Liam,

For the gyro, I think a lot of people turn the sensitivity way down, and use it for fine-aiming. As for the button to activate it, I would suggest trying to assign it to whatever you use for iron sights, as that's probably when you're going to want to be using the fine-tuning anyhow. And don't worry - it won't remove your actual iron sights binding.

Also, if you haven't already looked into the mode-shifting stuff, you might like to check it out. It can do really cool things, such as allowing you to use the right trackpad for camera control on touch, AND virtual ABXY buttons on click - so you don't even have to retrain your thumb to move down to hit a jump button or reload or whatever. Then you could actually reassign the real ABXY buttons to other functions, and so forth.

To do that trick, assign your camera, leave the Click action blank, then go to Mode-Shift. Set the Mode-Shift button to Right Pad Click, set the type to Button Pad, and assign your four actions. There ya go! Same goes for the left pad, btw. I love touch-to-move on the left pad, and usually just assign the Click action to jump or crouch, depending on the game and how I want to play. But in some cases, I could see the need for more buttons (and the Touch Menu option is great, as it gives you up to 16 on-screen virtual buttons, too...).

For me, at least, there is no reason to buy another controller, ever.

Edit: By the way, you should try out some games that had no controller support at all... CivV, AdVenture Capitalist, Pillars of Eternity, etc. And some people seem to OK in CS:GO with it. For example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSeRwYotCQ0 [External Link] Just give it 6 months and we'll be seeing people who are REALLY good with this thing.

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Quoting: Storminator16I'm having a fairly frustrating time with the Steam controller. The mouse pad doesn't work from time to time in Big Picture Mode and some games it just isn't working correctly. I'm lacking patience with this.

The mouse pad? It isn't even used in Big Picture mode except if you're in the web browser... What you are seeing is intentional behavior. They will let us customize it in the future - the option is there, but not accessible yet.

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Quoting: berillions

Quoting: CreakThat is... surprising!

As a Ubi developer, I didn't expect that ;)

You are really an Ubisoft Developer ? :O

I really doubt Creak was saying he/she works for Ubisoft. I think they were talking about the fact that Reflections is a Ubisoft studio. May be a case of ESL?

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Quoting: ChuckDaniels87I really think this is long distance race.

So few people seem to understand this. They wanted some magical overnight conversion of the entire gaming industry, and then when it doesn't happen, they're upset... Valve has done a hell of a lot more for Linux gaming than virtually anyone since Loki, and they're not done. Linux gamers ought to have more patience than this; right now, a lot of them are throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Rome wasn't built in a day.

And for the people saying the Steam Controller sucks, I have no response. Different strokes, I guess. But I've used it for nearly a month, and it's the best, most-flexible, most-compatible gamepad I've ever used. I think this also goes back to a lack of patience. It's different, and change takes time.

We all ought to stop expecting everything to be instantaneous and whining like petulant children about it.

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The Steam Controller might take a week or more to adjust to. Just warning you, in case you plan to post some early impressions which are unfavorable. After the initial learning curve, it's fanfreakingtastic, and the fact that I can play keyboard and mouse-driven games on my couch without having to screw around with AntiMicro or the like using a keyboard and mouse all the time is literally a game-changer.

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Quoting: hardpenguinOn the first look: SUPERHOT + Hotline Miami + Thief

I thought Thief + Deus Ex + NEON STRUCT, myself.

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My money is on this being a Ryan Gordon port, considering he did the other two for them.

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Whoa, this one looks WAY better than Euro Fishing! And it has trout DLC! It's free to play, so I'm obviously going to give it a shot.

PS: fishing is only boring in real life if you suck at it. :P

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Might be time to stop giving them press until the game actually releases.

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All of the promised Linux ports that sit undelivered... Not so much those from Aspyr, Feral, or even VP, as I have confidence that most all of them will arrive in due time (Batman I'm not sure about). I mean games like Mad Max, Witcher 3, Gauntlet, Project CARS, as well as GOG Galaxy. There are many more, unfortunately...

Biggest not disappointment of the year: Steam Controller. Love it to bits!

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