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You asked, many times, I deliver. Here's #RimWorld on the #SteamDeck, using the new Beta version that properly hooks up the input. Article: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/03/rimworld-gets-a-fresh-beta-with-big-steam-deck-upgrades/Follow me: https://twitter.com/gamingonlinuxRead news: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/Watch live: https://www.twitch.tv/gamingonlinux

[ 2022-03-17 11:14:14Z ]👍 3

Is there a reason you didn't use the trackpad?

[ 2022-03-17 14:36:14Z ] 👍 1

Thanks Liam for the clarification, we were a bit worried about you after seeing this crazy masochistic behavior lol.

[ 2022-03-17 11:23:51Z ] 👍 3

It's to show off the actual gamepad inputs. I did briefly show it works in the video though.

[ 2022-03-17 11:31:27Z ]👍 2

Good to see. I intend to pick this up when my Deck arrives 🙄 Same question though, why not use the trackpad? I’m really, really curious to see them used as for me, it’s a major selling point. Games like Prison Architect, Parkitect, Rimworld, Simairport, Foundation, Anno and other similar titles and how effective the trackpads are within those said games. I haven’t seen much of that around if at all over the past few weeks. Still, your content is good, informative and appreciated 🙂

[ 2022-03-17 18:08:49Z ] 👍 0

I'm surprised they didn't take off better yknow. I remember playing xcom on the big telly with it and it was fantastic. I dont think there was any real controller support for them at the time. Yeah your right saying you can basically have the buttons doing what you wish, if they have carried over the same configuration options from the pad then basically the skys the limit. And its no effort to make your own configs too.

[ 2022-03-17 15:38:17Z ] 👍 1

@@GScrubb181 Agreed. That’s partly why I am so keen to see how they function. I’ve never owned a Steam pad but saw a NerdNest video a few months back that went into great detail as to how buttons can be bound and the depths to how controls can be configured and mapped. My understanding is that this is very similar to the Deck. That being said though, I’m eager to see RTS games and ones similar to the ones I mentioned previously to see how they function in practice.

[ 2022-03-17 15:17:42Z ] 👍 1

Hopefully if they have a similar feel to the steam pad I will be using them a lot. The touch pads on the steam controller were a game changer in bringing rts and strategy games to other platforms as such.

[ 2022-03-17 12:21:46Z ] 👍 1

@@gamingonlinux I did notice they were in action…. I guess I meant throughout the entirety of the test - but fair enough - that wasn’t the purpose of the video. There was never a hint of criticism at all though!! 🙂 Maybe a video fully demonstrating the trackpads capabilities would be a good shout, not binding keys, creating wheels or setting up layers or the versatility of the software as such - solely focused on how they perform in games that you’d specifically play with a mouse and keyboard. Another one, Kingdoms and Castles. Kinda a ‘trackpad only showcase’ 🤔 But yeah, your videos are really good.

[ 2022-03-17 11:56:32Z ] 👍 1

I did at 2:30 and again at 5:53, the point is the Beta hooks up *gamepad* controls so I was showing them.

[ 2022-03-17 16:26:07Z ]👍 0

Nice videos man. Can you test Nioh 2?

[ 2022-03-17 18:50:40Z ]👍 0

Can you try subnautica or Minecraft with a modpack like RLCraft plz I want to know if it works good on the Steam Deck Thanks !

[ 2022-03-17 23:11:30Z ]👍 4

It's cool how they got it working on it, but it looks janky with using the controls.

[ 2022-03-18 00:02:00Z ]👍 3

how are the touch screen controls? the rimworld devs put out a post about how it should support touch screen inputs

[ 2022-03-18 00:49:56Z ]👍 4

This is one of the best uses of the steam deck, in my opinion. I can hook up a steam link for most games, but there's just too much tiny text in rimworld. It would be really cool if they could make the menus controller accessible (maybe up on the dpad selects architect and navigate left/right/up/down/a/b from there?)

[ 2023-04-25 15:58:24Z ] 👍 1

Hi, sorry I know this comment is over a year old, but i just wanted to make sure you knew the UI is scaleable in the game options menu, so you can make the text bigger if you want.

[ 2022-03-31 12:46:27Z ] 👍 3

Tynan said on the ludeon blogpost that they are working on a specific steam deck release/version Edit; that version has been released

[ 2022-03-18 00:50:58Z ] 👍 1

Not to mention, battery use hovered around 8W, which is fantastic. That'd mean 5 hours of Rimworld (ish).

[ 2022-03-18 03:18:16Z ]👍 0

not in Australia it doesn't

[ 2022-03-18 09:31:41Z ]👍 1

Wonder how much the projected battery time remaining would change if capped Rimworld at 30fps

[ 2022-03-18 11:56:26Z ] 👍 3

Since it's using about 16.5 watts it will last almost 2.5 hours by my calculation (40 / 16.5). If it's locked at 30fps it would last longer. Maybe 3.5 to 4 hours.

