I don't really be to much around wifi much I would for a undated or to download a game but playing wise not always soooo is it still worth it? I don't mind not playing a game with out playing with other people but want to know before I buy it will I still get to play some good games offline.....thank you
@SnoopWillPac SkateOn same I like to play more games offline than online soo.....if we're not able to consistently play offline for more than 2weeks at a time that's booty.
i've always hated drm for this very reason. i was in the navy for 10 years, so obviously when i was in, for years, it was a deal breaker for me. if i cant play games i own and paid for while i was out at sea, then i wasnt going to waste my money on it. but even here state side, you never know when you internet might go out. or maybe you might find yourself in hard times and have to stop paying for internet for awhile. or in this case, its a portable system. do these companies really think its just ok that you cant access a product you paid them for?
Sadly they do think it’s okay. They make their games require an online DRM to deter people from pirating games. Which doesn’t really work at all and just hurts the consumer. The companies that do this don’t care if the customer don’t have access to it since people keep buying from them anyway.
This was a really informative and helpful video, offline mode is something rarely looked into when people talk about the steam deck, I myself forgot to look into it until I saw that reddit post where the dude had issues with offline mode on a plane.
Maybe valve should put a little DRM tag on games that have a always online DRM or a re-login online DRM to let people know what games won’t work off-line
OK!!! So.... you can absolutely play games on your steam deck offline. Although some games won't (most Rockstar games require you to sign in, in order to save progress). But just about anything else you can download, accept all licenses for the game, and turn your steam deck on Airplane mode/shut off wi fi and be good to go. For some reason nobody can just come out and say YES THE STEAM DECK GAMES CAN BE PLAYED OFFLINE BUT SOME GAMES YOU CANT. How hard is that???
@@HiTechLoLife ahhh sorry, I think I commented early thinking you didn't know or recorded it before :) I apologise for that, I should have watched the rest of the video first :)
@@Cub__ you can, but it depends on the game and if it requires you to have an Internet connection to play :) honestly, I'm having an absolute blast with my steam deck! Much better than a streaming service over broken/ low 4g+ connection :)
@@buddybleeyes Awesome to hear that because I sometimes want to play games offline or if I'm never around Wifi and chill... What games do you play if you don't mind me asking? Wonder if Boarderlands 2 would work offline, cheers!
I get that the offline mode needs some fixes, but what I don't get is why people are making a big deal of it. You can literally turn on airplane mode and play your games. I do this all the time on my Deck. If I need to connect to the net, I just toggle on Wi-Fi while still in airplane mode. Am I missing something here?
The problem is that the benifit of portability is playing on the way to work, on planes, or somewhere where Internet isn't a possibility.. It sucks when you sit down at your 4 hour flight and you can't play any of your single-player games because they don't launch.
@@tf2293 That's literally the point of Airplane mode. So that you can play on planes and places where you can't have radios firing. I play in airplane mode all the time. Even at home sometimes.
I'm living in my car in Amish country right now and I just never got into my switch because the games price tags thinking about picking up a 399 model and a 512 as my Christmas gift so I can play some borderlands or bring the pain with project zomboid this will almost entirely be an offline console for me other than charging and work wifi to download games
In my humble opinion I think that any single player experiences should not require an active internet connection. For multiplayer games and even more so for MMOs it's completely understandable that active internet connection is required because how else you would play with others. It's not that I don't understand why companies may want to use DRM. It's to protect their product and their rights. In a long run it will only affect those who own legitimate copies of the games. I assume those who pirate the games have games without the DRM or it's behavior is changed so that it's not doing what it should (because otherwise what would be the point of pirating if DRM was working as intended?), so if the DRM affects legitimate owners but not pirates then why to use it at all? Maybe it could be there just for a month or two after the launch until it loses its effectiveness but after that I don't really see the point of it. To be fair, I've never been much into absolutely having to get games on launch (although I can understand the appeal to some degree), so in that case if there was a month or a few period when DRM was active on launch but later removed then those who don't like it could get the game after the launch period and those who don't mind it but want to play it sooner could get the game at launch. It's not that I support DRM. As long as it doesn't bother my gaming experience, go too deep into privacy or affect the performance of the hardware then I'm most likely able to ignore it. If it starts affecting some of these in a way that I become aware of it then I definitely think there is a problem. If it is one time check on first launch of the game just to check that the installed game is a legitimate copy then I can accept that. If it prompts me every time for an internet connection on each launch then yeah, there is a problem. I mean, if I already have installed a legitimate copy of the game then why would I suddenly have a pirated copy of the game the next day or the next week? I'll admit I've used pirated copies of some games in the past but if I recall correctly, that was before I started using Steam for most of my gaming needs. Steam makes it a lot more convenient to get games legally, and various sales around the year makes the prices quite reasonable. Can't afford a game? Put it in your wishlist and wait for a notification about a discount for the game from Steam. In fact I have bought so many games over the years that my problem is not so much lack of games but lack of time playing them. Anyway, my main point is that I hope Valve can come up with something that makes the offline experience on Steam Deck even better and better for the customers. I don't expect all the game companies to remove the DRM from all of their games completely but it would be great if they could find a solution that satisfies both the gamers and the game companies.
