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

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• rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hope the first song that gets replicated is the turret opera from portal 2

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  • Datz@szmer.info ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is this close enough?

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=8gbosBxqiYY

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• acido@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  am I the only one who thinks “screaming” or “playing tunes” aren’t features that should belong to a fucking controller?

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  • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t agree, takes away nothing to keep it.

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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Probably why they weren’t advertised by Valve, and are more just easter eggs

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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      because you are sure people found them out by themselves?

      I wouldn’t be surprised they did not.

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  • null@piefed.nullspace.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes.

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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      it seems you are wrong.

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  • Datz@szmer.info ⁨23⁩ ⁨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 ⁨23⁩ ⁨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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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I bet you hate floppotron too

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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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  • Carrot@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • binary45@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

      it makes it worse maybe.

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  • Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • 3rdXthecharm@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • acido@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      fandoms are weird.

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• aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  dyingturret.wav

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