My reservation has come up for one of these. Do y'all recommend one? I currently use a PS4 controller for my pc and steam deck gaming (while docked to the tv)
Yes (if you can afford it, not going to change your life), I used a ps4 controller as well before, much better experience!
It's fucking great. Best controller I've ever used. If you can afford it, it's worth it.
The way I've been using so far on my half life 2 run is to reload. I double tap the right one to do so, it's very satisfying to me
Its probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't like Grip Sense. I mean its a lot of movement to activate a function. I have seen suggestions to use it to activate normal functions like a menu button or pause. I feel like a quick button press would be much quicker. In example while my hand let go of the handle to activate a state, then I can't use that hand in the moment to do anything else. Also while doing so the weight shifts towards one end.
I'm probably not very creative in that "sense". Maybe it can be fun to play with games that are centered around Gyro. But what could that be?
It's an option in addition to all the other buttons and inputs. The main use case is for ratcheting/re-centering gyro controls. But yeah some people like their game to just auto-pause when they let go of the controller, or to bring up a map screen.
I agree it's not so useful at times when you need your digits on all the other inputs, but that's not really what it's for anyway.
If you adjust the sensitivity, you can make it not require very much movement.
That said, I personally haven't found a use case where I prefer it over other options.
I would be nervous about making it too sensitive, so that only little movement is enough. It could get a little bit twitchy and activate function without me wanting to. Maybe I should actually experiment with the settings and there is maybe a good middle ground for me, and find some use cases just to play around. But I will say that, it's a novelty and pretty cool idea to come up with by VALVE. I don't think any controller had something like this before.
One thing I liked the grips for was Death Stranding, pack stabilizer grips. Set them as double press to grip. Worked well.
Emulated Splatoon? Well, emulated Nintendo switch games in general
Hmm, I was thinking about Steam only games, because that would be the use case for this controller for me. I emulate Switch games too and play them with a "regular" controller (8bitdo).
Maybe some Horror games...
Are there any cheaper alternatives to steam controller, the ones which also support the gyroscope and touch pads? I would like to buy something like steam controller, if it did not cost $300 usd.
The Stream Controller is $100. Considering the quality is on-par with the PS/Xbone controllers at $70-80 and has the extra features, I doubt you’ll find one cheaper. I’m pretty sure it’s the first of its kind with trackpads as well.
The original price is $100, but due to very high demand and very low supply, every store that even has one for sale, the price is absurdly high. Are there any alternatives to steam controller which also support gyroscope and touchpads, but are not that expensive?
Wishlist it on your steam account to put yourself on the wait list. They'll send you an email when your spot comes up...mine is shipping today!
I cant wishlist it on my account, steam says it is unavailable in my region, and i could not change the region with vpn, still unavailable. So i have to buy steam controller from resellers, but they overprice it due to high demand.
Its available in my area, Ill get it and ship it for cost if thats something you would be up for
Dang, that sucks.
Gyroscope:
DualShock 4, Dualsense, Nintendo Pro Controller or Joycons, some 8BitDo models and some other third-parties.
Touchpads:
Outside of Valve, really only Sony controllers, but I find the touchpad to be way too out of reach to use for anything that isn't quick shortcuts.
There is a third-party controller called "DarkWalker ShotPad" that packs both Gyro and a big ass touchpad, but it only emulates a Keyboard and Mouse (so no Steam Input) and people online complain the touchpad is awfully low resolution so...
Darkwalker shotpad actually looks interesting, and is actually cheap. Despite not having a controller input, i wanted a controller with gyro and trackpads specifically to play games with no controller support.
You could try building the open source version of the steam controller
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