Star wars xcom?

Hey all,

The new Star Wars Xcom game says it's unsupported on Deck and Machine. I know those aren't always entirely accurate. I didn't suppose anyone's gotten the game and tried it have they?

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warm@kbin.earth · 19 pts · 7d (3 replies)

Remember, by buying EA games you are giving money to a regime that beheads journalists (among many other crimes against humanity).

ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 6d (1 reply)

Yeah Saudi did buy them huh. Fuck them.

mrfriki@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 6d

That's why the high seas are for.

Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6d

Before or after the Saudis? With EA it's hard to know

justdaveisfine@piefed.social · 13 pts · 7d (3 replies)

Liam (from GamingOnLinux) said the Steam Machine got 35-55 fps on medium, with some rough spots.

I'd imagine the Steam Deck then would be a notably bad time.

Edit: I'll leave the review link here too: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/star-wars-zero-company-is-out-now/

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 7d

According to https://steamdeckhq.com/news/star-wars-zero-company-not-good-on-steam-deck/ the playing on Deck is a bad time, struggles to hit 30 fps (often 18 to 22 fps in action) with lowest settings applied. I don't know about the resolution, probably native 720p or 800p, and if he tried upscaling. But at this performance level, I do not think it will help to get stable 30 fps.

minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 7d

Reviews are all mentioning performance issues, even with lowered settings. Hopefully we'll see this remedied in early old patches. I've been itching for an XCOM/Tactical game again and having it be Star Wars is a very unique IP for it. Excited. Hope it fixes itself by the time I buy it.

ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7d

Oof yeah that's rough. I have a work trip coming up and was hoping I could use this as a to go game but... Doesn't look like it.

blinkfink182@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 7d

I have a steam machine and it won't even get to the shader compilation screen. Thankfully it loads fine on my desktop but that was a disappointment when I went to load it up today.

TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 1 pts · 7d (5 replies)

I just look to see if a game is gamepad compatible and go from there.

SatyrSack@quokk.au · 2 pts · 7d

But plenty of games are awful with a traditional gamepad but excel using the Steam Deck's touchpads.

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 7d (3 replies)

With Steam Input you an play with gamepad, even if they don't support gamepad. Either the community made a configuration you can easily download and apply, or you can create yourself one. But that is not convenient and straight forward like an official gamepad support for sure.

TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social · 0 pts · 7d (2 replies)

Right. You're completely missing the point.

Eggyhead@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7d

With steam input, you don’t even need the gamepad. I think your responder was attempting to contribute to your point.

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 7d

I don't.