• @Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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    2311 months ago

    Are there really that many people up in arms about this? Fuck epic and fuck fortnite, but were there really that many steam deck users that even wanted to play it in the first place? I see no issues with epic continuing to make dumb and short sighted business decisions, so long as somebody salvages unreal if they ever crash and burn.

    • hh93
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      411 months ago

      For me it’s not about fortnite but more about fast-paced multiplayer on the steam deck

      When I played Rocket league on the deck instead of my Desktop with Lan, higher resolution and much higher framerate I always felt as if I’m playing much worse than I usually do which is not fun in the slightest

      It’s a great console for singleplayer and more tactical multiplayer but whenever reading the screen in less than a second and reacting very fast to it in an online game is necessary that’s not great…

      • Chrissie
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        211 months ago

        I generally suck at playing shooters with controllers but I was looking forward to try the Gyro controls for Fortnite.

        You can as a workaround play Fortnite on the Deck via XBox Live in a browser. But there you don’t have Gyro controls :(

      • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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        111 months ago

        Not sure what you mean by that, are you asking for a Linux variant of fortnite and other fps games or something else?

        • hh93
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          311 months ago

          No - I’m just saying that the delay in WIFI and the low framerate and small resolution of the screen makes the Steamdeck a sub-par choice for fast-paced games for me. It’s fine if you are only playing on that device but if you also have a desktop to play at it’s far worse imho

          • @RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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            111 months ago

            Well yeah but his sentiment is about Linux in general especially with their store only being supported on windows (maybe Mac as well?). Idc about fortnite but would be nice if more companies take the effort to support or simply stop kicking Linux out.

          • @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz
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            111 months ago

            I mean, yes I don’t have a gaming machine but also I just find playing shooters more fun on the steam deck to be honest.