The Official Steam Deck Thread

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TheWalrusCaesar on 10 December 2022

Just ordered one myself too lol. Excited to get it in a few weeks!

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CladInShadows on 10 December 2022

I've had mine for about 2 months now. It's made up about 90% of my gaming time since then. I got the 512GB version with an additional 512GB SD card. I've got EmuDeck going strong and Heroic Launcher for gog and Epic games. I even got world of Warcraft working on it.

The system is fucking awesome.

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Chazore on 10 December 2022

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Not gonna lie. steam deck is the first handheld device that have gotten my attention. Just the fact that you can play bunch of third parties from steam and emulate bunch of old games as well makes it in my eyes the best handheld available. The only thing keeping me from getting one is time and finding the way to make emulation work since I am not PC tech savy. I feel intimidated trying to figure out how to make emulation work.

Found this guy a week ago since YT suggested it to me, and man, this guy has info on what you can do covered.

This vid of his is 2 months old, but so far he's shown that emulating on the Deck is pretty decent all things considered, I'll def be subbing to him to get more info (he also has a guide on installing what you need to emulate and how to set it all up which is super handy):

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Chazore on 10 December 2022

CladInShadows said:

I've had mine for about 2 months now. It's made up about 90% of my gaming time since then. I got the 512GB version with an additional 512GB SD card. I've got EmuDeck going strong and Heroic Launcher for gog and Epic games. I even got world of Warcraft working on it.

The system is fucking awesome.

Ngl, as soon as I saw this working without console port, I was flabbergasted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/zg3gdk/console_wow_is_finally_here_after_leveling_to_70/

I imagine it'd be even better with the ConsolePort addon though, since you'd be able to get those keybinds matched better to the paddles and keys, instead of having to do it through the Deck's bind options.

Having WoW on the go seems pretty damn cool.

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Conina on 11 December 2022

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CladInShadows on 11 December 2022

Chazore said:

CladInShadows said:

I've had mine for about 2 months now. It's made up about 90% of my gaming time since then. I got the 512GB version with an additional 512GB SD card. I've got EmuDeck going strong and Heroic Launcher for gog and Epic games. I even got world of Warcraft working on it.

The system is fucking awesome.

Ngl, as soon as I saw this working without console port, I was flabbergasted:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/zg3gdk/console_wow_is_finally_here_after_leveling_to_70/

I imagine it'd be even better with the ConsolePort addon though, since you'd be able to get those keybinds matched better to the paddles and keys, instead of having to do it through the Deck's bind options.

Having WoW on the go seems pretty damn cool.

Yes I imagine the ConsolePort would be good. I've really only experimented with the track pads, button mapping, and radial menus and I was pretty close to getting it feeling good. Obviously a mouse and keyboard offers the right precision, but it was definitely playable and enjoyable.