[ 2022-03-19 21:50:08Z ]👍 11

How do mods behave on it? Is there some limit to approximately how many mods can you run on it?

[ 2023-01-09 11:12:00Z ] 👍 0

It's like a normal pc you can run as many as the game can handle

[ 2022-07-13 10:29:36Z ] 👍 0

Seems that really depends on the mods and how much they impact the game performance. At that point it is just as many mods as the steamdeck can handle with proper performance.

[ 2022-04-10 01:54:59Z ] 👍 0

I to wonder

[ 2022-03-20 14:10:04Z ]👍 0

Is it possible to use the trackpad?

[ 2022-03-20 14:18:57Z ] 👍 0

Yes

[ 2022-03-21 04:44:00Z ]👍 2

Being touchscreen doesn't that mean you can just use a stylus pen?

[ 2022-10-04 20:56:22Z ] 👍 2

touch support and pen support are two different things, steam deck works only with your fingers or these useless thick styluses that simulate fingers.

[ 2022-03-22 19:21:28Z ]👍 0

can you mod it?

[ 2022-03-25 21:16:34Z ]👍 54

This is one of the games I cannot wait to play on my Steam Deck. Truly a perfect game for this device.

[ 2022-04-18 15:42:05Z ] 👍 1

@@Matruchus I recently learned that you can pair a mouse and keyboard to it too. So now I'm all in!

[ 2022-04-18 09:22:13Z ] 👍 3

@@BurdieFromHell It has track pads like a laptop so you don't really need anything to snap off. Don't know why Liam didn't play it with the trackpads. By the way Rimworld has now full Steam Deck support since 6th April. This video is now outdated.

[ 2022-04-08 18:31:05Z ] 👍 2

When I first saw the steamdeck, I thought the side was gonna snap off like the switch to become a mouse. I thought it was the coolest idea ever until i found out I was mistaken.

[ 2022-04-08 09:34:10Z ] 👍 5

@@blessedvb Ive thought about this, and I feel like you could pretty easily use the touchscreen for a lot of actions, the only hard one would be combat and you can just pause for that though, with bluetooth you could easily get a foldable keyboard thats easily pocketable for 20 bucks and a small mouse and get a jackstand case, which is what im going to do with mine, this is perfect for rimworld and adventure mode dwarf fortress which are my 2 favorite single player games

[ 2022-04-07 18:20:44Z ] 👍 25

doesn't it seem kinda uncomfortable tho? like i feel it is a very "mouse" game, idk if it makes sense

[ 2022-04-01 14:42:43Z ]👍 1

I would like to see a late game colony on this, will probly lag, since late game colonies lag even on high end gaming pcs, but still would be nice to see

[ 2022-04-08 14:43:47Z ] 👍 0

@@CrystallineLore I play on the secound largest map, like always, and my late game colonies are generally at the 50+ colonists range. It doesn't lag often, but when a raid comes, specially a tribal raid, that can come at like 200 raiders, than it lags quite a bit I have a ryzen 7 5800x, so definitly not a weak pc point is, my pc is waaaay more powerfull than a deck, I'd like to see if the deck would be able to handle a 50+ colonists colony edit: Oh yeah, also, whenever I get 2 colonies, like when I go mine another piece of the map, and stuf like that, the lag goes crazy. Im not saying that the game doesn't warn you about that, cause it does, but these are things I play with every single colony I have, and I can't think of playing rimworld without it, so I'd like to see how it runs

[ 2022-04-08 09:14:28Z ] 👍 0

@@mathdantastav2496 Super PC I guess, because I'm pretty sure most people end up at around the same endgame point. Still, it's probably just that your PC probably isn't good or is lagging behind on something, as I've seen people play modded big battles or have super colonies with tons of additional mod shit have zero lag. Most of my mods just change gameplay aspects. And uh, yeah, I guess if you play on mega-size maps or mod map sizes you might lag...? The game warns you about that so, uh?

[ 2022-04-08 08:27:41Z ] 👍 0

@@CrystallineLore u either have a super pc, have a small amount of colonists and/or is playing on a normal sized map and/or is playing at a lower than "loosing is fun" difficulty

[ 2022-04-08 06:35:27Z ] 👍 2

Late game colonies don't lag on my rig and I use an illegal number of mods to boot.

[ 2022-04-07 09:21:05Z ]👍 20

Thanks for testing this so quickly. Good job! When i see the GPU/CPU Usage, it seems that we might expect quite decent battery life on this title, which is really fantastic.

[ 2022-04-10 10:47:12Z ] 👍 2

Yes, but the game does start to use a ton more with more pawns, especially during raids, though the way i usually play i never get that issue lol

[ 2022-04-07 18:58:46Z ]👍 0

i always wanted that deck but it is so so exspensive why must good things come to rich people first

[ 2022-06-17 14:36:47Z ] 👍 2

The deck is extremely cheap... 400 dollars for the cheapest model. You will not get comparable desktops for that price. This in no way favours rich people, just those who reserved one early.

