[Tibor]

From the future...

 

My Spring Sale Haul:

 

Free Stickers

I gots me a steamy pipe...sticker.

[IkedaTeramusa]

Honestly, I love my Steam Deck, one of the best things I ever bought.  Initially it was a poo present... get to play games for my quiet time.  Turns out... I use it a LOT.  It's not great on the go for me, but if I have a power plug I'm golden.  Depending what I'm playing basic games I can get 3-4 hrs of play time, anything more than basics I'm looking at like 2 hrs.

 

Honestly, I got that EmuDeck thing but I haven't needed it.  I have plenty of stuff keeping my attention thus far.

[born free]

If I didn't already have a steam deck or even if they improved battery life I would be super tempted to buy another 64gb model that's currently on sale. Extremely good price on an emulation powerhouse. For now I think I'll hold off and instead save those funds for a revision in the future with hopefully better screen and battery life. 

[JohnnyCage]

Nier Automata is finally on sale again. For some reason it only goes on sale once a year.

[TheKbob]

I picked up a bunch of cheap games I was waiting for the first sale on, so probably spent $60. I've also been playing a boat load of demos. More to follow...

[Miker525]

No. Microsoft has an "app" you can install (technically in beta). I use it a lot now without issue. There's also two open source alternatives. None of them require a windows install.

I have a windows partition for native gamepass game installs but I haven't booted it in a few months.

Do you have a link for these? Sound amazing would love to get gamepass going on my deck

[MysterD]

Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep - A Wonderlands One-Shot Adventure (Stand-alone) =  Free on Steam.

 

Side note - this was the Tiny Tina DLC from Borderlands 2, BTW. 

[xanchui]

Do you have a link for these? Sound amazing would love to get gamepass going on my deck

https://support.micr...02-965be6d53296 is what I used 

[62t]

I am okay waiting until 2025 for Steam Deck version 2 with better screen, battery life, and ergonomic.

[shadowysea07]

I wonder what we would post when the dude pouring out the 40 dies.

Well there's that one for me one for my homies that someone here's posted every once in a while. 

[Master Miguel]

Steam Spring Sale's up.

 

For those who already own Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - to get Season Pass #1, you can Complete The Bundle (Mythic Edition) for almost $5.

 

Do note - there is a Season Pass #2 also, which ain't a part of the Mythic Edition. So, if you want that - you'll have to collect it later.

Must've been a price mistake, I'm seeing it for $14.68 now.  I'll have to try to be quicker on the draw next time around.

[MysterD]

Must've been a price mistake, I'm seeing it for $14.68 now.  I'll have to try to be quicker on the draw next time around.

Did you see the $4.48 price after I put the deal up?

 

Oh, I should note that I also have Pathfinder: Kingmaker and all its DLC's, so I don't know if that was factored into the discount too.

 

If this was a price mistake and its dead - man, that bites for those that missed it. I pulled the trigger ASAP on it.

 

EDIT - Checked Reddit; yeah, it's dead...price mistake. Many are talking about it in the Steam Thread from yesterday over there. Bummer for those that missed out. :(

 

 

EDIT 2 - Looks like Resident Evil 4 Remake reviews are out and GameSpot, IGN, Easy Allies, and Gaming Bolt gave it a 10. Hope the PC port turned out great on this one.

[shrinerr]

oh yeah i'm playing the game that released today that everyone is excited for. of course i'm talking about wwe 2k3. wrasslin has never been better.

[nitrosmob]

oh yeah i'm playing the game that released today that everyone is excited for. of course i'm talking about wwe 2k3. wrasslin has never been better.

What else released today? Also give your impressions.

[shrinerr]

give your impressions.

did you play wwe2k22? of course not, you're a normal human being. anyways, like most yearly sports games, it plays nearly identical to last years game, with slight changes and improvements. only reason morans like me buy it is because we need the latest thing.

[MysterD]

did you play wwe2k22? of course not, you're a normal human being. anyways, like most yearly sports games, it plays nearly identical to last years game, with slight changes and improvements. only reason morans like me buy it is because we need the latest thing.

LET ME TALK TO YA! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!

