Arcade Cookie
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Being Ubisoft, a Ubisoft Connect account is necessary to launch the game. You can ask to remeber your account, so it's a one-time-thing, but if you have to create an account, do it on a smartohone or PC. For some reason, you can't inout your date of birth correctly on Steam Deck. Not really a problel, just some unnecessary one-time-hassle to get started.
The aspect-ratio or resolution can't be changed in-game, so there are black bars on top and below the playing field. Not a problem as such, just something to note.
Works out of the box. Just plow through the Ubisoft Connect-linking the first time playing. There are very limited graphical options: no resolution or advanced graphical options to to ker with. It looks great, though, and a solid 60fps with everything on or high. It just feels it could have been better or atleast more customisable.
Works out of the box at a smooth 60FPS.
Now, would you kindly change the anisotropic filter in the in-game settings at 16x. It can take it.
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Works excellent with Proton 8.0-5.
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Works out of the box.
I use the following graphical settings:
@ Steam performance-menu
- Frame Limit: 40 FPS
@ In-game settings:
- Fullscreen
- Resolution: 1280x800
- FPS-limit: 60 Everything on Ultra, bar:
- Anti-aliasing: low
- Shadow Quality: high
- Visual effect: high
This gives me a smooth 40 FPS to destroy all humans.
It runs great on Steam Deck without any adjustments. Just sweet, sweet arcadey brawling.
Works flawlessly out of the box. No tinkering or adjustments needed. Just ol'skool arcade street-roaming beating-up goodness.
Game is poorly optimised. Needs to run with low settings, FRS1 set to performance and FPS to 30.
Some games run well on Steam Desk. This is not one if them. You can achieve 30fps, but with a big trade-off in visual quality. It's playable, though.
For some reason, the cutscene right before Chapter 1, where they enter the Nova Net, goes haywire with a FPS going as low as 1-2, and menu's lagging. Plow through it, it's the only instance in the game so far this happens (all other cutscenes run just fine), and it goes back to normal when gameplay starts. If not, restart the game and it'll start after the cutscene thanks to auto-save. It's not related to graphical settings.
After some testing and experimenting, these settings run just fine and looks rather nice! *Display:
- Max refresh rate: 40.00
- AMD FIDELITY FX CA SHARPENING: 50%
- Resoltion Scale: 80.00
*Graphics: Everything on low/off, bar:
- SCREEN SPACE REFLECTIONS: on
- DEPTH OF FIELD: on
With these setting, it looks and plays great and pretty smooth, with occasional dips into the 30's and on rare occasions the higher 20's. First impressions aren't good, though: the very first shot of the zoom-in on Quill's hole has a FPS in the 20's, and the aforementioned cutscene before Chapter 1 falls apart. However, this is nor representative of the rest of the game.
It plays and looks better than I had dare to hope after some experimenting.
Lowered mouse sensitivity tp 10% in the in-game settings for greater comfort with the right control stick
Standard SD-control templates don't work anymore. Made a Community solution.
After the Echoes-update, the controllers default to mouse and keys no matter which template you choose, official or community. I've tried to make everything playable with the Community template "Arcade Cookie's July 2024 Steam Deck Gamepad Mapping". Download it, make further adjustments to the template or in-game if desired, and go explore... SPACE!
No tinkering or adjustments needed. Looks and plays mooth from the start! You can make it even better by enabling gyro.
The lightning-engine us prone to 'freaking out'. You'll notice it sometimes makes the environment 'shimmer'. Nothing gamebreaking or too distracting, though. FPS is low by default, especially during cutscenes. This can be overcome by adjusting your settings.
Will it run as good as on a Series X or PS5? No, obviously not. I've played through both those versions, though, and found the Steam Desk-version to be quite impressive and flexible. These are my settings. which give me a stable 30fps (which is quite enough), bar some drops int the (high) 20's during heavy explosions or big battles, but that lasts only a a fraction of time. The warehouse battle against the UED's remains a stresspoint, though. Cutscenes may occasionally drop to the mid-to-high 20's, but that doesn't distract.
- Steam performance menu: frame limit to 30fps
- Resolution: the one below 1280x800 (can't rememer what it is exactly)
- View Distance: far
- All settings to medium
- Reflections: SSR
- Resolution scaling: 50
- Upscaling: TSR
Can't speak for versions before patches as of august 2024, but this runs acceptable.
But.. if Lewis calls me 'partner' one last time, there will be... trouble.
Under 'Search': SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENIUM: Gamepad
By default the d-pad and c9ntrols sticks don't work. But fear not! At the controller configuration, go to 'Search' and choose 'SNK VS CAPCOM: THE MATCH OF THE MILLENIUM: Gamepad' and everything works just fine. The default template for gamepad does NOT work.
Works great out of the box, but Steam Desk can do more than the default graphical options. I use these and still achieve 60fps:
- Resolution: 1280x800
- Fullscreen
- All graphical setting on maximum
- Resolution scaling to 110
There might be some choppiness and stuttering on the loading screen before fight, but is more due to loading than graphical settings.
Added keys to buttons that aren't there by default. Details in description of the community lay-out.
Default size is readable, but small.
Gamespeed is coupled to framerate. The more FPS, the faster the game runs. Choose 50fps in the Steam-performance menu in the game-specific configuration. That's the right speed.
- Use touchscreen on the initial launcher screen.
- Choose native 1280x800 resolution in the game launcher.
- Lower FPS to 50 in the Steam performance menu for the correct speed.
