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Damn that’s pretty awesome. So this is the actual developer of ESO, that is spending time making their game compatible with Linux?

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Sounds like it — it was posted by The Elder Scrolls Online, not Valve. (Edit: Yes, of course this still means Proton.)

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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

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Wine/proton are great but not perfect. Lots of games don’t work through proton. “Compatible with linux” can mean doing the work to make sure your windows build is proton friendly and will work on Linux. It doesn’t have to mean Linux native.

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Yeah, I played it for a lot of time on my Linux desktop, and I never understood why it was unplayable on Steamdeck Nice work!

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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.

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How is it solo?

Been considering an mmo but would want one that’s possible solo. Realize that’s counterintuitive but was curious.

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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.

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Nice. Might give it a go.

What’s your favorite class?

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I would say that ESO is probably one of the best MMO solo games out there. You can even play the game as an actual Bethesda Elder Scrolls game, to some extend.

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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.

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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.

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Add-ons work just fine. You can even get a native version of the add-on manager Minion from Flathub. Not all of addons support the gamepad input mode, but that’s the same situation it is on Windows.

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Every add-on I’ve tried works perfectly on desktop Linux, I’d assume its the same on Deck.

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Nice! I may have to try it out. I don’t have the Steam version of the game, just the native ZOS client so I don’t know if that’ll be an issue either.

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That’s great!

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