Playing Helldivers 2. My brother on the desktop on the living room TV. Me on the SteamDeck on the couch next to him. Playing co-op together.

  • girl@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    This is how I play BG3 with my husband! Works great

    ETA: my husband did set up his PS5 controller to work on his laptop so he doesnt have to hunch over to use a mouse/keyboard, highly recommend

  • Senseless@feddit.de
    1·
    6 months ago

    I’m so happy Valve pushed the Steam deck the way they did. Didn’t expect many games, let alone, Helldivers 2 to run on Linux but it runs first try. No tinkering, nothing.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yeah it doesn’t run great and I won’t be doing it often (I don’t like playing shooters with controllers anyway) but worked well enough for this particular use-case.

      The desktop was Linux also 😃

      E: to be clear, it ran very smooth at ~55FPS, with no frame drops, but with lots of jaggies. Icons are illegible even on my 75" TV.

  • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
    0·
    6 months ago

    You know you could do that since forever with a laptop, yeah?

    Laptop gamers are having LAN parties every single day.

    Even though I have multiple desktops, I couldn’t live without the flexibility of gaming wherever I want. It becomes so much more social if the person you are playing with sits next to you.

    But good on you that you discovered the wonderfulness that is LAN. (yeah I know it is online, you get what I am saying)

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlOP
      1·
      6 months ago

      You know you could do that since forever with a laptop, yeah?

      Dunno, gaming laptops never appealed to me.

  • Richard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    01·
    6 months ago

    Cool with regard to the Steam Deck, but ugh, Helldivers 2 is sooo pay-to-win…