Good video,thats literally what i asked for you.I loved that you do a follow up for how long can you stay and whats the offline experience after the patch.
I heard of some users who got logged out of their steam deck and couldn't essentially use it because it sepnt too long in offline mode, would be nice to have a confirmation on this aspect. Beside, the issue with GOG is that it doesn't support offline achievements, so even if you go through the hassle of installing those games through galaxy launcher on the steam deck, you would have to be connected to the internet to log them. Anyway since I bought the steam deck, I discovered how much of an hassle DRMs are, as opposed to the experience I had with my other portable devices like the PSP and PS Vita, so even if I cannot get offline achievements with GOG, I try to buy my game there when available, even just for the sake of having an offline DRM free installer, as many of the games available on gog are DRM free even on steam.
I'm hoping for more games OFFLINE with Steam Deck. I travel a lot and some of the games I need a wifi and won't pay for in-flight wifi so I usually play in my hotels
@@barnett25 yes true but bringing another rating in can also account for things like games that are made with the steam deck in mind rather than those that can be dialed down to get an optimal performance
For most games that straight up have an always online DRM, there are footnotes in the verification rating. It just seems like MGSV doesn't because Denuvo isn't *strictly* always online.
I have unlimited hot spot it makes it handy with the steam deck. But at work I have very little signal so I have to use offline mode. This has made me search for games that don’t require internet. Valve fixing offline mode was a huge help.
Did you find a decent amount of games to play offline? I'm a contractor and often end up in areas with no wifi. So I’m looking into this to play games that don’t require wifi
GTA V Re Village Halo infinite Jedi fallen order Gears 5 Are all useless without constant internet or activation. MGSV actually doesn’t have a big problem with online activation. I’m so happy that valve is fixing these small but annoying problems. Awesome video!
I got GTA V to run in offline mode. The first time said something about my offline file so I went online and went back offline and it worked. I only have the full halo on Xbox so I can’t test that.
I uh actually forgot that the tutorial was part of a much bigger video I did. That said installing heroic is easy. Just go to the discover app and install. Setup is self explanatory after that. Liam has a much better guide on GamingOnLinux.
QUESTION say I don’t have any internet connection for weeks at a time. Once I have red dead and GTA 5 downloaded will I be able to play with no sort of internet connection.
Disgaea 6. probably the top 3 best for portable consoles needs an Internet connection!!! I bought Disgaea 5 twice to play on the switch from ps5 if I can't 6 without any problems I will go mad 😡
the steamdeck literally emulates everytbibg from atari up to ps3 xbox 360 and wii u and even nintendo switch games most current gen games u can just buy in steam store sooo it literally is a all in one device
@@HiTechLoLife thanks mate! now I have your eye: I find you insanely professional and if i could afford patreon i had done it! you seem like a good dude so i hope you are nice to yourself and get some happyness. your quality deserves 100k subs. greetings from Fish from the Netherlands
DRM is here to stay. No doubt about it. For good reason. It protects the developers and distributors who fund the games we play. Steam Deck - like any other system - needs to be connected to the internet “most” of the time. So Steam will likely use similar DRM checks as what we see in the SVOD industry to name only this example. Meaning a game can play offline for a time until it “checks-in” with Steam to validate authenticity after a while. It’s not a perfect system - but it’s the one generally accepted in the broader Entertainemnt industry at present. Live with it people or don’t buy a Steam Deck or do and turn to the dark side. Choose wisely as the old fart in the Indiana Jones movie would say ;-)
Then we have DRM on consoles like the Xbox Series and GT7 on the PS4/PS5 Closed platforms where piracy is very close to 0 so DRM shouldn't be needed In those cases DRM is more about control than reduce piracy (even tho DRM itself encourages piracy because people want to own the games they paid for)
Offline mode was fixed yall. I talked about it in the video, albeit it was only a beta update at the time of the video's publishing.
