satisfactory and steam deck

[MrFenix]

Will Satisfactory be ever fully playable on steam deck?

[Fenix]

Define fully Playable?
I plays on the Deck now, it's not the smoothest, but it does play.
Steam Cloud saves are broken (I think if you do the beta version of Proton it works)

[Maconijnr]

I play on PC with linux Mint as OS and using proton (experimental version) game plays perfectly, only difference with a steam deck is it's not going to perform quite as well, due to hardware/power limitations :)

[Zak]

I heard that Steam Deck (I don't own one, never used one) has an undocumented issue where it runs poorly on batteries alone. Some games require that you plug your Deck to power.

[That Fish Guy]

I play with m+kb on the deck very well.

[NXTtrain]

Originally posted by Zak:

I heard that Steam Deck (I don't own one, never used one) has an undocumented issue where it runs poorly on batteries alone. Some games require that you plug your Deck to power.

This does not sound like an "undocumented issue" and more like "sensible handheld design".
I may not own a steamdeck, but I do own a nintendo switch and 3 x86_64 laptops. All of them will limit power draw, and therefore performance, when unplugged.
I repeat, very sensible design for a portable device with batteries.

[Copiedright]

I play it a lot on Steam Deck.
All settings to low/medium, FSR to 60. And I get 45-50 frames when not looking at my main factory. Drops down to 30fps when I do.
I finished unlocking all tiers. Currently building for phase 4. But I don't think the steam deck would handle a mega factory in any nice way.

[Patch]

satisfactory has no support for gamepad, so unless you are using kb/m on steam deck it will be very difficult. I would love to play it on the Rog Ally, but once again no gamepad support. Coffee Stain Studios have been asked about it and said its not a priority for them.

[Fenix]

Originally posted by Patch:

satisfactory has no support for gamepad, so unless you are using kb/m on steam deck it will be very difficult. I would love to play it on the Rog Ally, but once again no gamepad support. Coffee Stain Studios have been asked about it and said its not a priority for them.

Yeah but with Steam Input you can make a game layout for the Most used stuff, and with 4 extra buttons and trackpads, the deck is way better than a standard controller.

[Copiedright]

Originally posted by Patch:

satisfactory has no support for gamepad, so unless you are using kb/m on steam deck it will be very difficult. I would love to play it on the Rog Ally, but once again no gamepad support. Coffee Stain Studios have been asked about it and said its not a priority for them.

Not difficult. I finished tier 8 playing on the Steam Deck pretty easily in 130 hours.
The only thing I haven't tried to do is automate trucks and trains.
Everything else works great on my control layout.

[Zak]

Originally posted by NXTtrain:

Originally posted by Zak:

I heard that Steam Deck (I don't own one, never used one) has an undocumented issue where it runs poorly on batteries alone. Some games require that you plug your Deck to power.

This does not sound like an "undocumented issue" and more like "sensible handheld design".
I may not own a steamdeck, but I do own a nintendo switch and 3 x86_64 laptops. All of them will limit power draw, and therefore performance, when unplugged.
I repeat, very sensible design for a portable device with batteries.

I'm not sure, this is supposed to be a portable device, so having to plug it in to power kind of defies the purpose of owning one. Some owners claim this is poor design as it makes it unusable for many games. It wasn't just about "limiting power" but being completely unplayable on batteries.

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Zak:

Originally posted by NXTtrain:

This does not sound like an "undocumented issue" and more like "sensible handheld design".
I may not own a steamdeck, but I do own a nintendo switch and 3 x86_64 laptops. All of them will limit power draw, and therefore performance, when unplugged.
I repeat, very sensible design for a portable device with batteries.

I'm not sure, this is supposed to be a portable device, so having to plug it in to power kind of defies the purpose of owning one. Some owners claim this is poor design as it makes it unusable for many games. It wasn't just about "limiting power" but being completely unplayable on batteries.

People who claim that don't understand handheld design then. Switch does this as well, it doesn't work at full performance in handheld mode because it would eat through the batteries too fast. It has nothing to do with poor design, it's quite the opposite. Laptops do that too, they routinely limit their own components to improve battery life. It's is a hard technological limit, we literally not have the technology to manufacture batteries that would fit in those devices and support them at full power for lengths of time that people would find acceptable. For many people the battery life of most laptops, phones and other portable devices is already too short even with all those otrimizations.

As to games being "unplayable" on a handheld Steam Deck I have no idea where that came from, there is no such issue as far as I know and I use mine all the time. There is no game that magically starts working well when you plug the deck into a power socked, it doesn't even make any sense that it would. Whoever told you that was either lying or they are horribly confused.

[Zak]

I have no interest in handhelds, just said what I've read elsewhere. I don't remember which game was it. People were complaining and the solution was to plug it in. It would just not run on batteries alone.

[Swiftyhorn]

A lot of mixed answers here, does it work or not... I'm assuming low settings is 45fps?

[DaBa]

Originally posted by Swiftyhorn:

A lot of mixed answers here, does it work or not... I'm assuming low settings is 45fps?

It's a sandbox game, about building factories. The question isn't if it runs well, the question is when does it start running like ♥♥♥♥. Satisfactory will chug even on the best PCs if you build a big enough factory. And for a device like Steam Deck that point isn't very far off obviously.

[420inPortland]

Originally posted by Patch:

satisfactory has no support for gamepad, so unless you are using kb/m on steam deck it will be very difficult. I would love to play it on the Rog Ally, but once again no gamepad support. Coffee Stain Studios have been asked about it and said its not a priority for them.

I actually posted a question asking if they were going to add controller support at all when 1.0 launches and was told they are not. So you could try some of the community-made controller profiles, but all of them require using MKB for various things at times, unfortunately. (Things other than just naming stuff, like opening the map, etc.)