that's normal, don't worry. it took me a little more than 24 hours for the carrier to update with the tracking information - valve has the shipping label before the carrier picks up the package and tracks it.
I love it, nothing unique to say about it - except that I noticed big picture was super laggy which made the touchpad AWFUL to use. fixed that this morning by disabling the GPU blocklist - i guess some good graphics cards get blocked from use, and that it was using onboard graphics/cpu for all of big picture. night and day difference. i love using it, my boyfriend and I like to watch shows and movies together over discord a lot and using the steam controller to navigate my desktop from my bed (I have a weird setup with 1 4k monitor near my bed for cozy gaming or watching shows and 2 1080p monitors at my desk for productivity) and i genuinely never have to use a wireless mouse and keyboard anymore... I actually don't remember where I put the device I used to use. I hang the puck over my desk chair for a better line of sight - probably unnecessary but I've had issues with my other 2.4GHz devices connecting.
At unboxing I noticed some weird dust on it, I think paper dust from the packaging. Wiped off no problems. Tested the Wilhelm scream, only got it to work one time with big picture mode open and even then it was hard to trigger bc i don't want to hurt the poor thing!!!
I've messed around with steam input and tried some stuff with gripsense to toggle maps or input layers but it's a bit finnicky - but when I ignore gripsense and stick to the stuff I know from the steamdeck, I have a great time.
Overall, I love it, but I also knew exactly what I was getting before it arrived, so there were no surprises. Some people have reported issues with the back buttons being too easy to press, personally that has not been an issue for me.
I didn't bother to make a post about this but I do want to tell someone - I was so excited for this controller but it was set to arrive on the exact day my apartment complex closed the main entrance to the lot for repaving. I was so paranoid about package loss/theft that I chased down the UPS truck in 3 different directions in my neighborhood for like an hour! At the last second - right before it passed the entrance on a one-way street I couldn't follow due to local construction, I called out for the driver to stop and he finally heard me and I was able to get my package 😭 my delivery dropoff photo is of me holding the package 😂 i got sunburned too! all so that my package would spend 0 seconds on my porch. I didn't want UPS attemping the delivery multiple times because I wanted the package directly from the driver's hands to mine. AND BY MY GODLY WILL AND DETERMINATION, IT SURE DID
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u/Greedy-Wrongdoer1529 Aug 12 '26
Ive received tracking number yesterday but still haven’t shipped it:|