How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games

Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by hyperrail on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @07:30PM (#34167952)

Oh, that's great to hear that Titanfall 2 runs on Steam Deck (apart from that crashing/over-syncing problem).

I'm guessing you own the game on Steam and not from EA/Origin? Are you using the base game or Northstar? If Northstar, did you have more trouble setting that up than on your Windows PC?

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by dkonofalski on Thursday December 29, 2022 @12:14PM (#34174927)

Yes, through Steam but Origin/EA's launcher gets installed too. I'm not familiar with Northstar so I guess the base game? I'm looking that up now.

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by Technetium on Thursday December 29, 2022 @04:20PM (#34178124)

Northstar is a modding framework/launcher: https://github.com/R2Northstar

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Re:How the Steam Deck breathes life into underrated old games by hyperrail on Thursday December 29, 2022 @11:11PM (#34181694)

Yup, Northstar lets you self-host multiplayer servers for Titanfall 2, with non-standard game modes, settings, and map rotations. And with the Northstar client (modded TF|2 app) you can access a server browser for Northstar servers, so you don't need to go through the official servers at all.

Northstar first got really popular in a period when the official Titanfall 2 servers were extremely unreliable - you'd either be stuck matchmaking forever even with a supposedly large number of players online, or you'd start a game with 12 players and be lucky to have 3 or 4 of them still connected by the end. Most people blamed the problems on DDoS attackers, and although the game developer Respawn acknowledged the problems, they never really delivered a server-side or client-side fix for them. So, the only enjoyable way to play TF|2 on PC was with Northstar.

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