Is this PEAK pc input device?

Hell no.

How good is this with FPS games?

Okay, but what about THIS piece of Valve hardware?

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Gog isnt big enough for meaningful competition. Epic is the only chance at the moment

for some games is comfy as fuck. But the right pad is not the best for platformers but still a solid controller

this is fucking nice, specially when it was 20 bucks or less on sale.

Ok some faggot never played Mario 64

>20 bucks or less
>plus 20 bucks in "shipping and handling"
That being said I saw one for $25 on craigslist I'll probably pick up.

Fucking love mine, the touchpad is great in some games. Flicking the camera with the touchpad in DMC5 or setting the back triggers for pod and special to toggle in automata is great. Built extremely well and allows for mind boggling amounts of customization. Its for a specific type of person but most people on here who dont like the controller probably never tried it, and instead read some PC Gamer or Kotaku article about how its bad

Gog not being meaningful competition shows you how fucking stupid PC gamers are.

no

bundle in a motion sensor pack on this for fps games and I might get one

Not just gamers but developers have to be willing to put their games on the platform.

Video games are for children. You have to go back.

I unironically thought I was posting in /v/

not very. it's an alright controller and it would be great for stuff that is actually designed for it, but keyboard and mouse still have way more precision and flexibility.

No the Oculus touch controllers are, too bad they can only be used with a Rift though

The price dropped because at that point it was discontinued and Valve wanted to get rid of them. Only then did people realize how nice they are.

You mean that thing it's always had built in?

>he doesn't have his computer in the lounge where he can easily plug in a 5 meter hdmi cord into the tv
I'll bet you browse porn in your tiny room, you degenerate.

Alright, who’s the butthurt manchild who reported my comment telling you that video games are for children?

Off yourself, kid.

>you are now remembering that gog galaxy is a thing.

At least valve is funding wine development, shilling vulkan and experimenting with niche shit like VR and Linux.

Also this Epic can fuck off.

this is. I love how Steam allows me to use it with every game, it pretends that my dualshock2 is an xbox controller.

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I was given one of these... It's like a chromecast with USB inputs.
What do I do with it?

It misses RGB.

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All controllers suck, now to back to /v/ faggot

If you're not using a dualshock 4, you're doing it wrong.

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You don't play many racing games do you?

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no dpad makes this unusable, I have one

keyboard + mouse is
I shit on controllers
>inb4 muh dark souls
I finished the 3 games with keyboard + mouse and it was alright, you're just bad at games

Just use it as intended. I think you can get kodi on to it if all you want is a budget media front end, not sure if it's stable.

And ethernet >>>>> wifi, but you should have guessed this.

Can you use it without steam?

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It's nice for controlling a tv-hooked computer from afar, but that's about that. Had to buy a ds4 to actually play dual-stick games.

Anything is better than analog sticks.

>not very.
Still better than mini joysticks.

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Yes the kernel driver is open source

I have Kodi on mine, also RetroArch. It's pretty comfy.
You can even ssh into the thing and do all kinds of GNU/Linux stuff, you could even use it as a homeserver if you hooked up an external drive to it. Its biggest limitations are the 512MiB ram and the fact that you can't run X locally on it despite having a display output, everything has to be done over a remote connection.

On Windows it only does a very barebones mouse emulation by default, on Linux it also works as a gamepad. If you want more without using Steam, you can use SC Controller on Linux.

I got mine when it was released. It's gathering dust since then

Thats some fine pro level gameplay.

i guess it's not terrible
L1 and R1 are garbage, L2 and R2 are not unusable but the way they click in is weird and annoying
otherwise ok, good software
i'd buy it for 10 bucks

it's uncomfortable.
I don't like the stick position. Obviously that's subjective, but I prefer the sticks high, it's a more comfortable hand position than sticks low.
If it had analog triggers, WiiU Pro Controller would be the perfect controller.

