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- Comment on Microsoft Gaming CEO: “I think we should have a handheld, too” 2 weeks ago:
And their gamepads for Xbox were pretty good too. Past tense, because those of the Xbox Series X suck (including the “Elite”).
- Comment on Are you using GOG games on your Steam Deck? 5 weeks ago:
and adding it to Game Mode
Wait, waaaaaat? Lutris can do that? Okay, time to download it on my Steam Deck, like, right now. (Okay, not actually right now, I am at work, but today in the evening.)
- Comment on Looking forward to this one on Steam Deck since it'll support support Linux out of the box! 1 month ago:
Just to add this: Star Control 2 is not only free (as in free beer), it is free (as in free speech). The open source project is hosted on SourceForge (yes, that still exists), and has a website that is worth checking out: sc2.sf.net
- Comment on Best deck games for a flight? (as in...possibly running on batteries) 2 months ago:
Anything 2D… Or emulators for old (2D) consoles, or DosBOX…
- Comment on Old School Rally plans full support for Steam Deck - got me feeling nostalgic 2 months ago:
I already asked over at the GoL forums, but I think it’s worth repeating: Does anyone know where one might find a legal download of this game? mobygames.com/…/rally-championship-international-…
It seems GoG does not have it, and I would really like to play it again - for nostalgia reasons.
- Comment on Steam Deck vs that Asus thingy 2 months ago:
You can also use Steam as a launcher. In Desktop Mode there is a menu entry “Add a Non-Steam game to my Steam Library”. For Windows games, you can just browse to their .exe file. After adding it to the library, you can open the Library Entry’s Properties page, and choose Proton as compatibility tool.
That way you get your non-Steam games in your Gaming Mode launcher.
To get nicer images, there’s a website named www.steamgriddb.com that also has a small Flatpak tool that you can use in Desktop Mode to set icons/banners for your Non-Steam games.
- Comment on Steam Deck vs that Asus thingy 2 months ago:
The Orange Pi Neo will ship with a custom version of Manjaro, and is imho the only Steam Deck competitor that is even worth considering.
- Comment on [Discussion] Some good budget wireless controller for the Deck?? 3 months ago:
Just take an Xbox 360 gamepad, and an Xbox Series gamepad in your hands and compare them. Press the buttons, move the sticks, try the triggers.
One feels like quality. The other feels like <beep> - especially the D-Pad.
- Comment on [Discussion] Some good budget wireless controller for the Deck?? 3 months ago:
Stay away from any Xbox Series X/S gamepads. They are cheaply made trash.
I bought the standard version of it for my Deck, expecting it to be somewhat comparable to my Xbox 360 gamepad (which I really like, but which does not have Bluetooth), but nope, it is so much worse…
A friend bought the Elite version, and he also agrees that those gamepads are utter garbage.
- Comment on Third party docks 3 months ago:
When I got my Steam Deck the official dock did not exist yet, so I went for a relatively cheap USB hub with power delivery and display port alt mode. I ended up buying this one, and haven’t regretted it since: dlink.com/…/dub-m420-4-in-1-usb-c-hub-with-hdmi-a…
- Comment on Recently set up dual boot.. 4 months ago:
I played without mods, and had the same issue.
I’m pretty sure it’s a bug in the native LInux version of Pathfinder: Kingmaker. The Linux build works fine, as long as you play with mouse/keyboard, but with gamepad input the kingdom management screen doesn’t work at all…
What I did in order to play it on the Deck was to tell Steam to use the Windows version via Proton instead. (Properties -> Compatibility -> Force a specific compatibility tool -> Proton (I don’t remember which version I used).
- Comment on What "Great on Deck" titles have you been enjoying? 4 months ago:
Yes, it’s pretty neat. Though I must confess that I stopped playing at some point and rather continued playing Hades instead.
- Comment on What "Great on Deck" titles have you been enjoying? 4 months ago:
Some cool SD verified games nobody mentioned yet:
- Hades
- Cult of the Lamb
- Potion Craft (really great gamepad support)
- Against the Storm (though the controls take a while to get used to)
- Griftlands
- Terraformers
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 7 months ago:
I’m talking about sftp access. The sshd is disabled by default, and the deck user doesn’t have a password set either. If you want to push your ROM files over to the deck over network, you need some way to tell systemd to start sshd - the usual one being
sudo systemctl start sshd
. - Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 7 months ago:
You also need to transfer the ROM files, what either means using a USB drive, takig out the SD Card, or using some form of network file transfer. The Steam Deck comes with sshd preinstalled, so gaining sftp access is just a matter of enabling it, but most guides to do so just mention how to do it on the command line… And for some weird reason Windows users seem to be afraid of terminal windows… (I just had to google if there even are graphical frontends for systemd… The answer is of course yes.)
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 7 months ago:
They do mention emulators, and I honestly don’t know which ones are available on Steam - and you still need to copy the ROM files somewhere…
As a Linux user I find that rather easy to do, even on Steam Deck with immutable root FS, but I can understand how a Windows user might get frustrated by it.
