Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame

zer0bitz@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• nyankas@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The Steam Deck uses the capacitive thumb stick sensors to completely disable the trackpads as soon as the stick above the respective pad is touched. This works very well, so I think they‘ll implement the same thing here.

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  • happydoors@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s so fucking cool

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  • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That brings up my following question.

    If the thumb sticks are capacitive and they wear smooth over time how do you replace them? Are the capacitive sensors under stick caps? Do you just have to replace the rim only?

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    • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Does your capacitive phone screen wear smooth over time?

      (The point being hopefully they’ll be made of something that doesn’t wear down from human fingies)

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      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The case around it does. That’s what I want to replace.

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    • foggenbooty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve not had any wear like that on my deck, but I’m not crazy hard on controllers. At worse the whole stick can be pretty easily replaced. The repairability on Valve hardware gets a high priority.

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  • pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    On the opposite of the spectrum, my small hands doesn’t play well with that feature. The capacitive sensors only works if your fingers touch the top of the sticks but I usually move the sticks by pushing on the round edges of it so I still occasionally brush against the touch pads which is annoying.

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m just glad they have dual thumbsticks now. I bought their last model on sale but quickly shelved it. Couldn’t get used to the touchpads and didn’t want to spend the next 2 months sucking at every game I played.

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• fistac0rpse@fedia.io ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  "The hands you have used to game are too fat. To obtain a special gaming wand, please mash the controller with your palm now"

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• GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Steam did an amazing job on the controller management, you can already remap everything. Disabling track pads should be easy

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  • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Almost everything. I’ve got this weird issue where my controller gets misrecognised as the wrong type, and there’s simply no way for me to force steam to recategorise it.

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• NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You would need REALLY massive hands to touch those when your thumbs are resting on the analog sticks or the face buttons.

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