Steam Deck (handheld from Valve) - shipping is 4-8 days from NL to UK

[memories]

Quite a list.

 

Ive been doing the same and adding a few "maybes", just expands out the backlog at the moment.

[Gotters]

Need to get Star Drift Evolution on that list @Poet, I think its my fave of the genre for handling and variety.

 

 

[Poet]

3 minutes ago, Gotters said:

Need to get Star Drift Evolution on that list @Poet, I think its my fave of the genre for handling and variety.

 

Funny you should say that. I spent my lunch break going through the Steam sale thread and added the following, in this order:

 

Star Drift Evolution (aha!)

Prototype 2

DG2: Defense Grid 2

Soda Crisis

nail'd

Defunct

Super Pilot

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

 

I have to stop looking. I'll buy a few off my watchlist before tomorrow, and then I wait!

[Poet]

16 minutes ago, memories said:

Quite a list.

 

Ive been doing the same and adding a few "maybes", just expands out the backlog at the moment.

 

Yes I went a little mad. It's all a bit silly really. I have two young kids who used to take up all our time but now they don't and so I've slowly got back to gaming beyond using a mobile. I'm about 7 years behind and have a backlog I'm working through on my Switch and PS4 so, on the one hand, why buy this and dump a thousand more games on there, especially with the next gen already firmly here?! But, for me, this piece of tech, the slightly older games I get to visit let alone revisit, the form factor, the emulation and everything else the deck is capable of is just too much to miss out on and I am more excited to get into playing with this than anything else out there (although PSVR2 is running close. That might be a 2024 thing). Also I really like being able to spend a bit of money on the work of smaller devs that do interesting stuff. And that interesting stuff is basically always on PC.

 

It's just nice to get into something new that's both a bit nerdy and a lot of fun.

[bradigor]

So after completing the campaign on Transport Fever 2, I have started a free play on a small map starting in 1850. It's so relaxing once you get your first lines up and running. Paid off my starting loans and now looking at what I can do next to expand. 

 

Spent an hour this afternoon just letting the game run whilst planning and plotting future lines. My current lines are all turning a profit and am really just waiting for an upgrade to my horse drawn road network before putting the other stuff into place. 

 

It is such a cool game to play with a cuppa and I think I prefer it to Cities Skylines namely due to the organic growth of towns and cities based on your planning and networking of logistics. 

 

Also didn't help that I tried to get CS back on the Steam Deck and many of the mods were broken and the controls aren't as intuitive as TF2.

[alex3d]

1 hour ago, Gotters said:

Need to get Star Drift Evolution on that list @Poet, I think its my fave of the genre for handling and variety.

 

 

This is a bit challenging, is it not? I won all three races in the first cup and scored some fastest laps but still need some 4 stars to proceed.

[Gotters]

1 minute ago, alex3d said:

This is a bit challenging, is it not? I won all three races in the first cup and scored some fastest laps but still need some 4 stars to proceed.

Yeah, i’m having to do some events a few times to get enough stars to proceed, you need to not only win but often get a fast enough lap/cumulative time.

 

I’m finding the handling so nice though this isn’t a chore, it has so much scope for going faster.

[AlexM]

The dock has 'clicked' for me. Set it up on the bedroom TV while I'm feeling unwell, steam controller connected, Plex-HTPC installed + created custom controller map, effortlessly switching between gaming & watching.

 

3D games running at 720P on a 4K screen look fine, older games run well at 1080P and 2D titles can run up to 4K (although I struggle to tell the difference between that and 1080P, honestly). I've been running Quantum Break at 720P High with a 30FPS lock and it hasn't affected my enjoyment.

 

I've also setup a Hades Canyon NUC in the lounge with ChimeraOS, a very similar experience - I have Steam setup on 4 devices and my saves follow me around, love it (Deck, NUC, Desktop, Laptop). Now I just need to find a neat way to sync saves for non-Steam games.

[Gotters]

Couldn’t find resogun so opted for £1 of Nex Machina from Instant Gaming - gonna hammer the battery and gets the fans blowing a bit (even if you cap to 40fps) but plays fine with some launcher settings I found on protondb

[StumpyJohn]

9 hours ago, Poet said:

So, it's 2-4 weeks delivery apparently when I ordered less than 48 hours ago. And I just got the "We're preparing your items to ship"email with tracking details!

 

Gonna go buy that SD card!

I ordered on the 16th and at the time it said 1-2 weeks

I got the preparing to ship email on the 20th and it arrived today so took less than a week overall

[Siri]

Morning Steam Deck shitposting instead of going to work on time:

 

Bothered to set up Heroic Launcher again. I'm impressed by the improvements made to the App itself - the one-touch add to Steam function with pulled artwork is great (although a bit redundant after finding it because of SteamGridDB), and it's nice to have proper controller support and it recognises my SD card storage right away.

 

I'm not entirely sure if I've put in the command correctly to enable GPL, but I did spend an hour trying to figure out how to get the EGS version of Sable past the title screen so I might be soured on working out the difference. Plays fine with lowered settings at 40fps, anyway. You could probably bump the settings up if you uncap the TDP, but I like a quiet Steam Deck and battery life, and 30fps always felt horrible on Sable after trying the demo on Xbox.

