That sounds horrible. You basically want to use the gyro as a big joystick. So basically unless you hold your deck perfectly still in the same position your camera will just drift in some direction. It’s not going to work the way you imagine.

I prefer 1 over 2

You could try superglue, or just get one of those rubber caps, it’s not like the capacitive surface is much use on the left joystick anyway.

I wouldn’t use joystick + gyro, mixing vector input with absolute input is janky af. Trackpad + gyro? Works brilliantly.

You can make it work but you’ll want to do one of these things:

• learn flickstick, this turns joystick into a direct mapping of joystick angle to character angle. works better than traditional joystick for use with gyro
• activate gyro on a button hold like left trigger (usually aim down sights in FPS). In this approach what you’re essentially doing is either using joystick or gyro depending on whether you’re just moving around or deliberately aiming.

Also if you are going with the general joystick + gyro always on method make sure gyro is setup to deactivate when your thumb is off the joystick. This gives you a way to reset the origin point of the gyro.

If the small movements of the deck are moving around your aim too much unintentionally just lower the sensitivity of gyro, and try out trigger damping, this will semi deactivate the gyro during trigger press, because a trigger press is usually the biggest cause of sudden unintentional gyro movement.

I generally find 30fps more acceptable because of the types of games I’m playing at 30fps. If I’m playing on a handheld/with controller then I’m certainly not playing FPSs, so I don’t notice as much. If I’m sat at my desk with keyboard and mouse then I probably am playing something like an FPS and then it would really matter. I’d say the issue with lower framerates is most apparent with camera movement so if you’re playing a third person or a top down game etc. where you don’t move the camera as much/not at all, it’s not as big of a deal lowering framerate.

Having said all that I still consider framerate the most important factor and will always prefer worse graphics over lower framerate.

I was originally going to get the 512GB because I’m very happy with that storage size and I don’t think the glossy vs etched aspect is even a factor, so if I can save $100 why not? But all of this etched hysteria has convinced me to buy the 1TB so I can let Valve know they should keep making etched models. Might buy 2.

I think by just not clicking apply it should be fine but I don’t know if updates will sometimes automatically apply e.g. after a full shut down and reboot, I usually manually update quite soon after it’s released

Anyone reading this who hasn’t updated yet, I’d avoid updating if you can. It’s broken the fixed colour profile and the boosted vibrancy mode. My deck is back to washed out colours. Didn’t actually realise how well the vibrancy update worked until I lost it lol. Tried switching back to beta and stable etc and nothings working, in fact the colour adjustment option is now just missing from the display setting page entirely. Wait til they fix before updating.

You don’t need windows to do any of those things

You’re a child.

Well I bought my steam deck a year ago and I’m mad that my steam deck is obsolete after only one year!!! 😡 they should extend their return policy to 1 year, that’s the only fair way. And then when steam deck 2 is announced they should let me return my steam deck OLED because I feel entitled to have the newest thing all the time!!! In fact they should just ship me free steam decks whenever there’s a new one, it’s the only fair solution.

Nah but for real if you waited over a year to buy a steam deck, and now you’re mad that you didn’t get enough “warning” even though a better deck existing doesn’t impact you in any way, that’s 100% your hang up and entitled as hell.

If you think Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft announce mid-gen updates so far ahead of release so that it’s more “fair” to customers you’re insanely naive.

This isn’t a steam deck 2. They haven’t said anything misleading at all, you and journalists just didn’t actually listen properly.

Also anti-consumer? Lol what are you smoking? They fixed every issue people complained about. Didn’t hike the price at all and lowered the price of the older models. For a completely optional upgrade that doesn’t make your existing Deck worse in any way that’s pretty pro-consumer to me.

Steam controller and steam link weren’t unsuccessful though lol. Thanks to the steam controller we now have steam input, and thanks to the link we now have steam streaming. You could also argue that we can thank the SC for the Deck existing at all. Success isn’t just number of units shipped (and even if it was the SC still sold very well compared to any other third party controller)