Nice, that's a great hint! I'm going to try that later!
Didn't know either, that the game needs to be in windowed mode for the inbuilt FSR to take effect!

I guess I know now what I'm going to try out the whole evening lol.

Right?! Low settings on that small (OLED) screen look somehow even better that medium-high settings on my PC-Monitor. Of course being OLED is a huge factor because colours and contrast are much better but even things like object counts an stuff like that are much more appearant on a large desktop screen if they're missing.

In my opinion the brilliant colours of the screen have way more effect to the overall quality than pushing the settings from low to high and getting a few more objects or sharper textures (That you don't even recognize that much on such a small screen anyways) out of that.

Here is a first impression, as I tested it now using my headset I use at work to participate in meetings. (Sennheiser Over Ear Headset)

The is a veeeeery quiet noise going on in the background. You are able to recognize the difference between the unplugged 'silentness' and the plugged in 'humming' kind of sound. It sounds like when you plug your headset into a low quality soundchip and increase the volume to max but waaaay quieter. In addition to that, the humming sound doesn't become louder, if you increase the volume of the deck. It's the same volume on 0% as on 100%. Also it's so quiet, that it definitely doesn't annoy me as you don't hear it at all anymore, as soon as there is sound going on in a game or so. Definitely not a thing to trigger an RMA for me, if that's what you're thinking about. Of course, everybody is different regarding stuff like that but I would consider me pretty sensitive to these things as well.
Might be possible, of course, that there are people where that occurs much louder. Then it would of course be a reason to RMA the device but I think it would have been recognized in QA if it would occur on every third device.

Wow, that last sentence about alan wake sounds impressive! Didn't buy it yet but I'll definitely test that once it's for sale for around 20 bucks!
Aside of that, you perfectly described my first impressions I had with the deck. It really is a godsent!

Hahaha, I feel that! :'D

I'll try later with my MMX 300! I'm at work currently and only have my wireless in ears with me. I'll head back to you as soon as I tested!

That'll be one of the next things I'm going to do, together with chiaki for PS5 Streaming. *-*
How are the latencies with this, if the deck is using wifi?
My PC is kind of cable-connected? (Veeery minor 1.5 Metre 5ghz wifi bridge without any obstacles in between in my living room)
Playstation is pretty similar just that it's not cable connected but instead just connected directly to the livin room wifi, where an Access Point is placed that's connected via cable to my router. (Same AP my PC is connected to via cable, because PC is another room)
The Connection of my PC is good enough for VR streaming on a Quest 3 so I guess that'll be alright?

Haha, thanks, you too!
I can't imagine not to be surprised by that package though. :D

That's great! Glad I could help you out!

Seriously, I didn't find any question to the steam deck that has not been already answered here on reddit. The community might really be the best community I've ever seen with any product!

Rise of the Tomb Raider is amazing. All of the new Tomb Raider games are. Kind of like Uncharted (Espacially Uncharted 4), if you played these but with a satisfying bow and arrow and a little bit more riddles than action. Story is pretty good as well in all of them. Had a great time with these games!

Nice, thanks for the recommendations! Took a note for later! :)

:'D Sorry.
Just thought a nice opinion would be good to hear as I would lie if I said I wasn't worried because of all the screen issues people posted here. :)

<3

What I meant by that was the 'locked in your OS' kind of thing, where the manufacturer just dictates you what you're allowed to do and what's forbidden. There are many hassles to go through, sometimes just using 3rd party accessories, trying to change files in your program files directory or, as I mentioned in a comment above, turning some notifications (Firewall for example) silent. In my opinion these things are in my responsability and if I want to change them I should be allowed to. Maybe warn me in another two popups and tell me what the consequences are, but don't set everything on default after I restart my system pls. :D

I played it on PC once. Then my Save-File corrupted about 15 hours in and while I loved it like few other games in the recent years, I never got over myself to restart from the beginning. I think now might be the time. :D
If you loved Prey, I highly recommend System Shock 2! My number one Game of that Genre, and I think I've played them all. The graphics can be kinda weird today but the gameplay didn't age at all, the story is amazing and you'll get to see one of the most iconic antagonists in video game history. :)

Thank you for your heads up!
I just thought about the bit of tinkering and windows being easy to use but the first thing coming to my mind reading the words "Easy" and "Windows" together is how much time I've spend already just to disable the 'firewall not active' popup everytime I want to do something where I just want my firewall turned off for a moment, which happens kind of frequently. I think the time I've spent with that topic alone might be counted not in hours anymore but in days. - Without a solution in sight that disables these notifications all and for once.
I'm working as IT Sys-admin so tinkering is kinda part of my job which I love. But I love it more when I do it for something productive instead of trying to disable annoying messages my OS thinks I need to be aware of. :D

Did it arrive? :D

Meins ist eben in Deutschland angekommen (Heute Morgen in den Niederlanden losgeschickt worden) und liegt jetzt im Paketzentrum in Neuenstein.

Neuenstein ist glaube ich weiter weg als der Ort von wo sie es losgeschickt haben. Das Paket muss nach Hannover, also jetzt einmal quer durchs ganze Land und das bis morgen früh um 09:30 Uhr. :')
Bin gespannt wie das morgen ausgeht und frage mich ehrlich, was der Sinn dahinter war, das Paket einmal durchs ganze Land zu karren.

Hmn, might be a taste-thing. I loved the hell out of this game.
Characters are amazing, the soundtrack has a crazy vibe (I love games where there is actually singing in the soundtrack) and I loved the story as well. I found the storytelling great. Yes, you could have maybe given players a few days less to level up and stuff but I think they did that on purpose to get the difficulty right for everyone. There's no shame in just skipping a few days to save some time. If you do that, you won't have the feel of the story being stretched I think.

I'm playing Persona 3 right now and I liked 5 more. 3 is still a great game though. (30 hours in at the moment)