Alkove
Published
The back paddles allow you to get more intuitive control of your character, so I highly recommend you set them up.
- L4: Left stick click (roll left)
- L5: B button (descend)
- R4: Right stick click (roll right)
- R5: A button (ascend)
- Allow Tearing
- TDP Limit: 13W
- Graphics Quality (in game): Low
Hardspace Shipbreaker runs perfectly on the Deck, and I've yet to face any issues on it after over 10 hours of game time on the Steam Deck.
CryoUtilities
The music is gorgeous. The on screen input prompts sometimes switch to keyboard prompts. The game otherwise runs smoothly even in noisy boss fights.
Cryoutilities
The player character can get very small during boss fights, which makes it hard to reload without dying. Apart from the above, it runs very well. The music is gorgeous.
Game starts but can't enter name. Tried with external keyboard as well, escape key works but alphabets don't work.
Menu borked. Try creating an account in another device and then switching back to Linux maybe.
Apart from the issue with first time character creation, the game is playable at a decent performance on the Deck/Linux.
Most text in the game isn't scaled well for smaller screens. Same applies to a lot of UI elements like weapon previews. You can still navigate menus and do all the basic tasks without too much issue.
Controller inputs stopped being detected on swapping to a different window/using Steam Big Picture menus. Keyboard inputs are not recognised for first time character creation name input. The only way around this is to first create the character on a Windows machine and then return to Linux.
It is a bit jarring at first, but you quickly forget that it's under 30 fps. The game remains very fun.
There's some icons that are very small. The item scanner has icons that are way too small for distant objects, which aren't readable, but not a deal breaker. There might be some small text, but nothing so far that has affected gameplay.
Game runs mostly smoothly, but at around 20-25 fps. Doesn't affect gameplay since it's a mostly slow game. High speed sequences can be somewhat annoying, but with headlights on, it hasn't been a problem so far.
- Framerate limit: 20
- Refresh Rate: 40
- TDP Limit: 3 (game generally uses less than 1W, no issues noticed so far, but early in game)
Scroll does not work. Needed to click the scroll bar with the mouse pointer
Since the Second Act update, the performance has really gone down. Under 40 fps with frequent frame drops.
