Frick, I have a Steam Deck and I want one of these for my desktop but they're impossible to find at a reasonable price, I have been spoiled by the trackpads and there's no way I can ever go back to any other standard controller.
Absolutely not. It's an experimental piece of tech, with a few cool features.
-The buttons are too small and in an odd place which makes them really uncomfortable to use if you're used to an Xbox/PS button layout.
-The touchpads creak like hell.
-The gamepad feels cheap
- Weird concave shape
Its uncomfortable to hold and use unless you just use the touchpads. There's a reason why they gave this gamepad away for 5 €/$, apart from a niche audience and use nobody used this. It can do cool shit with gyro and touchpads and racing games and flying sims seem be a good application for it but if you mostly play platformers, 2D games or you just want regular controls this isn't it.
>Shill >For a controller nobody can buy first hand anymore because of patent troll homosexualry
2 years ago
Anonymous
Didn't know valve went bankrupted and pulled out all the shills from here. My bad.
2 years ago
Anonymous
They can't shill a steam controller to you because they literally can't sell it, or even parts for it.
2 years ago
Anonymous
valve hasn't paid for a single advertisement since portal 2, if you think they hire people to go to Ganker to shill products that aren't even sold anymore than you might just be a moron
2 years ago
Anonymous
>valve hasn't paid for a single advertisement since portal 2,
This isn't true they definitely got outlets to cover the Deck. The IGN coverage for the announcement was definitely paid for.
You're right about them not paying for shills for a product you cannot even buy anymore though, that other Anon is moronic.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>The IGN coverage for the announcement was definitely paid for
Lol why would Valve need to pay money for journalist to cover their products? They do that for free anyway. They even gave them first-look exclusive access to the thing, that's Valve doing them a favor not the other way around. IGN even gave the thing a bad review.
It is but it's unusual to say the least (right track pad is a mouse by default, which means it works out of the box with nearly all PC games). It does require that Steam or a program to "translate" the Steam Controller to Xinput or else input gets registered bizarrely (like PgUp being mapped for pressing left, etc).
Wait for the inevitable Steam Controller 2 based on the Steam Deck layout. The Steam Controller was innovative but was meant more as a means to better play PC-centric M+KB titles like competitive FPS or RTS from a couch and less as an "all-in-one" controller. The added D-Pad and second analog stick on the Deck gives it the versatility needed to handle nearly every genre without compromise.
Native mouse input. It registers as a mouse as well as a controller, as all PC controllers frankly should do. Means that any PC game can use a controller if you honestly want to. Don't think it is worth thr price people want for them nowadays but it's a good controller.
>Thumbstick in steam controller is failing >Running recalibration sort of fixed it, but it's only a matter of time before it's in too poor condition to use any more
Your circles felt flimsy and were loud and clunky to press, you made my thumbs get too close together to play basic games, and I wish you had a normal D-pad.
My 360 controller finally started drifting about 100 hours into my Elden Ring playthrough. I whipped out the steam controller I bought as a backup and played the remaining ~50 hours with it. Good controller once you get use to it, but the button placement still didn't feel natural after that many hours.
I finally started using mine after leaving it boxed up for years
Its ok. For any games that need a good directional pad its terrible, though I read that there's a way to adjust it so its not so clicky and bad. Haven't bothered yet since I only use it for like three different games
glad I got it though. its the only wireless controller I have for pc. its also pretty comfy to browse the net with when I'm extra lazy
Is it a good controller? My 360 controller won't last forever.
Not really. It's a terrible replacement for a 360/Xbone Controller.
what kind of moron buys it to be a xbone replacement
do steam controller shit with it, and it's a far superior controller
It's the last controller you'll ever get. It does everything better than every other controller ever made, and is endlessly customizable.
Frick, I have a Steam Deck and I want one of these for my desktop but they're impossible to find at a reasonable price, I have been spoiled by the trackpads and there's no way I can ever go back to any other standard controller.
