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.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

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.

Is that a comment about the game or just a general comment for Olyy?

 

[TommiG88]

Just purchased Old World as I've heard such bad things about Civ 7.

Let me know if anyone buys the new rugby game. I suspect it will be shocking

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Been doing some manor lords. Noticeably early access but quite a nice, chill city builder. Also been doing a bit of timberborn, looking forward to the content in the new update

 

[TommiG88]

Been doing some manor lords. Noticeably early access but quite a nice, chill city builder. Also been doing a bit of timberborn, looking forward to the content in the new update

Oh I was tempted by manor lords.

I went for the latest age of empires recently but bored me quite quickly

 

[saulan]

Was a big fan of Manor Lords. I played one full map through and built out two big villages and then haven't played since. Will give it another go after early access ends, but even in its early state it's the best medieval city builder I've come across

Been doing some manor lords. Noticeably early access but quite a nice, chill city builder. Also been doing a bit of timberborn, looking forward to the content in the new update

Let me know if anyone buys the new rugby game. I suspect it will be shocking

Don't touch it for another six months. It has really good presentation and intentions, but the actual in match gameplay and AI is nowhere near ready for release. It's also quite unstable. Haven't been able to finish a match without it crashing.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Oh I was tempted by manor lords.

I went for the latest age of empires recently but bored me quite quickly

There's still a lot of work to be done in things like features, UI and bugs (eg the storehouses won't collect goods directly from farms and farms produce a LOT of goods, kinda major oversight and been an issue for a long time apparently).