Discussion
witten said:
Honestly I am tempted by one of these but have no Steam background and only have a PS4. However I travel for work a lot and it would make hotel rooms less boring. Is it really that good or should I wait for whatever comes next? The Backbone One PS edition looks interesting for remote play, but the reviews I have found haven't been outstanding.
I know the battery on the steamdeck wouldn't last all that long but when I checked the Steam library when considering ordering them the titles looked underwhelming to be honest. As a semi casual gamer - is it worth it?
What would be good - can you use a dock from a company such as Dell to plug it into some work from home monitors that your company might have provided during lockdown to ease working from home via a USB C?
Asking for a friend.
I had no Steam background before the steam deck and it’s a fantastic piece of kit. The Steam library is huge, if you mean the deck verified titles are underwhelming, then I t’s getting added to all the time. I downloaded an unverified game last week and it was a little fiddly to set up but once up and running it runs perfectly.I know the battery on the steamdeck wouldn't last all that long but when I checked the Steam library when considering ordering them the titles looked underwhelming to be honest. As a semi casual gamer - is it worth it?
What would be good - can you use a dock from a company such as Dell to plug it into some work from home monitors that your company might have provided during lockdown to ease working from home via a USB C?
Asking for a friend.
I also travel for work and the only issue is battery life, I am getting at best 2.5 hours play from mine but from processor heavy games. As another poster posted a heavy duty batter pack would get you through a flight.
'Playable' can literally just be that there is a login required the first time you set it up (such as GTA5) or that the text is a bit small at times.
I think there are thousands between Verified and Playable now.
Also, cracking deal for a power bank that has the perfect amount of power for a Steam Deck: https://www.mymemory.co.uk/mophie-usb-c-3xl-powers...
I think there are thousands between Verified and Playable now.
Also, cracking deal for a power bank that has the perfect amount of power for a Steam Deck: https://www.mymemory.co.uk/mophie-usb-c-3xl-powers...
Edited by ch37 on Tuesday 2nd August 19:23
I just cancelled my pre-order today. Not that I don't think it'll be a fun gadget but I pre-ordered it as I was working a lot with the US so doing quite a bit of travel and hotels and now I've changed roles to a more UK based one so couldn't really justify the cost of another games gadget when I'd rarely use it
Well impressed with mine. Wasn't sure if I would take it when I pre-ordered a year ago, on the grounds that better options might be available .. But overall there's still nothing around that offers a better mobile/portable PC gaming experience, particularly at the price.
It's very impressive that it runs so much stuff well - even modern AAA games.
The anti-glare screen is very nice ... really does cut down massively on reflections. Not sure if it justifies the price over getting the base eMMC model and hacking in an SSD and/or adding a big SD card though. I reckon they are 'giving away' that base model and not making that much on the high end one.
Drawbacks so far are basically lack of compatibility for some titles. It's impressive that so much runs so well under Linux/Proton but that means there will always be some titles that won't ever run. Battery life crimps the fun on demanding titles though it's good that you have so many options to configure how the games run, to optimise them if you choose, for better battery.
It's very impressive that it runs so much stuff well - even modern AAA games.
The anti-glare screen is very nice ... really does cut down massively on reflections. Not sure if it justifies the price over getting the base eMMC model and hacking in an SSD and/or adding a big SD card though. I reckon they are 'giving away' that base model and not making that much on the high end one.
Drawbacks so far are basically lack of compatibility for some titles. It's impressive that so much runs so well under Linux/Proton but that means there will always be some titles that won't ever run. Battery life crimps the fun on demanding titles though it's good that you have so many options to configure how the games run, to optimise them if you choose, for better battery.
I’m looking forward to using emulators on it too once I get back from my holiday. Didn’t get a chance to set it up properly before leaving unfortunately but my understanding is that almost all the older consoles can be emulated on it, including the Nintendo Switch, which is nice.
Got the 512Gb model and a 512Gb SD card for it that I’ll stick the emulators/ROM’s on.
Got the 512Gb model and a 512Gb SD card for it that I’ll stick the emulators/ROM’s on.
