Valve has started off Friday and the weekend strong with a big update to the Steam Deck which is available now.

As you can see by the patch notes below this is a sizeable list of changes with the focus being on external displays, controllers and performance.

We can’t help but wonder if this update, especially the part focused on external displays, was meant to coincide with the Docking Station. Just yesterday Valve announced that this piece of hardware was delayed due to parts shortages and manufacturing closures caused by COVID-19.

• Added Game Resolution setting to App Properties, allowing players to override the max display resolution for games, on a a per-game basis
• Added mouse cursor (using right trackpad) for built-in web browser interactions when connected to an external display
• Improved default aspect ratio behavior for external monitors – games will now default to 1280×800 for 16:10 external displays and 1280×720 for all other external displays
• Improved UI performance in game carousels
• Improved UI performance when connected to an external display
• Improved controller order when using external gamepads to assign the controller slots by the order of input. This should help with compatibility in games which locked onto the Steam Deck controller.
• Fixed ‘Enable updated fan control’ toggle not remembering its state across reboots
• Fixed Bluetooth controllers not working on the lockscreen
• Fixed some formatting issues on the Steam Deck Chord Summary page
• Fixed issue preventing deletion of some controller layouts
• Temporarily disabled adaptive brightness toggle, as it was causing performance and stability issues. Big thanks to the community for catching this weird bug – we’re working on a fix for it now.

What makes this update even more interesting is the fact that it kind of has a trailer.

Valve has rolled this updated and many past updates’ features into a quick summary and put it in video form.

Aside from this being a useful info dump for those who don’t want to read or have not been keeping up with all the changes over the past few months, we have to appreciate that the company used video of dogs being blow-dried when it gets to the part discussing the Steam Deck fan.