Steam Deck

[Keyrock]

10 minutes ago, Bartimaeus said:

Never seen or heard of this game before - each battle ends with them seemingly not finishing off their opponent, right up until the one dude straight up decapitates his opponent. That was brutal.

I've not played it, but I have seen plenty of videos about it. It's a physics-based dueling game with quite a lot of dismemberment.

[Gfted1]

Valve's Steam Deck Finally Has a Release Date.

[Keyrock]

 

[Keyrock]

And now the teardown. WARNING: EXPLICIT HARDWARE NUDITY!

 

[Gfted1]

Valve Steam Deck wows reviewers: 'The most innovative gaming PC in 20 years' | PCWorld

[Keyrock]

 

[the_dog_days]

Mine's scheduled to ship 2nd quarter.

[Totally not Gorgon]

On 2/8/2022 at 6:19 PM, Keyrock said:

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q3 is RTX 4000. I dunno. The deck might compare poorly to a bottom dollar laptop with a controller inside of a year. Depending on availability of course.

 

Says I who just caved and ordered an RTX 3070 ti.

Maybe it's best to just forget about the performance rat race altogether. 

[Keyrock]

1 hour ago, Totally not Gorgon said:

The deck might compare poorly to a bottom dollar laptop with a controller inside of a year.

By that same logic said bottom dollar laptop might compare poorly to another bottom dollar laptop released a year or two later.

Maybe it's best to just forget about the performance rat race altogether.

I had that same epiphany roughly half a year ago. 

[Keyrock]

 

[mkreku]

Did anyone get one yet? I pre-ordered the 512GB version the day they let ut pre-order, but it still says Q2 for me.

[the_dog_days]

Mine also still says 2nd quarter. Has since I reserved one 10 minute after reservations opened up.

[Totally not Gorgon]

I'm jumping in at steam deck 2

[the_dog_days]

I'm hoping they call the second iteration Steam Deck DP Edition.

[Keyrock]

GabeN talked about there bring more interest than anticipated in the most expensive model and Valve potentially making a higher-end model in the future. Assuming Steam Deck takes off, I'd be all over an 8 core Zen4 with 12 RDNA3 CUs model in the future.

[Azdeus]

14 hours ago, Totally not Gorgon said:

I'm jumping in at steam deck 2

I'm waiting for steam deck 3.11 myself

[Keyrock]

33 minutes ago, Azdeus said:

I'm waiting for steam deck 3.11 myself

It's well known that Valve can't count to 3. 

[Gfted1]

12 Steam Deck Tips Every Gamer Should Remember (gizmodo.com)

[mkreku]

Oh, I forgot to write that I got my Steam Deck early April and have been trying it out since then.

Battery time is as expected (not great) and the screen is only average (my phone looks sooo much better with its OLED colours and refresh rate) but other than that it's an awesome little machine.

I have 557 games on my Steam account, 78 of which are "GREAT ON DECK" as they're called. 78. Out of 557. Yeah, they have some work to do, for sure. But the ones that work great really do work great! I've installed Grim Dawn, Dysmantle and Fez so far and they all run flawlessly at 60 fps. I know they're not the most demanding of games, but it's still a handheld and these are PC games after all. Very impressed with the performance.

It came in this plastic packaging.

Also this case which is pretty sweet.

And this is the Deck itself! Ignore my pale, Swedish legs. I was working from home that day..

[Bokishi]

Finally got my deck last week and put on all the heavy hitters like Elden Ring and Cyberpunk, and older games like F.E.A.R and Oblivion. Even put in a 1tb Sandisk Extreme SD to expand the storage to 1.5tb. The speed on the SD is pretty much the same as the nvme, and I'm baffled at that. Aside from some glitches here and there, I think Steam OS wins as a gaming platform due to its efficiency in handling big titles in a low power form factor, its really well optimized.

Being able to play games fully maxed out and modded compared to low vanilla settings on the Switch counterparts is a big plus as well. Now all it needs is an oled screen like the Switch has...

 

[the_dog_days]

I canceled my reservation a month ago when gas prices started spiking. Glad I did because my f***ing god do these career politicians hate poor people.

[Keyrock]

 

[Gorgon]

Thinking about trading in my PS5 for the new OLED one

[mkreku]

Just an update: I installed something called Emu Deck on my Steam Deck and oh my god.. it's so good I actually played through the entire Dragon's Quest 8: Journey of the Cursed King (PS2) again. That's a 200 hour game..

I let my cousin try it too. He was a huge Halo fan back in the original Xbox days and he was in awe when he got to try it on the Steam Deck. It's just so accurate.

Best emulation device I've ever owned, it feels like it was made for it.