HRL said:
I’m looking forward to using emulators on it too once I get back from my holiday. Didn’t get a chance to set it up properly before leaving unfortunately but my understanding is that almost all the older consoles can be emulated on it, including the Nintendo Switch, which is nice.
Got the 512Gb model and a 512Gb SD card for it that I’ll stick the emulators/ROM’s on.
Yep, dead easy to set up (EmuDeck from desktop mode) and you can even pick the cover art etc that is displayed back in the gaming mode.Got the 512Gb model and a 512Gb SD card for it that I’ll stick the emulators/ROM’s on.
I've got mainly Mega Drive but have a few Dreamcast and Gamecube games and they run like a dream.
Edited by ch37 on Wednesday 3rd August 22:59
Moley RUFC said:
Anyone know which of the Battlefields run best on it given that most if not all are stating ‘Unknown’ rather than the green tick. Me and my chums are looking for good online version to play on.
You can run the latest one on it if you boot it via Windows instead of SteamOS I believe. ch37 said:
Yep, dead easy to set up (EmuDeck from desktop mode) and you can even pick the cover art etc that is displayed back in the gaming mode.
I've got mainly Mega Drive but have a few Dreamcast and Gamecube games and they run like a dream.
Looks nice. I’ll just have to *cough* locate those ROM’s I stashed somewhere. I've got mainly Mega Drive but have a few Dreamcast and Gamecube games and they run like a dream.
Edited by ch37 on Wednesday 3rd August 22:59
HRL said:
Looks nice. I’ll just have to *cough* locate those ROM’s I stashed somewhere.
I did actually only load mine up with games I own. I've made the mistake of acquiring 5000 ROMs before and it's impossible to know what to play and in the end I just didn't bother!Having only games I know and love means I get more use of it, oddly.
Richyvrlimited said:
witten said:
t when I checked the Steam library when considering ordering them the titles looked underwhelming to be honest. .
wut?literally almost every PC game is on steam
witten said:
can you use a dock from a company such as Dell to plug it into some work from home monitors that your company might have provided during lockdown to ease working from home via a USB C?.
yes, it's a pc...Edited by Richyvrlimited on Tuesday 2nd August 12:17
Apparently it will work with the dock which is good
witten said:
Read into it a bit more and to be fair, for a £4 reservation fee I have put my name down anyway and I can then spend more time doing research. The charts are what I meant but it was full of cheap, crap sounding games. Will do more research before I get the email towards the end of the year.
Apparently it will work with the dock which is good
FWIW I have a dell USBC dock and the Steam deck works fine with itApparently it will work with the dock which is good
witten said:
The charts are what I meant but it was full of cheap, crap sounding games. Will do more research before I get the email towards the end of the year.
I'm not sure what charts you're seeing, but you can filter by Steam Deck games and then see the charts etc on Steam. I bought Vampire Survivors last night (£2!) and ended up staying up half the night, it's bloody wonderful and insanely addictive (and yep, it looks like cheap crap at first glance). https://kotaku.com/please-help-i-m-addicted-to-vam...
The cheap, interesting games are what Steam, and in particular the Steam Deck, does particularly well (and you can still get pretty much all the AAA titles too, most of which run really well on the Deck). It running Elden Ring is great and all that, but it really excels at games you can hop in and out of quickly.
Project Zomboid, Unpacking, Circuit Superstars,Art of Rally, Teardown etc, I already have more than I'm ever likely to play
ch37 said:
witten said:
The charts are what I meant but it was full of cheap, crap sounding games. Will do more research before I get the email towards the end of the year.
I'm not sure what charts you're seeing, but you can filter by Steam Deck games and then see the charts etc on Steam. I bought Vampire Survivors last night (£2!) and ended up staying up half the night, it's bloody wonderful and insanely addictive (and yep, it looks like cheap crap at first glance). https://kotaku.com/please-help-i-m-addicted-to-vam...
The cheap, interesting games are what Steam, and in particular the Steam Deck, does particularly well (and you can still get pretty much all the AAA titles too, most of which run really well on the Deck). It running Elden Ring is great and all that, but it really excels at games you can hop in and out of quickly.
Project Zomboid, Unpacking, Circuit Superstars,Art of Rally, Teardown etc, I already have more than I'm ever likely to play
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