I took my Steam Deck out on the road today. I didn't spend too much time with it however because I didn't have to stay parked that long. I did encounter a snag however with one of the games that I tried to play, South Park: The Stick of Truth. It wouldn't launch at all as it kept telling me that it was out of sync with Steam cloud even though the Deck was set to offline mode.
I finally got my Steam Deck portable gaming personal computer today, delivered in, while stylish, a blatantly conspicuous wide box with the Steam Deck logo printed outside of it. And yes, there is even a Portal reference on the box. If this was an Amazon delivery, you know the driver would have just taken it home and reported it missing, risking his or her livelihood for the sake of snatching up a rare PlayStation 5 unit. Oops, wrong story. But yes, you can tell that the box is holding the Steam Deck but I suppose Valve probably had these things tightly insured right up the microSD slot to eliminate delivery issues.
I was doing some light livestreaming of Aquarist for the Personal Computer this morning and after I was done, I saw a yellow bar on top of the Steam client. I was so scared because I have never seen this type of notification before. I thought perhaps that perhaps I was being flagged by Valve because someone attempted to hack my account. Imagine my relief and joy when it was actually a notification to inform me that my Steam Deck is ready for shipping!
