Steam Deck cloud saves could work better than we expected

Date:
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 10:52:17 +0000

Description:
With the Steam Deck's Dynamic Cloud Saves, players can jump back and forth between portable and PC without losing their progress on either device.

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Were just weeks away from the expected February 2022 launch of the Steam Deck , and this latest Steam update has us more excited than ever to try the
device out for ourselves.

While Valves handheld PC-console hybrid has yet to release, the team have
been hard at work updating its Steam platform to ensure its ready to support the Steam Deck. Some expected changes have included new store tags for Steam Deck-compatible games but also hint at an awesome cloud save feature.

Dynamic Cloud Saves have just gone live, with the feature designed to help facilitate play across multiple devices as explained in a Valve blog post .
It mostly functions just like any cloud save system, the progress you make while playing on Steam Deck will carry over to PC and vice-versa but Valve has improved upon the existing formula.

Normally you have to remember to manually save and quit out of a game to be sure your progress has been uploaded to the cloud. However, in a move that puts the Nintendo Switch s smooth transition function to shame, the Steam
Deck will automatically update your cloud save when its put to sleep and the title is suspended.

If you then make progress on PC but want to return to your Steam Deck,
loading into the suspended game will either automatically laid the latest cloud save data, or will send you to the main menu so you can load in
manually whichever the games developers decide is best.

Valve has explained that it expects "users will frequently suspend their
Steam Deck without exiting the game," so this new dynamic save feature is designed to ensure the Steam Deck lives up to the pick-up-and-go gameplay a handheld promises.

Unfortunately, this new save style wont appear on every Steam Game right
away. Valve has explained that developers will need to manually implement it through Steam Auto-Cloud or the ISteamRemoteStorage API.

While we hope this isnt too difficult a process to carry out, Steam Deck compatibility has caused no end of pain for some developers . Well just have to wait and see if Dynamic Cloud Saves can be turned on with the flick of a switch, or if it'll be a multistep problem that smaller dev teams simply
don't have time to solve. Plan on getting a Steam Deck? Here are the best Steam games you'll want to play



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Link to news story: https://www.techradar.com/news/steam-deck-cloud-saves-could-work-better-than-w e-expected/


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