Title: installing battle net is a bit of chore, but other than that was very impressed with how smoothly this runs on steam deck. Combined with Steam Dock and instant console mode. Highly recommend.

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    1 year ago

    I’ve played on my PC and on the deck. I can safely say I have put in more hours playing on the deck than I’ve done on the PC.

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    1 year ago

    I have it on my deck as well and it runs really nicely, 60fps constant on low or some slight framedrops on medium but never below 40, the only downside is if I press the power button to pause, it never reconnects for me when I resume, so I gotta close the whole game and reopen it.

    Also, I found that by binding L1 and L2 to R3 and R4 (back buttons), then Right Joystick to output Left Joystick, I can play the game with just my right hand, freeing up my left hand for other activities… The right joystick is only really used for scrolling long item text and zooming in and out in map, which you can do using the touch pad anyway.

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      1 year ago

      I can play the game with just my right hand, freeing up my left hand for other activities…

      ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

  • Banda@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was impressed too! I’ve had LESS issues running it on my steam deck than I have on my PC! Could be luck or just something between low and high settings causing me more issues. Worth going through the effort of loading up Battle.net for. As a long time mouse and keyboard player controller feels good for Diablo.

    • Elden_Potato@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah I’ve been having a blast! Being able to lay on my couch and play is something I never thought I’d appreciate as much as I do lol.

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      1 year ago

      I agree entirely, I played it as my main for a week while traveling, only hiccup was after hibernation and needing to kill the entire process to reconnect. Low res doesn’t matter in handheld mode.

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      1 year ago

      I installed the high res textures, I’m not sure if the deck actually takes advantage of them at all or if I just wasted some storage space. But it still runs at a solid 40-60 frames!

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    1 year ago

    I do not have a deck personally (yet!) however since I do run Linux on my desktop I was very happy that running Diablo 4 on Linux was super easy to do.

    I wasn’t too concerned since all of the other Blizzard games run on Linux as well, as far as I know.

  • nickel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That is pretty awesome. I didn’t realize you could run battle.net on Linux. Last time I looked into this though was right before D2:R came out and was trying to get it working on Pop!_OS. Can’t remember much, but I do remember not really being able to get it to work.

    Glad to see that things have progressed. I don’t own a steam deck, but I’m definitely filing this away as something that is possible to do. However, I’m really enjoying D4 on my xbox. :)

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      1 year ago

      I’ve only used bnet on desktop and it’s really easy to install using Lutris. Overwatch 2, HotS and Diablo 4 all play well, while CoD does not. One time several Linux users, myself included, got caught in a ban wave for Overwatch. And while their support insisted that we were caught cheating and sanctioned correctly, a few days later they sent us an email with an apology and reinstated our accounts.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I didn’t have to do anything different from other Blizzard games.

    • Elden_Potato@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I installed b-net for Overwatch originally. So all I had to do was install the game and it worked first attempt.

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        1 year ago

        It runs better on Manjaro than it does Windows. I tried it out on my Windows petition last night and it just maxes my 8GB of VRAM and causes stuttering all game. On Manjaro it hovers around 7.5 GB of VRAM and almost never stutters. I’m impressed.

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    1 year ago

    just makes me nervous I’ll get banned, is there any official communication from blizz on this subject? even for other games of theirs.

    • mvmnts@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      It’s just a computer, you will be fine, relax. There are tons of people playing Blizz games of all kinds on Steam Deck. Dive in!

      • otter bee@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Yea totally, there are just some overly sensitive anti-cheats and my blizzard account has a lot of history.