• potustheplant@feddit.nl
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    6 days ago

    The only controversial part is that it only works on steam. Which is pretty wild imo. Why would you need more that just the controller’s driver for it to work?

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      4 days ago

      It does work as a mouse by default. Valve calls it “Lizard Mode”, and you use the touchpad to move the cursor and the triggers to click.
      But yeah I do agree they should have made standard buttons and sticks act as XInput and the touchpad as the mouse by default.

      that being said, I fucking hate microsoft for stifling controller innovation with their antiquated ass xinput so i when i see a controller not support it i have to force myself to not think “god bless”

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      6 days ago

      I thought that turned out not to be true? That by default it behaved like a joystick and mouse like the original steam controller?

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        5 days ago

        Like I said to another person, there are multiple reviews that mention this. Do you have any source that proves otherwise?

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      5 days ago

      I can‘t speak about software updates just yet because I have only seen them being applied via Steam but the controller works out of the box. I‘m assuming you can update it by downloading a file too, though. That would put it far above some competitors because guess what? A lot of them let you install some shitty software for that. At least Steam is already installed on my machine. I run Linux after all and ironically Steam is already helping me setting up controllers from other manufacturers.

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        5 days ago

        Do you have any source for this? Multiple reviewers (e.g. gamersnexus) have said that if you don’t launche the game through steam, the controller won’t work.