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All I'm saying is Deck is a PC (Portable Console)
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Oct 25, 2022 17:09
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the PS5 has one of the worst UIs I've seen anywhere and it's still doing fine
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Oct 25, 2022 17:14
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Micro Center finally got some more SSDs in stock! Time to upgrade my deck 
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Oct 25, 2022 17:35
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What I really love about PC gaming now is Steam itself. I love that every game has its own community section, with varying levels of quality and content. You can write guides, you can think up literally any control scheme possible and share it. You can add people and assign nicknames so you'll always remember who they are. That last one is huge for me, and it drives me nuts how other online ecosystems don't do anything like this. Well I've never had a Sony console, so I'm assuming they don't do that. I love that I can arrange my games by the percentage of achievements I've gotten, or by its average score, or by time played. The whole thing (steam deck, steam itself) is so robust and filled to the gills with options, and I love it. I'll put up with some rocky, janky ways to start a given game that might only be listed as 'playable' for the overwhelming benefits you get playing something on the deck.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:38
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Tenkaris posted:Micro Center finally got some more SSDs in stock! Time to upgrade my deck Don’t forget to take out the SD card before popping off the backplate.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:43
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Finding it a little funny due to Steam Sync if I start a game on the Deck and then go to my PC to play it later, it brings the Deck graphical settings over and I have to watch my monitor weep in pain to switch to anything lower than 1080p.
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Oct 25, 2022 17:59
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I tried out Prime Hack using the Wii Trilogy and it really didn't feel very good to play. Is it just a matter of using the GameCube versions instead, or can I adjust the controls to have better aiming? I tried to up the sensitivity on the track pad, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Happy Noodle Boy posted:Don’t forget to take out the SD card before popping off the backplate. This should probably be the thread title come Black Friday where people are gonna be buying these things on sale.
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Oct 25, 2022 18:13
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:The whole thing (steam deck, steam itself) is so robust and filled to the gills with options, and I love it. Valve knows that if you don't give people options, they'll find ways to give themselves the options, especially when it comes to PC gaming. They embrace all that poo poo and make it as smooth as possible to do whatever you want. Kinda funny they sell a device that I can just bootleg any game on, including poo poo from Steam if I wanted.
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Oct 25, 2022 18:19
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sigher posted:Valve knows that if you don't give people options, they'll find ways to give themselves the options, especially when it comes to PC gaming. They embrace all that poo poo and make it as smooth as possible to do whatever you want. Kinda funny they sell a device that I can just bootleg any game on, including poo poo from Steam if I wanted. Yeah, look at the fan response to the start up videos and how Valve has responded. Someone figured out how to change it but doing some workarounds, it exploded a bit with people making new ones. So Valve made it easier to change them, upped the maximum length of them and added the option to skip them. Now people have found evidence that Valve is planning on adding official options through the Steam Points Store, like you can get other keyboard skins. I love that Valve saw people hacking new videos in and just though "cool! Let's make that easier to do!"
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Oct 25, 2022 18:30
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Momomo posted:I tried out Prime Hack using the Wii Trilogy and it really didn't feel very good to play. Is it just a matter of using the GameCube versions instead, or can I adjust the controls to have better aiming? I tried to up the sensitivity on the track pad, but it didn't seem to make a difference. I've been playing 1 and 2 on default controls and 3 with a 360 controller, it's fully configurable if you like but tbh 3 was always kind of janky to play. I just don't think 1 and 2 really benefit from standard fps controls (or the wiimote controls on the Trilogy version, honestly)
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Oct 25, 2022 18:37
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Momomo posted:I tried out Prime Hack using the Wii Trilogy and it really didn't feel very good to play. Is it just a matter of using the GameCube versions instead, or can I adjust the controls to have better aiming? I tried to up the sensitivity on the track pad, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Was it just a sensitivity issue? I'm using Prime Trilogy on my Deck and it plays just as smoothly as any other FPS on Deck.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:06
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It's not smoothness in terms of the game running, that seems to be fine. It's more that I have to move my thumb two or more times across the entire pad to aim, and the cursor feels laggy.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:30
