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Regardless of its age, one among my favourite co-op video games to play is PAYDAY 2. The sheer quantity of content material and the gameplay loop nonetheless maintain up, providing a whole bunch of hours of satisfying time with mates. I nonetheless return and play it constantly, and I actually find it irresistible, particularly on the Steam Deck. Nonetheless, for these of us taking part in on the Steam Deck, there’s some unhappy information: the Linux model of the sport is now not supported.
With the Steam Deck operating SteamOS, having native Linux variations of video games might help efficiency considerably. We’ve seen clear instance of this with Baldur’s Gate 3, we’re having a devoted Linux construct mounted lots of the efficiency points within the later components of the sport. That gained’t be the case now with PAYDAY, for the reason that Linux model is now not being supported.
Nonetheless, not all hope is misplaced. The sport has been getting important updates not too long ago because of Sidetrack Video games, who has taken over growth of the sport to maintain it supported. In the identical replace put up the place they introduced Linux retirement, in addition they introduced that the sport had an enormous Engine replace, bringing it to 64-bit, DirectX 11 rendering, considerably quicker loading instances, and in-game voice chat. There’s additionally a brand new compression system that makes the sport considerably smaller, so we now not want over 90GB of area to put in the sport.
And even with out the Linux model, it nonetheless performs extraordinarily nicely. I used to be getting a secure 60 FPS with round a 16W battery drain when preventing off teams of enemies on the Overkill issue. That is all on the default settings, that are totally on excessive, and the native 1280×800 decision.
Regardless, PAYDAY 2 stays a terrific recreation to play on the Deck, and one I can nonetheless fortunately suggest. It’s nice that it’s nonetheless getting updates. Regardless of being round for over 13 years, it’ll nonetheless be one of many first co-op video games I like to recommend folks play on the go.
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