[ 2022-04-16 09:10:51Z ] 👍 1

"Why must good things come to rich people first?" Because they have money to pay for it, duh? The Deck does cost more than competing products, BUT the vast majority of competition in this scene is articifially subsidizing entry costs because they can force the user into their ecosystem and that's how they'll eventually turn profit. You can't buy a Nintendo game from anyone else than Nintendo, etc.

[ 2022-04-07 23:36:36Z ]👍 7

One of the reasons i want a steam deck!

[ 2022-04-08 18:37:50Z ]👍 5

So for years now I've regretted the fact that the Switch lacks strategy games. I'm no game expert but I've played enough Game Dev Tycoon to realize that it's fair to say certain genres are better on certain consoles, and I realized that strategy games don't work on the Switch. This acknowledged. I worry that the steam deck may be the best portable strategy option, while also not being a super great answer. When the Steam Deck was first announced I thought the side would snap off to become a mouse, kinda like the Switch but even more creative. In my head, this answered every prayer. I'm sad to see that it's just a track pad but regardless I'm excited for the opportunity to finally have my steam account on the go.

[ 2024-05-04 01:41:15Z ] 👍 0

I think the lenovo legion go has switch type controls, and the right one has a mouse laser so you can literally use it as a makeshift mouse. I think it's the lenovo anyway

[ 2022-06-02 02:04:14Z ] 👍 2

@@BurdieFromHell Nice! Hope you enjoy it :)

[ 2022-06-01 23:39:29Z ] 👍 1

@@skyleite2065 Yes! After reading more about it I figured that out and immediately reserved one!

[ 2022-06-01 23:33:20Z ] 👍 3

If it makes you feel better you can literally just carry a bluetooth mouse around and use it

[ 2022-04-16 07:52:00Z ]👍 1

Ah excellent, excellent! Now I can be traumatized by Randy's unfathomable madness on the go!

[ 2022-05-01 02:21:03Z ]👍 2

Its like when bloodborne came out im gonna spend another £350 just to play one game 🤣

[ 2022-05-26 02:13:59Z ]👍 0

after 10 colony members game will be unplayable

[ 2023-02-21 01:23:51Z ] 👍 0

more like 2 colony members😂

[ 2022-05-30 14:41:57Z ]👍 10

Controlling a Mouse with the analog stick looks complicated af, especially when you need to react quickly. Or is that just something you can learn?

[ 2022-08-02 15:57:59Z ] 👍 0

@@REXae86 Oh you crazy kids with your packman video games. I'm used to a hoop and a stick.

[ 2022-07-31 00:43:28Z ] 👍 1

@@ricksanchez5949 or use the trackpads

[ 2022-07-22 10:53:39Z ] 👍 0

You can sync a keyboard and mouse to the steam deck without issue. If you want fully portable you just have to get used to not having a mouse.

[ 2022-07-04 11:08:05Z ] 👍 2

you could use the trackpads instead i guess. Those are much better suited for that

[ 2022-07-16 19:44:53Z ]👍 0

this would be fun with a 200 bandit count raid:p

[ 2022-07-20 11:48:07Z ]👍 0

nice warcrimes on the move

[ 2022-08-12 12:27:09Z ]👍 3

I simply can't imagine playing RImworld without a mouse/keyboard. Looks clunky as hell.

[ 2022-08-22 03:29:50Z ] 👍 1

The trackpad usage he showed seemed pretty smooth

[ 2022-08-20 13:22:53Z ]👍 6

Portable Warcrime Simulator

[ 2022-09-10 04:50:16Z ]👍 0

I wonder 💭 if playing this on the steam deck is like pulling teeth 🦷

[ 2022-09-22 06:59:27Z ]👍 0

no mods

[ 2022-09-26 13:30:54Z ]👍 0

Is the original audio? sound great

[ 2022-10-25 21:44:15Z ]👍 4

I can't imagine trying to play this with a controller.....

[ 2022-12-03 13:32:25Z ]👍 2

This is unplayable. Lol. I could never play rim on this.

[ 2023-02-21 01:22:50Z ]👍 0

this looks horrendous...

[ 2023-06-08 03:36:38Z ]👍 0

Is it possible to make the GOG version work on the Deck? I've installed it and it launches and Steam even detects that I'm playing Rimworld (not a non-steam game that happens to also be named Rimworld but actually lists the time I've tried to make it work as time in Rimworld and when I try to launch it from played games it says to buy the steam version) but I can't get the controls to work in game.

[ 2024-01-15 09:20:27Z ]👍 0

Looks so painful to play like this

[ 2022-03-17 11:58:02Z ]👍 10

Quick trackpad test at 2:30 and again at 5:53, the point is the Beta hooks up gamepad controls so I was showing them.

[ 2022-03-17 16:19:04Z ] 👍 2

I was watching the thumbstick navigation and about to get mad, then I read this.

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