- Comment on The Legion Go made me thankful for my Steam Deck 7 months ago:
Familiarity.
If an alternative isn’t 100% identical to a tool one is used to, one automatically has reservations, and the slightest inconvenience immediately turns into a blocking issue. On the other hand, one is typically inclined to ignore problems with tools one is used to.
There isn’t much one can do about this, other than trying to keep an open mind, and being aware of that bias.
- Comment on Autumn Sale 7 months ago:
Turmoil is on discount. It’s very simple, but a lot of fun.
- Comment on [Question] Does the steamdeck/emudeck support wireless multiplayer? 7 months ago:
There’s another thing that might be relevant: The Game Mode UI on the Steam Deck doesn’t support creation of ad-hoc wireless networks (afaik). I think (but never tried it) that it’s possible in Desktop Mode though.
- Comment on What are your favourite casual games on the steam deck? 7 months ago:
That solely depends on the question what you consider “Casual”. I’ll go with the definition “a game that doesn’t need a significant time investment per play-session”.
- Super Hexagon: Amazing music, simple game, but challenging.
- Triptych: Tetris with soft body physics. The game is great, the sound a bit annoying. Also, I don’t think it’s available on Steam, so it needs manual installation (and input bindings).
- Cultist Simulator: While the game is very obscure, it doesn’t require a lot of time per session - you can start it, play 5 minutes, and exit it again.
- Hades: It’s a Roguelite. You die. A lot. That’s why each session can be rather short.
- Loop Hero: It’s not as “casual” as the others, as it takes some time for each run, but not too much.
- Comment on Should i wait a Sale to buy the Steam Deck?? | [Discussion] 8 months ago:
Given how bad the WIFI chip of the current Steam Deck is (it just doesn’t like some access points and has frequent connection losses with them), waiting for an updated one might be worth it.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Hmm, that’s a good question. I don’t own a DualSense gamepad, so I never thought about that question.
I do have both of them here, at work though, and comparing them side by side, I must say, that I don’t have a clear favourite. The DS4 grips feels a bit more ergonomic, but the triggers and the D-pad on the DualSense feel a bit “better” to me (don’t ask why - it’s a matter of taste).
(Also, I have no idea how well DualSense works on Steam Deck.)
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I tried both, a Microsoft Xbox Series X Wireless Controller, and a DualShock 4. I’m not happy with either, but if I had to choose, I’d go with the DualShock.
The Xbox gamepad does not have a gyro sensor, and also does not have a touchpad. Furthermore, the build quality is really bad. I also have an Xbox 360 gamepad (which doesn’t have Bluetooth, so it can’t be connected to the Deck without an expensive USB receiver), and putting the Xbox 360 and Xbox Series X gamepads side by side shows just how horrible the new gamepads are… Another issue with the Xbox Series X gamepad is that you probably need to update the firmware before you can pair it properly with the Steam Deck, what requires access to a Windows PC or an Xbox console (I couldn’t get the firmware update to work from within a VM, even though the USB forwarding worked). The main advantage of the Xbox Series X gamepad is, that it uses regular AA accumulators, so you don’t need to worry about the battery dying.
The PS4 gamepad on the other hand has a touchpad, a gyro sensor, and the build quality is pretty good. It does have other drawbacks though: Unlike the Xbox gamepad it does not use normal AA batteries, but has a built-in battery that isn’t as straightforward to replace. Also, its Bluetooth tends to severely interfere with the Steam Deck’s WLAN, up to the point that the WLAN connection just dies when using the PS4 gamepad. (I solved that by buying a wired Ethernet adapter and connecting that over USB, but that’s not always an option…)
- Comment on Probably the worst Deck 2 design I've seen 10 months ago:
Cool! It even has an unintentionally belly-operated off-button!
(Sorry, but this design looks like a UX nightmare. The Sticks feel barely reachable, the buttons on the bottom will be touched unintentionally, the shoulder pads aren’t clearly separated, the ABXY buttons are way too small, the speaker seems to be mono,… The list of shortcomings could go on forever…)
- Comment on [Discussion] What games are you playing on your deck? - August 2023 10 months ago:
With the release of Book of Hours just around the corner, I dug out Cultist Simulator again. It runs well enough on the Steam Deck, but it needs mouse input (-> touchpads), and sometimes it flickers (this seems to be related to autosaves).
Overall it works well enough on the Deck so that it’s fun to play. The flickering is annoying though.
- Comment on Necessary accessories? 11 months ago:
I wouldn’t buy any accessories other than an SD card and a “dock”. The stock cooling of the Deck is fine unless you plan to game in scorching heat: twitter.com/OnDeck/status/1549467955754217473
In my experience the back side gets a bit hot, but it’s not where you touch the device, and as long as the APU is cool enough, I wouldn’t see this as a problem.
About the “dock”: Any USB hub with Power Delivery (min 45W) and an HDMI port is fine. I’m using a D-Link one and am very happy with it.