Gyro controls. They take a bit to get used to, but I can’t play any sort of shooter without them. Also back buttons if you don’t have the elite controller.
The touch pads aren’t something to dismiss either, having similar controls on my steam deck, they really open up the door to games you wouldn’t otherwise be able to play on controller. Steam input is really powerful, you can map them to all sorts of different inputs. For example emulating ds / 3ds games you can have the touch pads display a radial menu on screen that interacts with the ds touch screen in a specific pre-defined way depending on what you select.
But ultimately, I want a controller with gyro controls and back buttons that’s easy to map (read steam input because it changes mappings automatically per game) so my only options are the dual sense edge or the steam controller.
That’s one of my bugbears. There was a time where we all sucked at using something new to us like Keyboard+Mouse gaming or using any controller.
Then I see people not immediately become a pro gamer using something new like gyro, trackpads, or even analog keyboard keys and give up immediately instead of giving it a chance. Joysticks are absolute crap. The wildest hold-over not many seem to care about from the 90’s is fucking auto-aim built into so many first person shooter games because joysticks are so inaccurate.
Gyro controls. They take a bit to get used to, but I can’t play any sort of shooter without them. Also back buttons if you don’t have the elite controller.
The touch pads aren’t something to dismiss either, having similar controls on my steam deck, they really open up the door to games you wouldn’t otherwise be able to play on controller. Steam input is really powerful, you can map them to all sorts of different inputs. For example emulating ds / 3ds games you can have the touch pads display a radial menu on screen that interacts with the ds touch screen in a specific pre-defined way depending on what you select.
But ultimately, I want a controller with gyro controls and back buttons that’s easy to map (read steam input because it changes mappings automatically per game) so my only options are the dual sense edge or the steam controller.
That’s one of my bugbears. There was a time where we all sucked at using something new to us like Keyboard+Mouse gaming or using any controller.
Then I see people not immediately become a pro gamer using something new like gyro, trackpads, or even analog keyboard keys and give up immediately instead of giving it a chance. Joysticks are absolute crap. The wildest hold-over not many seem to care about from the 90’s is fucking auto-aim built into so many first person shooter games because joysticks are so inaccurate.