Quoting: fraghopperI much prefer a wired solution.

The just connect it using a USB cable.
Quoting a reddit comment from someone who has a controller:

I took out the batteries, unplugged receiver and plugged in the usb to check just for you. You'll be glad to know that everything still worked perfectly! [External Link]

When you connect it using a wire, it powers and communicates through the wire. You can choose whether you want to use it wired or wireless.

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Quoting: LinasI will only buy it if it comes in a wired variety. I think there is enough waste in the world without me dumping a bunch of batteries every week.

You can use the controller wired or wireless. From what I've read, when you connect it via wire you can remove the batteries.

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Just got an email from Steam to verify my shipping address by Sep. 25. Looking forward to getting my hands on the controller!

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Quoting: miroThat is kinda annoying, one would have to have rechargeable ones + a charger. Honestly, I know this from friends who have a XBox and call me for gaming, saying something like hey bro, bring a 12 pack of batteries from the store, we're gonna need them.

From a reddit comment:
I have around 40 hours of gameplay with it and all have 82% battery life left. [External Link]

If this is true, that's impressive. Even if the 82% are way off and it's 10% left, getting >40 hours is pretty good.

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Quoting: BeamboomWired? Seriously? A WIRED controller in 2015? For a livingroom "console-PC"? You got to be kidding me, and kidding me hard. That cable must go. Please tell me this is a prototype or something.

It works wirelessly, runs off batteries.
When you see controllers/games demonstrated at any sort of press conference or convention, the controllers are usually wired. I guess they just want to make sure they don't run out of battery or avoid interference with the next booth.

EDIT to add: Estimated 5 meters of wireless communications range. [External Link]

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Quoting: srlsboyWhy is it that some small time developer from some indie house can port their game
to opengl/cross-plat but the big studios with multi million dollar budgets and 75 employees
can't be bothered?

Most indies don't build their own engines. Unity, Unreal, and now Cryengine have Linux support. Someone else already did the bulk of the work porting the engine, so the dev has less work. It's still extra work, but not the same as having to support the engine on several platforms themselves.
On the other hand, smaller studios that use their own engines seem to have a far harder time with native Linux support, like Larian and CDPR. I guess the Serious Engine (Talos Principle, Serious Sam 3) by Croteam is a counter-example, don't know how those studios compare in size, or how their engines compare in complexity and reliance on middleware.

In addition, for a less known indie dev it may well be a bigger advantage to tap into the less crowded Linux market. Just write something nice about Linux on some blog or twitter, and every Linux gaming site will talk about you and your game.

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Quoting: BdMdesigN

Quoting: ricki42For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.

Yes of course, but use the Steam HWsurvey for a stament is poor.
Realy poor and nonsense, if you don't have Linux with steam 4 linux installed to see how much you get the survey.
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Do you see the irony?

Are you sure you replied to the right comment? I wasn't arguing against anything you were saying, I was merely pointing out that they would also need to port Origin to Linux, and then they'd have to convince Linux users to use it. I think acceptance of Origin has improved, it was quite hated originally (no pun intended), and I think if anything I would guess Linux users would be even more hesitant to install yet another DRM client.

As for the Steam surveys, I think it's important to beware of confirmation bias. I have read so often on Linux gaming forums that the survey pops up less often on Linux, everyone seems to just accept it, but I've never seen proper statistics. If I started steam on wine now and got the survey, I'd be tempted to see that as confirmation, but the plural of anecdote isn't data. And going by the data we have from devs who published their sales per platform, Linux usually comes out at 1-3%, which is actually fairly in line with the Steam survey, considering that the Linux community has fewer games to choose from and is probably on average more active than the millions of Windows users who logged in once.
But whether or not the Steam survey is biased, Valve must have access to more relevant data, such as money spend per platform (this one really seems the most important), games bought per platform, players logged in per platform. After all, they anyway determine what platform a sale is assigned to. And I'd be surprised if EA couldn't get that data, I highly doubt they base business decision solely on some potentially flawed and limited Steam hardware survey.

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For EA games it's not just the engine, it's also Origin that would need to be ported.
Still, Mass Effect: Andromeda would've been nice.

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Been really looking forward to this. Bought it as soon as I saw it listed Linux.

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I played this for a bit when it first came out, and I played with a DS4 controller without issues.
I agree that getting out of the first town was confusing, not only is it sometimes hard to see where you can walk and what's a wall due to the art style, but what's more, I'm pretty certain the game tells you to go west, but you have to go to the right edge of the screen. Later on the world map it looks like west is left like usual, but in that first town west is right, so I kept running up and down the left edge of the screen for a while. Or rather walking, game needs a run button.
I actually thought it's quite fun otherwise. The whole stamina and aggro mechanic is interesting. I just haven't had time to play more.

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