What games are you playing?

[saulan]

How do you find it with respect to thing like battery life etc? I have long considered getting one. Every plugged it into a bigger screen?

So I have the OLED 1TB version. If I'm playing Factorio, that thing is going to run for like 8-9 hours. If it's Cyberpunk or Marvel Rivals, it's more like 2.5 hours, which is the shortest you'll generally get. You can also limit the power usage if you want on games to try and maximize battery life at the potential cost of performance, but battery life has never really been an issue to me.

Important to note that the OLED version has a significant (40-60% I think) battery improvement on the LCD version, so wouldn't recommend that one.

For long haul flights I also bought a 10,000 MAh power bank that gets me around 2.5x charges on the SteamDeck. Which means on the 11 hour flights to SA I've never had the battery die even if I'm playing it quite consistently.

 

[saulan]

I don't have one but I am reliably informed that doing this with a Steam Deck yields fairly ugly results.

I haven't done this, but unless it's low to mid tier graphic intensity games I wouldn't recommend it. I think a big part about why the SteamDeck runs so well is that Steam realised you don't need 1k/2k resolution when the screen is small, so they went with a 1280x800 screen.

 

[saulan]

Also got Kingdom Come: Deliverance on the go - completely forgot I had it until seeing the adverts for the 2nd one. Really enjoying it so far (not very far in at all) very tough, but very much my kind of game/setting

KCD is great. Still haven't finished it because the next part of the plot isn't something I want to particularly do just yet, but got completely sucked into all the side quests and abilities, and completed the buildout of my own village within the DLC.

If you are still very early in, I highly recommend going to leant to read as early as possible.

 

[Rinkadink]

i guess that might depend on which version you get?

No, we are talking about the Steam Deck equivalent of a Switch running in docked mode on a TV or monitor. All will result in pretty poor output/performance on the large display so you'd be significantly better off with any traditional current gen console or small form factor PC.

I reckon I'm an outlier because I never got on with Kingdom Come Deliverance even though in theory it really appeals. Not sure what it was, exactly. The scale is exactly the kind of thing I was after but I guess it was bogged down by awkward RPG systems and a bit too much jank? Has been a while since I tried it so perhaps worth another revisit some day.