That sure is a hefty price! Then again, 8W is pretty impressive battery use and I do have an 8-hour boat trip coming up shortly...

EDIT: I succumbed. "Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch Remastered" being on sale as well (also known to work well on the Deck) made this a nice pretend-bundle.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: Cybolic

Quoting: Liam DaweSteam Deck is also now an option under "Main gaming machine", since I think including it directly there will be useful.

So, should we select this if the rest of the information is about our Steam Deck or if we're mostly using the Steam Deck, not the PC that the rest of the information describes?

You enter in, as always, whatever your main gaming unit is. Nothing has changed on that, just now you can very specifically state in that one question exactly as Steam Deck.

Gotcha :) May I request a new field then, similar to the VR one, where we can select if we use any handheld Linux machine apart from our main PC?

I'm thinking something like this:

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Quoting: Liam DaweSteam Deck is also now an option under "Main gaming machine", since I think including it directly there will be useful.

So, should we select this if the rest of the information is about our Steam Deck or if we're mostly using the Steam Deck, not the PC that the rest of the information describes?

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Quoting: CybolicFor those interested, it works very well on the Steam Deck at a locked 40FPS with SSR turned off (it's very distracting on anyway).

You must have a different Deck then, for me the game is near unplayable with the framerate going anywhere between 20 and 40 (SSR turned off, reflections off, textures medium, glitch effect turned off)

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Okay, you're very right. It was a locked 40FPS whenever I was looking at the counter, but paying more attention to it now in more intense scenes, I can see that it indeed drops down to 25 at times. 25FPS drops are rare on mine though, but drops to 31-32FPS are frequent.

Here's a shot from my Deck at roughly the same spot. I think I have textures on low and glitch on, but otherwise same settings as you. EDIT: I should note that I'm using the beta branch of SteamOS with a screen refresh rate of 40.

!https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1829036976670428022/678C04A23B6A136C79B12B5AC812DBF1C6C70DE2/?imw=5000&imh=5000&ima=fit&impolicy=Letterbox&imcolor=%23000000&letterbox=false [External Link]

Quoting: iorekbyrnison[...] if someone wants a truly good Wipeout-style racer that runs on linux already, check out BallisticNG, a completely faithful PSX Wipeout love letter. [...]

Seconded. BallisticNG is amazing, to the point where it's practically my favourite WipEout game, despite being a separate IP.

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For those interested, it works very well on the Steam Deck at a locked 40FPS with SSR turned off (it's very distracting on anyway). EDIT: Not quite locked at all, see below.

I'm not sold on the game itself though, the turning is weird and hitting the side of the track sends you bouncing to the other side and with about 3-4 hits to the wall being enough to crash your vehicle it's quite easy to quickly end up in a sort of wall-stun-lock.

I want to like it though, so if anyone has any tips... ;)

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Quoting: elmapulloved the music on the trailer, couldnt figure out the lang

Seeing as it's written and performed by Laura Shigihara [External Link], I'd venture a guess and say it's Japanese. I don't speak Japanese though, so I could be wrong.

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Worth noting is that on Steam Deck, as well as on the Switch, it uses a "handheld" UI so there shouldn't be any eye strain, something that worried me a bit when initially watching the trailer.

EDIT: Announcement here [External Link].

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Quoting: Ehvis[...] That made me start playing The Coma, which is a perfect fit for the deck even though it is still untested.

Oooh, great! Thanks for the suggestion! It's been in my library for a while, but this is a great nudge to try it out now that I'm looking for games that play well on the Steam Deck (it finally came in the mail this week).

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There's been times recently it felt like I woke up in a different world, when sites like PC Gamer told people to stick with SteamOS and not Windows and even LinusTT thought SteamOS did better overall.

The biggest shock for me has been seeing the comments sections go from 3 to 4 people mentioning Linux and being booed out of the room by Windows users, to the exact opposite happening. This almost overnight change in perception of Linux, from being that weird choice to being the obvious one for Steam Deck and even recommended for games like Elden Ring by casual Windows gamers, has been absolutely mindblowing for me.

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Thanks for writing this. It was annoying me as well, that outlets weren't quite getting what the deal was; now we can all just point them at this article :)

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