Quoting: 14

One part I didn't like was your spouse popping up here and there....

That was probably the point. :P

Actually sometimes you come across a pairing where your spouse shows to be an agent of another nation spying on you and therefore your choice of spouse becomes a problem because the RNG said so and triggered those mechanics that makes the game extra hard for you...

Guess Liam didn't stumble upon a moment where the game triggered the "Uh oh looks like your spouse is working for the ennemy" mechanics.

Sadly when you roll a "normal spouse" game then indeed the spouse doesn't add much to your game and just randomly pops up for no reason and doesn't add much to the game.

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Quoting: MohandevirBut 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.

Joystick isn't so much garbage as it higlights what kind of weird stupid funky things devs are doing to make aiming with a joystick semi tolerable.

Hell that's why Dishonored 2 templates reverted back to KBM modes because of the weird behavior of the aim correction of the gamepad mode.

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Don't exactly have a want for the Knouckout mode but I'm glad it exists for people who a want a quicker experience.

Also I kind of dig the new comers in the roster.

Also Also Liam playing Hobgen huh ? I see Liam is a man of culture :D

*says the Anessix main*

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Quoting: ajgpSadly all the controllers were gone by the time I found out about the sale :(

We all hope that them clearing out the steam controller stock was to make room for Version 2 of the steam controller...
But with Valve you can never know especially since the patent we found about a version 2 is just that a patent...
Number of shit that got filed that never made it to production don't exactly help boast confidence.

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Quoting: dpanterAccording to The Verge:

...Valve confirms that this is the last batch of these gamepads that will ever be made.

No link because 1) it's The Verge and 2) that's all they wrote about it.

Yeah you do good to not link it since indeed it's the verge.
Sooo anyone has found any offcial statement about Valve stopping to make ANY steam controller at all.

I mean a few months ago a patent was found about a Steam Controller Revision with two more grip buttons , was it all for nothing ?

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Do we have any words from Valve that they intend to stop producing them ?
Did I miss an episode again ?

Like for real I didn't hear or read anything announcing them stopping the steam controller altogether.

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Quoting: Liam DaweHow many of them were actually useful? How many were sold products? It's a nice list, but it's just a list. You could make the same about MSFT, Apple, Canonical and plenty of others even just in the Linux space. I've changed and removed plenty of features on GOL over the years. Some of that list don't even make sense, listing old hardware like Nexus phones - every hardware company ends lines and starts new ones.

How many times have I made this argument and every single fucking time the person in front of me just dismissed it wholesale because ONE or TWO on that list were things THEY cared about ...

People just love to hate on Google. Don't get me wrong here Google and Alphabet are no angels far from it, but sometimes I get the feeling that people want to see Stadia burn not because they hate Stadia itself but because they want google's butt to be kicked somewhere.

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Quoting: GuestMultiple choices, each aimed towards a slightly different demographic of some kind, means that basically _everyone_ gets something for them, which is really the ultimate in equality.

The "ultimate equality" would be to do what Hitbox controller manufacturers are doing...

Which is to say "You make the control board you specify the number of buttons and joysticks -or lack thereof- and you release BOTH premade models and a bare bones control board option for people to craft their own specialty controller for their specific needs.

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Quoting: GuestI had to look up what a peniche boat is. Thinking about those for hands, I suddenly had this image of the SDF-1 (Robotech / Macross reference for those who don't know) trying to play games with a controller.
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As regarding the ongoing discussion of the controller, I think we can all agree that different is good. There is no one size controller that fits all. We should want multiple styles, want a range of choices, and want companies to experiment a little. It's like with any peripheral: keyboard, mouse, headphone, joystick, wheel, etc etc etc. Multiple choices, each aimed towards a slightly different demographic of some kind, means that basically _everyone_ gets something for them, which is really the ultimate in equality.

If only companies were willing to at the very least do different sizes it would be ideal yeah.
Like sure the DualShock 4 (and upcoming 5) are super cool for my tinsy itty bitty hands.

But my bestie is a professional in the moving industry, he's got hands that can cover my entire face should he need to grab me. Having him play a game on a Playstation controller is never happy fun time for him. And well would it really kill SONY to put at least three sizes for everyone .
I mean the shape of the controller is already good just resize the damn thing for bigger hands...

XBOX on the other hand is a trickier one to "resize" because what's actually painful isn't so much the sizing of the shell itself but of the buttons and their spacing and the shape of the buttons etc etc .
Like for real there's a lot of wrong on the XBOX One controller design that's actually not down to hand size but to finger thickness -or lack thereof- and when you have downright "elvish" fingers like mine ABXY buttons are fucking painfull for example.

Also , sorry MirV as a dirty frenchie I tend to forget that river freight is not much a thing anymore in a lot of countries... :dizzy:

(Hell my third Steam Controller got delivered that way arrived in Gent Belgium then using the river canals between Gent and Lille made the rest of the trip on a Solar Powered Peniche before being picked up by the mail office. How do I know ? The solar peniche company that handles Belgium and Northern France region has their own cute stamp that they put on every parcel . A tiny cute Posseidon stamp . )

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Quoting: namikoI'm sick of women being used by companies as a way of scoring PR points. It's a distraction from Stadia's real problems.

Except that the video was released during the promotional phase some few weeks after the initial live conference and was specifically a 40 minutes long video about the controller design and nothing else.

Quoting: namikoIt comes across as pandering and not genuine. They could have said they were making a controller that fits in smaller hands and left it at that without gendering hand size.

Except that this is precisely what the video did by showing also men with short hands , and intersex dudes such as myself with a truck load of feminine hormones floating about their bloodstream and resulting with super duper tiny hands too. And the lady in the video used the word "gender neutral design" PRECISELY to avoid gendering and making people realize that not everyone has fucking PENICHE BOATS for hands...

Once again just like your first comment you open up your mouth without going back to the original video the article that was shared by the other clown was "making fun off" ...

And even the article was mostly spending its time telling Stadia marketing departement "Guys when it's comes to the different color finishes the industry has been on that train since the Playstation era... Also there are quite a lot of third party controller manufacturers that have moved away from NEON ON BLACK "GAMER" Aesthetics a looong time ago , did you just come out of your Pyramid or somethin' ? "

Quoting: namikoI see it as wrong when any person is set below another in a sense of making things more equal. Taking another down doesn't bring another up, it's just switching places and creating another inequality.

I see your fingers typing , and I read what you're saying sadly all of the above before that quote shows that maybe you should start to apply the theory to yourself before making any judgement calls on others ...

In other words "Oh I'm sure you truly believe what you're saying sadly you ain't applyin' shit".

On a "lighter" note I did receive my pair of controllers from Stadia finally.
And tried to pry one open without damaging it, to see if the guys at gamer nexus were maybe overdoing it for "comedic effect" , and ... well ... nope .
Those clips are indeed way too thick to be pushed safely. They need to change that real quick, because for real that's the one and only thing in that whole controller design that needs changing. Oh and making the plastic tab that covers the screw be removable without resorting to pour half a bottle of nail polish remover to dissolve their glue.
No for real I keep pouring and pouring until my bottle was half empty before finaly been able to remove that plastic cover hiding the screw.

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