I don't really be to much around wifi much I would for a undated or to download a game but playing wise not always soooo is it still worth it? I don't mind not playing a game with out playing with other people but want to know before I buy it will I still get to play some good games offline.....thank you
@SnoopWillPac SkateOn same I like to play more games offline than online soo.....if we're not able to consistently play offline for more than 2weeks at a time that's booty.
@@bigbadchevy fr fr lol I agree it's not like the old days
i've always hated drm for this very reason. i was in the navy for 10 years, so obviously when i was in, for years, it was a deal breaker for me. if i cant play games i own and paid for while i was out at sea, then i wasnt going to waste my money on it. but even here state side, you never know when you internet might go out. or maybe you might find yourself in hard times and have to stop paying for internet for awhile. or in this case, its a portable system. do these companies really think its just ok that you cant access a product you paid them for?
It's one of many reasons why I support cracking, whose communities get clumped together as piracy as their skill sets cross-class
@@Aereto If they can get around stuff like this then they have my support.
Sadly they do think it’s okay. They make their games require an online DRM to deter people from pirating games. Which doesn’t really work at all and just hurts the consumer. The companies that do this don’t care if the customer don’t have access to it since people keep buying from them anyway.
@@blakegamarro5660 💯
@@Aereto the only drawback for me is you can’t play any cracked game online
This was a really informative and helpful video, offline mode is something rarely looked into when people talk about the steam deck, I myself forgot to look into it until I saw that reddit post where the dude had issues with offline mode on a plane.
Has me on the fence even with this spring sale
Maybe valve should put a little DRM tag on games that have a always online DRM or a re-login online DRM to let people know what games won’t work off-line
They do for games that literally require always online.
It's just that they don't for games that are semi-online only, like Denuvo titles.
OK!!! So.... you can absolutely play games on your steam deck offline. Although some games won't (most Rockstar games require you to sign in, in order to save progress). But just about anything else you can download, accept all licenses for the game, and turn your steam deck on Airplane mode/shut off wi fi and be good to go. For some reason nobody can just come out and say YES THE STEAM DECK GAMES CAN BE PLAYED OFFLINE BUT SOME GAMES YOU CANT. How hard is that???
I think they have pushed an update today, so I think they are starting to work on atleast some of the offline issues :)
I did talk about that in the video. It happened while I was actually uploading the first version of the video lol.
@@HiTechLoLife ahhh sorry, I think I commented early thinking you didn't know or recorded it before :) I apologise for that, I should have watched the rest of the video first :)
So can you play games offline with it?
@@Cub__ you can, but it depends on the game and if it requires you to have an Internet connection to play :) honestly, I'm having an absolute blast with my steam deck! Much better than a streaming service over broken/ low 4g+ connection :)
@@buddybleeyes Awesome to hear that because I sometimes want to play games offline or if I'm never around Wifi and chill... What games do you play if you don't mind me asking? Wonder if Boarderlands 2 would work offline, cheers!
I get that the offline mode needs some fixes, but what I don't get is why people are making a big deal of it. You can literally turn on airplane mode and play your games. I do this all the time on my Deck. If I need to connect to the net, I just toggle on Wi-Fi while still in airplane mode. Am I missing something here?
Does offline mode do the same thing as turning on airplane mode?
I literally run in airplane mode UNLESS playing an online game, specifically because it saves power
The problem is that the benifit of portability is playing on the way to work, on planes, or somewhere where Internet isn't a possibility.. It sucks when you sit down at your 4 hour flight and you can't play any of your single-player games because they don't launch.
@@tf2293 they launch they fixed offline mode.
It's a beta update I talked about this in a video.
