Damn that’s pretty awesome. So this is the actual developer of ESO, that is spending time making their game compatible with Linux?
Not necessarily. My understanding is that you can earn a green check as long as your game feels like a native console experience, even if it’s running on Proton
Great to hear. Im over my MMO grinding days, but ESO is still fun to hop in an for an hour and do some quests.
How is it solo?
Been considering an mmo but would want one that’s possible solo. Realize that’s counterintuitive but was curious.
Thats the main way I play tbh.
The voice acting is nice, but I won’t lie questing is a bit shallower than with Skyrim. Lots of collectables, horizontal progression. Its a nice package!
It has options for group dungeons and I quite enjoyed the PvP for when you get that multiplayer itch.
Also world chat keeps things interesting lmao.
Every modern MMO is pretty much solo with people around. I’d say this is especially true for ESO. There’s essentially no reason to socialize from what I recall, but I never made it to end-game. I prefer the FFXIV design where you can play solo if you want, but there’s also reasons to socialize if you want to. It’s much more interesting to hang out in. In ESO, from what I remember, I never felt like hanging out and only played to complete content.
That seems awesome. But I wonder how it will do with Add-ons that you can install on the PC version. I can’t play without them since the QOL additions just make everything so much better.
Every add-on I’ve tried works perfectly on desktop Linux, I’d assume its the same on Deck.
Doesn’t that game require a massive amount of storage with all the expansions/add-ons installed? Doesn’t seem very Deck friendly, IMO. Especially for base model Decks. It’s one of the main reasons I don’t bother playing BG3 on it, either.
Edit: I just looked and can’t get a concise answer, seems like tons of players’ install size differs by notable margins. Official site says it needs roughly ~95GB plus another ~30GB during the install process (guessing for temp install files during decompression/compression). Meanwhile, some players report folder sizes ranging from ~97GB all the way up to ~150GB. Regardless, seems ~95GB is the bare minimum which is still a lot for even the 500GB Deck models. And there’s no way the game would run comfortably off an SD card.
It’s definitely massive - I’d guess at the 90GB+ number, but I don’t think it reached 150GB. I had it installed awhile back on an SD card and I didn’t experience many problems in the game. Just takes a little longer to load new places, but the gaming experience was still smooth.
Yeah, from the comments I read, it looked like some people might have needed to clear their folders out and/or others had installed the PTS files as well. Regardless, ~95GB is still quite large. I’m surprised your loading speeds weren’t that bad on the SD card. How fast were your load times, if you don’t mind me asking?
I’m not sure to be honest, it’s been awhile. Definitely slower than on my PC, but it was never long enough that I got frustrated. I was usually entering dungeons around the same time as other players. Not like it took long enough to load they already started running ahead without the healer.
I’m going to have to spend some more time playing it again! It worked fine on my desktop install previously, so I’m curious to know what they changed to bump it to verified. I’m guessing UI tweaks or something with the launcher.