Would I be able to play God of War Ragnarok work offline/on airplane mode/no wifi on the Steam Deck?

[Serperit]

Preparing for a trip and wanted to know if I could play the game when I have little to no access to wifi or internet in general.

[aimy99]

The game won't launch without an internet connection. Supposedly it's fine afterwards, but you need the internet to launch it because of the forced PSN sign-in.

[KAgeRO_XD]

Originally posted by gk99 💖:

The game won't launch without an internet connection. Supposedly it's fine afterwards, but you need the internet to launch it because of the forced PSN sign-in.

Well that sucks

[Serperit]

Originally posted by gk99 💖:

The game won't launch without an internet connection. Supposedly it's fine afterwards, but you need the internet to launch it because of the forced PSN sign-in.

I was getting reports from someone that SteamOS won’t let you start from offline later on? It just crashes?

Say I connect a psn to my steam the first time, right? Will I them be able to launch the game offline after I quit the game and come back later with no internet?

[Serperit]

Originally posted by gk99 💖:

The game won't launch without an internet connection. Supposedly it's fine afterwards, but you need the internet to launch it because of the forced PSN sign-in.

Also forgot to ask, did you mean it’s acting like EA or Ubisoft games that require a sign in every time you start?

[༺T0XIC☬SA1NT༻]

non of this is true . i booted up the game no problem with ZERO ask for psn sign in. im pretty sure the psn requirement ppl want u to believe is a str8 up lie . 99.5% of what u read on steam discussion is either a lie or trolls be trollies. an as far as the .5% of the ppl that post on here have something insightful. the rest lies an garbage.

[Serperit]

Originally posted by ༺ T0XIC ☬ SA1NT ༻:

non of this is true . i booted up the game no problem with ZERO ask for psn sign in. im pretty sure the psn requirement ppl want u to believe is a str8 up lie . 99.5% of what u read on steam discussion is either a lie or trolls be trollies. an as far as the .5% of the ppl that post on here have something insightful. the rest lies an garbage.

We know that the psn requirement is 50/50 supposedly not needed already. The issue is one consistent thing that keeps happening to a lot of people that are trying to start the game on their Steamdeck while offline: the game won’t launch after a black screen and error/return to the steam menus.

[Sir Danglefrögge]

Originally posted by ༺ T0XIC ☬ SA1NT ༻:

non of this is true . i booted up the game no problem with ZERO ask for psn sign in. im pretty sure the psn requirement ppl want u to believe is a str8 up lie . 99.5% of what u read on steam discussion is either a lie or trolls be trollies. an as far as the .5% of the ppl that post on here have something insightful. the rest lies an garbage.

Steam storefront says it's required, Sony says it's required, but what truly baffles me is that there are reports of people saying they couldn't get past the menu if they didn't sign into a PSN account, and others saying they never even got the prompt at all. And what's weirder is that a big portion of the people who didn't sign into PSN maintain they never even used PSN on their PC at all.

I'm just seeing conflicting reports everywhere, it's hard to know what's true and what isn't. Just seems like it's a bug or something?

[Keebz]

There is a lot of misinformation here, probably from people who haven't even tried the game on their Steam Decks. I have tried it 10 times yesterday on my Deck, and another 5x today. There was some progress, but no it currently still doesn't work offline. Here's where it's at:

Initially it was just crashing in offline mode with an error report message popup. At some point yesterday the game was updated, or Proton was updated, and now the game will launch offline but WON'T recognize any controller input. So you can't exactly play it.

It's unclear if it's an intentional blocker or if it's a bug. You can navigate the menus by holding down the Steam button and using the trackpad/other buttons as a fake keyboard + mouse but it pretends that there is no controller connected.

People are spouting nonsense. There hasn't been a single instance or piece of evidence of anyone proving the game works offline the way it should.

[Serperit]

Originally posted by Keebz:

There is a lot of misinformation here, probably from people who haven't even tried the game on their Steam Decks. I have tried it 10 times yesterday on my Deck, and another 5x today. There was some progress, but no it currently still doesn't work offline. Here's where it's at:

Initially it was just crashing in offline mode with an error report message popup. At some point yesterday the game was updated, or Proton was updated, and now the game will launch offline but WON'T recognize any controller input. So you can't exactly play it.

It's unclear if it's an intentional blocker or if it's a bug. You can navigate the menus by holding down the Steam button and using the trackpad/other buttons as a fake keyboard + mouse but it pretends that there is no controller connected.

People are spouting nonsense. There hasn't been a single instance or piece of evidence of anyone proving the game works offline the way it should.

Thanks so much for the explanation Keebz. Confirmed what I was just hearing from other posts on places like Reddit earlier today.

I guess I’ll hold off for now until we can figure out what it is in the SteamOS for the Steam Deck that’s actually causing offline not to work for Ragnarok (OR maybe it’s some side effect of a blocker like you mentioned—maybe even where the game needs to be read the same way EA and Ubisoft games are in game mode during each launch of their titles but maybe it’s not working correctly atm).

Anyways, thank you again. If you hear any updates, could you let us know here? I’ll definitely be trying to keep up with anything in the next few days.

[Keebz]

Definitely will update if I hear any news. It has been madness trying to sort through it all. I'm personally debating on refunding the game unless this is fixed.

[Serperit]

Originally posted by Keebz:

Definitely will update if I hear any news. It has been madness trying to sort through it all. I'm personally debating on refunding the game unless this is fixed.

Yeah I was looking forward to buying it again just to play on the go for my vacation (it was phenomenal on console). But I guess all I can do is hope they update it unless, of course, the rock paper shotgun article’s assumption is correct and it really does require online on the initial start up (which then makes using this thing on handheld without internet during long trips moot unless of course I can get some sort of hot spot stuff working in a different country? But I wanted to play different games during my flight 😭)

[Trilltype]

Hey guys this has been driving me crazy, the game wouldn't even open but i found the actual fix IF YOU CANT OPEN THE GAME.... the game 100% REQUIRES: AVX2 ENABLED IN BIOS SETTINGS. im not sure why they made this a thing but its 100% true AVX2 MUST BE ENABLED TO EVEN JUST LAUNCH THE GAME AT ALL. i hope this fixes it for the ones who couldn't even get the game to launch at all as this did fix it for me. Please let me know if this helped you guys

-Trilltype

[Serperit]

Originally posted by Trilltype:

Hey guys this has been driving me crazy, the game wouldn't even open but i found the actual fix IF YOU CANT OPEN THE GAME.... the game 100% REQUIRES: AVX2 ENABLED IN BIOS SETTINGS. im not sure why they made this a thing but its 100% true AVX2 MUST BE ENABLED TO EVEN JUST LAUNCH THE GAME AT ALL. i hope this fixes it for the ones who couldn't even get the game to launch at all as this did fix it for me. Please let me know if this helped you guys

-Trilltype

Does it launch the game offline/no internet via this method? That’s the main thing for me before I decide on buying it at all.

[CheeseBoar]

I had to manually copy the file that's created by logging into a PlayStation account from my desktop to the Deck, but the game runs completely offline for me on the Deck, yes.

[Serperit]

Originally posted by Keebz:

Definitely will update if I hear any news. It has been madness trying to sort through it all. I'm personally debating on refunding the game unless this is fixed.

Hey, Keebz? Saw a recent update for Ragnarok yesterday. Said something about steam deck button not being mapped and blocking tutorial moment. Any ideas if this could correlate to controls hopefully working while offline?