Patience is simply a virtue, arsenic someway it is inactive hard to find a PlayStation 5 immoderate 2 years aft launch. But fortunately, if you’re successful the marketplace for a Steam Deck, there’s nary longer immoderate request to pursuit aft a far-off pre-order: Valve is present shipping them close aft purchase. No waiting, nary queues, nary $5 reservations. What’s more, it’s besides selling an authoritative Docking Station now.

Valve announced the easier ordering and caller Docking Station accessory’s availability via Twitter and Steam. On apical of that, Valve announced “lots and lots” of bundle updates for SteamOS, which it says volition dramatically amended the docking experience. The keyboard is getting an update too, arsenic is offline mode. (The second should assistance mitigate a communal symptom constituent for Steam Deck users, arsenic galore Steam games necessitate online connectivity for authentication.)

You tin cheque retired the quality successful Valve’s announcement video here:

The authoritative Steam Deck Docking Station volition acceptable you backmost $89. And though determination beryllium a fewer third-party docks, immoderate of which are cheaper, Valve’s Docking Station volition hopefully acceptable a caller modular for connectivity. For example, JSAUX’s much affordably-priced dock comes with USB 2.0 ports, whereas each the USB-A ports connected Valve’s dock are mentation 3.1. It besides offers gigabit Ethernet connectivity, which volition greatly assistance with downloading ample games. DisplayPort 1.4 and HDMI 2.0 ports are present, which volition let the Steam Deck to output to aggregate monitors with a prime of 4K 60Hz oregon 1440p 120Hz alongside the accustomed FreeSync support.

While I’ll beryllium funny to spot if the authoritative Docking Station fits with go-to peripherals similar the Deckmate, the upcoming improvements to the keyboard are precise welcome. I’ve recovered the keyboard to beryllium a small finicky, truthful it’s large to spot Valve making the acquisition of typing connected either the touchscreen oregon the touchpads a spot much reliable. The keyboard is besides expected to get further connection support, with Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean soon to beryllium added.

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Valve was airy connected details erstwhile it comes to improvements to Offline Mode, however. This mode fundamentally does what you’d expect, but it hasn’t been the Deck’s champion feature. As galore users person pointed out, an unreliable offline mode kinda kills the portability of thing similar the Deck. Such problems don’t conscionable plague multiplayer games; galore users person recovered issues with single-player games too, and eden assistance you if the crippled has Denuvo. As if we needed different crushed to beryllium annoyed astatine the infamously irksome DRM software.

But a finicky offline mode is simply a bump successful the different fun-as-hell roadworthy that’s been the Steam Deck acquisition truthful far. Good to spot Valve’s ironing retired the kinks successful production.