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Overwatch 2 heads to Steam making it even easier on Steam Deck / Linux (www.gamingonlinux.com)

submitted 1 year ago by sirsquid@lemmy.ml to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

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[-] Mandy@beehaw.org 11 points 1 year ago

That smells like desperation to get a higher playercount and paypiggies

[-] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 9 points 1 year ago

Hell freaking yes! This was like...the only major barrier preventing me from permanently moving my desktop over to Linux from Windows. Now I need to check if I can get my Mbox to work and I'm golden.

[-] Reggie@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

If by Mbox you mean the sound device; I recently tried out Linux PopOS and my Mbox 2 Mini worked without a problem right from the Start

[-] eroc1990@lemmy.parastor.net 1 points 1 year ago

I am. Mines a 3, so idk how that translates over. But I would likely be using Pop as well, so that's promising.

[-] shitescalates@midwest.social 9 points 1 year ago

It was a little tricky setting up for me, since I couldn't get heroic to work on my computer. I will use steam in a hearbest though, much easier.

[-] bankimu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Damn it. Just when I bit the bullet and bought Diablo 4 on Battlenet. I bet whenever they launch Diablo 4 on Steam, they'll not just transfer my license it to Steam.

Edit: FWIW I'm using the Battlenet launcher with Lutris, and so far it's far less problematic than Epic. Hasn't yet forgotten my log in and asked for password again like Epic does every few days which is super annoying (pretty sure this is how they operate on Windows also).

[-] Molecular0079@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel you on this. I'll be annoyed if they don't offer some kind of migration.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Wouldn't you be fighting against other PC players? Good luck attempting to fight kb+m players on joysticks.

[-] ampersandrew@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago

You can plug a mouse and keyboard into a Steam Deck.

[-] Entheogen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I play in a party of four, most times. Two of us on KB/M, two on controller. No problems.

[-] ticktok@fosstodon.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@mojo @sirsquid the addition of gyro aiming makes it competitive, especially if it's setup for flickstick or if you get used to using the right trackpad.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago

Maybe competitive in bronze rank lol

[-] ticktok@fosstodon.org -1 points 1 year ago

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I know gyroscope aiming definitely helps and makes things better. But you're delusional if you think it even somewhat closes the mile long gap between kb+m vs joystick. Games like Fortnite matchmaking based off of input device so hopefully they do something like that.

[-] Snowy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The sensor quality is at a deficit and the arm biomechanics likely are not a full match for those of mouse aiming in terms of range between the smallest and largest motions possible, but just the fact that gyro aiming uses absolute tracking of motions as mice do and is able to do microadjustments and flicks puts it much closer to the capabilities of mouse aiming than to stick aiming.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Tell me you've never played a competitive shooter without telling me lol. I'd love you to show me the best gyro aiming player and see how they compare to kb+m players. It's not even close to being comparable, and any competitive player would laugh at that

[-] Snowy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There is no regulated competitive environment to find the best gyro players, the overall player base is tiny and has not existed for long compared to other input methods, and a high end performance gap of some size exists as I outlined in the comment above and can not effectively be closed at this time if it ever can be so mouse play inevitably comes out on top if not by a huge margin then at least by enough of one

That said just today some mobile shooter player that's been using a gyro controller in aim trainers for a while posted a very short video with some tracking. It's nothing special for mouse play, but if you have any footage of non-AA stick players with even remotely close to this degree of capability I would love to see it as they appear to be very rare, as well for anything with the extreme flick speeds routinely seen across mouse and gyro

The range of a stick is absolute crushed down to a tiny speck due to relying on the motions of a thumb and due to being a relative/time-based input instead of an absolute/distance-based input, the mechanical and sensor disadvantages of gyro aiming just do not go anywhere near that low with remotely modern gear

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

[-] nani8ot@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Some gamepad player are really good. Especially in Overwatch, which has characters like Mercy, Moira or Reinhardt that can provide value even without good aim.

Though Overwatch doesn't have aim assist on pc, so it's probably difficult even for most experienced gamepad players.

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