[Gotters]

Managed to find and get PS3 Resogun working - seems to run at a locked 30fps (don't recall if it was 60 on PS3) - it's another one that gets the fans blowing and hammers the battery, but to be fair I think that is all the PS3 emulation, it's just hard on the system. Still plays well though. 

 

edit - PS3 & Vita Resogun run at 30fps locked, which emulator manages for PS3.

 

[bradigor]

How does PS3 version compare to PS4?

[Gotters]

I instantly noticed the frame rate, and my immediate reaction was graphics scaled back a bit from what I recall, but it still plays very fluidly and has that lovely circular wrap round level thing going on, with lots to shoot and particle effects.

 

Couple of steps to get running as need to install the package and another file via the emulator in desktop mode (but all the PS3 games need the first step).

 

Not sure if you can setup digital games as non steam games in gaming mode either, emudeck didn't pick it up, launched it via emulator now just to test it out.

[bradigor]

Just now, Gotters said:

I instantly noticed the frame rate, and my immediate reaction was graphics scaled back a bit from what I recall, but it still plays very fluidly and has that lovely circular wrap round level thing going on, with lots to shoot and particle effects.

 

Couple of steps to get running as need to install the package and another file via the emulator in desktop mode (but all the PS3 games need the first step).

 

Not sure if you can setup digital games as non steam games in gaming mode either, emudeck didn't pick it up, launched it via emulator now just to test it out.

 

The emulation side I'm fine with. Just more how is the actual game. I rinsed the PS4 and Vita versions and and tempted by the PS3 version for Deck as Vita3k still isn't great and rpcs3 is much more capable for PS3 stuff. 

 

I can just play the Vita version on my Vita, but the bigger screen would be nice.

[Gotters]

If you've rinsed it like that you'll be more likely to spot downgrades to alien animation, things missing on waves, minor downgrades etc. I can't spot they've ruined it by removing an alien antenna.

 

As the non obsessed all I can say is it's Resogun, holds a framerate and plays fine - I did notice the ship doesn't always face the way you're moving shooting and not sure if it was telling me to go another way or a bug ?!? 

[Poet]

Okay bought a load of games on my shortlist before the end of the sale in preparation:

Spoiler

Nail'd - £0.79

MouseCraft - £1.39

Ridge Racer Unbounded Bundle - £2.99

Binary Domain Collection - £2.19

Tooth and Tail - £2.24

Motorsport Manager - £2.24

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - Going East! - £2.39

Vampire Survivors - £3.19

Cranks and Goggles - £1.69

Just Cause 2 - £0.99

Shatter - £1.69

Defense Grid: Containment Bundle - £3.87

RIVE - £1.09

Dungeons of Dreadrock - £0.95

Defunct - £0.69

PixelJunk™ Shooter Ultimate - £0.69

Save Room - Organization Puzzle - £1.74

Kaiju Wars - £3.87

Euro Truck Simulator 2 - £4.12

Golf Club Wasteland - £1.70

Fallout New Vegas Ultimate ROW - £5.27

Just Cause 3 - £1.79

Star Drift Evolution - £5.49

Cryptark - £2.74

Condition Zero - £0.32

Day of Defeat: Source - £0.38

Half-Life 1: Source - £0.38

Half-Life 2: Episode One - £0.30

Half-Life 2: Episode Two - £0.26

Left 4 Dead - £0.38

Portal 2 - £0.38

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (Bundle-only) - £0.00

The Lab (Bundle-only) - £0.00

 

Still 45 games on my shortlist (it keeps growing!).

 

My SD card should be arriving today, and my Steam Deck is still in the Netherlands but I'm sure won't be long! EXCITING!

[StumpyJohn]

Grabbed Crafty Survivors and a couple of others before the end of the sale.  Can't see anything about it on deck, is there a way to get it running on it?

[thesnwmn]

28 minutes ago, Poet said:

Still 45 games on my shortlist (it keeps growing!).

 

It never really stops. Mine is over 100 and I suspect it's tiny compared to many people here.

 

Although it is also a complete mess. There are games on there that whilst interesting to me and I think I'd like I'm not sure I'll ever actually buy regardless of the price. Once you get over the "buy it just because it's over X% off" and realise that simply means it will be that cheap again soon then you question if you're going to actually play it (even if just to dabble) before that next time. And then there's always something more important to play.

[bradigor]

I've got over 200 on mine, but have cleared loads this week as I did a bunch of 'favours'* in exchange for Steam credit to pick up games to complete collections (eg: Resident Evil). 

 

I can't escape Transport Fever 2 though that shit is fucking brilliant on Steam Deck. 

 

Spoiler

*Definitely not work DWP person

 

[Paulando]

Just bought Nail’d for 79p after checking through that list.

 

Steam is just a treasure trove of cheap, oldish arcade racers. And for that price, fuck the backlog. Sometimes I just need a quick ten minute blast on something.

[Gotters]

Prototype 2 looks lovely, and offers a perspective now we'd never have had at the time.

