Quoting: Sojiro84... I just want to launch a game and it just has to work perfect out of the box. I don't want to tweak my controller per game for the right settings.

So in that, I guess the controller just is not for me.

Totally right. You are denying yourself of the main Steam Controller advantage... Tweaking. That's exactly what makes it so awesome. Definitely not for you, then.

But I have to admit that the Steam Controller's Joystick emulation, with a trackpad, is garbage... Much better to start with a standard Xbox controller setup and modify the right trackpad to be used as a mouse or a joystick in mouse mode, imo.

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Quoting: Patola

Quoting: Sojiro84I bought the Steam Controller again a few months ago with Sekiro to give it another try. The first one went to the trash after I was unable to play a game with it.

Unfortunately, after trying and giving it a honest try, I still just cant play with the Steam Controller. I lack feedback with the touch thingy and therefore shooters and third person games are impossible to play.

Maybe if I tried for days on end for 3 months I might get used to it, but that is way too much time to learn a new controller.

So I went back the the XONE controller in the end. Don't fix what ain't broken IMHO.

That looks SO MUCH like the experience of some Windows people when trying Linux. Instead if trying to learn a new ooerational system, they try to use Linux the same way they used Windows. Which is of course doomed to failure with 100% certainty. And then they cry around and write articles telling the world how lame Linux is. Seems to be the same you are doing to the steam controller. You tried to use it as a mere gamepad and -- or course -- failed. Let me hint you that if used correctly, it can fit every single type of game, from simulators to arcades, from click and point to RTS.

A small question from your testimony tho: you said you miss the feedback from using the joystick in FPS. How do you deal with the springy joystick to aim? Don't you get irritated in trying to fixate the cursor in a point and it trying to leave that point?

Playing a shooter with a stick to aim... Yuk! Much better with SC touchpad in Mouse mode or, even better, with the Gyroscope for precise aiming. I've gotten through all of Half Life series, Metro games, Wolfenstein, Doom and Bioshocks with the Steam controller. I'm a headshot collector with the Gyro! Playing a shooter with a classic gamepad, without aiming help is a thing that drives me crazy. I'll switch back to K+M before using a stick. But hey! That's just me. :)

Edit 1: The only kind of games where a classic controller is having a slight advantage, imo, is in 3rd person games, when you need to look around you while moving. Even then it's quite playable with a Steam Controller.

Edit 2: This and the fact that the DS4 and Xbox One controllers are coming with a 3.5mm jack. :)

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I have an Nvidia Shield and a PS4... I always preferred the Steam Controller to any of these. Sad to see them go. Hope to see a V2.0 soon. :'(

At least, I have 3 of them... I'm good for a long time. :)

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Oh well... Will wait for a Steam sale to get a Valve Index kit 90% off... Yeah sure! :D

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Quoting: ElectricPrismFantastic News, I hope they have more plans to asess market interest and offer sales and shipping to more countries aswell, or at the very least target different regions over the world.

I have heard stories about Canadians driving 6+ hours and crossing the border to get their Valve Index due to the limited sales locations.

If you start from scratch... 1 320 CAN$... It's even more than my whole brand new computer. Not ready for mainstream adoption at all. :O

Sad, because de new HL game preview is making me drool! :)

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Quoting: Power-Metal-GamesTo someone who uses UE4 every day these comments sound funny at best but completely out of reality. They should do this, should do that...

Please be more specific... Why would a better Vulkan implementation be out of reality? Vulkan is much larger than just Linux. Are you refering to other comments?

Speaking for myself, my main grudge with Epic is that exclusivity deal race that's just a race to the bottom, imo, targeted directly at Valve. They should use that money in better and more productive (positive) ways.

It's not the first time that Epic tries to demonize a competitor:

https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/epic-and-improbable-are-taking-advantage-of-unity-with-the-spatialos-debacle-seems-a-little-planned.13328

Personnally, I can't stand that kind of attitude. Invest to get better instead of being mean. I stopped using Windows for similar reasons.

As for Quixel, it's a business decision that fits with what they are doing. Sad for those that don't want to be involved with Unreal, but this kind of buyout happens pretty often.

But Epic getting bigger, considering the roadtrack they have, is alarming to me. Nothing good is going to come out of it.

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Quoting: Pangaea

Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: BielFPsI think we all hoped for. Bioshock series really neat the whole "dystopian society" theme.

Especially the first game had an amazing atmosphere, man how I loved to explore and unwrap the stories in there.
One of my all time favourites.

Totally agree with this, re: Bioshock. LOVED the first game. Such a marvellous atmosphere, and a good story too. The second game lost a little of the magic, but was still fun. Not played the later games, but that first one was marvellous.

Kinda the same with Mafia. The first game was one of the best games I've ever played. Such a strong story too.

It really seems like something was lost from the games that came out in that era. Late 90 to early 2000s. Thank goodness Kickstarter projects revived my belief in quality games and we got some jewels from it.

Bioshock 2 is not considered Canon. It's just some form of exploitation of the Bioshock "universe". Infinite and the first opus wrap together marvelously in a "complete" story. One being the prequel to the other. Personally I prefered Infinite to the first game, but both are good. It's even more obvious if you play Infinite's DLCs where the last pieces of the puzzle are falling in place.

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Quoting: Egonaut

Quoting: MohandevirEpic must be thinking that it's a loss of time to implement Vulkan when Proton is doing the job for them... :huh:

Vulkan is implemented in Unreal Engine, it's even default API for Linux builds.

Should have put a sarcasm tag because I know that. Fortnite on Android is using it, if I remember well. It's just that Epic are really hard to follow. The :huh: smiley meant just that.

Demonstration by the absurd, we call that? :)

... Mixed with my personal disgust for Epic.

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Quoting: ShmerlEpic should get up form the sofa, and implement high performance parallelized Vulkan renderer, instead of "archiving" it:

https://trello.com/c/lzLwtb5P/124-vulkan-for-pc-and-linux [External Link]

Epic must be thinking that it's a loss of time to implement Vulkan when Proton is doing the job for them... :huh:

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Quoting: FredOWe are not the happy few...

Tought the same... In those lines: "Us Disappointed Many" :)

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