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Cloud saves don't work with 7 Days To Die
When going near cities and buildings, the models and such have to load which causes slight freezes and frame rate drops, does not reach 60 FPS. Usually stays around 40-45 FPS. However, this game has serious optimization problems to begin with, in my opinion, as long as it runs above 30 fps, its playable. I really feel it won't be able to handle horde night once it get past day 35 or day 42.
When first creating a world, it takes forever to load, and even after creating the world, it still takes a long time to get into the game.
You have to use the touch screen to hit the Play button on launcher that comes up.
Just install and click play, then tap the Play button in the launcher that pops up and you should be good to go, change the resolution if you like.
When first launching the game, Punk Buster has to be installed and initialized/tested.
in-game text like "Press and Hold F to rebuild barriers", but the text in general is pretty pixelated anyways.
The controls need to be changed from Steam itself and set to all the corresponding keys that you need to play the game, and would need changed based on whether your playing Campaign or Zombies in my opinion.
Recommended Changes
Change in-game in Options > Controls > Combat and set Aim Down Sights (ADS) to the Right Mouse, which with the community layout would be the Left Trigger.
Change the resolution of the game in the Options > Graphics > Video Mode and set it to 1152x720
Game runs perfectly fine from what I have found at the default settings, it automatically chose low graphics, but its hard to even tell that its set to low on the 1200X800 resolution, so its fine. I'm honestly surprised the Steam Deck was able to get through the loading screens in only a few seconds it seemed.
Performance Heavy Areas I tested include:
Lexington - Only minor dropped frames at around 48 FPS for a second or two, then it stays at a stable 60 FPS.
Boston - Only minor dropped frames at around 48 FPS for a second or two but it was a little bit more frequent, but to be expected, then it stays at a stable 60 FPS
However, when on top of one of the skyscrapers and you look straight down onto Boston, the FPS can dip down to about 37, but if your just casually playing, you probably won't notice when fighting and looting.
Only thing that happened was that on first boot you have to sign in to your microsoft account which REQUIRED you to manually bring up the steam keyboard with the Steam button + X, not a big deal. Also, on first boot, I tried to load campaign and it froze the game, but everytime after, it proceeded to load the campaign just fine.
There was a shadow of sorts off in the distance that didn't make any sense, but it wasn't always noticable so I don't mind it.
Does not have Steam cloud support for save games
Only thing I can say here is that the button prompts in-game are for keyboard and mouse and doesn't display controller icons of any kind, but the controls work just fine.
Might need to turn Vsync on as I noticed it locked itself to 30 FPS and then changed to 60 FPS when I turned on Vsync. Other than that, game ran very well.
Game runs fine, although, would recommend installing the unofficial patch to play the game considering how this game can be pretty broken as is.
Would highly recommend playing this game to anyone interested, the game literally just works out of the box on the Steam Deck at 60 FPS.
Works right out of the box, just hit install and its ready to go. Gameplay and performance feels like the game is running natively on the Steam Deck.
