That’s great and all, but it’s locking up my Deck for quite a bit of time while it slowly and painfully downloads and patches.
Ooooh, I did get it working on deck before but yeah, looked kinda janky. That’s exciting news, although I’m still 50-50 on wanting to play with controller controls.
Extra smooth controlling controller controls.
If anyone from Larian is lurking, please do a GDC talk on this. I’m super interested in their approach to shipping a (native) Linux build of the game.
I like that they’re passionate and supporting Linux and all, but unpaid work like that should be discouraged, imo.
Maybe it wasn’t considered work for this person? They wanted to try and do something better in their own time. I am not saying they shouldn’t be compensated but doing something of your own will doesn’t have to be work, it can be fun.
Alongside that, it seems like there’s a good chance that next time, they’ll be the goto for doing this sort of porting.
I think it about shouldn’t be encouraged. Leave it at that. If they felt the need then by all means.
wow, yes please!
Native Steam Deck version is actually native Linux version, with settings optimized for Steam Deck. But I really like the tone and expression of developers looking at the Steam Deck as a target, like a game console. This is awesome!
Thats what valve was talking about games optimizing for the reference platform this is great to hear
Yeah I absolutely love this. Would love more detail on a technical level (what challenges they faced trying to compile for steam deck) but still awesome to hear
Fine fine fine, twist my arms, I’ll play BG3 again!
larian <3
Well, looks like I’m gonna try a hard-core run now.
Don’t forget mods
Fucking awesome. I was playing last night until 2 AM and in the third act so I’m getting not so great frame rates so I’m excited to keep going once this patch is done downloading.
I’d love to see some benchmarks on this.
does that mean that we have a proper linux native build, ir will Linux towers still rely on Proton? (Which works excellently so there won’t be much difference for me i think)
They are working on Linux native.
When I played it, Steam Deck controls were ok but absolutely not comparable to PC. Has this changed?
What do you mean Steam Deck controls were not comparable to PC? I mean a PC with plugged in controller is not much different from a Steam Deck.
Yeah I don’t play RPGs with a controller
So you mean the controller on the Steam Deck does not compare to a keyboard and mouse? And don’t want to play with a controller? Why do you play it on the Steam Deck then? If not, you can still attach a keyboard to the Steam Deck. I really don’t understand your critique here.
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. I don’t mind controllers, but in my opinion the controls for BG3 on the Deck aren’t great; I mentioned the Deck because that’s what I used, I have no idea how it is with other controllers. I played it on the Deck because I own one, I own a copy of BG3, and I like playing on the go? But it wasn’t great so I moved to the PC.
I didn’t issue any critique, I just asked a question because I wanted to see if anyone had info, no need to go all fanboy.
I just ask what you were actually comparing to. If you say the controls on Deck are not great compared to PC, than you do actually just compare the gamepad controls versus keyboard right?
no need to go all fanboy.
What the hell?! Why fanboy now, I just asked for clarification.
I play with a controller or the Deck controls all the time, and I actually prefer the controller UI to the M&K UI; once I got used to the way everything was laid out, and how to manipulate the wheels, it just felt like a better experience to me. To answer your original question, there are no functions or information missing from the controller UI, nor is any of it particularly difficult to get to in normal play… you just have to get used to where everything is.
They are radically different UIs though, and I wouldn’t expect everyone to like them both. If you give the controller UI a solid try and it doesn’t click for you, it’s definitely okay.
Hope it’s good because honestly BG3 was unplayable on Steam deck for me despite being “verified”.
I had a good time with BG3 on Deck… until I got to Act 3.
