Yes, you would have had to downloaded a recent update, and run it at least twice.

Thanks for the update! That’s really good to know.

Here’s the support page:

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/33E8-5EDF-24E6-4CFB

Flashing red should mean that the controller is in software update mode, trying to connect. I’d recommend restarting steam (or steamOS), and then plugging the controller straight into the usb C cable while it’s still off. If that doesn’t work, then you’ll probably just need to wait for Steam to get back in touch with you.

If steam support provides a button combination to reset the controller or something similar, please share it.

Yeah, I’m definitely not confirming it with my controller.

It also trys to steal passwords/keys/etc, the Russian roulette part is just extra for people in Israel.

Also I thought this part was interesting:

Special note for Israeli users: If the malware determines that your location is Israel (it does this via locale and timezone checks) then it has a 1:6 chance that it will play a loud siren sound and run rm -rf /, essentially attempting to wipe your filesystem.

There is a grub setting for that, but usually the motherboard bios/uefi is responsible for passing input devices on to grub. Other motherboards may not have this same issue.

The four models are probably 2 storage sizes, with or without an included controller.

It’s angled, but it’s also narrower than the deck, which can make angled grips more necessary. I’ve heard both sides, some people say the grip angle is more comfortable than the deck, others say it’s not angled enough to make up for how much skinnier it is.

For the GRUB issue, it was probably using the Steam controller as the primary keyboard. Without steam running, the controller works as keyboard and mouse, so you can navigate bios/etc with it. On the GRUB screen, you could have probably selected the boot up option with the controller.

I’m guessing by changing USB ports, you now have your regular keyboard on an “earlier” USB port, so it takes priority over the controller.

Same here, finally got picked up by the carrier end of day Friday, and then got an estimated delivery date today.

If you go into Big Picture mode in desktop, it’s basically the regular deck UI, QAM menu included.

That said, you can also open steam console in game mode, and view any errors there. Go to Settings>Developer Menu>Misc>Steam Console. This will add a console item to the standard steam menu, that will show all console logs after adding the console. Then they should be able to open the QAM menu and see if any specific errors show up.

Playable with Deck controls, but that’s probably through a community input profile.

Yeah the guy is rambling a little bit in the guide video. Does mention he’s barely slept the past week while he tried to get this install script setup, so that explains the video some I think.

There’s apparently different options during the install. You can do “solocraft” that apparently makes it possible to do all dungeons and raids by yourself.

There also two different mods that can populate the world with bot players. The bots will wander the world fighting stuff and adventuring, but you can also invite them to your party to do raids/etc.

Read without the paywall: https://archive.is/mTp9k

A lot of people commented on earlier threads that they got one ordered, but I haven’t seen anyone here mention getting one yet.

Sounds like some people started receiving theirs yesterday, but tracking details on mine show it hasn’t been picked up by the carrier yet.

Good, I’m glad they’re trying to make this easier on people. Shame there’s no mention of when a restock might actually happen though.

It’s hard to say before we can try it out, but it defaults to generic keyboard/mouse controls for desktop. I haven’t seen any official confirmation if you can swap it to a generic gamepad like the steam deck controls by holding start/menu.

There’s also a 3rd party program for managing the original steam controller, hopefully we’ll see it support this one as well.

Honestly, it feels like if this was Steam Machines, valve would have waited and released them bundled with the controller. I’m assuming them launching the controller by itself was because they didn’t have Steam Machines ready to go yet.

So I’m assuming this means this is more likely to be the Steam Frame or Steam Deck, but we’ll see.