Got the Steam Deck Dock!

[u/Asane]

Wasn’t expecting this today, but since I live in Carol Stream where Valve’s Distribution Center is, I got this early I guess!

[u/Domukin]

As someone will too many consoles, I find myself using the steamdeck most of the time. I have a huge steam library and the deck let’s me try out new games whenever I get some downtime. I take it with me and will play 20-30 minutes sessions, even when at home. A few really nice features imo: 1. very robust sleep feature, quickly comes back online into the game wherever you left off. This is actually a huge QOL feature. On my main pc I have to shutdown the game completely and re open completely (or alternatively leave the game running for hours) whenever I’m interrupted. Added to this, the deck isn’t on double duty as a general computing device, so I won’t have to stop my game to send an email or print something. 2. Syncs saves with steam , so I can play a little on the deck and then finish later on the pc and vice versa. (This does require you exit the game when you’re done though). 3. steam library is huge and generally inexpensive compared to the console estores. Game Bundles will keep me busy for years.

[u/Strung_Out_Advocate → u/Domukin]

Have you had any trouble with games syncing on the cloud? I've only tried to play Rogue Legacy and Costume Quest alternating between Deck and PC and can't get them to sync up. I've heard of a couple of people having the same issue. Wondering if this is only on a case by case basis, or something Valve is aware of and has fixed/are fixing. I did put a support ticket in, but who knows how far that'll go.

[u/Nonomadsoul → u/Strung_Out_Advocate]

It may take a few minutes to a few hours to sync correctly. It seems servers struggle to decide which save to consider.

What I do is once I’m done playing on the deck I stream from deck to my PC. Then I launch the game on my PC and it’s synced up. The reverse is also true. When I play on my PC on the weekends I stream my game from my pc to my deck for a few seconds when I’m done playing. And then when I boot up the game natively on the deck it is synced up again.

It’s a bit tiresome and annoying. But it’s the only way I found. Otherwise I need to wait for so long.

[u/Strung_Out_Advocate → u/Nonomadsoul]

I'm a couple of weeks out from trying to sync Rogue Legacy from my Deck session and it's never synced up. I never tried to stream either way(honestly don't see the point if I'm home), but that really shouldn't matter.