Yep, double shitty. Makes me want to start sailing. 🏴‍☠️

Best buy was the culprit… I feel like I’ve generally had good luck with open box stuff otherwise though.

You know, previous to the current generation of consoles, I thought FOR SURE that back-paddles/buttons would become the next standardized iteration. Controller innovation over the last TWO generations I’d argue, has been really lacking in my opinion.

Patience, I guess. I’ve been waiting for literal fucking years at this point. A few more won’t hurt I suppose.

The Ara definitely seemed like a good thing, for repairability. I’m of the ‘fuck anything google’ mindset though.

The ‘framework’ laptop also comes to mind.

Looks like KK3 Max got pushed back a bit, or it just released for preorder from the 5th. Goddamn preorders. NO. I’ll wait for the reviews, thanks.

#frustrated

New developments:

So, I actually did order a open box elite series 2 controller but ended up having to exchange it because there was substantial stick drift on both sticks. Super frustrating that this wasn’t caught, or the sellers don’t care enough about the quality control…

The “core” version is a little cheaper, but nobody has the paddles, which is pretty much the main reason I want one of these controllers…

There is sadly not many competitors available right now either. The Razer model is 250$!? WAY more than I want to spend…

The Guilikit one looks promising, but still have another couple of weeks before it actually releases and then would have to wait on shipping from China, which I hate.

You would think that in 2024 there would be more viable alternatives for professional level no-compromise controllers with good quality for an affordable price.

Rant over.

Nice!

The prohibitive price of the xbox elite controllers is definitely a big detractor. They have the ‘core’ model now, for 130 apparently, but doesn’t even include back paddles

I’m curious about what they run used though

^Yea, wat he sed

Been a while since I binged some audioslave… Too long. That needs to change soon.

I wish there was a movement called anti corporatism, literally. I feel like we need something new since anything socialism related is automatically bad to a lot of people…

Called it. 🤣

Haven’t seen a rick roll in a while. Someone else click on it first. Lol

Link for people who don’t know what it is?

First, that is an awesome design

Second, the post is so large that it was almost unreadable on mobile. I’ve never had that happen before

Good controllers, pretty comfortable (if I remember correctly), and good battery life I’ve heard.

I’d really prefer to order directly from the manufacturer whenever I can. Mainly because I prefer not to use Amazon anymore…

Anyway, that controller looks fantastic! I may be looking at that one as a serious contender for the next upgrade, thank you for sharing. I really like the fact that the paddles are similar looking to the xbox pro controller ones. Those seem like really good quality, form, fit, and function.

The switches, on the razr controller, are so good (in my opinion) that I really am not sure if I could go back. Lol. I’ve had other people not get it though, when I tried to show them how amazing they are… They just commented that they are noisy compared to normal buttons. Totally missed the point.

I’d be super interested to see a review of the KK3 Max (mandatory eyeroll of solidarity).

I really dislike the xbox gamebar. There are workarounds though. My currently preferred method is to disable the xbox gamebar, and then use joytokey to setup a hotkey for screenshots. I have steam setup to use (F12) as my hotkey to save uncompressed copies in a folder that I use for my background images on my desktop. :)

Thanks for the good convo, and recommendation!

^asking the important questions!

More power to you, I like the fancy controllers though :)

That’s a bummer that you can’t use both control types at the same time. I could definitely see the draw for the gyro (assist) aiming, that’s a neat concept. I don’t think I play enough FPS’s anymore to warrant taking the time to experiment, but it’s definitely good to know that the capability is there if I ever feel like giving it a try.

So, it rumbles, but likely not using the full haptic capabilities. Somewhat disappointing but kind of expected considering the tech isn’t standard yet.

Adaptive triggers functionality not working was kind of expected too. What can you do?

I don’t really feel like I would have much of a use for the pad, as far as the capacitive touch capabilities go. I do think the button functionality of the touchpad would be useful to me though, as I always prefer to have a hardware screenshot button if possible when I’m using a controller.

Thanks for the response.

I was always curious about the steam controller. It definitely was/is a unique and cool concept. I was never sure how well it would work, or how easily of a transition it would’ve been or what usecases would’ve been the best to use it for. I always kind of got the impression that it was probably one of those “jack of all trades, master of none” type of scenarios…

I’ve never used one though, so that’s all speculation on my part.

The fit and function of the iconic 360 controller is hard to beat, no doubt.

This game looks sick and I’m so fucking into it. I hope it runs great and doesn’t have any issues on pc because the prince of persia’s were always some of my favorite games back in the day. It’s pretty good I think, to see them taking a different approach this time.