Steam Deck

OK, couple of reloads later and managed to get in without being stopped by captcha in EGS. Might have been as I tried in Heroic and captcha worked there so my IP address was whitelisted?

www.windowscentral.com/gaming/pc-gaming/sabrents-upcoming-m2-2230-ssd-is-made-for-steam-deck

January 20th and already on Amazon US to preorder.

Once I get my hands on one of these my steam deck is going full windows, about 80% of my time on the deck is with the windows sd card booted so makes sense. Will try a steamos sd card.

What are people's thoughts on the Deck after having it for several months now?

Gotta say, I absolutely love it. Caught myself this morning as I was browsing Steam Store in bed at the ludicrous breadth of choice and just how well they've nailed it first time. Take for granted now that I can just switch from playing Sekiro to Roadwarden in an instant.

It is effectively an emulation station for me, and I dearly love it for that.

I emulated for a bit but it’s been 90% Steam games for me. I think I completed Spidey on it.

Yeah I love mine. Finished Titanfall 2 on it, and hammered plenty of indie games so far.

Project Zomboid has been on my wishlist for eternity and now because it's like ten quid rather than 5 I'm too salty to buy it lol

I've only played on the deck, but its pretty good one you get the hang of it, you may want to change to one of the community controller schemes.

It can be a bit menu based for some things, but the game is great fun if you ever think about what you would do in an apocalypse.

Be prepared to die a lot, and don't get too attached to your character, but luckily the most fun is when you start a new character and try to survive the early game.

VS continues its domination on steam deck, even though I play it exclusively on android now myself.

Spent a lot of time over the holidays with the family playing the Deck on the sofa with the telly on rather than sitting at the big PC. Been generally an excellent experience, and it's all due to that combination of good-enough specs (which can pull out some surprising levels of performance even on high end games) and the extra control options. Adding gyro aiming to Borderlands 3 made it feel really great to play and if I'd chosen to limit it to 40fps I think it would have been very consistent.

My main PC has shit itself over Christmas so Ive been 'forced' to play this and I love it. Lots of diverse games I would never normally play are getting time like Thronebreaker and Far Lone Sails.

Loving Project Zomboid after learning the controls but is it ever bleak and depressing.

Rimworld on a handheld! with mods!! Amazing scenes.

I've got the EPIC games library up and running on it this morning so I can play some of the free stuff they have given away over the years. Was much easier than I expected.

Quality purchase.

Would be good to hear what it is like using Win11 on it now. Early impressions were very meh and it sounded not worth it from both UI navigation and performance. If it is better now though and I could get Game Pass going then the Deck would be even more perfect.

Been meaning to do this. Got links to any guides you followed?

Thanks Tomo. I nabbed the first code (although I thought each key was the whole collection until just looking in my library. Hope the one I got wasn't already one I already picked up some time ago!)

In regards to accessing the Epic store, you just need to install the Heroic Launcher. You can do this through the desktop straightforwardly and I don't recall anything particularly tricky about it.

Once installed, you just link to you account for Epic (and also GoG if you want). Add the launcher to your Steam library and away you go.

Quick glance and seems there might be some more complicated ways of doing it, which will likely let you add individual games to Steam, but can't say I've had issues doing it the simple way:

bigtechquestion.com/2022/07/13/gaming/install-epic-games-launcher-on-steam-deck/