Comment on Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well

acido@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  The Wilhelm scream playing on the Steam Big Picture mode home screen a small percentage of the times you drop the controller seems like a harmless feature, especially since it didn’t take adding any parts that weren’t already being used for things players actually want

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• Datz@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’re done with haptics, apparently. Do you think haptics don’t belong to a controller? It costs you nothing for these to be in the controller and you’ll personally also never actually see them.

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  • acido@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    all my controllers have had haptics, yet none of them ever played tunes because… how can I say? they were controllers.

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    • Datz@szmer.info ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      Wiimote played sounds, and from what I saw online, that shitty little speaker gave a lot of memories to kids (especially the Smash Bros Brawl sounds)

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨58⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      The reason none of your haptic controllers played tunes is because the programmers never got to have fun with it, not from a lack of ability.

      Go look at 3D printers, most of them use their motors to make little beeps and jingles as feedback to the user. I even have custom gcode that gets added to every print so a tune is played when the print is done. That’s actually useful because I don’t need to wonder whether it’s done and check on it like a pot that’s about to boil

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• null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yes.

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  • acido@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    it seems you are wrong.

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    • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nah.

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      • acido@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Yep, but there is no need to cry for it, darling.

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• Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t know why everyone is getting so weirdly defensive about this and downvoting you for stating your opinion.

  I agree. It’s like the PlayStation controllers that play little sounds from their shitty little speaker that sounds like it was ripped from a cheap children’s toy. It doesn’t add immersion, it adds annoying. I’d hate to be hearing little dings and noises from my controller while I’m playing a game. That’s why I have speakers.

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  • acido@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    fandoms are weird.

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• binary45@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  For context, the screaming part is an Easter egg that plays a Wilhelm Scream if you drop the controller.

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  • acido@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    yeah, I am aware of that, but it doesn’t change my opinion.

    it makes it worse maybe.

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I bet you hate floppotron too

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  • acido@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    for people like me who have never heard of it:

    The Floppotron is a musical instrument created by Polish engineer Paweł Zadrożniak.[1]

    It is made of a synchronized array of partially obsolete computer hardware programmed to play tunes. The current Floppotron 3.0 build sports 512 floppy drives, 16 hard drives, and 4 flatbed scanners. The net effect is of a robot orchestra.[2]

    no, I definitely do not hate such a cool thing.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      So why are you against the steam controller making sounds? It doesn’t have a speaker, the noises it makes are from the haptic feedback. It’s the same principle

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      • acido@feddit.it ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        lol

        because it’s a fucking controller maybe?

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