Title: installing battle net is a bit of chore, but other than that was very impressed with how smoothly this runs on steam deck. Combined with Steam Dock and instant console mode. Highly recommend.
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I’ve played on my PC and on the deck. I can safely say I have put in more hours playing on the deck than I’ve done on the PC.
I have it on my deck as well and it runs really nicely, 60fps constant on low or some slight framedrops on medium but never below 40, the only downside is if I press the power button to pause, it never reconnects for me when I resume, so I gotta close the whole game and reopen it.
Also, I found that by binding L1 and L2 to R3 and R4 (back buttons), then Right Joystick to output Left Joystick, I can play the game with just my right hand, freeing up my left hand for other activities… The right joystick is only really used for scrolling long item text and zooming in and out in map, which you can do using the touch pad anyway.
I can play the game with just my right hand, freeing up my left hand for other activities…
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I do not have a deck personally (yet!) however since I do run Linux on my desktop I was very happy that running Diablo 4 on Linux was super easy to do.
I wasn’t too concerned since all of the other Blizzard games run on Linux as well, as far as I know.
just makes me nervous I’ll get banned, is there any official communication from blizz on this subject? even for other games of theirs.
In terms of using steam deck? Don’t think they have said anything one way or the other. Can’t imagine they would care, steam deck is really just a PC dressed up to look like a console so essentially the same as playing on any other computer. Especially for Diablo 4, they want your money……they want you browsing the shop and buying things, I don’t think they could care less if that was on a calculator so long as your credit card works lol
That is pretty awesome. I didn’t realize you could run battle.net on Linux. Last time I looked into this though was right before D2:R came out and was trying to get it working on Pop!_OS. Can’t remember much, but I do remember not really being able to get it to work.
Glad to see that things have progressed. I don’t own a steam deck, but I’m definitely filing this away as something that is possible to do. However, I’m really enjoying D4 on my xbox. :)
I’ve only used bnet on desktop and it’s really easy to install using Lutris. Overwatch 2, HotS and Diablo 4 all play well, while CoD does not. One time several Linux users, myself included, got caught in a ban wave for Overwatch. And while their support insisted that we were caught cheating and sanctioned correctly, a few days later they sent us an email with an apology and reinstated our accounts.
