Steam Deck

[beebee73]

What do you all think? Anyone getting it?

I'm a little disappointed that multiplayer games with Easy Anti Cheat won't work with it as wanted to get it to play games with my nephew when we were at his house.

What all can be add d to it? Alderon Games launcher to play Path of Titans?

[rawWwRrr]

EAC is a struggle only because it is currently not Linux friendly which SteamOS 3.0 is going to be based off of. Once the Deck is out and people have had enough time with it, you'll find tutorials about installing Windows on it which EAC won't be an issue.

[Crazy Tiger]

In september/october the news came out that Linux support was going to be added to Easy Anti Cheat. So why exactly wouldn't games that use it work on the Steam Deck?

[rawWwRrr]

I forgot about the Linux support announcement.

[Haruspex]

I have reserved the 512GB version.

This will be the first "console" I will have purchased where I already have a library of hundreds of games to play on it.

[RamiroRa]

I think it's cool that Valve is evolving the way of using Steam. With that being said, I don't know if this will work. Selling hardware requires heavy promotion and advertising, and Valve is known by their minimalistic ways. They can convince the majority of Steam users, but they would need to persuade also non Steam users that their console it's worth. Also support, which is vital for the life span of the hardware.

[Electric Cupcake]

A true handheld computer that isn't locked-down Android/ChromeOS trash or low-spec PineTab would be a dream come true.

I've played around with Ubuntu builds on a Surface Go pad, and used a Raspberry Pi touchscreen, and I've had a Dragonbox Pyra preordered for a couple years, but being pretty far down on the preorders queue, and covid delays, the Steam Deck will probably come before it does.

Now, I can't decide if I should name my Steam Deck Nicole, in honor of a hot Freedom Fighter HoloLynx, or Ami, in honor of Sailor Mercury and her "Protect the innolent" Computer.

[my new friend]

Originally posted by beebee73:

I'm a little disappointed that multiplayer games with Easy Anti Cheat won't work with it as wanted to get it to play games with my nephew when we were at his house.

http://dev.epicgames.com/en-US/news/epic-online-services-launches-anti-cheat-support-for-linux-mac-and-steam-deck
I did reserve one to play God of War and other similar titles on it.

[beebee73]

Thanks maybe will see if can still reserve one then.

Wonder how many games it can hold.

[Cathulhu]

As much as the internal storage and additional MicroSD card can hold.

[Electric Cupcake]

Originally posted by beebee73:

Thanks maybe will see if can still reserve one then.

Wonder how many games it can hold.

It's supposedly compatible with Windows, but the bloat will eat up a lot more space and system resources than the default Arch build, so don't try it.

[beebee73]

Originally posted by DieDisneyDie:

Originally posted by beebee73:

Thanks maybe will see if can still reserve one then.

Wonder how many games it can hold.

It's supposedly compatible with Windows, but the bloat will eat up a lot more space and system resources than the default Arch build, so don't try it.

Don't try what? I'm confused...

I know can get micro SD...not sure how much space games I own take up.

[Cathulhu]

Installing Windows, which was clearly implied.

How much space a game needs can be checked with either the installed games, or simply checking the store page.

[crunchyfrog]

Looks neat, but of zero use to me.

I'm disabled and hosuebound so portability is useless. I simply use laptops. I can't sit at desktops so it's much easier for me to have a laptop sat at the side of my bed, along with my many other consoles.

Then if I do move around the house, the laptop is easily movable.

Mind you, I never take much interest in "new" gadgets (bny which I mean pushing forward in tech) simply because the early adopters ALWAYS play the victim of being the testers.

They will get in first, but they will experienced perhaps the worst version. The first version that comes out that has foibles and problems that couldn't be ironed out or found out in testing, including long term reliability issues.

SO Iif I were in the market, I'd be more content to wait a couple of years, see if the project has legs, and see what improvements have been made.

I typically do this with consoles and everything wthin reason.

[ReBoot]

I am very much excited about this and reserved myself one. I'm totes into mobile gaming, and having my Steam games on the go certainly is an advantage over having my Switch games on the go.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by ReBoot:

I am very much excited about this and reserved myself one. I'm totes into mobile gaming, and having my Steam games on the go certainly is an advantage over having my Switch games on the go.

To be perfectly frank, I have yet to get a Switch (for the same reasons really). But if I were in the market, it would seem more appealing to me to have the Steam Deck because the indie games that excel on prtoable would be FAR more compellnig to me.