Xbox/Dreamcast/SwitchPro layout is second best, but the right stick placement is too low for comfort - this wasn't an issue for Dreamcast since the right stick was seldom used over the face buttons, certain switch games too preference use of the face buttons over the stick, so it's still comfy. But Xbox games would be better with WiiU stick layout.

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You're a fucking retard.
Is a touchscreen better than analog sticks?
Is a fucking dpad?
no.
You should feel bad.

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That's why it's compared to how bad the steam controller is.

>How good is this with FPS games?

Very good once gyro aiming is set up

This is the apex controller, the only drawback is that you have to be competent in configuring it for each game to get the most out of it.

>It's nice for controlling a tv-hooked computer from afar, but that's about that. Had to buy a ds4 to actually play dual-stick games.

For a big screen PC setup, you want both. The Xbone controller is better for multiplats with all the Xbox button prompts. Games like Far Cry.

The Steam Controller is great for games like Half Life 2. Gyro enabled on rightpad touch, that's how you nail headshots.

Yes, a touchpad, trackball anything will beat the shit out of the mini dildos on a gamepad in precision, 9/10 times. You are free to test it you don't believe me.

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That's what happens when you try to play a genre made for PC on a shitty little toy gamepad originally designed for Super Mario. The Jewish console manufacturers wanted desperately to get these popular PC shooters over to their systems so they had a dilemma "are our audiences dumb enough to buy into it if we put a couple of pathetic little dildos on this Super Mario controller?"... well, the gambling paid off. Halo was a smash hit. Now all the little kiddies are playing FPS on a gamepad with auto-aim on, and still can't aim for shit.

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>>L1 and R1 are garbage, L2 and R2 are not unusable but the way they click in is weird and annoying
I like the tactile buttons, I wish the A B X and Y buttons had them too

It was hamstrung by the Steam client. I used it with sc-controller to watch Touhou memes in bed on my laptop and realized how good it is. It way more countable then a touchpad.

ok monkey paw having ass

no this is
>80hour battery life
>durable mini-usb charging port
>works perfectly for both retro and modern games
>both analog sticks in top position
>good build quality nintendo is known for
>no faggot triggers that are good only for few specif games
>good d-pad
>very comfortable
>syncs/connects quickly
only con is that I need usb dongle to get working on pc or other consoles

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I would not buy this for anything first person. I love the fuck out of my steam controller for third person games but cant imagine using it for anything else. Besides this apparently a lot of people hate on it for some reason (?) which I'm guessing is just it being different in the hands, so unless you really want it dont buy it.

>digital triggers

While alien resurrection was the precursor to the modern twin-stick control scheme for fps I doubt many here have actually played the game. The controls are not what you think and really are janky as fuck.

It does not play as smoothly as basically every fps that came after (now admittedly a lot of that is tied to supporting digital controls on the ps1 and the ps2 had no such restriction). The game is still totally worth playing though.

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N64 controller is worse

It's good for what it is, and accomplishes what it sets out to do (be a decent stand in for a mouse if you're playing from a couch or something). It does some neat things I wish more controllers did--the paddles on the back are really cool and the gyroscope aiming is superb, for example, and the sheer amount of remapping and customization options is incredible. I don't personally view it as a substitute for a conventional controller, though. While the touch pads might be better for certain games like FPS or RTS titles, I certainly prefer analog sticks for, say, 3rd-person action games.

Shoulder buttons are pretty stiff. Other than that they pretty much hit what they were trying to do, at least for a first product.

I wonder how its popularity would have turned out if at launch the software had been more mature and the hold-right-pad-to-gyro mouse aiming had been an integral part of the review guide.

It's not gonna win any awards for being a superior controller for controller games, but you try playing the OG Deus Ex or a strategy game from the couch with a regular xbone or dualshock controller

What is this abomination?

>using a normal controller for racing games
I bet you don't have a flight stick for flying games either

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I got mine for $10 from Valve. Problem is, a few weeks later, I heard there was a firmware vulnerability.It's not fixable as far as I can tell.
cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-17878/

>Halo was a smash hit
And the reason for that is that it didn't just have aim-assistance, it had aim-assistance layered on top of aim-assistance that was layered on top of aim-assistance. Your aim slows relative to targets, it locks to hitboxes, and your fire will CHANGE TRAJECTORY to be closer.

