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Just had a big promotion confirmed so treated myself to a 256 order. Was pleasantly surprised to see it estimated as a Q4 shipment, if I have this thing by Christmas I'll be very happy.
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Super No Vacancy posted:I got all the vampire survivors unlocks I guess I’m done with it :/ I've said this at least half a dozen times this year
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Sep 8, 2022 07:07
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Is streaming only available on the ultimate tier of gamepass? I had it briefly due to a £1 trial but dropped back to PC only
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Sep 14, 2022 04:27
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Party Boat posted:Just had a big promotion confirmed so treated myself to a 256 order. Was pleasantly surprised to see it estimated as a Q4 shipment, if I have this thing by Christmas I'll be very happy. I reserved at the start of the month this assuming that I'd be ordering in November at the earliest (after my first improved pay packet) but at the rate the queues are apparently moving I might be paying for this sometime in early October lol
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Sep 15, 2022 18:31
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We also might only be a month or so away from the percentages not being relevant. Recent order drops have been twice-weekly and dealt with 20-30 days worth of orders, so Valve are really chewing through the backlog. Although I guess orders could outstrip production again as we get closer to Christmas.
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Sep 16, 2022 06:13
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The one that came with Orange Box was Peggle Extreme and it's free on Steam
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Sep 16, 2022 20:33
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Waltzing Along posted:I'm at 93% after 8 days. I suspect I'll be able to order next week. 64gb. Not bad. Also at 93% after ordering at the start of the month. Guessing I'll be able to purchase by the end of next week which is way sooner than I expected.
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Sep 22, 2022 21:15
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Got the email for a 256GB today after ordering on 3 September, the order backlog must be almost nonexistent now
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Sep 26, 2022 19:06
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Mescal posted:what's this percentage? https://getmydeck.ingenhaag.dev/ Reddit people have been tracking who gets invited to order when to estimate where Valve is in the order queue (or queues given there's different ones for each model and region)
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Sep 26, 2022 22:02
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Yeah I've been Steam-first but happy to buy on other storefronts in cases of exclusivity / discounts and I feel like I might end up double dipping on some stuff. What's my best option for gamepass on a 256GB deck? I saw someone on reddit say that they reserved 64GB of the internal storage for a Windows install and then had a NTFS formatted SD card for the games. I know streaming is a simpler approach but I'd prefer not to up my subscription to ultimate if I can avoid it
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Sep 27, 2022 09:03
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Sleng Teng posted:If that thing isn't complete voodoo (I haven't bothered to read the methodology yet) it does seem like they've ramped up quite a bit very recently. The percentage is just (age of most recent order fulfilled in your queue) / (age of your order). It is reliant on people reporting accurately but the number of people submitting data means when errors have popped up they've been pretty obvious.
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Sep 27, 2022 22:39
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I can second the Shield TV as a great Plex device but the cost (especially for the pro version, which is the only one most will recommend as the entry level version is pretty limited) is quite high if you'll just use it as a media box. I also use mine for Moonlight streaming although I guess the deck might take up that role once it gets here, but I do like being able to play games on the big TV on the rare occasions that I have exclusive use of it. Then again this is the thread where we spend £350+ to have another way to ignore our Steam backlog so our perception of cost for tech toys is probably a bit skewed. Party Boat fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Sep 28, 2022 |
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Sep 28, 2022 08:02
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Atomizer posted:By "using it as a media box" do you mean just as a media player, or as a Plex server? Because as the former, sure, the Shield Pro might be a little expensive even if it's the most full-featured device of its type. As a Plex server, however, which is what I thought everyone was talking about, I think it's more than worth it considering you'd probably spend at least as much on a full PC otherwise to be a server. That's a good point, I just meant as a client.
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Sep 28, 2022 09:48
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My local hermes/ evri delivery person considers on my front step in view of the street to be a "safe place" so delivery day will be fun for me lol
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Sep 28, 2022 12:51
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evri have my deck oh no
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Sep 29, 2022 19:04
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Got my deck, sniffed that vent
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Sep 30, 2022 11:16
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FAT32 can't handle files over 4GB though which might be an issue if you're looking to play more recent games
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Oct 2, 2022 21:47
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Detective No. 27 posted:Speaking of PS2, does the Steam Deck have analog face buttons? Been wondering how I'm gonna emulate MGS3 on this thing. It doesn't, but you could map the CQC / shoot buttons to the triggers for analog control over them.
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Oct 3, 2022 23:51
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Pham Nuwen posted:When I start the Emudeck rom manager, it stops Steam automatically. This is so it can edit your Steam library neatly, it's slightly annoying but you're only in it for a few seconds at a time
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Kin posted:Mine moved into the "given to shipping company" stage and I clicked on the tracker link. It seems like a total lottery regarding shipping times. I got my order email on 26 September, notified that it was ready to ship on the 28th, and it was in my hands (or rather dumped on my doorstep by my local evri courier) on the 30th
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:So I download Emudeck, overall a pretty easy experience. Now I'm at one of the hard parts to understand, getting ROMs and putting them on the deck. I get that the guides online can't say where to get ROMs, so it makes sense that this part his hazy. But still, for someone like me it's really hard to figure out the "good" places to get this stuff. Especially for later consoles, I'm worried I'll bump into some weird site that's liable to give me a virus instead of whatever game. sent you a PM 
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It depends what I'm playing. If it's indies like Into the Breach or Nuclear Throne (both of which I've picked up again since getting it) then yeah it's whisper quiet. On the other hand if I start emulating stuff on Valve-approved program Yuzu then it starts pumping out that good vent smell fast and loud
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PantsBandit posted:Anyone been messing with pcsx2 settings? Simpsons Hit and Run ran great but ssx3 and mgs3 are struggling big time. MGS3 has some weird effects in cutscenes that produce a blur effect by rendering the same frame multiple times or something and it's really demanding when emulated. It might actually be easier to emulate the MGS HD collection on PS3/360.
