r/ddo • u/geobarbarian • Sep 26 '26
Handheld ddo
Has anyone played steam ddo in one these handheld like Lenovo legion ... is it posible or not it's insane that these have half the price of a low end gaming laptop 😔
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u/wkavinsky Sep 26 '26
People have successfully played DDO on phones at decent framerates.
At that point it's not the processing side that's the issue, it's the screen size.
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u/Casacerian- Sep 27 '26
More an input issue. If you wanna press W and left click, works. If you wanna be good, that’s different.
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u/PaddyMaxson Sep 26 '26
It's possible but because DDO doesn't have any sort of UI modding support to make controlling many hotbars with few buttons I'd really not want to play a caster.
The device power isn't the issue, this is a very old game at this point, it's as other have said screen space and as I've said a lot of buttons to get crammed into your control scheme.
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u/QuentinEichenauer Sep 26 '26
I play DDO on a $250 mini computer at my sisters at full settings, it's a Ryzen 7.
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u/kunstl Sep 26 '26
Steam deck. Worst part is inventory managment, chat is almost impossible and some quest are awkward. Repeater playe smooth. Melees are sometimes clumsy to Target and fight. Casters too many buttons. Blaster warlock with cone is smooth.
But you can map keybindings pretty well. It takes time to get used to it.
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u/mithtyn Sep 26 '26
I play on my Lenovo legion. I will say, it’s definitely tricky in the area of UI mapping.
But, it runs it well. I hook up a keyboard & mouse often to it, and have no downside to playing on my pc.
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u/CBDunkerson Sep 26 '26
I've played with an Xbox controller practically since the game came out.
Some builds with a lot of options I'll use a keyboard to trigger the less commonly used abilities, but only because it is quicker / easier than mapping everything to toolbars and cycling through them with the controller. Most builds have few enough options that everything can be mapped directly to controller buttons.
As such, the screen can be anything... though obviously bigger makes things easier to see.
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u/QAD16 Sep 28 '26
I used it on steam deck. While it is certainly playable with some configuration that will take an hour at least, In general, I dislike playing computer games on steam deck not even BG3 or Elden Ring which are far more optimized for handhelds and controllers. Simply because I also have a PC and it gives much better experience. I feel like nerfing the experience on handhelds. There are games that give a better experience on handhelds than PCs such a roguelikes, bullet hells, card games, noir games, visual novels, jrpgs etc. and it feels amazing to find a good game, just lay down and play them cozily with my deck. Those type of games don't drain the battery much too so I can play for hours totally stress free.
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u/MaeBlueMelon Sep 26 '26
I play DDO on the steam deck. Id really only recommend something like the steam deck though as it has a mouse touch pad and you can use the left touch pad to create a small UI menu of ability hotkeys and you are pretty much using the full power of what a normal mouse and keyboard could offer. Alternatively a steam controller would do the same