u/azdle — azdle

Thanks!

I would imagine it's just some sort of really basic shim driver to get a communication channel between the controller and steam, then from there everything just goes through steam input.

That's the kind of choice you make when you need to just get 'it' working. IIRC when the deck, its input depended (more?) on the steam client too. I'd imagine that they'll finish the slow part of the process eventually to make the controller work more generally too.

The store page said 3-5 business days for the early orders and 6-10 for the later orders.

FWIW, I was getting the same checkout error as everyone else for half an hour while trying to buy with steam wallet credit.

I got one and will try to post to this community with my thoughts after I receive it.

The dpad is also my biggest worry with it.

What did you do to upgrade your deck dpad? I would love to do that to mine too if it works well and isn't too loud.

Nah, hugged nearly to death in a minute, but my order went through at xx:31. But I think I was pretty near the end before they went OOS.

Edit: in the US, sounds like the EU might have lasted a bit longer?

If it makes you feel better, I was on desktop (web) (and mobile and when I was getting desperate deck, lol) and my order didn't go through until xx:31. I think it really was just random.

Also switched to 6-10 days in the US at some point.

Gratz!

I had money in my wallet too and got the buy button about 1 minute early, but still got stuck in the "There seems to have been an error" loop until my order went through 32 minutes later.

I don't even think it's that, I had preloaded wallet credit my payment was failing too.

Eyy, finally managed to get one. Right before they went out of stock.

Update the controller firmware.

I've got the "Xbox Wireless Controller", the one that has a little bit of a grippy texture on the handles & the 'd-pad on a circle' d-pad. And I was seeing the same thing before updating the FW ~a year (maybe even two?) ago.

Unfortunately, doing that requires a Windows PC or an Xbox.