The question is, which controller he uses to drive it?
#1 reason I prefer buying games on Steam. The convenience of this is insane.
Btw if you add your “epic” games as non-steam games in steam, you can use the steam overlay and change controller bindings like a steam game. It also is a great way to run windows software on Linux without tinkering.
How does Steam Input work? Does it contain drivers for almost any controller, or does it just map inputs for those controllers to Xinput?
Most non-xbox controllers use well-known USB extents that are universally recognized as belonging to a generic controller. Windows will display a controller icon, libraries like pygame and SDL 2 will process them as regular controllers, etc. As such, most controllers need no drivers. The exception is that games written with directX use xinput, which is proprietary and has licensing costs to get your controller into (to prevent low-cost controllers from undercutting Microsoft’s price-gouging official offering).
Converting USB controller to xinput has famously been a really hard problem, requiring a lot of fancy software that is often incompatible with anticheat and copy protection. Steam is able to do it because the steam overlay is whitelisted by everything that could block it, and is otherwise developped by really great devs.
In the process of intercepting inputs to the game and translating them, you can imagine it’s quite easy to swap a button for another, that’s how controller remapping works. Some devs additionnally provide steam with custom things a controller may do that may not have a key assigned but becomes callable from a key through the overlay.
Gabe has a warehouse full of new old stock steam controllers, nothing beats dual touchpads for precision
Might be a hot take, but I loved the steam controller. I killed two of them just through constant use and abuse and I still wish I could get another.
Oh well, my steam deck is enough for now.
It is outstanding, the ergonomics are much more comfortable than Steam Deck, and the disc-shaped pads are roomier. I’d love to see a Frankenstein mod of Steam Deck that adds Steam Controller grips to it. But honestly, I think the sheer length and weight of the thing is a limiting factor in terms of comfortability.
They were a great design but, like you say, you killed two of them… they just didn’t have the robustness or QA. But, to do that right, they would have been more expensive, and they were already fairly pricey. Personally, I hope they re-release them, or something like them, sometime down the road, but I’m not gonna hold my breath.
Imagine being stuck at the bottom of the deep blue sea and the first thing you’ll gaze upon after the hatch opens is the almighty GabeN.
“Oh, you’re finally awake”
God what timeline am I in lol
I am expecting a name like James Cameron, not our lord and saviour Gabe.
I took a look at the Wikipedia page for this submarine, and wow. It made 4 of the 7 manned visits to Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth. It visited the deepest point in all 5 oceans. It’s not just any submarine, this is the submarine.