does not work on my steam deck either

Same, this is frustrating. The game said verified, but a huge, huge part of the game just doesn't function because of this. Just gonna refund.

Came here to look for deck info as I was wondering how it would work with custom music, did anyone figure it out like what you using to play music to the deck?

Open speaker or putting a Spotify plug in on the deck?

If I remember correctly someone got that working on the deck... but only posted that on the Discord.

No idea if someone may made a Guide how to use open mic on steam deck/Linux.

Already refunded it, won't be getting games from the dev again after seeing their responses to the issue in other threads.

Originally posted by Sykes:

Already refunded it, won't be getting games from the dev again after seeing their responses to the issue in other threads.

I get this, is it the one where instead of explaining it they just went "it's tricky, someone figured it out though somewhere on discord"?

Honestly, the devs have had the game verified for deck but one the key elements doesn't work, therefore in my eyes, should be playable at best.

Originally posted by Anfraxx_:

Originally posted by Sykes:

Already refunded it, won't be getting games from the dev again after seeing their responses to the issue in other threads.

I get this, is it the one where instead of explaining it they just went "it's tricky, someone figured it out though somewhere on discord"?

Honestly, the devs have had the game verified for deck but one the key elements doesn't work, therefore in my eyes, should be playable at best.

The biggest one for me is that like 80% of the game's features are designed around open mic to work (like multiplayer galaxy stuff), and hypothetically even if it worked on Steam Deck, the game audio is forced into the left ear channel which is REALLY disorienting and annoying for a sound-based game, and the dev's response was universally "That's how it has to be, deal with it" which I think is just avoiding the admission of bad design. I don't think it should have ever been that way, but ever since Beat Hazard 2 they have not looked into alternatives, and instead doubled down on it. I have no idea how people can enjoy the game because of it.

Furthermore, the dev has responded to accessibility issues like colorblindness with "If only ~10% of the population is colorblind, I'm fine with losing 10% sales. It works for most people so I won't change anything", and... being colorblind and having serious issues with some of the color choices and no option to change it, that was a deal breaker.

Really, I think the guy just doesn't make good design decisions and isn't interested in what the players want or need, regardless of how novel and interesting his ideas are. I'm just fed up. The Steam Deck issues was just the cherry on top.

Originally posted by Anfraxx_:

Originally posted by Sykes:

Already refunded it, won't be getting games from the dev again after seeing their responses to the issue in other threads.

Honestly, the devs have had the game verified for deck but one the key elements doesn't work, therefore in my eyes, should be playable at best.

As far as i know that "verified for deck" happens by an automated system from valve, so it does not have any meaning at all.

And every game I saw which got tested by devs themself has Linux/steam deck requirements listed in the system requirement tab, where it shows on which systems the game runs.

same problem here

Linux still sucks for gaming and will, Proton or not.

Originally posted by Dustter:

Also, read what Steam Deck "Verified" actually means. But for those fanboys who can't research/read (even if they should):

"If running through Proton, the game and all its middleware should be supported by Proton..."

Nowhere is it saying it MUST support all the middleware. So Open Mic, if taken existing as a middleware feature, doesn't have to necessarily work.

Who hurt you?

it seems to pick up sounds on desktop, but it will not play for longer than 10 secs. playing the track on non embedded spotify doesnt work either, it will just say "spotify cant play this right now" and give you an ad (spotify doesnt work no matter what track you play)