The OG controller and Steam Deck are both sort of this way for me. Despite rarely using them, I never intend to sell them. My desktop just spoils me too much.
I expect having the new controller will actually encourage me to use the Deck more often though. Right now, starting a new game on the Deck feels like committing to the lesser experience due to not wanting to jump between control schemes. Having control parity fixes that.
Yeah, I’m not too worried in general. Valve devices tend to have pretty vibrant DIY communities grow up around them, both on the software and hardware side. I’m looking forward to seeing what 3D printed accessories exist in a few months myself.
In that case, definitely check out SISR if you want that functionality in Linux or Windows. It mentions emulators in particular as a use case. Unfortunately, I can’t find anything like it for Android which I saw you mention in another comment.
Are you alright with Steam running in the background? As far as I know, that’s all that’s really needed to get the full functionality outside of Steam for most uses. It’ll just be using whatever you have set up as your desktop profile. For other things, programs like SISR already exist too.
I’m worried Valve has the same expectation for the Frame and will understock it. It’s the device I’m looking forward to the most.
Yep, Steam Wallet here too. I definitely hit Continue at least 100 times before it processed.
I got mine in via Firefox on Android, but it definitely took some persistence.
Haha, I’ll never forget it because of how much the community was obsessed with mapping order times down to the second with each shipping wave and trying to predict ahead. I checked all those spreadsheets and things quite often in the couple months before my shipping notification. They actually got pretty close. It’s a shame I don’t actually use the Deck more than I do.
Congrats!
I’m wondering if the “ships in 3 to 5 business days” is valid for everyone who got an order in.
Preordering the Deck was definitely stressful knowing every little delay could push you weeks down the shipping queue. I think I also got my Deck order in right at about 15 minutes which put my shipment in one of the April waves. Is that about where yours was too?
Keep spamming Continue. It’ll eventually switch to “Working.” I must have hit it at least a hundred times from 9:59 PST to 10:10 before it worked for me. I wished they had opened purchasing right on the dot instead of a few minutes early, but oh well. I’m happy.
Edit: Out of Stock. Sorry everyone who didn’t get one. :(
Plus the lower waterline from the weight of the bottle.
Nope, your rant is valid. I suck at processing verbal directions entirely. Good text directions are acceptable if there’s enough time beforehand to check them against Street View and handle any followup needed or the occasion is casual enough that being late doesn’t matter.
I think you got it exactly, and if you expand “social interactions” to include text conversations like this one, a narrow idea of what is “correct” is probably why so many of us here seem to care for good grammar.
Going even further, I’d say it impacts any sort of “performance” that might have social consequences of any kind. I’ve been a perfectionist most of my life to the point that I would avoid trying a lot of things I couldn’t reasonably be sure I’d succeed at on the first try. Any failure would also shut me down pretty hard. In other words, other people’s “good enough” was my “unacceptable.” Only recently did I learn that’s common among autists, and it’s something I’m still working on.
I’ve had to take breaks from reading things that were too relatable in order to process them, but I can’t remember anything like that particular to ASD and childhood at the moment. Then again, I can’t say I’ve read many stories with an ASD protagonist at all. Maybe I should fix that, so thanks for the reading recommendation.
Anyway, my brain was so used to contingency planning I don’t think this particular situation ever happened to me. I would have immediately flagged it and asked, "What should I do if they don’t have trout?, then asked a bunch of followup questions for acceptable other items, alternative places to check, etc. until I either had an acceptably thorough decision tree or annoyed the other person into giving up or understanding that they might not get what they want if reality doesn’t comply.
Yeah, I’m gonna be on the look out for people doing this. Gamers Nexus showed the battery voltage as 3.85V. I was worried at the time that this voltage isn’t too common, but it seems that fear is unfounded. Never had a PSP, so that’s cool to know.
I watched both of his videos already. When I said I want this controller to last a while, I mean literal decades. I know iFixit will have replacement parts, but there’s still going to be a point where even they will stop carrying them.
Ah, I guess people are working off different definitions of “running outside Steam.” After looking into it, the lack of DirectInput support is indeed not great. It doesn’t affect my use cases, and the first Steam Controller got open source drivers pretty early, so I doubt it’ll actually be a blocker soon after release, but I’ll refrain from commenting on it until more happens.
You don’t have to add them as non-Steam games. You just have to make sure your desktop profile is set up to match how you want those games to be played. You can save templates and swap them out for a bit easier flexibility.
I have my original Steam Controller set up to swap between a mouse and keyboard mode and an Xbox layout and that works for the majority of things I want to do outside of Steam with it, no fiddling with the “add a non-Steam game” stuff.
I definitely don’t go into it as far as a lot of people do, but some customizations are too nice to ignore. The original Vive (basically Valve hardware in all but name) had a mod that swapped the straps for welding mask supports and added off-ear speakers much like the Index later got. That was absolutely a massive upgrade.