Lavabrothers
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After waking from sleep, audio is cut off (at least from bluetooth headphones)
If you launch it by default, it will be a fine experience. In my case, after waking from sleep audio would not come back and the game would hitch slightly as it tried to get back in sync. After enabling Proton Experimental, audio and hitching disappeared. Even my save from the native game was pulled over to the proton version mid-run! I think my issue is I was using Bluetooth headphones, playing through the speakers may not pose the same issue
Disabled Gamescope Frame Limiter
Steam Deck Frame Limiter will cause slow loading
Battery life for me was 1 hour and 40 minutes. This was on all low settings, FSR 2.0 Performance Adaptive Resolution, at 60 FPS
Deathloop runs great, I played at all low and with FSR 2.0 Adaptive Resolution at performance. It's a good idea to disable the gamescope frame limiter. While at 60fps framelimiting the load times are a bit slow, the average person may not notice. If you are to reduce the framlimiter to 40fps, the load times ballon. Just use the built in framelimiter in the game. The game runs about 60 fps most of the time, with large action scenes mainly at 50fps (can be as low as 40 fps). Game used to crash when multitasking, but it seems to be fixed. I also had no issues putting the Steamdeck to sleep
Easy-Anti Cheat works in proton, so I expect a casual gamer will enjoy the Steamdeck experience
Enabled the gyro (act as mouse) with right trigger full pull. The game runs fine and no jumping in controls, but controller glyphs will flicker between kb+m and controller when only aiming. Moving while aiming will mantain the controller layout
Ran at 60fps in menus and ingame, but even on all low it runs at 20-30fps when there is alot of fighting
Outside of beta server load and others dropping, everything worked as expected
Don't expect a highly competitive experience on Steamdeck without making severe graphical compromises (Probably sub 720p) but enjoyable if you want to get a game in or two. I recomend enabling the built in Vsync in this game and disabling the Steamdeck's Frame Limiter to reduce latency, and move settings to all low. Though the game will runs similarly on Medium settings
I moved all settings to low and set the frame limit ingame to 60fps
The launcher cannot be bypassed that I could find, fortunatly the default controller scheme can navigate the launcher (Touchpad works as a mouse)
The game has a few pieces of text that is difficult to read, however those are labels that are a bit too small. The main menu, commodity quantity, commodity price, and tool tips are perfectly fine. The Clock, labels, and save-file browser are a touch small
The game is still a bit choppy even at low settings, despite the graphics of this game. I regularly went down to 35fps in late game
While this is a fine game on Steamdeck and the control scheme is very usable, the control scheme doesn't have obvious controls and not a lot of accessible hotkeys without modification. Do not expect to play very well even at lower difficulties. Singleplayer is very enjoyable at lower difficulties and still quite engaging if you enjoy the game on kb+m.
Performance is poorer than expected, but the RTS nature of this game doesn't demand high framerate to be enjoyable. Sadly the game does consume the battery at full tilt making my Q3 LCD Steamdeck means I get about 1:10 hours battery life
The game works fully online and offline, even the game would gray out multiplayer when it detected it was offline
