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How to craft the Steam Hardware Beta badges
By Just An Average Toaster
NOTE: THIS GUIDE NO LONGER WORKS BECAUSE THIS BADGE IS NO LONGER ABLE TO BE CRAFTED.
A guide on how to earn and craft your Steam Hardware Enthusiast and Steam Hardware Beta Candidate badges.
   
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Explanation on how to earn each badge
Join the Steam Universe Group
  • Click on this link right here.
  • Click on the the green button that says "Join Group" (See figure 1.1)

Make 10 friends
  • If you have not done this already, then all you need to do is find 10 willing people to add friends with for this badge.
  • The Steam Universe Group Thread is a good place to find 10 friends quickly.

Create a public Steam Community profile
  • Go to your profile and click on the button that says "Edit Profile"
  • Go to the right side and click on the tab called "My Privacy Settings" (See Figure 2.1)
  • Check Public for Profile Status and click save (See Figure 2.2)
  • Click the button "Save Changes" (See Figure 2.3)

Launch and play a game using a gamepad in Big Picture mode
If you have a controller:
  • Connect your controller to your computer
  • Launch Big Picture (See Figure 3.1) and make sure to be using your controller to scroll through and select a game
  • Once the game has launched use your controller to click something, or play the game with it
If you don't have a controller:
  • Go to this website[headsoft.com.au] and scroll down to Downloads and click "VJoy Virtual Joystick Driver v1.2 (Includes key to joy application)" and download it
  • Open it up and use these exact settings for configuration
  • Once in Big Picture use the right arrow key to select library, then use Numpad 2 to go to your library and launch a game (Note: This method doesn't work for all games)

Jump through some legal hoops by completing this form required for beta participation
  • Go here and fill in your information for each box
  • Read the Beta Test Agreement, check the box that says "I agree AND am 13 years of age or older AND I declare the above entered address to be accurate" and click the green submit button
Badges
Displayable Profile Badges
Steam Hardware
Enthusiast

Level 1
XP: 100
Steam Hardware
Beta Candidate

Level 2
XP: 50
Unknown Steam
Hardware Badge

Level 3
XP: Unknown

Badges to earn the badge
Join the Steam Universe group
Make 10 friends
Create a public
Steam Community
profile
Launch and play
a game using a
gamepad in Big Picture mode
Jump through
some legal hoops
by completing this form required for
beta participation
Figures
Figure 1.1




Figure 2.1

Figure 2.2

Figure 2.3




Figure 3.1






Figure 3.2

Enjoy!
I hope this helped you craft your badge!

For any redditors who collect steam badges, I have created a subreddit called /r/SteamBadges feel free to visit it and post. Currently I don't really know what I am doing so it would be great if there is anyone who knows how to code or moderate a subreddit.
Thanks!
83 Comments
Lucifer 5 Feb @ 6:11am 
Not since 10+ years ago
RODIOMG7 5 Feb @ 4:59am 
can you get this
• Z E R O • 27 Nov, 2023 @ 5:58am 
We can't take it anymore, sad
WaaaaZaaaa-Aplus 20 Sep, 2023 @ 8:59am 
Level 3 Badge was only designed for those 250 winners of the steam machine prototype. I to believe that why they did it as 250xp too. I'm currently displaying it on my profile.
5hiro24 30 Jan, 2023 @ 4:38am 
dope badge
๖ۣۜPisii-chan ツ 5 Jun, 2022 @ 9:32am 
that level 3 badged looked cool ngl
Ivo 21 Mar, 2022 @ 11:55am 
:((
Lisbeth 20 Mar, 2022 @ 8:49am 
D:
D R i c k r a f t [ᚨ] [ᚦ] 10 May, 2020 @ 5:39am 
This doesn't work anymore cuz It was a beta feauture.
(SSC) shadow night 17 Feb, 2020 @ 3:54pm 
why dose it not work anymore?