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Steam deck LAN? And game suggestions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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Hi. So background is I'm 50 and I've not done much gaming since vice city and the original silent hills +unreal tournament. I'm trying to get back into it but I'm frustratingly crap.

I've got a steam deck and my neighbour has one too, we were looking for games we could play either head to head or cooperative. People suggested left 4 dead 2 and we managed to get that working through lobby thing but it was laggy and TBH it was a bit chaotic for us. Too much constant running and shooting and no time to pause for thought or discuss strategy.

I think we're looking for something with a bit of occasional violence but also some strategy - not just bang bang all the time. Maybe even something that doesn't involve violence at all. But we both working and only got an hour or two a day for game time.

Any suggestions?

First if it's possible to locally connect 2 steam decks (without a fuckin cable!). Second on what games might be fun. Needs to not have a big learning curve and be something we can just play for an hour or two when we have time.

Any suggestions would be very welcome. Cheers

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[–] CapillaryUpgrade 5 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Can you connect to the same WiFi? If not, it's gonna be impractical to connect without a cable. The Steam Deck has pretty fast WiFi, so if it lags i would bet your router is the bottleneck.
Civilization is mostly strategy, it's turn based so there's plenty of time to talk strategy, it takes some time to get a hang of the game but the beginning isn't too rough.

[–] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Have they still not fixed or properly implemented adhoc Wi-Fi yet? Seems like a fairly big deal. Especially if you and your spouse are on a plane or train or something.

I mean, you could always use one of those pocket Wi-Fi routers. I keep one in my travel bag at all times for hotel Wi-Fi that tries to limit the number of devices, and to bypass the Wi-Fi login screen for my Chromecast that I also keep with me.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

If I recall correctly, you can startup adhoc wifi in desktop mode, but I don't think there's a convenient way to do it in gamemode.

[–] CapillaryUpgrade 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

That was what I was expecting, without trying.

Maybe it's just the right Decky add-on away? I have used add-ons for enabling VPNs so this should be possible, if not done already.

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