*** The Official Steam Deck Thread ***

[Nitefly]

In hand! Initial impressions…

D pad and sticks seem fine, not in game yet. Haptics seem fine as well but I presume they only work one side in various screens (I.e. don’t work when right stick has no function etc.).

Screen is a total mirror but I’m hyper conscious, let’s see how it is in game

 

[grudas]

Mine’s being delivered monday, at least I know now!

Got my fingers and toes crossed it’s a good one!

Same here.

 

[2StepSteve]

Mines not out for delivery today. So Monday it'll be.

In the meantime I've gone a bit crazy with Steam purchases and my library is now looking more ready lol..

Spoiler

No Man's Sky
Street Fighter 6
Cyberpunk 2077
Stray
DAVE THE DIVER
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Anniversary Edition
Red Dead Redemption 2
Hades
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Complete Edition
Tetris® Effect: Connected
Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition
Monster Hunter Rise + Sunbreak
Monster Hunter World
Portal 2
Persona 5 Royal
Outer Wilds
Vampire Survivors
Vampire Survivors: Legacy of the Moonspell
Vampire Survivors: Tides of the Foscari
Moonlighter
Moonlighter: Between Dimensions
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Subnautica: Below Zero
Subnautica
Yakuza Kiwami
Yakuza 0
Yakuza Kiwami 2
Yakuza 3 Remastered
Yakuza 4 Remastered
Yakuza 5 Remastered
Yakuza 6: The Song of Life

 

[Nitefly]

One thing that is much appreciated above the launch switch model is Bluetooth
for headphones. Oh thank lord. That will really make life easier on a plane etc.

 

[Rilot]

Yes, much less latency on the BT headphones now.
@Guest2 The d-pad is looser on mine for sure than the OG deck but diagonals now only require the same pressure as the cardinals whereas on my OG deck I had to press it stupidly hard to get a diagonal to register.

Did my first gaming session in public with it this morning while my wife had a scan in hospital. It did not disappoint. I really like the new case too.

 

[Noxia]

What on earth you playing that needs a dpad

 

[Rilot]

What on earth you playing that needs a dpad

Retro games, fighting games, games that I can't talk about on this forum.

 

[Trox]

Ordered 22nd, shipped today, awesome

Going to be refreshing the tracking link constantly over the next few days!

 

[Noxia]

Retro games, fighting games, games that I can't talk about on this forum.

I use analogue for retro games, can't do dpad.

 

[Nitefly]

What on earth you playing that needs a dpad

Tank controls = d-pad! (guess what I’ve been playing )

Although I would say that the sticks also work well.

 

[Noxia]

Tank controls = d-pad! (guess what I’ve been playing )

Although I would say that the sticks also work well.

Tank controls = not play!

 

[Wilko_Dog]

Dave the Diver is brilliant

 

[TNA]

Tank controls = d-pad! (guess what I’ve been playing )

Although I would say that the sticks also work well.

He clearly is not a Resi fan!

I will be installing Resident Evil Remake on my Steam Deck when it arrives. Let's see if I get it by Friday

 

[Noxia]

Correct I'm not and when I did try it I used the other control scheme

 

[Raiden85]

Retro games, fighting games, games that I can't talk about on this forum.

Same, retro games look amazing on this screen

 

[stooeh]

Ok... I am way more than impressed with this OLED.

So my boy wants one now... Im thinking of getting one of the LCD ones off eBay. Is it possible for him to use my steam library with him loggin into another account.

Any issues doing this, I've seen it mentioned in steam but wondered if anyone had tried it.

There's family sharing on steam but it does have some limitations. Like only one person being able to use the whole library at a time. Presumably to stop abuse but it is a bit naff. You can go offline on the main account and then the guest can play though as a sort of workaround.

 

[Minstadave]

Retro games, fighting games, games that I can't talk about on this forum.

Leisure Suit Larry

 

[teaston]

Leisure Suit Larry

Bloody hell, that takes me back!

 

[Rob_B]

Dave the Diver is brilliant

How does it handle the multiple different game types within the same game? If I don't actually care about restaurant management can I skip/speed up that bit?

 

[BKUK]

Watched some reviews looks like a nice piece of kit so just pulled the trigger on an OLED. Be nice to play some games chilled out rather than sitting at a PC all antisocial