|OT| Valve's Steam Deck (OLED)- coming to Straya in Nov 2024

[Cacher]

I got out my Deck and started playing Doom Eternal on the train, and this young guy in early twentieth standing next to me took a few glances to the screen then he decided to find another place to stand.

Too metal for you, huh?

 

[Le Pertti]

I got out my Deck and started playing Doom Eternal on the train, and this young guy in early twentieth standing next to me took a few glances to the screen then he decided to find another place to stand.

Too metal for you, huh?

Probably got too jealous !

 

[Cacher]

Probably got too jealous !

Doom on the Deck. The biggest D*ck you can show in the public.

And I didn't even put on my Babymetal tshirt!

 

[lashman]

 

[LionelInoe]

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Hmmm I don't understand. Is this posted in the wrong thread?

edit: The message I responded to is now gone.

 

[Arc]

 

[LionelInoe]

Awesome. Glad to see they're getting increases in reservations, the device really has a lot of potential and I think observers are starting to take notice!

I honestly can't wait for a Deck V2 now. Simply VRR and External GPU via Thunderbolt USBC support would be game changers for the device.

 

[FunnyJay]

I've been moved from "After Q4" to "Q4"!

 

[curi0usBystander]

Nice, I've also moved from AFTER Q4 to Q4 (so I guess I'm in late december now ?)

 

[lashman]

Steam Deck :: News

Available now.

www.steamdeck.com

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamdeck/images/press/book/steamDeck_booklet_EN.pdf

 

[Mor]

Steam Deck :: News

Available now.

www.steamdeck.com

https://cdn.cloudflare.steamstatic.com/steamdeck/images/press/book/steamDeck_booklet_EN.pdf

HERE WE GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Also, not going to lie, this selection of games brings joy to my heart.

 

[lashman]

 

[prudis]

really cool interview in Lawrence Yang

 

[EdwardTivrusky]

Someone on another forum was saying they've been playing "Severed Steel" on Deck and it seems Era has been too so i picked it up.
It's currently the Star Deal on Fanatical...

Fanatical

www.fanatical.com

I also picked up Lego City Undercover as i've been looking at it for years since the Wii U and it's on sale on Humble.

Buy LEGO City Undercover from the Humble Store

Join the Chase! In LEGO® CITY Undercover, play as Chase McCain, a police officer who's been tasked with going undercover to hunt down the notorious – and recently escaped – criminal Rex Fury and putting an end to his city-wide crime wave. With two player co-op, friends can explore the sprawling...

www.humblebundle.com

 

[FunnyJay]

Lego City Undercover

It's awesome. Played it with my kid earlier this year. He loved it.
Like a kid friendly GTA.
A bit buggy though at times. A few crashes to desktop here and there.

 

[BernardoOne]

Someone on another forum was saying they've been playing "Severed Steel" on Deck and it seems Era has been too so i picked it up.
It's currently the Star Deal on Fanatical...

Fanatical

www.fanatical.com

I also picked up Lego City Undercover as i've been looking at it for years since the Wii U and it's on sale on Humble.

Buy LEGO City Undercover from the Humble Store

Join the Chase! In LEGO® CITY Undercover, play as Chase McCain, a police officer who's been tasked with going undercover to hunt down the notorious – and recently escaped – criminal Rex Fury and putting an end to his city-wide crime wave. With two player co-op, friends can explore the sprawling...

www.humblebundle.com

I played through it entirely on the Deck. Great for the most part but there are two story levels where the game crashes if you have a controller connected (this happens on windows too). I've published a SteamInput profile where i replicate the control but emulating a keyboard instead. Once you load in to the level sucessfully you can restart the game with the proper controller profile again.

 

[prudis]

 

[Arc]

 

[ExistentialThought]

I can attest, I have used my Deck to play Cult of the Lamb. Works pretty well there save for a random slowdown that seems to impact even PC at times.

___

Not that I planned to play it right away or anything, but La Pucelle does not work on the Steam Deck. It has been awhile since I have come across a game that is unplayable even with GE and that was not related to anticheat.

Apparently someone got it working with protontricks and installing d3dcompiler_47, but I will tap out for now and come back later when I am ready to play, unless I decide to play it on my PC.

La Pucelle: Ragnarok - Rendering errors · Issue #2883 · doitsujin/dxvk

Rendering is broken on the entire game, aside from the startup logos and some menus (eg. gamepad/keyboard config and save/load menus) that were implemented as part of the PC version of the game. So...

github.com

 

[Avern]

I had been holding off on playing Cult of the Lamb because the stutters drove me mad, but somebody found a fix (apparently works on PC too, but I tried on Deck and it worked for me there).

Navigate to the game folder, then go to Cult of The Lamb_Data\boot.config and add the following lines:

gfx-enable-gfx-jobs=1
gfx-enable-native-gfx-jobs=1
gc-max-time-slice=1

I think these prompt Unity to make use of multi-threading. Whatever they do, the game feels so much better now.

 

[ExistentialThought]

NISA actually updated La Pucelle for the Steam Deck, which is a big shocker.

