COH on Steam Deck?

[Tetsujin]

Anyone have a detailed video or care to make one showing how to install Homecoming on the Steam Deck? 

I did copy the HC folder from my laptop to the SD card now on the steam Deck, looks like it's all there. 

I get the whole 'adding non Steam Game' from the desktop mode and knowing I'm runs in Lutris, Ect, 

I have the Install and Launcher showing up in the library, but they still won't open or run. I feel I've read now a few ways to get the game running, but I've had bad luck I guess.   Thanks in advance. 

[Mr. Apocalypse]

check out this thread, it contains what you need to launch the gave via steam. now weather or not it will work on the steam deck, I cant say.

[Faultline]

I just wrote a script that will install the Homecoming Launcher on a Steam Deck and create a Desktop icon for it: https://github.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC

 

If you are happy with installing the game under Games/Homecoming inside your Home folder, follow the Simple Usage steps:

• Switch to Desktop mode on your Steam Deck.
• In the Applications menu, open a terminal such as Konsole.
• Run the following command: bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC/main/hc-install.sh)

Once the installation is done, you can right-click the new Desktop icon and select Add to Steam.

 

Note: when running the game in the "Gaming" (not Desktop) mode, Steam seems to get confused about how big the game window is. Run the game in Fullscreen mode to avoid that problem.

Edited January 5 by Faultline

[Troo]

2023..01.03 the entity Faultline was observed doing.. something.

[Tetsujin]

On 1/3/2023 at 11:23 AM, Faultline said:

I just wrote a script that will install the Homecoming Launcher on a Steam Deck and create a Desktop icon for it: https://github.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC

 

If you are happy with installing the game under Games/Homecoming inside your Home folder, follow the Simple Usage steps:

• Switch to Desktop mode on your Steam Deck.
• In the Applications menu, open a terminal such as Konsole.
• Run the following command: bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC/main/hc-install.sh)

Once the installation is done, you can right-click the new Desktop icon and select Add to Steam.

 

Note: when running the game in the "Gaming" (not Desktop) mode, Steam seems to get confused about how big the game window is. Run the game in Fullscreen mode to avoid that problem.

Thank you much for setting this up. Looking it over, I think I'll be able to understand. My only question, dumb as it obviously sounds, is once we input that 1st Command, (as seen in attached pic) how do we 'run' it? I tried a couple commands but wasn't working, (to my knowledge) 

I'm also a very Linux and programming n00b, so don't feel bad if you have to dumb it down for me, haha!  Thanks again in advance !

[Faultline]

38 minutes ago, Tetsujin said:

Thank you much for setting this up. Looking it over, I think I'll be able to understand. My only question, dumb as it obviously sounds, is once we input that 1st Command, (as seen in attached pic) how do we 'run' it?

 

Press Enter.

[Foxy]

All I get is a message that says it couldn't find proton runtimes.  Though, I can run games using proton in Gaming mode. 

[Faultline]

6 hours ago, Foxy said:

All I get is a message that says it couldn't find proton runtimes.  Though, I can run games using proton in Gaming mode. 

 

I would love to know the location for the Proton runtimes in your Steam Deck, since they appear to be in a different location than mine. But no worries, I am working on modifying the script so it will install its own version of Proton if it can't find any, which should make it work on any generic Linux as well (as long as Steam is installed).

Edited January 5 by Faultline

[Foxy]

24 minutes ago, Faultline said:

 

I would love to know the location for the Proton runtimes in your Steam Deck, since they appear to be in a different location than mine. 

 

The error I get from the script says it was looking at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common but I show them in /home/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common (no deck folder) 

[Faultline]

3 hours ago, Foxy said:

The error I get from the script says it was looking at /home/deck/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common but I show them in /home/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common (no deck folder) 

 

Oh, if you know where they are, you can tell the script the right location. Run this command instead:

 

bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC/main/hc-install.sh) proton /home/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common

 

Make sure that you have the right path by navigating there in Dolphin, then clicking the address bar to reveal the whole path, and copy it from there.

 

Edited to add: the script will now offer to install GE-Proton7-43 and use that if it cannot find Proton in the given path.

Edited January 5 by Faultline

[Foxy]

That helped a lot, and I was able to install it and getting running, at least to the login page.  However, for some reason I thought I should uncheck the 'add icon to desktop' during the install and now I can't find it again.  Where do I look for the launcher?  I'm not a linux user, so I'm not sure how to find it.  

[Faultline]

1 hour ago, Foxy said:

That helped a lot, and I was able to install it and getting running, at least to the login page.  However, for some reason I thought I should uncheck the 'add icon to desktop' during the install and now I can't find it again.  Where do I look for the launcher?  I'm not a linux user, so I'm not sure how to find it.  

 

It should have created an icon in the desktop called HC Launcher. If it didn't, you should run the script again to create it; it will not create the icon if you don't select which version of the Homecoming launcher to use. Let me post screenshots of the process:

 

 

After launching the script, select the Proton runtime. It should show both the ones installed by Steam itself, and the ones installed by tools like ProtonUp-Qt.

 

 

As soon as you select the Proton runtime, this window will pop up. Note how I disabled the Desktop shortcut for this demonstration; it doesn't actually matter, and neither does the path shown in the window. You just need to hit Install here...

 

 

And notice THIS window that pops up, asking you to select the Homecoming launcher. That window is what creates the icon on your desktop. Select the (probably only) path that is in there and click OK...

