Valve famously has a flat management structure, meaning valve employees don’t have traditional bosses. The employees are generally self directed, choosing what projects they want to work on.

So something like this would be a Valve dev deciding the best use of his time for the day was to add SDL support for the Steam Controller. He did the work, didn’t have to request approval for the project, and Valve paid him to do it.

It may not be something that there was any organized, official push by valve to do. But their management structure encourages this kind of thing and pays for it.

They’ve released a couple firmware/steam updates for people having doubled inputs, so definitely make sure you have those all installed. A new firmware update for the controller was released last night.

Under Controller>Advanced settings in steam big picture mode, you can try forcibly updating all hardwired controllers.

You shouldn’t be having any signal issues at that range, so you either have something defective or some really bad signal interference. I’m leaning towards something being defective, because my puck doesn’t have line of sight, is immediately next to a router and a bunch of bluetooth devices, and hasn’t had any connection issues. You also mentioned the issues happening while wired, which definitely suggests a controller issue and not a connection problem.

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.