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In my experience, both getting Diablo 2 on deck, and playing has been a seamless experience from start to finish thanks to this installation below.

https://github.com/moraroy/NonSteamLaunchers-On-Steam-Deck

-All you have to do is open up a browser on your steam deck.

-scroll down the GitHub page -hit download

-Launch the executable, which should in turn ask which Launchers you want installed.

I chose Rockstar, Ubisoft, Epic and Battlenet all at once. Had 0 issues.

Diablo 2 picks up on the Steam decks controls and has been an absolute blast to play. 70-90 on low preset. I opted for 45fps capped with medium settings.

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I Had to make a post just to give props to this guy and the Non Steam launchers installer, saves a lot of headache and time. It’s straight to the point. But also because I’m quite new to Diablo in general, got D2:R for 13 bucks and have realllly enjoyed it so far. So much so that I went through the effort to get it on Deck.

Looks great on that OLED screen

  • jack-of-some@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    D2R is flawed everywhere because it does not have a pure offline mode. Not even on the Switch.

  • Zeiin@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I was actually thinking about asking people about their experiences with D2R on the Steam Deck. Any luck playing offline with mods?

  • syxbit@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I’m lazy. I’ll wait for Blizzard to officially put this on steam.

    I have limited time for gaming. I don’t want to spend half of that time tweaking of fiddling with stuff. That’s also the reason I removed EmuDeck.

    • Ogodthatguy@alien.topOPBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      Crazy to me that there’s folks who don’t simply want to download something that does 99.9% of the work for you. It’s not even tweaking or fiddling. The process took me like 20 minutes. If you’ve messed around on a computer doing anything, it’s the same process

      • lucky_leftie@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        As he just stated, he has limited time for gaming. 20 minutes is 20 less minutes of playing games. Plus if he doesn’t enjoy the experience of whatever game he just wasted the install time, the time trying the game, and uninstall.

      • riffruff2@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I only have about an hour tops most days for games now. I’d rather play for those 20 minutes than spend time setting up something that’ll probably break in a few weeks and I’ll have to spend time troubleshooting it. When I was in my 20s and had more time, I’d have no problem doing this and dealing with things breaking later. Now I don’t want to spend time doing that.

  • sk3-pt@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    This is how I got D4 to work on my deck as well. It’s pretty cool.

    I also did create a isolated games folder and added as a symlink to the battle.net install folders, that way the games are installed outside of the proton prefix, and I just need to add a new game to steam with a link to battle.net and change a bit of the variables to tell proton where it should use the files.

    Works flawlessly. I love that the steam deck behaves as a console overall but we can fiddle in a bit and do some tweaks like these.

    It’s actually quite simple to do this process for everyone that has D2R on battle.net and don’t want to pay twice for the steam version in the future. That is, if they ever release it…

  • RagingDork@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Forgot about this game. Would get it but I’m still mad about the 70 dollars I gave to blizzard for Diablo 4…

    • lezzard1248@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      D2R >> D4.

      You can tell it wasn’t even made by the same company. RIP Vicarious Visions.

  • HelloIAmZig@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Having it on the deck was great when I had Covid for the first time last year. I had battle.net installed manually at the time after fucking around with Diablo Immortal, which got unceremoniously binned after a day

    I wasn’t up for doing a lot being ill, but I could just about get a wind druid up and running while coughing up a ton in bed.

  • Kavor@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    With Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade it’s also the best example for how amazing the HDR is on the OLED. Lightning and Fire effects pop like crazy on the screen.

  • squatonmyfacebrah@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    What’s the best way to play Diablo 2 without supporting Blizzard? I still own the original D2 and Lord of Destruction expansion on disc so I wonder if there was ever any mods created which update them for modern platforms.

  • Jaded-Plan7799@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I literally just download battle.net using desktop mode. Zero tweaking whatsoever. Both d4 and d2 works like charm. I think d2 is wayyyyy better coz you can play offline.