Just install blender from the discover app on the steam desktop, add it to steam as a non-steam game and you can launch it as you would any other game.

As for controls I prefer joysticks + gyro, but that is just me.

Yeah it is actually pretty amazing how good performance dayz gets on the deck, even on deathmatch servers with 25+ players in a small area it runs great.

The gunplay is superb especially with some of the more common weapon mods.

Not sure why arma 3 runs so much worse in comparison, the difference is massive.

Honestly mostly been learning blender, I am sure sure nobody ever intended blender to be used on a handheld gaming system but that is the beauty of the steam deck right?

Also been playing some everdell.

Coincidentally I had just downloaded Apex to start playing with a friend :(

lasers are way slower than bullets they are super easy to dodge, have you never even seen star wars?

What an epic game, I haven’t really gotten into it beyond the initial zone but even the world building of the default starter zone is fantastic. I feel like this game transports me to a different place more than any AAA game with gorgeous graphics.

Yeah it is a blast splitscreen and I could care less about (american) football honestly, it is just good arcade fun.

Not Mutant Football League!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/529520/Mutant_Football_League/?snr=1_7_7_151_150_1

I don’t have an opinion either way on this but can we not act like corporate for profit social networks haven’t thunderously dropped the ball on this kind of thing lol

Yeah, this is classic class warfare and the trajectory of these things has been moving away from developers having any say for a long time, the difference now is that business majors have finally found a killer app to convince society it is ok to destroy software development as a decent career… it is called AI and it doesn’t actually matter if it works or not, the point is to convince people it is only natural and right to treat software devs like worthless commodified contract labor that is just around the corner from being entirely obsolete.

I find it darkly hilarious how confident so many people who work in the software industry are that they aren’t about to have their future crushed by the rich. Again it really doesn’t matter if AI lives up to the hype at all, if AI fails to deliver and a market crash happens all the better since society will readily accept that as proof there needed to be a market correction on out of control labor costs for development, consolidation will occur and the labor of software development will be indefinitely and likely permanently devalued.

This should be clear as day to programmers but people who program for a living tend to think understanding programming is a shortcut to understanding everything and it leads to hilariously naive views from otherwise apparently very intelligent people.

Make no mistake this is the beginning of an awful era for game developers and software development.

RPS is circling the drain, they don’t have some key people anymore like Alice.

Be whatever emotion will help you through the coming suffering, but remember deciding not to care is a failstate of your world view, not an indicator your world view is a healthy and rational one.

No, it will be us too and if you aren’t scared by that you are a fool.

This is honestly one of the scariest headlines I have ever read.

I think it is cowardly to place the timeframe this could happen in as “within” decades though. Climate change is accelerating, emissions are increasing and global carbon sinks are transitiong to being sources of greenhouse gas emissions.

This could happen tomorrow. We could easily be crossing the tipping point as we speak, there is no sensationalizing this, it will be catastrophic.

I don’t mean to get angry at climate scientists though, they are not allowed to convey fear or evoke the possibility of catastrophic change in the near-term, it is a precondition to being allowed to work as a scientist in a fossil fuel based society…but that means that when climate scientists release headlines like this it is as close to “we should panic” as realistically it is going to get which means we should legitimately be panicking.

Look at sea surface temperatures in 2023 and 2024, they are off the charts and it is becoming clear that the ocean is changing (and when I say “changing” I mean amounts of excess heat energy so large they are quantified by comparing to the yield of thousands and thousands of hiroshima nuclear bombs) in fundamental ways, and far quicker than scientists are really allowed to talk about without risking professional consequences.

Pathetic showing for a massive waste of talent and money.

Blaming generations misses the point in some ways (the rich not boomers being the issue, we definitely need to keep our eye on the ball with that one) but also I can’t fucking stand how little most boomers care. Sometimes in the US it feels like it they are a generation of children that never had to grow up and now mostly just scold young people for being the adults in the room when they try to fix things.

It is just so pathetic and I feel robbed of the experience of having elders I can trust. All my elders are deeply sick and cannot let go of lifestyles that foreclose our future, nor do they take the consequences of destroying our only home seriously by and large, it feels like (well it really is) a betrayal of the largest order.

I wanted to live a life where I could look up to older generations and learn wisdom from them throughout my life, instead of feeling disgusted by their childlike lack of caring about future consequences.

These statistics are heartening that the sickness was not passed onto younger generations, but it is heart breaking all the same.

This is good news and between Operation Harsh Doorstop/other unreal engine games in the pipeline with modding support and arma reforger/arma 4 we are finally leaving the era of stagnant big map shooter design where modding options were basically the source engine or sticking to the ancient and abandoned bf2 engine.

Will performance be prioritized in development though? Given bohemias track record I doubt it, and it really heavily limits the potential of their games compared to a game like Easy Red 2 or Operation Harsh Doorstop that can easily simulate large battles on even a mediocre gaming computer with humans and tons of ai.

I doubt arma 4 will ship out of the box with half the gunplay polish OHD or Easy Red 2 already has and again performance will probably be atrocious for the equivalant experience.

Then again Dayz actually has pretty great low end performance, so I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised.

I don’t mean to be negative tho this is definitely good news!

Too bad there isn’t an active LoR community on Lemmy.

build it and they will come!

… tho maybe a generalist ccg/card battler lemmy would be a better place to start, I wonder if one of those exists yet.

I play singleplayer (I LOVE the mini roguelike mode) and co-op for the most part so I can’t speak to that authoritatively but take a look at the runeterra reddit, it is active and vibrant and it isn’t full of complaints about the meta or anything.

I mean, I don’t know active playercount stats or anything but there is clearly a solid community around it that genuinely loves the game (for very good reasons) and that is all that matters to me!

You understood what I meant, please don’t assume I am interested in being corrected for silly grammatical mistakes : ) :) :)

That is a really good point though, and in general I think this is a dark time for video game fans seeing so many devs that made our favorite games be tossed away by the corporations that profited off them.

For one this bodes terribly for growth and innovation in gaming for the next 10 years, why go into the industry if creating one of the most sucessful esports games ever isn’t enough for a corporation to decide you are worth employing consistently? The state of things is a joke and a very destructive one at that.

Yeah it is definitely still alive!