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Ok I think I'm insane and what I have done is a little convoluted but I may have discovered the easiest exercise thing ever. Steam Deck + Dock + TV + Joycons + Treadmill = the easiest "exercise" I have ever gotten. I've been doing this for the past week and it's been wild. I have a treadmill and a TV mounted over it but I've been pretty burnt out on rewatching sitcoms while exercising, I don't like anything too intense while walking. For kicks and giggles I hooked my steam deck and dock up to the tv and I was like huh that works. I at first was using an xbox controller but that was kinda weird, you really need free hand movement and not be holding something on a treadmill. So then I was like, well this things just a linux box right? Joycons will probably connect to it. Sure as hell. They connected right up the Steam UI changed to Nintendo button prompts and I the first day walked two miles playing Persona and it felt like the time passed so fast. Then I fired up Hades, that might be a little too much action as one time I realized I was trying to walk like Zagreus and I've got pretty good support handles so I wasn't going to fall or anything but there is definitely a sweet spot on what games would work with it. Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters seem perfect as well. But yeah I've clocked like 8 hours on the treadmill this last week while playing RPGs. Hot drat dudes. Edit: Oh holy poo poo all those old SNES / PS1 RPGs would be amazing for this also. Oh boy.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:46
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My goon, anything you do to live a more active lifestyle so that you can Game for as many years as possible is never too convoluted. Figuring out that where I rest my arms on my stationary bike is exactly the width that I hold them while holding the SD was an excellent realization.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:49
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Disappointing Pie posted:Ok I think I'm insane and what I have done is a little convoluted but I may have discovered the easiest exercise thing ever. Get Crystal Project and watch your cardio skyrocket.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:50
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That's a fuckin cosmo brain idea. I can see myself doing a JRPG while jogging.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:51
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Disappointing Pie posted:Ok I think I'm insane and what I have done is a little convoluted but I may have discovered the easiest exercise thing ever. Dude I thought you hooked up your treadmill to W
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Oct 25, 2022 19:54
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Swapped out my SSD and now it's taking forever to load up the recovery image? Maybe it's the thumb drive I used, I'll look for another one to prepare. Running a random 8gb usb A stick through a hub Edit: I have a black screen with a rotated mouse cursor now Something is fucky, I'm going to redownload the image and use a new stick Tenkaris fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 19:56
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Vic posted:Dude I thought you hooked up your treadmill to W Someone clever actually did this with Ring Fit and some joycons, and modded Elden Ring so all actions required excercise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6cC-T3a-Y0&t=26s Tenkaris posted:Swapped out my SSD and now it's taking forever to load up the recovery image? Maybe it's the thumb drive I used, I'll look for another one to prepare. Running a random 8gb usb A stick through a hub Don't try and reimage from a USB stick, it takes forever if it even works (in my case it didn't even work), keep a spare microSD and use that as a recovery drive. It'll load and reinstall instantly.
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Oct 25, 2022 19:58
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Tenkaris posted:Swapped out my SSD and now it's taking forever to load up the recovery image? Maybe it's the thumb drive I used, I'll look for another one to prepare. Running a random 8gb usb A stick through a hub My re-image took awhile then I needed to reboot once or twice.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:00
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Playing the FF remasters while exercising is a tempting idea.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:01
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Whenever I've had an emulation device I usually would load up NES/SNES/Genesis/etc and play random games for like 10 minutes before quitting and never coming back (loving up and pressing load state instead of save state never helps either). After getting the deck running PS1/2 games however, I am once again worried my list of new & unplayed steam games is at risk of being pushed aside in favor of games now from the mid aughts. Getting more Wii U roms presumably will not help, either.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:11
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sigher posted:Someone clever actually did this with Ring Fit and some joycons, and modded Elden Ring so all actions required excercise: I have a microSD for the deck I am putting the redownloaded image on right now, the usb stick did boot up while I was in the other room but I'm gonna pass since you say it takes forever
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Oct 25, 2022 20:22
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sigher posted:Don't try and reimage from a USB stick, it takes forever if it even works (in my case it didn't even work), keep a spare microSD and use that as a recovery drive. It'll load and reinstall instantly. This was not my experience. I was using a USB3 flash drive and reimaged just fine for me and was plenty fast.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:26
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8-bit Miniboss posted:This was not my experience. I was using a USB3 flash drive and reimaged just fine for me and was plenty fast. Yeah I had no issues with my USB3 stick. Only took a few minutes to reimage.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:39
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My stick said USB2 in the boot loader screen, either way the SD card worked and I'm already updating
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Oct 25, 2022 20:43
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when launching a game for the first time through heroic, do you have to go to heroic's single game settings and select a wine version for each game every time? or can you set a default universally? is it doing that because i downloaded another wine version in heroic, other than the proton it had in by default? i want to add epic/gog games to steam library through the heroic launcher in deck's gaming mode. this says this feature will be in the next beta, is it in the beta or main build yet? https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/vxlndq/how_to_add_my_heroic_games_launcher_games_to_steam/ can i update heroic to the beta from within the app itself?