>he doesnt have his cleaning lady stand in his room to tell him whats happening on his screen at any given moment via walkie talkies while hes taking a shit

Based and red pilled

This controller design tells you everything you need to know about PC master race.

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Got it for $15 recently, shoulder buttons are pretty bad as others have said but it's nice otherwise. The native Linux driver got mainlined in 4.18 which was a big bonus for me. Still worth it but I hardly ever use it over my wired 360 pad.

>$15
Did you buy it used?

Better than any dual analog controller

L2/r2 are analog + a button at the end

its a pretty nice kodi machine desu

You and I both know a wheel is a fine tuned instrument only needed for the most precise of GOTTA GO FAST vidya. You use a wheel for Richard Burns Rally, you use a controller for Wipeout.

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You don't even have to use the analog stick. Most people don't realize it and the face buttons are legacy features but they can be useful if you need space for more binds.

The track pads are still meant to be the main gimmick and work well enough when you're not retarded and have the time to configure them on a per app basis.

The whole thing would have been better if they had just left the stick and face buttons out to put in actual vibration. Given the nature of the control a touchscreen might even have been viable if they could keep costs down somehow, compared to Sony's completely half-assed implementation of it.

You can use the steam controller like a wheel and it (almost) doesn't completely suck.

Did you buy it from fucking GameStop? Are they still selling it?

I like the fact I can put acc/break, gear shift, gps buttons, indicators, pause, menu, lights, wipers, ignition, horn, steering, freelook, fifth wheel, cruise control, mouse control and radio control all on the same controller.
Would be nice to have a wheel, still.

Yes.
Best controller I have ever had.

This.
Camera controls on Steam Controller are God like compared to the standard controllers.

I'd buy a DS3 like that in a heartbeat

>integrated battery

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>no rumble
>garbage d pad
>uses some trackpad as a shitty replacement for the right joystick
>peak

I would take a trackball or trackpad over a stick any day.

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It's behind door held in by one regular phillips screw.
It's completely user serviceable (Nintendo sold a larger battery kit in Japan)

Your ass. Steam controller is garbage, no wonder it was a failure.

i post this every time i see a steam controller thread.
look at the first ~20 second, which is me using the steam controller in magicka 1 using the layout provided by the developers of the game. as you can see, the right touchpad does an absolutely horrendous job at emulating an analog stick.
the rest of the webm is me using a regular xbox controller, which works flawlessly because it has a proper right analog stick.
i wish they stuck to the original modular design, which would have allowed people to switch the touchpads with proper analog sticks.
while the ability to change the button layout however you like was great and kind of unique when it was released, but other controllers can do the same now with steam.
there is not a single game that has been designed exclusively for the steam controller or at the very least with the steam controller in mind. for games that use keyboard and mouse, keyboard and mouse are superior to the steam controller. for console ports that use xbox or playstation controllers, xbox and playstation controllers are superior to the steam controller.

the steam controller lacks a second analog stick and proper dpad. the ABXY buttons are hard to reach comfortably, even if you have giant hands.
this controller tried to do everything and as a result it does nothing well. i'll regret buying one forever. even some 15 dollar madcatz xbox knockoff would be more fun to use in the vast majority of games.

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this is the design i was talking about.

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It's wildly better for FPS games than my Xbone controller, but it's still fucking shit as ass compared to my keyboard and mouse.
And considering the only times I use controllers are for platformers, it's useless.

tried too and holy fuck that thing is annoying. I'll stick to my Xbone controller I got for my PC

Here is every controller worth a damn:

DS3
For platformers, that dpad is king.
Xbone
For anything that needs me to use two thumbsticks and buttons, you can't beat this placement of the erganomics of this controller in general
Steam
This clicks on files from bed, usually putting on a movie. And extremely occasionally when I want to play a shooter in bed I'll use this for the good aiming.

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OK loser

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