What shoots well on the deck?
Deep Rock Galactic runs great and is a lot of fun. It is a bit of a battery hog though, so best plugged in or in short bursts.
Boltgun runs fantastic and is a great boomer shooter. The cutscenes don’t work without a workaround, but there’s 4 total and none of them are important anyway.
Doom Eternal runs beautifully, and is super action-packed and fun. Surprisingly good on the battery too for such nice graphics.
I found DRG to be fine on battery until you hit like 20%, then things get wild
Lol nothing like 3% battery warning as you scramble towards the drop pod to really put the fear of Karl in you!
For real though a 25 minute mission easily eats 40%+ of the battery, no idea why it’s so energy intensive. Mind you I’ve done zero tinkering, just playing it out of the box, I’m sure you could juice some more life out of it if you tried
DOOM Eternal is playable even with raytracing on the Deck.
Some more recommendations which run well:
- Titanfall 2
- Wolfenstein New Order
- Terminator Resistance
These should also run without any issue:
- Prey
- Deathloop
- Dying Light
- Halo Masterchief Collection
- Alien: Isolation (not really a shooter)
- System Shock Remake
Just to name a few.
Titanfall 2 is straight up perfect on the Deck, from visuals to performance to controls.
But the game is sooo short, I could go for 5x the time the campaign lasted 😥
id Software are just optimization wizards. DOOM Eternal works like a charm in almost all modern hardware.
Nah there’s no wizardry here. The game itself is actually very simple in terms of processing. You only see maybe a dozen enemies at once, if that, ever, and whenever you do its in a locked arena area. A tiny arena even.
As FPS games go, Doom is wildly simplistic, which makes it that much more impressive that it’s as fun and repayable as it is. I personally thought the narrative actually managed to carry a lot of that weight (i loved the story) but it was also the gameplay itself - they did a superb job making the player actually learn the guns and why you’d use each one, rather than just letting them have a favorite.
Don’t get me wrong though, I don’t mean to belittle them. Doom is a chefs egg. Every cook can make an egg, but making a perfect egg every time is something that takes the mastery of a chef. Id is very much the chef in the analogy.
It doesn’t geht mentioned often, but I really enjoyed Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
Ego shooters
Found the German
What’s an ego-shooter?
