I dont really expect Valve to bring a Deck 2 before 2026/27 and for the overall market I believe this to be a good thing. Maybe the following chip generation will be the one.

But DAMN, WOULD I BUY IT INSTANTLY!!! xD

I love my Deck to death and for me personally it feels like the right time for an upgrade now. Most of the competitors seem nice and they all have their allure, but the Deck is still by far the best package overall... so far I can´t see myself settling for anything else but a true Steam Deck 2.
Still, a second USB-C port would´ve been nice, Valve :tongue:

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Quoting: RavenWingsI´d love to have a look. Is there any way to get an invite, or does Valve only pick users by some criteria for now?

Deadlock steam forums are full of threads by people handing out free invites.

Got one this way, thanks for the tip! ^^

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I´d love to have a look. Is there any way to get an invite, or does Valve only pick users by some criteria for now?

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Quoting: HighballIf they let me filter for reviews by Steam Deck players, this will be really helpful.

That would be HIGHLY appreciated! Most of the times, usually already have a good understanding of what a game is about and if I´d like it, so I usually only look through the reviews to find out how well it runs on the Deck.

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Quoting: QYMEI'm sorry but i see only 2 back buttons here. Or aam i missing something ?

2 backbuttons, but there are also 2 buttons below the D-pad & right stick.

I really just want valve to finally relase the deck´s button layout as a stand-alone controller. Wonder whats taking them so long.

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Thanks for the feedback, guys! From what I´m reading in your comments, it seems to be playable and enjoyable for the most part on the Steam Deck. If I have to switch to Desktop for some parts of the game (base building), thats fine for me as long as I can play most of it on the Deck.

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Quoting: ZlopezThanks for the tip, I didn't know there is a solution for the crackling sound, it's annoying one.

Only been using it for about a week now, so I can´t tell anything for sure, but it seems to work for a lot of people. You have to turn on the "Pause game before suspend"-option in the plugins settings.

Another nice side effect: The game actually stops right that second when the deck starts playing its suspend-animation. It always bugged me, that the games kept playing for a few seconds in the background until the deck finally shut down.

I´d honestly expect a third-party solution like that to be buggy as hell, but so far it all works fine for me.

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I´d love to get into X again, but I don´t think I´ll ever find the time other then maybe on the Deck. Anybody tried playing it there for a longer periode of time?

I´ve sank countless hours into the first two games and remember using pretty much my whole keyboard worth of hotkeys, button-combos and macro-keys to manage my trading-empire. I´m sure they´ve modernised and simplified a lot of it, but I still can´t imagine its possible to boil it down to anything handheld-friendly.

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Would be great if that fixed memory leak is the "big one" that still plagues a lot of open world games. For me this and the occasionaly crackling sound after wakeup are the two major unsolved issues leftover from when the Steam Deck was first released.

At least for the crackling sound there seems to be a solution using decky loaders "pause game"-plugin. I just recently heard about this and so far it seems to work fine.

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Price is a bit high for my taste with 69€ for the whole set. Yes, its a lot of content, but concidering its age I was hoping for something 40-ish. But I´m also a "vote with my wallet"-kind of guy and right now my wallet wants to scream "YES! FINALLY! DAMMIT! TAKE WHATEVER YOU WANT!!"

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