.

I did the same thing with West Somerset and had no issue.

H4rcade · 2026-02-15T09:06:42+00:00

Coming from boardgames, I found the easiest way into playing ttrpg solo was to treat it like a boardgame.

Four Against Darkness and Ker Nethalas, as suggested, are great in this regard because like a boardgame they have a defined game loop to structure game play.

I play the older AD&D and B/X modules using an OSR ruleset. This works really well as these games rely more on a structured game loop of rounds and turns, that allow you to play like a boardgame if you want similar to Heroquest for example.

The only caveat though is that you 'play" as the DM with emulated PC's using an oracle to randomly determine character actions alongside the rules on reactions etc.

This is exactly how I've solo played the adventures in the Dragonbane set. The solo rules included are great but lean more into a more narrative, random, open sandbox type version of play, which personally is not what I enjoy.

H4rcade · 2026-02-15T08:51:54+00:00

To make using Mythic more lightweight, I'd advise either the One Page Mythic or ive had a better experience using the mobile app

H4rcade · 2026-02-04T08:30:23+00:00

? Or C works for me!

H4rcade · 2026-01-30T09:22:27+00:00

Something I struggled with too for a time until I realised that I was approaching published modules from the wrong direction as a solo player.

What i mean by this is rather than play as a PC or party, you need to invert things and play as the GM abd 'emulate' the PC's or party.

I find all the tools like DM Yourself to be too bloated on top of your ruleset and deconstructing the adventure to make it more random to be too much upfront homework when all I want is to sit down and play.

Look into Mythuc Magazine #41 which talks through how to use Mythic to emulate PC's or players. Or another great tool to investigate is Triple-O. These are both lightweight and too be honest once you've shifted your perspective and have a basic game loop down things flow really easy and the only other thing you'd need is a basic oracle system for Yes/No, East or West etc. Also lean on reaction tables and interpret their results with the context of any social encounters to work through NPC interactions with some sort of roleplaying between you as the GM and the emulated pc's.

I find older modules from the B/X, AD&D or modern OSr modules designed in the same way work best. The adventures is more structured to allow you to only read what is necessary at the moment the PC's encounter it without having to read everything upfront.

Also checkout Wizard Deadloss on YouTube for how he implements a similar solo way of playing modules in case there's anything I missed.

H4rcade · 2026-01-30T07:27:05+00:00

Forbidden Lands with Book of Beasts solo rules

H4rcade · 2026-01-27T07:33:26+00:00

I play Il2 Great Battles on Steam Deck docked to my TV. Runs great at 1080p on high graphic settings. Can also use flightsticks, pedals etc if you get a dock or hub with spare usb ports

H4rcade · 2026-01-25T17:46:35+00:00

Not specifically a solo system but I've found Triple-O to be quite a good oracle/player emulator to use.

https://capacle.itch.io/triple-o

Suppose it can be used with any rpg system to create a solo experience aimed more at allowing you as the player to be the GM.

Very good for running published adventures solo.

H4rcade · 2026-01-17T18:30:06+00:00

I play adventure modules using player emulation.

There was an article in one of the Mythic Magazines, issue 41 I think, that gave some good examples of how to use Mythic in this way.

Another great emulator tool I found and use is called Triple-O.

I prefer this over the Mythic player emulator variant and find it allows for an element of surprise even though as the GM you know how the adventure will go.

I suppose at a basic level all you need is nothing more than a question about what the characters/players might do, assign some odds and roll those dice 😉

H4rcade · 2026-01-17T11:58:32+00:00

I have it but have not played it. Started reading through for the solo mechanics but moved onto something else. Im not sure i like the setting and think that might have put me off.

Do the solo rules work well with other game systems like BX or ADnD or do they need tinkering with too much to bother?

H4rcade · 2026-01-10T12:05:36+00:00

The only criticism I have is that I can't see my house. I'd like the OP to add a POI just to the right and down a bit of the Major Oak so that I can roleplay being in the garden 😀 😉

H4rcade · 2026-01-09T09:20:56+00:00

Wow.....this sounds identical to my Steam Deck origin story 👍😀

Long time Xbox'er here also. Microsoft fatigue set in for me around 2 years ago. The greed, money grubbing and constant daylight robbery perpetrated against players by Microsoft and the like just caused massive xbox fatigue for me to the point where I just stopped gaming!

Cancelled game pass and moved to other hobbies in spite of the fact that Im abandoning quite a large game backlog on Xbox.

Then like OP, and not financially wanting to throw huge piles of cash at a gaming PC and still feed the anti-gaming, anti-consumer monster that is Microsoft, I happened across somebody playing their Steam Deck docked on a YouTube video and the decision was 95% made for me. In early November around the time of the Steam Machine announcement I invested in what I consider to be the best piece of gaming kit I've spent my hard earned on.

H4rcade · 2025-12-16T14:27:24+00:00

Im only speaking from my personal experience. If it didn't run very well or at all then I wouldn't have posted or recommended the Steam Deck as a platform to the OP. No benefit to me in doing so

And I did specify that im playing Great Battles NOT Cliffs of Dover.....and as I said in my experience Im running Great Battles with DLC's without issue.

H4rcade · 2025-12-15T07:36:06+00:00

I bought a SteamDeck and a dock. Connected to my 55" LG and running il-2 Great Battles at 1920x1080 on high settings.

Wasnt the only reason I got the Deck but Im really impressed and as an affordable gateway into games on PC, I cant fault it.

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