I opened it, but will launch it a bit later. What should I do/know ? I got a protetctive glass from Jseaux too.
I love that they put Portal refences on the box. It made me so happy when I got mine. Be sure to play through Desk Job! It’s free and let’s you try out a bunch of the control schemes. And also it has some Portal-style writing
… I was too excited to look at the box.
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Mmm hot plastic
I miss the smell :(
gotta sniff your Steam Deck’s farts at least once
Snag yourself a battery pack for traveling. I got a baesus 65w one off Amazon for $38 when it went on sale.
Most important thing? Have fun. Don’t get wrapped up in fps limits and tweaking unless your game isn’t running to satisfaction. There’s a lot you can adjust and tinker with but it’s easy to get lost in that.
Don’t get wrapped up in fps limits
Or do, depends on what you consider fun ;)
Also, beware the rabbit hole of custom bindings.
But, also, how did I go an entire year without finding out about radial pop-up touch menus on the touchpads? HFS, I’ll never get to play a game again for all the time I could spend messing with those.
Install decky loader on it, and look at the plug-in store to see if you want to download something. I really like the Bluetooth plugin for connecting my wireless headphones quickly
I was going to write the same! it’s a no brainer
One of the best clubs to be in. I absolutely love my Deck & I hope it brings you the equivalent joy.
GL/HF
Playing games? ^^
Maybe… ;)
Enjoy!
Fill it with emulators and roms baybaaaaay
Congrats! If you’re someone like me who owns a decent PC but no longer enjoys sitting in front of one, definitely get yourself a dock so you can hook it up to your TV. They cost around $30 and is a great investment. Just remember to take the casing off (if you use one) if you’re planning to have your games running at anything between 1080p to 4K, and use FSR to reduce the load. I find the Deck heats up a fair bit even in winter.
Owning a Steam Deck really got me back into gaming. I carry it to work to play during breaks and hook it back up to my TV when I get home.
This was my motivation for getting one. I work from home, and my work laptop and my gaming PC share a desk, thanks to a pair of KVM switches. Sometimes I don’t feel like spending my evenings in the same chair I spent the day in, and enjoy flopping down on the couch with the Deck in handheld mode.
Best is going outside and touching grass and playing games with the Deck.
Games while lazing in a hammock is unbeatable 👌
How’s the brightness when it’s sunny outside?
Pretty good as long as I stay in the shade, but there is glare which is when an antiglare screen as others have mentioned comes in handy. I don’t have that screen though but there’s matte screens that can be tried out.
I’ve been sondering getting one but have eye issues. Their most expensive model has an antiglare screen and that would be best in the sun
And! Enable wlan and get an app on your phone to power on the decent computer with. Get game streaming working. And now you play the demanding titles on the Deck through your computer in handheld with good graphics and enormous battery life. Also get something like parsec to be able to log on and power off the computer. Never need to sit Infront of it ever again? That’s my life :)
You definitely would have figured this out eventually, but the back buttons are SUPER handy and you can remap any games controls on the fly! I personally hate pushing the thumb sticks down as a button, so I almost always remap those to the back buttons.
Also you can adjust the graphics settings on the fly (three dots button on right) and then move up to the battery menu to see their impact on real time.
Speaking of the battery I read somewhere I should let it drain fully for reset it, do you know more about this ?
Under no circumatances should you do that to a Lithium battery. That’s a relic from NiMH battery era and was done for specific reasons you can find online.
Fully draining your Lithium battery will shorten its lifespan. Many new devices have a way to even limit the max charge and keep the battery in the optimal 60-80% range.
That’s what I read then : https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/x7a2dd/followed_the_guides_on_how_to_recalibrate_the/
I can’t say that this wouldn’t help in some extreme buggy scenarios where the battery mgmt is not able to report / read the current actual battery status, but it would be the last thing I would try and do to resolve such issues.
EDIT: reading through the comments in the thread you linked, even OP recognizes that it did pretty much nothing but corrected a visual bug on the % of battery available.
Was thinking about joining the club but then realized I missed the summer sale by about a day 🙃
Edited:typo
For what it’s worth, both my girlfriend and I got ours second-hand on Swappa.
ngl I forgot that Swappa was a thing. THANKS!
oh I thought you bought a portal gun
Next Steam sale, I will
I use mine for steam link so I can loung around the house while grinding my arcanist.
I will test this.
the battery live is like 4 or 5 hours while streaming. you also don’t have the fans blasting.
You’re gonna hate the dpad
sell it while it’s still new and keep using your pc
