The touchpads, the sticks don’t do anything as far as I can tell. The touchscreen doesn’t reliably register presses. And the keyboard itself gets in bad states all the time, it will act like I’m long pressing on a number row and refuse all input anywhere else on the screen.
The touchpads are way too sensitive, and having to actually physically press them in instead of tapping is awful since you move your cursor 100% of the time doing that. And the forced split keyboard mode is really obnoxious.
I ran into many, many instances where it would give me the haptic feedback that I made an input but not actually send that input to the underlying control. Absolutely infuriating when typing in passwords
In my case I have been able to use the buttons to input on the on-screen keyboard. It’s basically like typing on the Xbox 360 in my experience when you do that. But I agree, touchpad input on those things is iffy… I never write more than like 10 characters with them.
At least three times now the thing has stopped responding to any button input while in the menus, only touch screen works. Touch pads give haptic feedback but no response from the UI
Yeah, I got the notification to act on my preorder of the Steam deck last week, looked up a few reviews of it and, despite Valve’s high-pressure Always Be Closing tactics complete with a ticking countdown, passed on it. The decisive “ugh” was the report that the fan runs constantly for no apparent reason: tiny fan whine is the absolute worst.
But I also think I will probably end up getting the second or third generation model
i am pleased to inform you i once spent several hours at work salvaging a borked SQL database via a laggy cross-country VNC connection on a steam controller because of a lost bet (i was supposed to spend the entire day using only the steam controller and fate had a good laugh about that)
better yet, the machine hosting this database was in plain view of an entire upscale restaurant (POS system), and i assure you i did not make it look good.
I unironically think the steam controller would make a good presentation device or clicker if 99% of the functionality wasn’t tied to the steam client itself
But then that would require Valve to acknowledge the steam controller exists outside of lawsuits
i tend to agree - like, a comfortably placed virtual trackball for couch computing vs those cheap touchpad/keyboard controllers is a no brainer, its just a joy to use, plus ipod-style jogwheel scrolling with the left wheel??? chefs kiss
and i love the keyboard when it works (better not be taxing your system resources when you open that big animated boi, or running fullscreen applications, or using integrated graphics) it feels like im playing typing of the dead but now i have to shoot the keyboard to shoot the zombies oh shit i need to go try this
the terms of the bet definitely stemmed from me fanboying to a mildly embarrassing degree, i deserved it, but i love the stupid thing and wish i’d bought a pile for longevity’s sake when they were $5, mine has become… moody of late
edit: shooting it with dual pistols at that!! pew pew pew i’m a GUNSLINGER god that thing is fun as hell
If you care about emulation at all, Emudeck is a pretty slick tool that will install all the emulators, update them, and streamline the creation of steam library shortcuts for all of them. Huge.
so is now a good time to buy a video card now that bitcoin has crashed?
I don’t really need one, but my gtx 1070 is getting up there in the years and I’m worried I won’t be able to get an upgrade when I inevitably do need one.
