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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nyankas@lemmy.ml 3 weeks agoThe 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.
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Nighed@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
You should be able to disable them on a game by game basis if needed. Annoying thiugh
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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?
obinice@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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)
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The case around it does. That’s what I want to replace.
DanWolfstone@leminal.space 3 weeks ago
I assume the same way the steam deck gets replacement sticks. You’d replace the entire thumb cap and run a wire under and to a specific connector. So its unlikely you’ll get a third party solution with capacitive touch but getting official parts shouldn’t be impossible either, just more tedious.
foggenbooty@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
happydoors@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s so fucking cool