The Steam Controller 2 Got A New Icon And It Further Confirms The Layout
Submitted 3 weeks ago by woelkchen@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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AppleTea@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
If you look at the 3d render, it has a dpad and the usual abxy buttons. I’m pretty sure the 2d icon is just meant to be recognizable without all the buttons/details.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
What do you think the circle on the left is for?
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I seriously hope it’s like the rendering at the bottom of the article with two physical button areas (4 each), two physical joysticks, and two touch pads. That feels like the best of all worlds.
I want to love the Steam Controller 1 so much but the missing right joystick and the touch pad for the left dpad just feels so bad for so many games that were designed for two joysticks. It’s so hard to get the muscle memory right. I’m always trying to use the left pad as a dpad and tapping it wrong.
I wish someone could show me what I’m missing but it feels so frustrating
strongarm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
If you can get used to just using the two touchpad for everything then you can get the most out of the Steam Controller and no other controller compares.
For FPS games for example you can bind the left touchpad to left joystick, make the outer ring toggle the left click to ‘run’ then use the touchpad click to activate something else like dodge (B)
The right touchpad can function as mouse for look, but also on touch activate gyro as mouse to help with accuracy, then right click can be melee or even configure a 4 button pad so you have more options.
Then you have the back buttons and the 4 shoulder buttons all at your finger tips and you don’t need to move your hands.
I like the touchpad for platformers too, completed Hollow Knight with just the touchpads
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So a steam deck without the screen. I’ll take that.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And a Steam console to go with it, please.
DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
100% agree! I know so many nerds rag on this idea of a steam console “well you can just build a PC and install Bazzite on it”, yeah tell that to those who don’t know anything about building PCs, and just want to buy a console and start playing. So, yeah, a steam console. Give it to me right now.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And a Steam console to go with it, please.
Current state of the rumor mill is that it’ll be a companion device for the stand-alone VR headset where traditional games are supposedly being projected on a virtual giant screen.
SeventySeven@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I hope they stick with the “mini steamdeck layout” like shown in the 3D model pic. I saw a video awhile ago where someone made their own steam controller using spare parts from various Steam Decks, and I always hoped the official would look at least somewhat similar.
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I hope they didn’t remove the dpad and a joystick that’d be a dealbreaker for me
Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
the removal on the icon was supposedlu just gor icon simplification rather than on the physical product.
including 2 touchpads already makes the icon fairly recognizable for what controller its trying to convey
Chronographs@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well it’s irrelevant until they announce the thing anyways
warmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I bet they know they can’t do anything other than a Deck with no screen if they don’t want it to fail like the SC1.
stephen@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Instant buy from me!
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Even as someone with big hands, that does not look like a comfortable controller to use. I’ll wait for the next $5 clearance sale like I did with the original Steam controller. 🙃
MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
I bought it on sale…then got the message that they are out of stock and ill get refunded :(
AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Ouch. Yeah I jumped on that deal as soon as I saw it. Then tried the controller for a few days, could never get used to it, and now it’s collecting dust somewhere.
LorIps@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I hope they added back the two stage triggers of the OG Steam Controller.
Anarch157a@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The new controller seems like a Steam Deck sans the screen/APU, which means the two-stage triggers will be there.
LorIps@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The Steam Deck doesn’t have a real two stage trigger. It has bullshit vibration that feels like shit. The Steam controller has a smell click at the end which feels fantastic.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
hell yeah!
morgan_423@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Day. One. Purchase.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Eww.
The touchpad are amazing but do not replace an analog stick or dpad. If this is legit, it is going to be the steam controller 1 all over again where it really is only good for games without xinput gamepad support
warm@kbin.earth 3 weeks ago
There's literally analog sticks right there?
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I starting to become afraid this controller will be uncomfortable for those trying to use the touchpad as a first class input…
D_C@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I loved the first steam controller…but it wasn’t robust.
My paddle buttons broke within a few hundred hours, I 3d printed a new one and good to go. Then the shoulder buttons stopped working quite quickly, which I fixed. Then the thumbsticks stopped. Then it was something else. Then something else. After about 500 hours of gaming I had given up.I thought it was me being too harsh. Bought another one but that -relatively- quickly stopped working. Same issues, paddles, buttons etc etc.
Got myself a second hand DS4 for £10 and carried on. 1200ish hours of Rocket League later and one shoulder button started to play up. I opened it up, put a mechanical keyboard o ring over the silicone membrane thing under the buttons and carried on playing for thousands more hours. Every now and again I would open it up to clean it etc but that’s all that happened.
All in all I put nearly 4000 hours in to RL, but only about 900 of them with the steam controller. And they constantly broke. The rest of those hours were with a second hand DS4, with a few O rings to help along the way.But I did love those steam controllers. They just felt right in the hand. I just hope the second one is a bit more robust than the first.
xcjs@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
If this has a gyroscope, I’m sold.
rocky1138@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Atari Jaguar
AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That controller render thing looks so much better than the original Steam controller. I am not gonna get too excited, but I hope they have a wired model because it looks like a controller I would actually try. Maybe even use it as a replacement for my other 2 controllers.
BigPotato@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You could use the Steam Controller wired too. That’s how I played most of the time.
Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Been holding off on buying any new controllers just for this
Rocking a 10 year old Xbox Elite Controller that’ve I’ve kept going through multiple repairs