 

 

And note the new icon on your desktop. The icon is created when you answer to that window, it doesn't actually care if you finished the game install or not.

[Tetsujin]

I'll be darn! Finally getting it to work! Faultline is my new favorite person! Haha 

Now... I just need to get the onscreen keyboard to pop up to enter the game. It's normally just holding up 'Steam and the X button' But I'll work on it. :):) 

On 1/3/2023 at 11:23 AM, Faultline said:

I just wrote a script that will install the Homecoming Launcher on a Steam Deck and create a Desktop icon for it: https://github.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC

 

If you are happy with installing the game under Games/Homecoming inside your Home folder, follow the Simple Usage steps:

• Switch to Desktop mode on your Steam Deck.
• In the Applications menu, open a terminal such as Konsole.
• Run the following command: bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/FaultlineHC/LinuxHC/main/hc-install.sh)

Once the installation is done, you can right-click the new Desktop icon and select Add to Steam.

 

Note: when running the game in the "Gaming" (not Desktop) mode, Steam seems to get confused about how big the game window is. Run the game in Fullscreen mode to avoid that problem.

 

[Tetsujin]

(did get with the a Bluetooth keyboard for initial login)  I'll definitely recommend your method to anyone who asks! 

Sidenote for anyone setting it up in game, make sure the screen is set up to just the 1280x800 option. The Desktop or monitor one doesn't sync up with the cruiser well. (You'll have to go a bit below on the thing you want to click onscreen) 

A lot of UI adjustments and key mapping for the thumbsticks and a few buttons as well, but I play alot of console games, so it doesn't affect too much. Tap on powers and Inspirations on screen to select them, and you're good to go. 

Thanks again to Faultline! 

 

[Foxy]

It's working!  I tried running the script again to no avail and gave up for the night.  Restarted the deck this morning, and ran the command with the clean option at the end. and it added the desktop icon and I'm able to get into the game.  Kudos to FaultlineHC for all this!  

[Faultline]

11 hours ago, Tetsujin said:

(did get with the a Bluetooth keyboard for initial login)

 

I did notice that the on screen keyboard only appeared on Gaming mode for me, I got the standard Steam overlay on Desktop mode when pressing Steam+X. So if someone else is tryingto do this without a keyboard, make sure you add the game to Steam by right-clicking the desktop icon, then switch to Gaming mode and launch it from there.

[Carnifax]

Just want to say a huge Ta to you @Faultline for this. Steam deck arrived just now and this is the 3rd thing I've done with it (4th if you count trying some native steam games). 

 

I'd already installed ProtonGE so just told it to use that. Everything else worked flawlessly. Not planning to play in Deck mode, it'll be mostly for playing in the home office with my wifes monitor and keyboard connected to the dock. 

[Carnifax]

So I've been trying to map the controller fields to the Steam Deck controller but my biggest issue is even when I map a button to the Steam keyboard it seems to pop up "behind" the game and also triggers the Steam Overlay for some reason.

 

Also currently for some reason the game only runs in Desktop mode. Edit : Now it's happily running in Steam mode. Weird. 

 

Anyone know if there's a workaround to get the virtual keyboard working from a button press? If I can get that working I'll try and get a controller layout working well (I think it's possible with either a standard tray layout or a specialised one where powers go into 1234 across 3 trays and the back buttons act as Control and Alt for chording with abxy). 

 

*Edit

Bit of fiddling I discovered the [...] will work to show the virt keyboard for login. After that whatever binding you've set to keyboard works ingame. So logged in now. Definitely need to tweak things a bit more to control zoom, tab targetting and looking around 

 

Edit 2 : I've got the right-hand stick working well as "Look" by setting it to Joystick Mouse with both Touch and Outer Ring both to "right click". Works pretty well. I've shared my current config in the community on Steam but not sure if anyone else can see it to be honest (it's tied to hclaucher.sh so I dunno how Steam would map that to other peoples installs). 

 

My current mappings ingame are now : 

l-stick : move wasd, click to jump

abxy : Powers 1,2,3,4

L1, R1 : Q, E (rotate left / right)

L2, R2 : Tab, F (for Follow)

Rear Buttons : Powers 5,6,7,8

Dpad Left/Right : 9,0

Dpad Up/Down : Ctrl, Shift

r-stick : Look (mouse + right mouse held down)

Left trackpad : Mouse with click as l-click

Right trackpad : Currently trying to get it to work as zoom in-out. 

Right trackpad click : Min/Max zoom (End and Home as two actions, no idea if it'll work)

L-menu : Show Keyboard

R-menu : Escape

 

 

Edited January 12 by Carnifax

[Foxy]

I may need to adapt some of those bindings to my own.  For me, I mapps L2, R2 to tab/shift+tab to cycle through targets.  ABXY are tied to tray slots 1-4, and I have back buttons mapped to CTRL and ALT to select the appropriate tray.  This works for my programmable mouse on my PC so I carried it over and seems to do well.  Then I have my left trackpad set up with a radial menu for the 5-9 numbers and I can use the rest of the tray.  

[Carnifax]

Do, rename it and share it via Steam community. I'd love to see it.

[Foxy]

Well, a little different than I described above.  D pad is tray slots 1-4. I also mapped the mouse wheel to short pulls on the triggers, so you can zoom in and out.  It may take multiple inputs, though.  View is a little iffy when you're barely touching it, but generally works.  

If you want to try, look for the City of Heroes GG layout