Yes.
Comment on Not only will the new Steam Controller scream at you but it can play tunes as well
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
am I the only one who thinks “screaming” or “playing tunes” aren’t features that should belong to a fucking controller?
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 weeks ago
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
it seems you are wrong.
null@piefed.nullspace.lol 3 weeks ago
Nah.
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
Yep, but there is no need to cry for it, darling.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I bet you hate floppotron too
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks 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.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
lol
because it’s a fucking controller maybe?
FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Don’t agree, takes away nothing to keep it.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
takes time to make it though and they are even advertising it, as if we are so dumb that we should care about this more than the proper controller features.
Carrot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Steam hasn’t advertised this easter egg at all, but have advertised all the “proper” features. The only people mentioning this are fans and journalists, many of which have already gone over a normal review of the controller, and just like to call out a fun easter egg when they see one.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
right, because no such articles have ever been advertising. we are so lucky to have only objective and impartial reviews of products everywhere in the internet.
it’s pretty telling of the userbase that all news you read are about this though. explains why you all got butthurt.
Carrot@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
do players also want their controller to “play tunes”, because I haven’t seen the DualSense users giving a fuck about such a thing.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The dual sense speaker is really nice. I take you don’t have it.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
and you are mistaken, because that’s my current controller.
Carrot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
That’s not an official feature, just a third party project that uses the vibration motors to play music. Sometimes people do things just for the sake of entertainment. The way you write suggests you are a bot or rage baiting, so I can understand why you may not know about basic human emotions
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
“he doesn’t like what we like, must be a bot”
anyway, the scream is an official “feature” and, as an intelligent being, I am less entertained by it than I am by using the controller as a controller while playing games.
you do you though.
binary45@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
For context, the screaming part is an Easter egg that plays a Wilhelm Scream if you drop the controller.
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
yeah, I am aware of that, but it doesn’t change my opinion.
it makes it worse maybe.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Sound is just vibrations. If your vibration controls are good enough, they can reproduce sounds too. Sure, they “wasted” time writing software to do it, but it’s insignificant. The hardware is there anyway. They might as well include it as a feature.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I mean, they could also make a detachable fallic extension so you can also stimulate yourself. after all the vibrations are there so they might as well include this other feature.
I’d even argue it would be more useful than what they did, but that’s a matter of personal tastes.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Definitely more useful, but it requires adding something. This feature doesn’t. It’s already there.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
oh, you think the time to do that is significant?
what a disappointment…
johnyreeferseed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
They released all the CAD files so the modding community can do it themselves.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
nice, they thought about everything!
now the only thing left to see is if it is a good controller, but all in all who cares when we got so many features already, am I right?
Zahille7@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
3rdXthecharm@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
After reading through a lot of the comments:
Because he’s coming off oh so very condescending and espousing the SAME ‘level’ of opinion as everyone else but getting combative/rude sith his responses being called out for having the same objective merit.
You can have an opinion. BUT:
“Why don’t you like this?” “Because it’s a controller, duh” “But things can have extra little things in them” “It’s useless, it’s a controller. Lame of you to like it”
People here in Lemmy often seem to have this problem where they communicate EXACTLY over text how they might in real life, but not realize that 0% of their non-verbals are coming through and so if they don’t change the writing style it just comes off prick-ish and argumentative
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
If it were used to play game sounds, yeah, that’s stupid. It’s just the vibration motors with software controls that can replay the same vibrations of a sound file. They are not high enough quality to be used for game audio. They are good enough to play a wakeup/shutdown sound (optional), or other things that just add bonuses to the controller. It’s free, assuming your haptics were good enough.
acido@feddit.it 3 weeks ago
fandoms are weird.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Probably why they weren’t advertised by Valve, and are more just easter eggs
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
because you are sure people found them out by themselves?
I wouldn’t be surprised they did not.
Datz@szmer.info 2 weeks 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.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
all my controllers have had haptics, yet none of them ever played tunes because… how can I say? they were controllers.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
and what’s the utility in a controller?
Datz@szmer.info 2 weeks 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)
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
lol imagine having memories of your controller making sounds.
I’d rather have memories of the games.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
My DualSense controller has a literal speaker in it, and lots of PS5 games use it. Are you mad at that too?
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The fucking original Wii remotes had speakers in it and played all kinds of sounds playing Wii Sports lmao
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
no one here is mad except the Valve fanboys.
also I got a DualSense too and yes, I think it’s one of the most useless things (together with the microphone) that I’ve seen on a controller.
Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Older controllers probably didn’t have haptics that could be controlled to playback sound files. Once you have that though, it’s relatively free to add. It’s not a feature the controller is sold on, because it doesn’t really matter, but it is a cool bonus to add for free, and let’s the devs have a little fun.
acido@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
yet it’s full of articles about it.