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Oct 9, 2022 20:29
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MGS2/3 are some of the toughest PS2 games to emulate. As well as the demanding graphics they use the PS2's pressure sensitive face buttons for shooting and CQC. Fortunately you have a couple of other options. There's a mod for the ancient PC release of MGS2 called V's Fix that makes it work on modern hardware, but I don't know how well that runs on Deck. MGS2/3/ Peace Walker got released as an HD Collection on PS3 / 360, with the 360 version having workarounds for the lack of pressure sensitive buttons. Again, I don't know how well this emulated version runs on Deck but that might be a better option. When I last checked, MGS4 required a specialised fork of RPCS3 to run at all and you needed a monster PC for it to run decently, so this might be what stops you from doing a full playthrough.
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Coolness Averted posted:The GC version of twin snakes, the 3DS version of 3. This is probably a sign of me being increasingly old and irrelevant but MGS1 and Twin Snakes are different enough that I'd recommend them as separate experiences, especially for someone going through the series for the first time.
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Primehack is absolutely fantastic on the Deck. I mapped jump / missiles and some other face button functions to the back paddles so I could more easily access them in combat and it works so well.
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When I installed the gyro stuff for Cemu I had to reboot my deck before it was recognised in game
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So, quick trip report - MGS2 PC with V's Fix seems to be a pain to get running on the Deck. This reddit poster claims to have got it working but it sounds like a level of tinkering beyond what I'm prepared to engage in: https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/whhdfo/metal_gear_solid_2_vs_fix/ijoo4i9?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3
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Atomizer posted:What was the problem with the demo? Brutal Legend's demo was the initial section of the game which was just God of War-esque hack and slash action. The RTS elements that make up the majority of the game weren't present at all, so some people who bought on the strength of the demo felt they'd been bait and switched.
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Shaman Tank Spec posted:There was some talk earlier about mushy touch pads, right? I noticed today that my left pad has a very nice and crisp click, whereas the right touchpad just ... presses down. It still registers as a click, but the action is mushy as gently caress compared to the left touch pad. Check your haptics settings. On my unit at least the touchpads don't click in, they just softly depress slightly. The "click" is just haptic feedback - try pressing them with the Deck turned off.
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Chas McGill posted:Trying out the dock and the latency with the wireless xbox controller seems really bad. Playing anything reactions/precise control is very difficult with it. Anyone else notice this? My 8bitdo pro seems marginally better. I've always found the Xbox One controller (assuming that's what you mean) to have really inconsistent bluetooth performance. It works perfectly connected to my Shield TV but trying to connect over bluetooth to my PC produced delays and dropped inputs. I had to get the official adapter (which connects using some proprietary method) for it to be usable on my PC.
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Yeah I feel like if your needs are specialised enough that Emudeck wouldn't meet them, you'd know. I've tinkered with emulation for years and it's amazing how much of the fiddly setup stuff can be automated when you have a standardised piece of hardware.
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There was also a big update about a year ago that people theorised was optimising the game for Steam Deck as it included better UI scaling options.
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Skrill.exe posted:Can Cemu play the Wii U games that are just a bunch of poo poo in folders? I have some WUXs that work fine but the rest are in that folder format and the Steam Rom Manager doesn't seem to see them. You need to go into desktop mode and launch Cemu from Steam there. Then go to File > Install and navigate to meta.xml in the Meta folder for the relevant game. That will add it to Cemu and allow Steam Rom Manager to see it.
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Trying out some PS2 emulation and realised that as my games are the UK versions they run at 50fps by default. Could this be an advantage with more demanding titles as the Deck needs 10 less fps to be running at "full speed"?
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Nice! PAL supremacy!
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Spent about an hour loving around with crash mode in Burnout 3 (emulated perfectly on PCSX2) this afternoon. Here's hoping that Wreckreation has something similar because I'd love a modern version of it.
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njsykora posted:Probably more than you're willing to deal with. So in your case I'd say get the 256 so you have a nice big main drive then a big SD card as backup. I am in the same boat as the op (okay with messing with stuff but also happy to pay money to not have to) and got a 256GB deck with a good 512GB SD card and have not regretted it so far
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Someone please explain to me why these shaders that keep getting downloaded don't just overwrite the previous ones or something? (massively simplified and probably wrong explanation ahead) So in a normal PC game the shader is the game telling your GPU "look like this!" And because the game doesn't know your hardware setup your PC records how to do it the first time the game asks so that it can do it faster in future. However, this can cause a momentary stutter in some games. Consoles don't have to worry about this because the hardware configuration is known, so instead of "look like this" the game code can just say "do this". The Steam Deck having a set hardware configuration allowed Valve to square this circle: as users cache shaders, that information is shared with all other Steam Deck users, who download the cached shaders when they're not playing, so that your hardware can build a complete set of shaders for your game. The problem with this is that you're constantly downloading new shaders as the community's possibility space expands, and that includes many shader combinations that you probably wouldn't run across in a normal playthrough.
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Ok, thank you for this! In theory, that's right - if no one discovers a new shader combination then you shouldn't need to download anything new. For the second question I have no idea. It feels like there are probably some inefficiencies in how Valve are dealing with shader storage but I don't know if deleting / redownloading them will actually resolve this or if you'll just get the same parcel of shaders back again.
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