@@tf2293 That's literally the point of Airplane mode. So that you can play on planes and places where you can't have radios firing. I play in airplane mode all the time. Even at home sometimes.
I'm living in my car in Amish country right now and I just never got into my switch because the games price tags thinking about picking up a 399 model and a 512 as my Christmas gift so I can play some borderlands or bring the pain with project zomboid this will almost entirely be an offline console for me other than charging and work wifi to download games
I hear that man
3:23 XIGNCODE3???? Why does a rythym game need an Anti-Cheat??? Or to be always online???
Valve is probably secretly monitoring you :D
In my humble opinion I think that any single player experiences should not require an active internet connection. For multiplayer games and even more so for MMOs it's completely understandable that active internet connection is required because how else you would play with others.
It's not that I don't understand why companies may want to use DRM. It's to protect their product and their rights. In a long run it will only affect those who own legitimate copies of the games. I assume those who pirate the games have games without the DRM or it's behavior is changed so that it's not doing what it should (because otherwise what would be the point of pirating if DRM was working as intended?), so if the DRM affects legitimate owners but not pirates then why to use it at all? Maybe it could be there just for a month or two after the launch until it loses its effectiveness but after that I don't really see the point of it. To be fair, I've never been much into absolutely having to get games on launch (although I can understand the appeal to some degree), so in that case if there was a month or a few period when DRM was active on launch but later removed then those who don't like it could get the game after the launch period and those who don't mind it but want to play it sooner could get the game at launch.
It's not that I support DRM. As long as it doesn't bother my gaming experience, go too deep into privacy or affect the performance of the hardware then I'm most likely able to ignore it. If it starts affecting some of these in a way that I become aware of it then I definitely think there is a problem. If it is one time check on first launch of the game just to check that the installed game is a legitimate copy then I can accept that. If it prompts me every time for an internet connection on each launch then yeah, there is a problem. I mean, if I already have installed a legitimate copy of the game then why would I suddenly have a pirated copy of the game the next day or the next week?
I'll admit I've used pirated copies of some games in the past but if I recall correctly, that was before I started using Steam for most of my gaming needs. Steam makes it a lot more convenient to get games legally, and various sales around the year makes the prices quite reasonable. Can't afford a game? Put it in your wishlist and wait for a notification about a discount for the game from Steam. In fact I have bought so many games over the years that my problem is not so much lack of games but lack of time playing them.
Anyway, my main point is that I hope Valve can come up with something that makes the offline experience on Steam Deck even better and better for the customers. I don't expect all the game companies to remove the DRM from all of their games completely but it would be great if they could find a solution that satisfies both the gamers and the game companies.
Yet another instance where drm harms legitimate consumers more that pirates
Good video,thats literally what i asked for you.I loved that you do a follow up for how long can you stay and whats the offline experience after the patch.
Great vid helpful
Does proton compatibility still work offline and can u play unsupported games offline
I was surprised to see Disgaea downloaded. Definitely gonna see how it plays once i get the steam deck
I heard of some users who got logged out of their steam deck and couldn't essentially use it because it sepnt too long in offline mode, would be nice to have a confirmation on this aspect.
Beside, the issue with GOG is that it doesn't support offline achievements, so even if you go through the hassle of installing those games through galaxy launcher on the steam deck, you would have to be connected to the internet to log them.
Anyway since I bought the steam deck, I discovered how much of an hassle DRMs are, as opposed to the experience I had with my other portable devices like the PSP and PS Vita, so even if I cannot get offline achievements with GOG, I try to buy my game there when available, even just for the sake of having an offline DRM free installer, as many of the games available on gog are DRM free even on steam.
Dat VA-11 Hall-A music though 👌
Also totally complain more about Vanillaware games plz!
Thanks for posting this
I'm hoping for more games OFFLINE with Steam Deck. I travel a lot and some of the games I need a wifi and won't pay for in-flight wifi so I usually play in my hotels
I'm thinking instead of losing the verified status I'm thinking there should be a new rank of verified that includes offline mode called verified Plus
@@barnett25 yes true but bringing another rating in can also account for things like games that are made with the steam deck in mind rather than those that can be dialed down to get an optimal performance
For most games that straight up have an always online DRM, there are footnotes in the verification rating. It just seems like MGSV doesn't because Denuvo isn't *strictly* always online.
