Trying to play Elden Ring on the deck and not enjoying it. Anyone have tips on how to improve the experience, it’s my only platform and I want to like the game?

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Are you not liking how it runs/performance, or are you not liking the game itself?

    We can make suggestions on how to get better performance, but if the gameplay doesn’t appeal to you there’s not much we can do about that.

    • chemicalprophet@lemm.eeOP
      71·
      6 months ago

      Sorry everyone, the problems are: I can’t really read the messages as they’re super small and battles are really difficult, I think because the frame rate is slow.

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzMEnglish
        19·
        6 months ago

        For frame rate, I would recommend the settings presented in this video. The video has chapters, so you can jump straight to the recommended setting section. They include battery saver, recommended (40fps), or prettiest (30fps). The higher fps setting may help with combat, but the game is meant to be hard and very punishing. A lot of the game comes from trial and error, and steadily improving your playing and pattern recognition.

        For messages, it’s possible a graphical setting might help, but otherwise the deck has a built in magnification tool that may help you. Normally you hold down either the steam button or the “. . .” Button and then press L1 to turn on the magnifier, but if you’re using it frequently you can also bind one of the back buttons to magnify. I would also recommend setting some of the back buttons to toggle between potions and drink them, I found that to be very helpful when playing.

  • MajinBlayze@lemmy.world
    3·
    6 months ago

    Regarding difficulty,

    The difficulty of this game is sort of what you make of it. If you’re struggling, try out a different build and try to incorporate some spells. Farming runes can go a long way to gradually making the game easier

  • Panron@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Mods can help a lot!

    For example, there’s a mod to increase the text size: https://www.nexusmods.com/eldenring/mods/650 (It hasn’t been updated for awhile, so I don’t know how well it’d work for recent patches)

    If the game is just too difficult, there are also mods to help with that. Mods can adjust the difficulty, add FP regen, unlock summoning, etc., or completely overhaul the game (I had a lot of fun with the Convergence mod last year)

  • Fandangalo@lemmy.world
    1·
    6 months ago

    There’s some diagnostic info when in game through the battery sidebar menu, I think. You can use that to see frame rate and other performance benchmarks.

    I usually just google or YouTube some way to improve whatever game I’m playing on deck. Usually, someone has already done the leg work to figure it out.