 

Edit:

Though, as long as there's a yearly new unique Showcase and MyCareer Modes per year - those for me are usually the big sellers for me on the WWE games, once they get quite cheap. Plus, a do like the Roster updates when there's new, returning, or Legends in there. Also, downloading CAW's from the Internet and all of that stuff is sweet too.

[spoderman]

EDIT 2 - Looks like Resident Evil 4 Remake reviews are out and GameSpot, IGN, Easy Allies, and Gaming Bolt gave it a 10. Hope the PC port turned out great on this one.

It's missing the bonus Ada modes from the original and mercenaries mode won't be available until later (but will be in a free update). My guess is they'll add the Ada modes later on as paid dlc, but it's sad that they cut content, but not unexpected.

The demo had some issues that I hope were fixed in the full release. No DLSS support and while FSR is included, its implementation is garbage.. doesn't give much of a performance increase and makes the game look worse. I think the interlaced rendering mode both looks and performs better. When I messed around with graphic settings in the demo itd randomly make my framerate tank to 30 fps or below due to a bug lol, so I really hope that shit is fixed. Console versions aren't perfect either. I tested it on Xbox and while it ran smoothly, the aim sensitivity was all over the place. For some reason they gave the Xbox version weird controller deadzones so it's extremely difficult to aim, no matter what you set the sensitivity to. I've heard aiming is better on PS5 but not perfect

[MysterD]

 

[elessar123]

I didn't realize he voiced Sylens in the Horizon: Zero Dawn games. But now that I know, it seems so obvious.

[TheLegendofTyler]

not Lance Reddick. That sucks.

[MysterD]

I didn't realize he voiced Sylens in the Horizon: Zero Dawn games. But now that I know, it seems so obvious.

He was also in Quantum Break; severely underrated game, IMHO.

Of course, he was on HBO's The Wire too; great show.

[Miketheking]

I am okay waiting until 2025 for Steam Deck version 2 with better screen, battery life, and ergonomic.

Imagine waiting, you might die before then. Might as well live right now and get it.

[Epic_Bean]

Imagine waiting, you might die before then. Might as well live right now and get it.

Nah, then he will wait til the Steam Deck 3 because it will definitely have even better specs.

[IronChariot]

Was hoping to pick up Guardians of the Galaxy cheap since I missed that $6 deal back when Square Enix still owned it, but I guess Eidos is only making it 50% off.

[dualrec]

not Lance Reddick. That sucks.

Guardian down.... 😔

[BreadNiblets]

 

[DD83]

Nah, then he will wait til the Steam Deck 3 because it will definitely have even better specs.

There will never be a Steam Deck 3... everyone knows Valve can't count to 3.

[caldazar]

He was also in Quantum Break; severely underrated game, IMHO.

Of course, he was on HBO's The Wire too; great show.

He was also on Fringe, and I think Haven as well.

[Epic_Bean]

There will never be a Steam Deck 3... everyone knows Valve can't count to 3.

Oh damn you right, you right.

In all honesty though its you want better battery, ergonomics and screen go buy one of the 1000+ dollar 6800U handhelds.

 

Steam Decks are heavily subsidized be as cost effective as possible to get people into the ecosystem. I doubt unless Oleds cost close to the same as LCDs or Hall Effect sensors cost the same as potentiometer, Valve will ever put them in a sub 500 unit, maybe they make a low quantity pro model for 800+.

As for ergonomics, thats just subjective per person. I have regular sized hands and it feels fine to me.
 

Battery is just to many variables, want a powerful CPU that can play triple A? Have bad battery life. Want a great battery time? Here's an under-volted less powerful cpu that struggles to make games "pretty".

I think Valve did a great job balancing it. Remember the Steam deck on release played basically every game up to that point. With varying battery life, on an unsupported OS using basically an emulation layer, and for half the price of the competitors.

I would love to see a Windows Based Steam OS but I doubt it will ever happen due to Windows not being open and even then backwards comparability sucks. I have a handful of Steam games my W11 R7 3800X and 3070 cant run that the Steam Deck runs perfectly fine (Looking at you Bionic Commando Rearmed).

[Wa1terSobchak]