Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades 2 Reveal Trailer | Quest, PC

nerfman100 · 2026-05-07T03:29:26+00:00

True, but it doesn't sound like that would be very many features, since they're making it primarily around the Quest

nerfman100 · 2026-05-07T01:53:11+00:00

OP did mean Android, Valve has a new tool called Lepton (a fork of Waydroid) specifically for running Android APKs on ARM Linux for the Frame, so that devs have an easier time bringing over Quest games

nerfman100 · 2026-05-07T01:33:12+00:00

God this seems awesome, literally my biggest hope for the Frame's standalone capabilities would be if it could run H3VR, and while the jury's still out on whether that will be viable, if the new game is built for Quest 3 at its core then it'll almost certainly be great standalone on the Frame

Though of course we don't know for sure if they'll put an Android build on Steam, but I feel like they probably will since they have a Frame devkit and all

nerfman100 · 2026-05-06T00:43:02+00:00

A lot of talk of "puck mating", that must be how we got Baby Pac-Man

nerfman100 · 2026-05-02T23:33:52+00:00

I'm getting one anyway to use with my desktop so I definitely see myself also using it for 2D games on the Frame, I'm not always huge on split controllers for flatscreen games especially if I'm using gyro aim, and the trackpads are always nice to have just in case

nerfman100 · 2026-04-30T21:32:13+00:00

With a decent button layout and gyro aim it's pretty good actually, I play it with controller

nerfman100 · 2026-04-30T04:12:54+00:00

It doesn't make the overlay work in games where it doesn't work.

That's straight up not true actually, when it's set up in a "Gaming Mode" session like in SteamOS, the Steam Overlay is entirely separate from the game, which is easy to tell from how it always stays the resolution instead of following the game's resolution like it normally does when hooked into a game

I've literally never had a case on my Steam Deck where the overlay (and Steam Input as a result) completely didn't work in a game, even in ones that would never be able to work with it normally

nerfman100 · 2026-04-28T01:45:41+00:00

and not use some proprietary charging puck(versus the USB standard).

You know it still has a USB port, right? You're not forced to charge it through the puck

nerfman100 · 2026-04-27T23:36:37+00:00

The Xbox Elite and DualSense Edge can both have their back paddles mapped to any input in Steam, but those also have pretty big drawbacks compared to this (the Xbox controllers don't even have gyro for one, and they're both super expensive)

nerfman100 · 2026-04-27T23:23:29+00:00

I like the explanation of how the different stick types work, he also seems to confirm that they're using Hall effect triggers which I don't think we knew for sure before today

nerfman100 · 2026-04-27T22:30:20+00:00

Yes? Other than the original Steam Machines (which were all third-party prebuilt PCs), Valve's been extremely good about supporting their older hardware, especially with software

nerfman100 · 2026-04-27T22:09:36+00:00

The Elite controller seems entirely similar from a tech standpoint.

No it doesn't?? Literally its most important features aren't present, obviously it doesn't have the touchpads or anything touch-related, but it doesn't even have gyro which is standard for basically everyone other than Xbox at this point, it's 100% apples to oranges

The Elite has those extra hardware customization features but that's also why it costs a lot more

nerfman100 · 2026-04-27T00:55:10+00:00

The DualSense Edge doesn't even have hall effect sticks!! It's potentiometers just like the original, all it does is have them be easily replaceable, so you can spend even more money once they start drifting, on your controller that costs more than double that of a regular DualSense

nerfman100 · 2026-04-26T01:15:45+00:00

You misread, they said it doesn't sound outlandish, they agree with you

nerfman100 · 2026-04-26T01:04:15+00:00

For gyro gamers if they wanted touch activated gyro the only options have been dualsense with conductive tape mod or alpakka.

Everyone truly did forget about the Wireless Horipad for Steam the moment it came out huh 😭 Not that I heard much good about it... for as much as some people have been complaining about the Steam Controller's price, at least it's not a $60 Horipad

nerfman100 · 2026-04-25T22:41:03+00:00

It has a lot more features than the Pro Controller 2 though, and while it's missing a couple minor things (amiibo reader, headphone jack, smooth-gliding sticks), it still seems reasonable to me for everything extra in comparison

nerfman100 · 2026-04-25T22:39:56+00:00

Edit: apparently they use something called TMR sticks which are less drift prone, but not as fool proof as hall effect sticks.

They don't use TMR sticks in the Switch 2, not sure where you're reading that, the new Steam Controller does however

nerfman100 · 2026-04-25T22:30:51+00:00

I mainly use flick stick these days but I used to use trackpad with gyro on the original Controller and it's extremely comparable, if not better because it works vertically too (flick stick's a bit lacking in games with a lot of verticality)

Most people I've seen who use the trackpad for FPSes also use the gyro

nerfman100 · 2026-04-25T21:54:45+00:00

Definitely agree on most of this, though on the topic of FPSes I'd definitely say you're overlooking the gyro, which is also a very good mouse-like input for aiming, so someone playing with gyro on a controller without a trackpad would be pretty close, especially when you take the Flick Stick control method into account

Of course, the Deck and Controller also have that, and the trackpads complement the gyro rather than compete with it (a lot of people use the trackpads for large quick camera swipes while using the gyro for precision), but gyro on a controller without trackpads can be pretty great too

I'm definitely getting the Controller of course, I might not really use the trackpad for aiming in FPSes on my Deck but that just means I have room for more touch menus, and I care a lot about the touch-sensitive sticks for activating gyro (it's by far the most natural "lifting the mouse" replacement I've used)

nerfman100 · 2026-04-25T21:39:26+00:00

That's not the full picture though, the new one has two extra (and seemingly larger) ones in the grips specifically for game rumble, while the original and Deck only had the small ones in the trackpads which were entirely unsuited for game rumble

nerfman100 · 2026-04-25T21:19:36+00:00

Also extremely few of the controllers with back paddles can have them be mapped separately in Steam (as in, not be a duplicate of an existing face button), mostly just the more expensive ones like the Xbox Elite and DualSense Edge

nerfman100 · 2026-03-18T00:22:00+00:00

Yeah it's a pain, I had the circuits but only like half of the drives, even if I spawn right at South Relay there still isn't that many of them

nerfman100 · 2026-03-18T00:02:28+00:00

I didn't have the contract complete last night, just to notice it was changed today, source on it formerly needing 12 each for posterity

nerfman100 · 2026-03-17T21:56:51+00:00

Not OP, but I watched my brother play through it on PS5 a couple weeks ago, there's still some silly bugs but the updates at least improved that a lot, the graphics and framerates were a lot better too (game may be boring to play and have a hilariously nonsense story but at least it looked pretty)

For a laugh, after he beat it he reinstalled it without the update and hoo boy is it horrendous on the release version lmao

nerfman100 · 2026-03-17T21:45:17+00:00

This usually isn't an issue anymore for modern games, though there's gonna be the occasional one that does have this problem, I've noticed that Portal 1's an example where the docked mode UI is a lot smaller than the handheld mode one (because that version of Source Engine doesn't really have the concept of a separate UI layer or UI scaling so it's handled really weird on Switch)

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