- Costumize controls or choose community lay-out.
- Kick imperial butt.
No issues with any kind of slowdown without switching to Proton, even with the arcade games. Played a hefty amount of Space Harrier without any hitch.
Switch to the community lay-out 'Ryo Hazuki's Bindings' for correct QTE, but then they work perfectly. I didn't get Expert on Excite QTE 2 by sheer luck, you know.
It works great out of the box. Default controls are excellent. Playing with the trackpad is a breeze, and you can easily scroll with the d-pad. No issues whatsoever. Highly recommended if you like city-builders.
It works great out of the box. I've not experienced any crashing when loading maps/scenarios. Don't change the resolution in-game. It'll just display the game in a smaller window. The default resolution us fullscreen. Default controls are excellent. Playing with the trackpad is a breeze, and you can easily scroll with the d-pad. No issues whatsoever. Highly recommended if you like city-builders.
Works out of the box without tinkering. It defaults in-game on the lowest graphical settings. Simply go the the Settings - Graphics - put everything on High/Highest with resolution on the highest. The game will run fine with these settings and it makes quite a difference. Also, enable the option in the Graphics-menu to lock World Tour at 30 FPS. It's perfectly playable. Haven't testen online battles.
Disregard my previous post. I can't alter or delete it. Setting all graphical settings on the highest options will cause slowdown. These settings work best for me:
- Resolution: 1280x720
Basic Graphical settings:
- Fighting Ground Background Object Density: Crowded
- Internal resolution: 5
- Display mode: Borderless Windowed
- Maximum Frame Rate: 60
- Ambient Occlusion: on
- Screen Space Reflections: off
- Motion Blur: on
- Vsync: on
- NPC's: crowded
- Subsurface scattering: on
- Antialiasing: on
- Depth of Field Effect: on
- Limit World Tour Battles to 30fps: on (mandatory on SD)
Detailed Graphics Settings:
- Lighting Quality: high
- Texture quality: highest
- Mesh Quality: normal
- Shadow Quality: normal
- Shader Quality: high
- Effects Quality: high
- Sampling Quality: standard
- Bloom: off
Now hit the streets!
Ironically, it runs too fast by default. In the Performance Menu, change the frame limit to 60HZ (use the per-game profile so it only effects this game), and it has the intended speed. Do mind that the game is rather slow by design.
A tip: in Setting - Extra - Game Speed - choose 1.3x. It's much better experience. This also applies to any platform (PS5, Switch, Xbox, etc)
This great game of golf runs flawlessly on Steam Deck. No adjustments needed to get it running at a smooth framerate, and controls great. Highly recommended, as arcade-style golf are rare these days.
This works fine on Steam Desk, but just like on any other platform (PS, Xbox, Switch) it's not very well optimised. Getting a constant 60fps is not really on the table, unless you go for a really low resolution. I've lowered the resolution to 960x600 in-game (or rather upped it. The default resolution is ridiculously low) and that makes the majority play at 60fps, and when it goes down, it's not impactful and not really noticable, and it still looks very good at this resolution.
It works perfectly without any manual modification or setting. Just straight arcade-goodness.
Works out if the box.
The default in-game resolution is low. Set it to 1280x720. It runs at a slooth 60fps, with occasionally a quick drop to 59. Needless to say, you don't even notice it unless you activate the FPS-counter. It has no impact whatsoever.
Now let's kick some shell!
The intro movie might stutter on occasion.
The default resolution in-game is 1280x800, but that makes the artwork and sprites look slightly 'uneven' and messy due to a mismatch with resolutions. In the options menu, choose -'Windowed' and '860x540', and in the Steam performance menu make sure the scaling filter for rhis game is 'Linear'. That makes the art look as intended
It runs great. Just adjust the resolition in-game as explained above and the screen will be less 'noisy'.
Opening (totally non-essential) prerendered movie only plays using GE-Proton, albeit without sound. All the rest of the game plays perfectly.
Works great out-of-the-box. No tinkering or enhancements needed, just sweet, sweet driftin' under blue, blue skies!
A little hassle to get past the red game-select menu screen, but no big issue once you know how to get past it.
Swiched the rigjt and left joysticks. The rigjt one is faster by default.
Nothing major, just some crackling from time to time.
The opening red menu screen, where you choose between Wolfenstein 3D of Spear of Destiny, keeps reloading. How to get past this:
- if you want Spear of Destiny, keep tapping it on the screen until the revolver is next to it.
- keep pressing Steam + right on the d-pad to enter the game.
Everything should be fine from here on
It works fine, but you need to applu tje workaround to get in either Wolfenstein 3D of Spear of Destiny. Remember, this is an old game that doesn't support gamepad, but it is playable. Some tips:
- Switch left and rigjt joysticks around. The right one is faster by default.
- Hold the left trigger to strafe. It's easy to look over that, but essential to play it properly.
Now, let's do something about those nazi's.
Slice if you've heard this one before: prerendered cutscenes (which in this game are a minority, mind) don't play or are skipped. On Proton Experimental, they play, but no sound on English dub (there are subtitles, mind). For me this only worked after a +1GB update. Either choose the Japanese dub, or live with silent, subtitled prerendered cutscenes. This isn't so bad as it sounds, though, because only certain 'mood'-pieces are prerendered. Most of the cutscenes are real-time. Apart from that, it's smooth slicing!
Apart from aforementioned prerendered-cutscenes and the workaround, it's smooth slicing!
