I almost thought this game wouldn't run on Steam Deck. Soon I heard the devs dropped Linux support, I dropped the game off my wishlist and ignored it.

sucks that this game cant run stable 60 i mean yeah it looks cute but its not that beautiful its rather simple and 2 hours battery is the only big reason i will never buy a steam deck in my life its simply too shitty

[ 2022-09-24 07:40:06Z ] 👍 0

@@humblegoddess7772 I might be wrong, I’ll check again later. But MGRR runs at 30FPS by default. Update: I was indeed wrong. I'll give that a try. Maybe even 40FPS. Thanks.

[ 2022-09-23 19:11:14Z ] 👍 5

Trick I use to squeeze battery life is cap refresh rate at 50 hz, so framerate caps at 50 not 60 which is still great. Some game I still prefer 60 like fps or racing games but for heavy games you can cap refresh at 45 or 50, and that is a nice compromise and saves battery.

[ 2022-09-23 16:58:03Z ] 👍 1

It has arrived. I played 45 minutes of Metal Gear Rising and it used 25% of the battery. I like it a lot so far.

[ 2022-09-23 05:42:03Z ] 👍 1

Yeah, battery life and size were my two main concerns before deciding to finally pull the trigger. We’ll see how it goes. My Deck is supposed to arrive today!

[ 2022-09-22 23:07:07Z ] 👍 4

It's only really 2 hr battery life for heavy graphic games. I am not really playing those on my deck, I am playing indie and pixel games and emulation.

I don't want early access games anymore, the reason is simple, I will play it to death and once it releases I would be tired of it and never play the better version. Wait until the game is ready or much more advanced in a year or two and buy discounted.

[ 2024-12-06 21:18:55Z ] 👍 0

@@sillonbono3196 true, you’re basically play testing for free

[ 2022-11-06 15:22:54Z ] 👍 0

Some companies (like KSP for example) actually use this early access period to make the game much better because they listen to their players. I'm hoping that this is what happens with this game too. They seem to actively be listening to fans so I have some hope.

[ 2022-10-03 12:07:50Z ] 👍 0

It's probably going to be more expensive when it launches to be honest. They make the price lower in its early stages because its not a finished game. I'd suggest buying it and waiting for it to be released

Any single newer game drops lower than 40 fps, steamdeck is not suited for anything other than total indie games.

[ 2022-11-27 11:11:34Z ] 👍 4

Not true at all, plently of new games run quite well out of the box.

Im not impressed by the performance. I really thought it would run at 60fps mid-max settings but it runs at 40-55 low settings and everything turned off. No reflections and stuff

[ 2023-11-16 09:02:46Z ] 👍 0

Bruh I'm just grateful I can play this game portably, I don't care if I'm running the lowest settings to get 50+ game still looks good smh

[ 2023-08-27 00:53:07Z ] 👍 0

The recommended GPU is a 2070 and the minimum is a 960, with the Deck being I think equivalent to a 1050, maybe 1050ti, so all low settings shouldn't be surprising. I think people tend to overestimate the performance of the deck - yes, it's a powerful little handheld, but it is still a handheld and as such you have to go in expecting that concessions will be necessary and even getting the newest games running isn't a given.

[ 2022-09-26 13:46:39Z ] 👍 4

@@davids.9378 Then please be patient. Making games is one of the most complicated things you can do. Optimizing at every level of your development is just impossible. Sometimes you add some procedural actors but some of the elements have too many materials that will trigger too many draw calls or just trigger some overlaps on a collision volume that will constantly trigger some functions.... 🤯 I don't think any of us, game creators, like bad performances, but devs can't check every part of the game at every patch during development of it would take 10 years for the most basic indie creation 🤪

[ 2022-09-26 13:13:00Z ] 👍 1

@@JauStudioFR it will probably be early access for years

[ 2022-09-26 11:48:42Z ] 👍 0

It's an early access. Wait and see.

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