|OT| Valve's Steam Deck (OLED)- coming to Straya in Nov 2024
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QFIELD game running on Deck, some input problems but team says it should be ready for launch, interesting and very nice to see.
I don't have any reliable way to measure fan noise, but subjectively, when running Ys IX (which seems to be close to the power limit in heavy maps at default settings) it's certainly not silent but also not actively annoying.
So, Durante , since I live only about 4-5 hours drive away from you, wanna meet for a playsession? 
Thanks so much for your impessions Durante Really appreciate it!
The only last question I have is dependent if you've tried a Steam Controller or not and how the Steam Controllers touchpads feel compared to the Steam Deck? Any improvements you can feel? Outside of performance which can eventually be matched by other vendors, those touch pads are uber high fidelity and it's something I could see myself leaning on quite often. (Especially in a keyboard-less design)
The only last question I have is dependent if you've tried a Steam Controller or not and how the Steam Controllers touchpads feel compared to the Steam Deck? Any improvements you can feel? Outside of performance which can eventually be matched by other vendors, those touch pads are uber high fidelity and it's something I could see myself leaning on quite often. (Especially in a keyboard-less design)
Its been a long time since I've been so excited about a new gaming device - probably since the launch of the original Nintendo Switch in 2017. Thank you to Durante and everyone else who have given their impressions so far!
Last time I had this kind of hype was for the original Wii!
I've been using the Steam controller regularly basically since its release. so I have a lot of experience with that.
I didn't use the touchpads on the Deck extensively yet. What I can say so far is that the "click"/pressing it feels much nicer than on the Steam controller (similarly to the improvement with the bumpers). The surface is a bit different from the Steam controller, and also the Vive touchpads -- I'll try it out a bit more today in the evening in terms of how well it works for aiming.
They were on the Steam controller and HTC Vive controllers. The Valve Index does as well, but it's a pressure-sensitive haptics click. The problem with the Steam controller's pad click was that it was pretty stiff.
I wonder if it's more like that of the Valve Index's pads?
Oh wow, I though the force sensitivity part was a replacement for them not being clickable.
I know about the Steam Controller, I use one every day, I just thought that Steam Deck's pads would not be clickable. I don't know why, I just assumed because of the force thing.
Not Deck specifically related but bodes well for the future of potential v2. (this is mostly for VR)
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seems like they started the marketing for it , with creation of twitter account
Hope people ask for JRPGs because it's a potential market that could blow up in certain areas like Asia.
Durante would you participate with them in order to push this "Perfect JRPG machine" thing?
I was wondering how they would do the Steam Deck animation to indicate that it is part of the Steam logo, and there it is (now in gif form)
Valve is doing everything more or less right with the Steam Deck, and I honestly couldn't be more hyped to get my hands on with one.
Steam :: Steam Deck Deposit :: Introducing @OnDeck
Steam Deck gameplay videos and development updates on Twitter and on Steam
I don't remember if anyone compared the two directly but many people have praised SD's screen so it will probably be very good.
Funny because this was one of the games I wanted to play on Deck but I ended up playing until 100% on PC because it was really cool, totally giving it a second run once I have this machine.
Yeah, it seems to run super smoothly.That Psychonauts 2 footage looks amazing
What I am the most worried about the deck is how easy it is to get to 60 fps without sacrificing eye candy too much. I really can't go back to 30fps.
Properly hardware-locked 30 FPS is quite ok in games that don't need fast camera movement or action. In slower games it would even be hard to notice without an FPS counter.
For games that do need lots of quick camera movements and/or do feature fast-paced action, I agree, of course.
If that is truly the case I would recommend cancelling your preorder. Steam Deck is a portable device and you should be prepared to make some sacrifices in newer games.
I’m also a “60 or nothing” person in general, but I’ll be quite satisfied to run 2D games on it and 3D stuff that isn’t trying to be as high fidelity as possible. The overwhelming majority of my recent game time has been spent on those types of experiences anyway.
I'll still have my Series S for AAA, so for me the deck is mostly be for all the Indies. So I'm hoping 60 while looking nice is doable.
I think it will depend on the game. Steam Deck is well equipped to handle last-gen games, cross-gens and current indies but in my opinion there's no doubt that for pure current-gen titles 30 fps will be the norm, if that. Battlefield 2042 will be the first real test of how Steam Deck can perform moving forward.
Yeah I’m curious to see what it can really handle. I’m actually expecting close to current gen. Because the decks power it should be close to series s and series x, in terms what they can handle at their resolutions and what the decks resolution is. But a console port is usually much better optimised. So it will be interesting to see if we get better optimising for the deck since we now have one hardware spec that devs can optimise towards.
If the optimization won't change in BF2042 for the final release compared to the beta, then it should not be used to benchmark Deck's potential. Maybe only as a curiosity. BF2042 performance was so atrocious that even my GTX 1060 couldn't keep 60 fps on the lowest settings.
Stepped away from PC gaming for 3-4 years after my build died, I had 2 kids and time got tight.
Really, really excited to reenter it with a Steam Deck, as my backlog is huge. As long as I can get cross gens like Hogwarts and Gotham Knights to lock 800/60 I think I'm going to be plenty busy until a Steam Deck 2 hits!
Really, really excited to reenter it with a Steam Deck, as my backlog is huge. As long as I can get cross gens like Hogwarts and Gotham Knights to lock 800/60 I think I'm going to be plenty busy until a Steam Deck 2 hits!
Well the good thing the deck has going for it other handhelds don't is the games will be much more customizable on the deck than the Switch, and the community that forms around the Deck will likely address optimal settings for the typical desired targets (best visuals, best performance, best blend etc)
This may have already been answered. But, on the discussion of performance, will they be implementing(if possible) community created visual settings like steam controller's community profiles? That way you can easily instantly set the best settings.
I would love that, but I don't really know if it would be possible in the strictest sense. Games do settings in a lot of different ways so Steam (or proton) would need to program a way for each of those.
Rather I feel like some sort of shortcut to a guide with the best settings on the Steam GUI might be a good idea. But it's nowhere near as convenient.
I'm on the December batch. I'm so hyped for it lol
That is a great idea but I haven't heard anything about such a feature. Here's hoping.
Definitely looking forward to getting one of these! Gonna be wild buying a system and having a whole bunch of games good and ready to go. Hopefully the yS and Trails in the Sky games are playable soon after launch, would be nice to have a ton of JPRGs on the go.
This is the best thing Valve could have done, showing 1-2 games per day is a good way to ensure exposure and showing different genres.
I just watched the System Shock on Deck video and thought to myself that I might actually play shooters on something other than m/kb for the first time in like a decade. It looks like it controls way better with those touch pads than a stick.
A track pad is so much better than an analog stick for camera control and aiming. It's one of the big reasons why I love the Steam controller so much.