Absolutely not. It's an experimental piece of tech, with a few cool features.
-The buttons are too small and in an odd place which makes them really uncomfortable to use if you're used to an Xbox/PS button layout.
-The touchpads creak like hell.
-The gamepad feels cheap
- Weird concave shape
Its uncomfortable to hold and use unless you just use the touchpads. There's a reason why they gave this gamepad away for 5 €/$, apart from a niche audience and use nobody used this. It can do cool shit with gyro and touchpads and racing games and flying sims seem be a good application for it but if you mostly play platformers, 2D games or you just want regular controls this isn't it.
chang is seething
>no argument
>hurr durr
I won. Just admit defeat.
It's the default shill respond.
>Shill
>For a controller nobody can buy first hand anymore because of patent troll homosexualry
Didn't know valve went bankrupted and pulled out all the shills from here. My bad.
They can't shill a steam controller to you because they literally can't sell it, or even parts for it.
valve hasn't paid for a single advertisement since portal 2, if you think they hire people to go to Ganker to shill products that aren't even sold anymore than you might just be a moron
>valve hasn't paid for a single advertisement since portal 2,
This isn't true they definitely got outlets to cover the Deck. The IGN coverage for the announcement was definitely paid for.
You're right about them not paying for shills for a product you cannot even buy anymore though, that other Anon is moronic.
>The IGN coverage for the announcement was definitely paid for
Lol why would Valve need to pay money for journalist to cover their products? They do that for free anyway. They even gave them first-look exclusive access to the thing, that's Valve doing them a favor not the other way around. IGN even gave the thing a bad review.
The TouchPads definitely do not creak. They provide vibration feedback (can be disabled) but that's it. I own two and use them regularly.
It is but it's unusual to say the least (right track pad is a mouse by default, which means it works out of the box with nearly all PC games). It does require that Steam or a program to "translate" the Steam Controller to Xinput or else input gets registered bizarrely (like PgUp being mapped for pressing left, etc).
Wait for the inevitable Steam Controller 2 based on the Steam Deck layout. The Steam Controller was innovative but was meant more as a means to better play PC-centric M+KB titles like competitive FPS or RTS from a couch and less as an "all-in-one" controller. The added D-Pad and second analog stick on the Deck gives it the versatility needed to handle nearly every genre without compromise.
No. It is and has always been a very poorly designed controller.
It needs a second thumbstick, and that's the bare minimum.
Daddy taught us not to be ashamed of our decks, since they're such good size and all
I'm sorry and thank you.
Steam Controllers crawled so Steam Input could run. So the Steam Deck could fly.
Now where the frick is SC2?
What does a Steam controller have over an old Xbox 360 controller?
Native mouse input. It registers as a mouse as well as a controller, as all PC controllers frankly should do. Means that any PC game can use a controller if you honestly want to. Don't think it is worth thr price people want for them nowadays but it's a good controller.
>Thumbstick in steam controller is failing
>Running recalibration sort of fixed it, but it's only a matter of time before it's in too poor condition to use any more
Another Valve failure, will they ever get hardware right?
Your circles felt flimsy and were loud and clunky to press, you made my thumbs get too close together to play basic games, and I wish you had a normal D-pad.
It's ugly.
My 360 controller finally started drifting about 100 hours into my Elden Ring playthrough. I whipped out the steam controller I bought as a backup and played the remaining ~50 hours with it. Good controller once you get use to it, but the button placement still didn't feel natural after that many hours.
That is possibly the most God awful looking controlled I have ever seen. What the actual frick were they thinking?
I finally started using mine after leaving it boxed up for years
Its ok. For any games that need a good directional pad its terrible, though I read that there's a way to adjust it so its not so clicky and bad. Haven't bothered yet since I only use it for like three different games
glad I got it though. its the only wireless controller I have for pc. its also pretty comfy to browse the net with when I'm extra lazy