@@HiTechLoLife all the verified game that i bought can i play it on the go without a WiFi
I have unlimited hot spot it makes it handy with the steam deck. But at work I have very little signal so I have to use offline mode. This has made me search for games that don’t require internet. Valve fixing offline mode was a huge help.
Did you find a decent amount of games to play offline? I'm a contractor and often end up in areas with no wifi. So I’m looking into this to play games that don’t require wifi
@@Waynethegunner I got a switch instead, didn’t wanna spend money on it if I can’t comfortably play it offline. But it’s still convenient.
Is the character at the end your art or just something you found? I've always wondered that
She's the mascot character!
Offline isn’t working for me with Sims 4 or Disney Dreamlight Valley. Neither one of them will load. Any ideas what I could try? 🙏🏻
GTA V
Re Village
Halo infinite
Jedi fallen order
Gears 5
Are all useless without constant internet or activation.
MGSV actually doesn’t have a big problem with online activation.
I’m so happy that valve is fixing these small but annoying problems. Awesome video!
I got GTA V to run in offline mode. The first time said something about my offline file so I went online and went back offline and it worked. I only have the full halo on Xbox so I can’t test that.
@@ssndob6202 how do u get gta5 to run offline
Don't forget to add a card to link to that Heroic tutorial.
I uh actually forgot that the tutorial was part of a much bigger video I did.
That said installing heroic is easy. Just go to the discover app and install. Setup is self explanatory after that. Liam has a much better guide on GamingOnLinux.
Is there a way I can play madden 23 in offline mode I’m sure there’s a mode I can play because I don’t have wifi at all
DJMax Trilogy Offline Mode on Steam Deck > DJ Max Respect V Online Mode on Steam Deck
So is it like PC where you just need to open the game while online every once in a while?
More or less yes
QUESTION
say I don’t have any internet connection for weeks at a time. Once I have red dead and GTA 5 downloaded will I be able to play with no sort of internet connection.
i think RD its playable offline, but GTA5 will need an activation like every 5 days even if u are offline mode
How did you change the play button for games from green to purple?
Look up Decky. It's a plugin manager for the Steam Deck. One of the plugins is a CSS Loader.
That said I have a video for that.
so as of now offline mode works? im on beta, and im due to fly friday ?
Yeah. It works. But if you've got games with denuvo be sure to launch them while online first.
Disgaea 6. probably the top 3 best for portable consoles needs an Internet connection!!! I bought Disgaea 5 twice to play on the switch from ps5 if I can't 6 without any problems I will go mad 😡
How do you have capcom v SNK 2 on steam ?
the steamdeck literally emulates everytbibg from atari up to ps3 xbox 360 and wii u and even nintendo switch games most current gen games u can just buy in steam store sooo it literally is a all in one device
Can I just download emulators and run them offline?
Yes
GTA IV starts a new game if you don´t log in Rockstar Games Launcher
Can i play cp77 offline mode
what is the game played at 6.47 ?
Teleglitch die more edition
@@HiTechLoLife thanks mate! now I have your eye: I find you insanely professional and if i could afford patreon i had done it! you seem like a good dude so i hope you are nice to yourself and get some happyness. your quality deserves 100k subs. greetings from Fish from the Netherlands
If you don't like drm then support GOG and drm free content.
As mentioned at the end of the video yes
Ew that nail polish
First🤘🏻
DRM is here to stay. No doubt about it. For good reason. It protects the developers and distributors who fund the games we play. Steam Deck - like any other system - needs to be connected to the internet “most” of the time. So Steam will likely use similar DRM checks as what we see in the SVOD industry to name only this example. Meaning a game can play offline for a time until it “checks-in” with Steam to validate authenticity after a while. It’s not a perfect system - but it’s the one generally accepted in the broader Entertainemnt industry at present. Live with it people or don’t buy a Steam Deck or do and turn to the dark side. Choose wisely as the old fart in the Indiana Jones movie would say ;-)
Then we have DRM on consoles like the Xbox Series and GT7 on the PS4/PS5
Closed platforms where piracy is very close to 0 so DRM shouldn't be needed
In those cases DRM is more about control than reduce piracy (even tho DRM itself encourages piracy because people want to own the games they paid for)
@@speed3414 absolutely correct
Am i able to play fallout without wifi?