u/Dunstabzugshaubitze

she was a local newsreporter before she started working at valve.

https://liquipedia.net/dota2/Kaci_Aitchison

https://web.archive.org/web/20260121210414/https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

atleast since january 21st, too lazy to go back further.

valve allready published pretty detailed tech specs

https://store.steampowered.com/sale/steammachine

i wonder if the frame would also be declared as 'game console' or if all of those are steam machines

there were community build userland drivers for the original steam controller i hope for something similar for the new one.

but valve support for such things would be great.

in that case the browser short cuts should work fine, atleast ard and zdf don't care about your os and browser, just configure the shortcuts so it launches in full screen and setup a controller profile to use it a controller as mouse and a way to bring up the virtual keyboard.

you can add various shortcuts of a browser pointing to a streaming service to your library, but depending on the service you might not be able to watch in HD.

a seperate android box would probably be the more comfortable option to access streaming services.

you can run the installer again to either redownload the latest stable or their beta version, which might fix your issue, you can also uninstall decky this way, should the issues persist.

because thats seemingly the upper bound l.

i'd expect something a bit more expensive than the quest 3, which currently costs 550€ with controllers, because i don't think valve will sell at cost, but with a slim margin.

just speculation.

only things valve employees said about prices is:

• they are targetting a lower price for the frame than the index (index was 1000$ afaik)

• the machine will be priced as a pc and not as a console (whatever that means)

• prices will be announced closer to launch.

i feel like most steam deck and steam machines discussions will have so much overlap, that it won't matter.

Steam Frame might be more specialised and a dedicated community could be helpful, but i doubt it will produce thaaat much noise and a seperate community might be pretty barren, just because VR is afterall still very niche.

tl;dr: dont see why we should split communities, if something is specific to frame/machine/deck we can specify that in a posts title.

currently trying the gamepad bindings, but i am not a fan of the auto aim that comes with, so i'll probably switch to using keyboard bindings and use the trackpad for aiming spells and a mouse region bind on the left stick for walking.

had a similar setup with the steam controller before my old laptop decided to die on me.

• Brotato

• Diablo 1 via devilutionx, i do a run through of normal difficulty atleast once a year

• tainted grail fall of avalon, don't get how this is verified, fps often dips into low 20s. game itself seems fun though

• will probably start clair obscur.

yes, i totally abandoned playing soul reaver, because i kept playing other games :D

the script makes various assumptions about the system ranging from

/home/deck is the users home dir, to kde plasma is the used desktop environment or can be launched from gamemode.

so probably not without tweaks ;)

put path of exile 2 on hold for a while, found it suprisingly playable until i've started doing the delirium and breach endgame-mechanics in high tier maps. might try to atleast defeat the citadel bosses and the boss that grants me entrance to before 0.2.0 hits, but probably not.

actually started playing the soul reaver remake, and thats still a great game, but a lemmy thread mentioned pokemon unbound which lead me to replaying that, so soul reaver might have to wait a bit longer :D

i have a 7 in 1 usb c hub from anker which is use with the deck and a hdmi monitor the deck lies flat on the table if i use the hub.

I don't know if it's more or less toxic than the dota2 games.

bring your decks into the same WLAN-network to play games that don't rely on online servers.

a possible game could be "Alien Swarm: reactive drop", a so called twin stick shooter , the top down perspective helps too keep your orientation and the stressful sequences are often telegraphed.

"towerfall ascension" is a 2d action game that can be played in coop, which is easy to pickup (but it does get difficult)

played through it on release, act 1 and act 2 were fine, occasional dips below 30fps.

act 3 had a lot off texture pop in and walls that would only appear after some seconds, but the game received performance patches after i finished it, so probably better now.

vulkan renderer, everything on low, fsr, no dynamic resolution.

i am playing a grenade throwing merc, framerate was mostly stable @ 30fps but i can see how a summoner build or some of thos crazy walking firework simulators people turn there chars into might be to much for the deck.

higher tier maps might also be tough as they contain more rare monster, with more effects, but i don't know how many people even interact with that kind of content, iam certainly far away from it playing without trading.

path of exile 2, campaign and maps up to tier 5 ran fine so far :)

also bought the soul reaver remake, but path of exile 2 ran fine so far...