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Dec 03, 2023

Steam Deck Beta improves on

Two areas that could use some love are being tweaked, with a new Steam Deck

Two areas that could use some love are being tweaked, with a new Steam Deck Client Beta available now with various fixes and upgrades. This is available in Beta and Preview. To change over you can find it in Settings > System > Steam Update Channel.

Offline Mode especially has been a nuisance for a lot of people, just not working as expected in many areas so it's nice to see Valve make some more fixes there too.

Here's what's changed:

General

Desktop Mode

New Big Picture Mode

Valve are also being odd with Deck Verified again. They've recently moved Battlefield 1 from Playable to Unsupported, even though on Proton Experimental it works amazingly well and I only just recently did a video (below) to show it off and I was really impressed by it.

Valve did the same for It Takes Two, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Remastered and other EA games. So it's quite likely this is as a result of the recent switch from Origin to the EA app, despite them already fixing it in Proton Experimental — something they seem to have no problem setting by default for other games. I'm going to put this down to some sort of Deck Verified testing issue that isn't taking Proton Experimental into account.