Trying to play Elden Ring on the deck and not enjoying it. Anyone have tips on how to improve the experience, it’s my only platform and I want to like the game?
Maybe you should tell us why?
Ain’t nothing but a heartbreak!
Ain’t nothing but a mis-stake…
Life is short. If you don’t like a game, move on.
What makes the experience not enjoyable for you?
Are you not liking how it runs/performance, or are you not liking the game itself?
We can make suggestions on how to get better performance, but if the gameplay doesn’t appeal to you there’s not much we can do about that.
Sorry everyone, the problems are: I can’t really read the messages as they’re super small and battles are really difficult, I think because the frame rate is slow.
For frame rate, I would recommend the settings presented in this video. The video has chapters, so you can jump straight to the recommended setting section. They include battery saver, recommended (40fps), or prettiest (30fps). The higher fps setting may help with combat, but the game is meant to be hard and very punishing. A lot of the game comes from trial and error, and steadily improving your playing and pattern recognition.
For messages, it’s possible a graphical setting might help, but otherwise the deck has a built in magnification tool that may help you. Normally you hold down either the steam button or the “. . .” Button and then press L1 to turn on the magnifier, but if you’re using it frequently you can also bind one of the back buttons to magnify. I would also recommend setting some of the back buttons to toggle between potions and drink them, I found that to be very helpful when playing.
Thanks a ton! I’ll give all these a go.
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I will teach myself to do this. Thank you!
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Well, we could tell them how to git gud.
Regarding difficulty,
The difficulty of this game is sort of what you make of it. If you’re struggling, try out a different build and try to incorporate some spells. Farming runes can go a long way to gradually making the game easier
Roll towards the target (except when you shouldn’t)?
Mods can help a lot!
For example, there’s a mod to increase the text size: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/650 (It hasn’t been updated for awhile, so I don’t know how well it’d work for recent patches)
If the game is just too difficult, there are also mods to help with that. Mods can adjust the difficulty, add FP regen, unlock summoning, etc., or completely overhaul the game (I had a lot of fun with the Convergence mod last year)
Also, miyazaki has no issues with mods that make things easier. So there’s that
try jumping
Also, miyazaki said he thinks it’s funny that someone killed Melania with a banana soooo…
Huh?
What?
Sir, this is a steam deck sub
I…know?
Ok.
I’m sorry, are you unaware that you can mod games on steam deck?
Sort of. I recently read a post saying mods all seem to be ‘big ‘ol titty’ related… I inferred from that they exist. That’s the extent of my knowledge. Now I’m inferring there must be a Miyazaki mod? Sorry I’m old and don’t have a ton of ‘me’ time. I recently was alone for the first time in 2 years, the time before that was 5 years. This is also my newest hobby and was a console gamer in the era of the PS(1). But still your comment seems pretty non sequitor.
There’s some diagnostic info when in game through the battery sidebar menu, I think. You can use that to see frame rate and other performance benchmarks.
I usually just google or YouTube some way to improve whatever game I’m playing on deck. Usually, someone has already done the leg work to figure it out.
