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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My Steam Deck arrived today, time to tinker! And thanks @[email protected] for fronting the hosting costs of this instance.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

🫑
Jealous on the steam deck front. What are you going to play on it?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For now I need to work through my backlog. It's not huge because I don't watch steam sales unless a mate tells me about a particular game, but it's still sizeable. Need to get through the Crash Bandicoot and Spyro trilogy remasters. Hoping to mess around with Untitled Goose Game with the missus too if it tickles her fancy. God I can't get used to the console controls for Terraria though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

These look so cool!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nice! I have a windows based handheld Ayaneo 2 but I ended up installing Chimera OS which is basically a linux clone of SteamOS and it's way better without worrying about windows breaking things etc... So far the game compatibility is great as it uses Proton like the steam deck. Handheld gaming is fantastic as you can sit on the couch like using a switch but then dock it to your tv etc... and it's like a console.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sorry I'm not familiar with Chimera OS at all. Do you find that there's a lot of little papercut issues or does it work smoothly?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It worked well for me as long as the game was Linux/proton compatible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let us know how it goes. I’m super keen but probably gonna wait till gen 2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought Hades since it's on sale right now and it runs really well. I'm even getting 60 FPS at 4k (external monitor) unless the screen gets super busy, but personally I don't notice the frames drop down to 45 or whatever except for the number itself changing. What a fantastic game on a fantastic device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooooh! Interesting! Hades isn’t super intensive is it though?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No not at all, and for that I'm grateful!