La Pucelle: Ragnarok - Update - 2022-09-02 - Steam News

Hello everyone, We have just released an update for La Pucelle: Ragnarok which corrects the following issues. Fixed potential crash found in chapter 9 of the main story. Fixed graphical issues when running the game with Proton on Linux (Steam Deck).

store.steampowered.com

Just tried the update and it seems to work, but only tried the title screen and intro which is what I could not get pass last time

 

[Mor]

Japanese Steam Deck account is tweeting about the games that will be available to try at TGS Komodo's booth. Some titles included: Persona 4 Golden, Ace Combat 7, Spider-Man, Elden Ring, Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Hatsume Miku Project DIVA, Hades and many more.

Awesome to see. Wonder if something like this will happen next year at places like Gamescom or the E3.

 

[Arc]

Kawaii.

 

[Arc]

Steam :: Steam Deck :: Steam Deck repair centers are now online!

We are happy to announce today that our new Steam Deck repair centers are now open. If you encounter an issue and need to send your Steam Deck for repair or replacement, devices will now go to one of our repair centers. Once there, our team will diagnose the device, repair if needed, then ship...

steamcommunity.com

 

[Mor]

First picture of Komodo's Steam Deck booth at TGS. That's fancy

 

[Mivey]

First picture of Komodo's Steam Deck booth at TGS. That's fancy

I wondered if they were going to change the size of the Steam Deck to better match the Japanese market, but I didn't expect them to be this extreme about it, tbh.

 

[Mor]

 

[Gintaro]

Looking forward for the impressions of Steam Deck from Japanese devs and players!

 

[Knurek]

Looking forward for the impressions of Steam Deck from Japanese devs and players!

"Get that freaking Godzilla of a handheld out of my sight"
Alternatively:

 

[Mivey]

Looking forward for the impressions of Steam Deck from Japanese devs and players!

Expecting Valve to cover lots of medical bills due to people's broken wrists and other severe injuries to hands and arms.
Maybe they could sell the SteamDeck in Japan together with a one-year Gym membership to help people there train their upper body strength.

 

[Cacher]

Expecting Valve to cover lots of medical bills due to people's broken wrists and other severe injuries to hands and arms.
Maybe they could sell the SteamDeck in Japan together with a one-year Gym membership to help people there train their upper body strength.

Yeah, every Deck user can punch through wall. Gotta give it to Gabe, he makes nerds strong again.

 

[Knurek]

I loved the Japanese Deck coverage where the hosts misread Overlay level as Overclock level and were too scared to enable it for fear of frying the Decks.

 

[Arc]

 

[Le Pertti]

Something that strikes me as something different about the deck, is just how proud the creators seem of it, you don’t seem that so often, vary rarely do you see prototypes held in such high regard.

 

[MomoVideo]

I really like the design of the prototype in the middle ( minus the weird analog sticks and start/select/steam/qam buttons). I'm also glad that they didn't go with the glossy finish as it would be a fingerprint magnet.

 

[Mivey]

Something that strikes me as something different about the deck, is just how proud the creators seem of it, you don’t seem that so often, vary rarely do you see prototypes held in such high regard.

I kinda want them to reinvestigate the concave circle shape for the trackpads, otherwise, their current design now seems pretty much perfect.
Maybe get a decent OLED screen for the next version, and of course an next gen APU to increase efficiency per watt even further (though that goes without saying really).

 

[Amzin]

I actually prefer the flat trackpads on the Deck over the concave of the Steam Controller. I don't really think the concave adds anything - it could be more comfortable letting your thumb go in farther but if they can make room for concave they could just recess the pad a bit I imagine. Also it has to be designed / coded to work around the extra touching you're doing because of the curve.

 

[prudis]

 

[Cacher]

I will try to get TGS ticket tomorrow. Available in some convenient stores and it is the first time I am buying tickets from them. Going to report back.

 

[Mor]

I will try to get TGS ticket tomorrow. Available in some convenient stores and it is the first time I am buying tickets from them. Going to report back.

If you go and see people from the team, go tell them to visit S-E booth and ask for KH

 

[Cacher]

If you go and see people from the team, go tell them to visit S-E booth and ask for KH

Will do!

 

[Le Pertti]

Will do!

Also tell them metacouncil is number 1 fans !

 

[Cacher]

Also tell them metacouncil is number 1 fans !

...of Bloodborne on PC

 

[Le Pertti]

...of Bloodborne on PC

I was thinking of the deck.

 

[Mor]

What a time to be alive, all the Yakuza saga and parallel series playable on Deck

 

[lashman]

 

[Alexandros]

Wow, both Judgment games available immediately? Very cool.

 

[C-Dub]

Judgment on PC? Time to sell my PS5.

 

[Copons]

What happened with Judgement?
I thought they were stuck because that talent agency was afraid PC gamers would mod a dick on the main character's face or something.

 

[C-Dub]

What happened with Judgement?
I thought they were stuck because that talent agency was afraid PC gamers would mod a dick on the main character's face or something.

Johnny Kitawaga died is the flippant and sarcastic reason.

The reality is, money talks and in the end Takuya Kimura's likeness on porn became a distinct possibility the second they turned him into polygons, regardless of platform.

Or the whole agency thing was a load of bunk and someone (Amazon?) paid Sega to keep it off Steam for a set period.