 

Talk of lockdowns due to the virus/mutations in the game and climbing up a building saw a 'virus hoax' poster. 

[Siri]

53 minutes ago, StumpyJohn said:

Grabbed Crafty Survivors and a couple of others before the end of the sale.  Can't see anything about it on deck, is there a way to get it running on it?

 

If it's something genuinely unknown, I'd just.. well, try and play it. If it doesn't work, maybe try Proton GE. And if that doesn't work, I'd probably refund it if it's old as fuck, or look at the discussions in the Steam forums for that specific game.

 

Speaking of which, here's a post from the developers themselves on their discussions page on Steam:

 

Quote

We test it a lot on our own Steam Deck and it's playing great on it.
It had a few performance issues in specific situations with a lot of ranged enemies, but the recent patch we made fixed that problem.

 

[StumpyJohn]

1 minute ago, Siri said:

 

If it's something genuinely unknown, I'd just.. well, try and play it. If it doesn't work, maybe try Proton GE. And if that doesn't work, I'd probably refund it if it's old as fuck, or look at the discussions in the Steam forums for that specific game.

 

Speaking of which, here's a post from the developers themselves on their discussions page on Steam:

Thanks, I did look, probably a bit briefly, on the steam comments but totally missed that.

 

I won't refund it as can always play it on my mac instead if necessary

[simms]

5 hours ago, thesnwmn said:

 

It never really stops. Mine is over 100 and I suspect it's tiny compared to many people here.

 

Although it is also a complete mess. There are games on there that whilst interesting to me and I think I'd like I'm not sure I'll ever actually buy regardless of the price. Once you get over the "buy it just because it's over X% off" and realise that simply means it will be that cheap again soon then you question if you're going to actually play it (even if just to dabble) before that next time. And then there's always something more important to play.

 

I've got 1488 on my wishlist and 2699* games in my library, this is over a 10 year period since I became an exclusive PC gamer

 

*I've probably played under 5% of my library yet I keep adding more games whether from humble choice or I'd pick up the odd game for silly prices in sales.  Also have a tone of free games on Epic, GOG and Amazon library and a few in the UBisoft and Orign store(Ea) 

 

Yes, I have a problem

[thesnwmn]

Just now, simms said:

 

I've got 1488 on my wishlist and 2699* games in my library, this is over a 10 year period since I became an exclusive PC gamer

 

*I've probably played under 5% of my library yet I keep adding more games whether from humble choice or I'd pick up the odd game for silly prices in sales.  Also have a tone of free games on Epic, GOG and Amazon library and a few in the UBisoft and Orign store(Ea) 

 

Yes, I have a problem

 

Do you find the your wishlist serves any real purpose at this point?

 

At 100 I already think mine is unhelpful most of the time other than getting Steam to tell me something was released. We've just come out of a sale in which I didn't buy everything that was 80% off in my list. So if not now then when? There won't be less games I want in this Summer sale. Or next year's Summer sale. So they're probably not getting bought ever.

 

This sounds as dumb (sorry) as the people with a backlist of 100s of games. It's denial right? Never going to play them so just be honest and change your list to be the set of games you can actually play. The number you can realistically keep up with.

[simms]

9 minutes ago, thesnwmn said:

 

Do you find the your wishlist serves any real purpose at this point?

 

At 100 I already think mine is unhelpful most of the time other than getting Steam to tell me something was released. We've just come out of a sale in which I didn't buy everything that was 80% off in my list. So if not now then when? There won't be less games I want in this Summer sale. Or next year's Summer sale. So they're probably not getting bought ever.

 

This sounds as dumb (sorry) as the people with a backlist of 100s of games. It's denial right? Never going to play them so just be honest and change your list to be the set of games you can actually play. The number you can realistically keep up with.

 

Yes it nice to get the notifications for something you know you are going to want to play but yes I think I mostly ignore those notifications.  I find the Wishlist useful for filtering the list by games that have been discounted by more than 75% as I just bought a couple of games just now that I'll probably never play: 

 

Dungeons of Dreadrock - 95p

Duke Nukem 3D: 20th Anniversary World Tour - £1.49p

 

EDIT: Couldn't resist a 90's boomer shooter I've always wanted to play but never did and a Zelda LTTP lookalike

 

EDIT2: *justification mode turned on* Since getting a Steamdeck Ive played more games than I otherwise would have

[simms]

Me procrastinating over a purchase then suddenly deciding to dump it into the basket

 

 

 

[ChewMagma]

I dunno I have all sorts of wishlists with all sorts of things on that I have had ticking over for years. It fulfils 2 functions: 1. Sometimes the act of adding something to a wishlist is enough in itself to satisfy the urge to buy something without actually spending any money, 2. Every now and then a perfect alignment will happen where I am between games, I see something discounted on my wishlist and think "yeah I fancy that" cos I'm digging that genre rn or remember hearing it mentioned on a podcast or somewhere I trust.

 

Normally though in sales I buy a ton of stuff that ISN'T in my wishlist.

[Flub]

Has anyone tried Space Mouse 2? It's remake of a very old game and insanely fun. Bit of history and then a trailer of the new game here