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Steam deck LAN? And game suggestions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 11 months ago by Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hi. So background is I'm 50 and I've not done much gaming since vice city and the original silent hills +unreal tournament. I'm trying to get back into it but I'm frustratingly crap.

I've got a steam deck and my neighbour has one too, we were looking for games we could play either head to head or cooperative. People suggested left 4 dead 2 and we managed to get that working through lobby thing but it was laggy and TBH it was a bit chaotic for us. Too much constant running and shooting and no time to pause for thought or discuss strategy.

I think we're looking for something with a bit of occasional violence but also some strategy - not just bang bang all the time. Maybe even something that doesn't involve violence at all. But we both working and only got an hour or two a day for game time.

Any suggestions?

First if it's possible to locally connect 2 steam decks (without a fuckin cable!). Second on what games might be fun. Needs to not have a big learning curve and be something we can just play for an hour or two when we have time.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. Cheers

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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

If I recall correctly, you can startup adhoc wifi in desktop mode, but I don't think there's a convenient way to do it in gamemode.

[–] CapillaryUpgrade@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That was what I was expecting, without trying.

Maybe it's just the right Decky add-on away? I have used add-ons for enabling VPNs so this should be possible, if not done already.

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Hmm maybe I'll have to look into it again. I remember trying it once a year or two ago, and running into some known bug where it looked like it was gonna work, but never did. Updates happen though. I'm fine with doing it from desktop mode, if it works. Kludgy, but I can understand it's not a priority to implement.