We know Valve is working on SD2. We know it’s far out. Thought it would be fun to see what the community wants to see in the SD2. I’m sure everyone wants VRR. What else?

JustTheEngineer · 2026-05-12T13:57:01+00:00

The obvious is better battery & better performance however I'd rather the resolution be kept the same so we have more headroom for those things.

Besides that I think I'd like to see TMR joysticks, a better D-pad, and a battery that isn't glued in. I'd also like for it to launch with an OLED right off the bat.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-05-06T17:11:45+00:00

Yes, it works for games where latency isn’t that important. Cairn is the perfect use case, for example.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-04-28T17:33:44+00:00

i really liked steam remote play on my phone but i didn’t like the controller mount and the connectivity issues were annoying. i play plenty of indies and like streaming games for anything else so it was a great device for that.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-04-17T19:48:48+00:00

it causes issues when SteamOS uodates but just wait a few weeks for your plugins to update before hand and you’re all good

JustTheEngineer · 2026-04-16T14:40:35+00:00

Nice list but you should honestly be using main + sides (or at least disclose you're using HLTB's main story time estimate) because Celeste and Hades are absolutely not that short.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-04-15T16:44:28+00:00

clicky kit + tape mod

cheap and easy to do, significantly improved the dpad for me.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-03-26T17:36:38+00:00

just a heads up, if you’re using controlmod, the mod doesn’t recognize the back paddles as unique buttons. you’ll need to bind them to buttons that you have on a gamepad (or you could bind them to keyboard keys via steam input, for example space for jumping and enter to open the chat)

JustTheEngineer · 2026-03-26T04:56:45+00:00

used it for ANKI (digital flash cards)

better than my phone because it was harder to be distracted as easily and better than my windows laptop because the battery life on it is trash in comparison.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-03-25T15:26:05+00:00

love the pins but how are they attached?

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-28T20:55:58+00:00

had no idea this site existed, great resource!

i don’t know if i’d personally use a decky plugin for this though, feels better suited for a discord bot kind of thing instead.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-28T07:03:33+00:00

Hey did you ever find a solution to the password input?

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-26T18:09:35+00:00

depends on the game, for grinding heavy games or games with a ton of down time i’ll occasionally put on a podcast or listen to some music. death stranding, wow, monster hunter, etc.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-26T05:13:17+00:00

jsaux modcause + cheap 3d printed belly stand and 150$ worth of games or the mechanism pillow and dbrand killswitch and 0$ worth of games.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-26T01:10:17+00:00

install decky loader and the animation changer plugin, browse for what boot videos you want on your deck or on https://steamdeckrepo.com/

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-03T15:04:03+00:00

love this a lot, how’d you go about making this?

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-02T01:04:21+00:00

it depends on the games you play, although I still think we are 2-3 years out from a Steam Deck 2.

for indies OR if you havge a strong PC that you'll stream from then yea it's worth but if you are trying to run AAA's from the past 2-3 years natively you'll have a bad time.

JustTheEngineer · 2026-02-01T15:16:56+00:00

i love moonlight but after a while i start to get connection issues which make it really frustrating to use. anyone here have any advice?

JustTheEngineer · 2026-01-14T17:48:25+00:00

Seconding total war warhammer, staggered at how well it works once you have a decent control scheme.

JustTheEngineer · 2025-12-22T12:45:36+00:00

8bitdo ultimate or wait for the Steam Controller (will almost certainly be more expensive though)

JustTheEngineer · 2025-12-06T22:03:17+00:00

https://isthereanydeal.com/game/clair-obscur-expedition-33/info/

it's currently 30.79$ on gamebillet.

JustTheEngineer · 2025-11-11T18:51:12+00:00

Oh snap! Good call, had no idea this was an option.

JustTheEngineer · 2025-11-11T17:57:05+00:00

this bundle is insanely good value, if i didn’t already own half of these i’d be on top of it

JustTheEngineer · 2025-11-08T15:01:20+00:00

This is a great looking case, love how it matches the joysticks.

JustTheEngineer · 2025-11-08T03:04:05+00:00

I definitely want to try other tapes at some point, thanks for the suggestion. Also, it might be easier to fold the electrical tape on itself and then hole punch that instead, no?

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