There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple.
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I have never felt as much envy as seeing someone play BG3 on an 8 hr flight. That was what sold me.
To cap it off the SOB killed Scratch and the Owlbear Cub. That flight was actual torture for multiple reasons.
Was BG3 smooth? I'm getting jealous if it was. It's a hot mess on my shitty PC.
I didn't play much of it but it ran well when I tired it. I just decided it was the type of game I wanted to plat with all the settings maxed on my laptop.
It couldn't play at max settings?
In general the Steam Deck is not the kind of device that is going to run things at max settings. You are gonna play at 720p30FPS low settings but be happy you can play at all on a train or airplane. It’s really meant to be a competitor to the Nintendo Switch than a replacement for a gaming PC.
You can stream from your PC to your couch or bed if you are at home.
Definitely not on Steam Deck.
I imagine certain scenes especially in the 3rd act would put alot of strain on the steam deck
I think they were playing at a low res. 720p or maybe 480p. That said they didn't even have stuttering. It was really impressive.
Mine is still on order haven't got it yet.
Steam Deck screen is only 800p so that's the resolution for all games. And it's perfect for the screen size.
Like I said it was clear and smooth. I don't expect 4k in a handheld. Portable is it's own metric.
Yep quite right, I was just clarifying because you said "low res like 720p or 480p" - the Steam Deck is 800p native. Total agreement.
I'm so glad Valve did not give in to the tech-number-nerds who want 2K resolution on tiny screens, saves so much battery life.
I'd be happy if it played Owlcat RPGs at near full settings. Those games are allot more fun than BG3, imo.
I digress though. It'd be nice to be able to play recent games again. If the deck can do that on my TV, I'm down.
Hell yeah another Kingmaker/WOTR fan.
WotR for the win. never played Kingmaker. And I just got Warhammer 40k Rogue Trader. I don't understand how these games aren't more popular.
I feel like BG3 is big just because the camera zooms in close to the characters.
Kingmaker is fantastic. I'm not that big a fan of Rogue Trader though. I kinda hate the Imperium of Man, in 40K I am Ork only.
If you enjoy Owlcat then the Pillars and Tyranny from Obsidian are fantastic.
I'm going to look up all of their games eventually. They go hard on the systems and that's a severely lacking quality these days.
Rogue Trader is cool, I'm only a few hours into it though. But man, the camera kills me. It's got a weird rubber band effect to it that I don't like.
But it's mostly a nice improvement, or at least some different takes, on the WotR systems. My main complaint about their games is even with auto end turn on it never automatically ends any turns.
We hook our Steam Deck up to a 4k projector and it looks amazing. The built in upscaler from 800p to 4k is astonishingly good. Obviously not AS good as native but and many games are limited to 30fps but holy smokes it's more than good enough.
It is. From my experience a couple months back its crisp. Not the highest graphics, and it took a little getting used to from a high-end PC, but it was really nice. In certain aspects even preferable xD
It might do now. They've done a lot of improvements.
Even on PS5 it was an absolute mess in co-op. 30fps (if you were lucky) all round, constant freezes (several seconds) when swapping characters, many many crashes. Whenever we told it to save, we'd have to both touch nothing to make sure it didn't crash while saving. Oh, and there was a bug meaning only the player who chose to sleep for the day would get any companion progression.
Wow 8hrs, I've never gotten more than 2 on a laptop
The plane had USB chargers in the arm rest, but not 120v unfortunately.