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Oct 25, 2022 20:45
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The Deck is the perfect extended cardio device-- particularly cycling. You can get away with it on an elliptical since the arm motions are bullshit already.
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Oct 25, 2022 20:49
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Has anyone played around with the deadzones for the sticks yet? I've been playing xenoverse 2 and it feels like I have to tilt the stick quite a bit to trigger a response. I checked the settings and they say 8000 or something but is it best to leave the deadzone at that number or is there a better level to set it at?
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Oct 25, 2022 21:43
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Kin posted:Has anyone played around with the deadzones for the sticks yet? I have! For Euro Truck Simulator 2, the deadzone was too big to make tiny tiny adjustments to the stick to stay within the lines as I'm driving, so I slashed the deadzone to like 10% of the default. That combined with setting the input curve to "Wide" instead of linear was enough to give me a nice and easy adjustment of the steering wheel by just barely pressuring the stick, while still being able to steer hard when I mean to. Squiggle fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Oct 25, 2022 |
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Oct 25, 2022 21:50
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I set mine down to ~2000 and it seems fine.
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Oct 25, 2022 21:50
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Steam Deck is definitely making me spend more on video games, curse you and your incredible service valve.
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Oct 25, 2022 22:33
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There’s a lot of sales! Too many, maybe.
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Oct 25, 2022 22:34
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Any good non-real-money poker games on Steam? Games that don't take place at the inventory, preferably.
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Oct 25, 2022 22:35
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Any good non-real-money poker games on Steam? Games that don't take place at the inventory, preferably. Do RDR2 or one of the Yakuza games count?
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Oct 25, 2022 22:58
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Momomo posted:I tried out Prime Hack using the Wii Trilogy and it really didn't feel very good to play. Is it just a matter of using the GameCube versions instead, or can I adjust the controls to have better aiming? I tried to up the sensitivity on the track pad, but it didn't seem to make a difference. Metroid Prime isn't a game that needs manual aiming due to the way the original GC controls work. All but one enemy in the game let you L2-target them. That said, I did find the mouse trackpad aiming worked really well. PrimeHack modifies the GC version the same so there's no difference there.
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Oct 26, 2022 00:38
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A while back, someone posted a link to a reddit post that broke down the best ways to play the Silent Hill games on the deck. It had instructions on how to get Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition working among other things I think. Anyone have that link by any chance?
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Oct 26, 2022 00:39
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SCheeseman posted:Not the first time I brought this up and I have zero evidence of this being in the works but I think Valve could get ballpark console UX by building a generalized game settings API that allows for developer and user submitted game profiles, eg "40hz mode Medium/High preset". A lot of work, but the payoff would be huge. Yeah I think this is probably the biggest missing piece to a "true console experience". The ability to have games installed to the Deck with a Deck-specific settings profile and sidestepping any of the poweruser-type tweaking would resolve a lot of the pitfalls people were bringing up. Working to to maximize battery life is nice, but much like the PC functionality it's not inherently necessary nor is it something that other console handhelds are providing.
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Oct 26, 2022 00:41
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:A while back, someone posted a link to a reddit post that broke down the best ways to play the Silent Hill games on the deck. It had instructions on how to get Silent Hill 2 Enhanced Edition working among other things I think. Anyone have that link by any chance? I happened to throw it on my growing list of notes to get back to someday: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/...utm_name=iossmf
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Oct 26, 2022 00:47
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Consummate Professional posted:There’s a lot of sales! Too many, maybe. I think a lot of the effort and tinkering surrounding the Deck is for emulators.
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