Got the Shakes
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Sorry, I'm in the U.S. I just figured that I would give them a shot on the offhand that I could sneak in a preorder today and somehow be able to pick one up tomorrow.
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Steam Controller overview and videos/impressions
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Sorry, I'm in the U.S. I just figured that I would give them a shot on the offhand that I could sneak in a preorder today and somehow be able to pick one up tomorrow.
Balmung421
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OMG why didn't I think of trying WoW with this controller?! Will be fun to tinker with.
Yep. Could just do what I said but with the left grip for control and the right grip for shift. Suddenly, 12 binds becomes 36. Honestly though, I don't think I'll bother with the steam controller for WoW. I can just collect garrison resources and do my daily CDs in 15 minutes on my PC anyway, haha.
Waiting to see the first video of someone beating a Brutal bot on SC2.
You can only set 1 modifier per button set at the moment. Meaning you can have ABXY, and either L1 + ABXY, R1 + ABXY, L2 + ABXY, R2 + ABXY, L Grip + ABXY, or R Grip + ABXY, but not all of them.
Ah, Gamestop. I ordered from Steam myself. No sign of it today, so hopefully it'll get here tomorrow. Enjoy yourself!
Can set Ctrl, Alt & Shift through the interface though, right? That's all WoW would need.
yes, you can set other buttons to ctrl, alt, and shift, but mode shifting, where ABXY (or the analog stick or the 2 touch pads) become entirely different inputs only works with 1 button.
Each part of the pad that can be mode shifted can have a different mode shifting button, however. You can mode shift the analog stick with the right grip and mode shift the abxy buttons with the left bumper, as an example. Or set both to the left bumper. But you can't make right grip have one ABXY settings, and left bumper have a second set of ABXY settings.
Not yet, at least.
SirMossyBloke
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Well fuck you guys, I'm trying the motherfucking Sims 4 tomorrow. None of this D3 or WoW stuff.
digitalrelic
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Anybody still waiting on a shipping confirmation? Mine still says "label created" on the FedEx page 
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.So you're saying I can't do Shift 1/Shift 2/Shift 3/Shift 4 and Ctrl 1/Ctrl 2/Ctrl 3/ Ctrl 4 using ABXY and two triggers?
you can do that using ABXY and 1 trigger.
Make A = ctrl + 1 (there is a button in the steam config called "multi-button" that lets you hit button combinations)
B = ctrl + 2
X = ctrl + 3
Y = ctrl + 4
then make, say, LB the mode shifting button, when you press the mode shifting button, you are basically presented with an entirely new set of ABXY buttons you can set
so you'd set A = shift + 1
B = shift + 2
X = shift + 3
Y = shift + 4
but, what might be perhaps better, is to make
A = 1
B = 2
X = 3
Y = 4
then make one trigger be ctrl, and another trigger be shift.
ALTERNATIVELY, the left analog stick has one extra feature not on the 4 face buttons - a second "outer ring" shift, where, once you pass a threshold, a certain key is automatically hit.
so you could make a little tilt in the cardinal directions be:
up = 1
down = 2
left = 3
right = 4
then, the outer ring modifier be shift, so if you hit the stick all the way, you get
up = 1 + shift
down = 2 + shift
left = 3 + shift
right = 4 + shift
then use mode shifting to present yourself with yet another blank analog stick, which also has it's own outer ring binding. In this way, you can turn the analog stick into 16 different inputs... but it's not optimal.
Vigilant Gambit
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You can do that, but you can't make it so that when you hold shift that ABXY become WASD and when you hold ctrl they become IJKL.
Ahh, I get it now.
Seems like it's just best (for WoW at least) to skip the controller modes entirely then. I'll post my WoW UI in a bit.
Glad to hear it! I was a bit worried when a while ago they were looking for help to make it work on Ubuntu. The bug reports mainly sounded like an issue with permissions though, so it shouldn't be too hard to fix. Could this be the problem with the Suse install as well?
I've given myself super user privileges when trying my steam controller in SUSE. I think the problem might be a lack of steam controller specific drivers, I'll see if installing steam on the box fixes things after lunch.
Astral/H3X
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Don't forget you can use "mode shifting" in game as well. For GW2 what I was thinking of doing is binding my face buttons, then Left grip would just be registered as Cntrl, right grip is registered as Shift, then bind my other skills to be Shift/Control + #.
I thought it works as kb&m by default without the need for drivers? And I don't know if it's you who needs the write-access, or some other group. Have you tried the udev rule posted in the launchpad bugreport?
ashecitism
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made a thread for the reviews: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=181790172#post181790172
It does. Like I said this is the only piece of hardware that doesnt work with the steam controller at all.
csquared587
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Has anyone that ordered from gamestop had their controller ship yet? I ordered June 5th and it still just says the order is open.
I really hope it arrives tomorrow. Finnish post office is notorious for taking several days for a package to travel from one town to another despite it coming just as fast from another country. Their shitty tracking also doesn't play ball with international ones so the GLS page has seen no updates.
Probably wouldn't need it. Here's my current WoW keybindings.
Here's my binds.
Q - Charge
W - Smash
E - Mortal Strike
R - Whirlwind
ShiftQ - Rend
ShiftW - Execute
ShiftE - Victory Rush
ShiftR - Pummel
1 - Hamstring
2 - Sweeing Strikes
3 - Roar!
4 - Storm
Shift1 - Rage
Shift2 - Shout
Shift3 - Throw
Shift4 - Retal
` - Ground Mount
Shift` - Flying Mount
Alt` - Water Mount
Z - Battle Stance
X - Defensive Stance
AltQ - Health
AltW - Intervene
AltE - Clap
AltR - Reck
There are other binds, but for basic play, I can do without heroic leap, spell reflect, heroic throw, and my engineering parts.
What I'm thinking is...
Right grip - Alt
Left grip - Shift
Right trigger - Enter
Left trigger - Mount
Right bumper - (Z/X [I'll make a new macro]) Stance toggle
Left bumper - Interact/quest macro
Left pad - WASD & mouse click.
Right pad - QWER
ABXY - 1234
Analog stick - ???
That would work, right?
Anybody try this with Mass Effect? I'm also curious to see how Elder Scroll Online plays with this.
I play like 95% of my PC games on the couch with a controller and Big Picture Mode so this thing was made for me. I have games that require a kb&m but they usually get ignored so I'm way more likely to play them with this.
Also I think the biggest issue we'll see with some games (especially older ones) is that the UI will be too small to read from the couch.
Edit: never mind about ESO, didn't realize it will be getting proper controller support in a few weeks anyway.
I play like 95% of my PC games on the couch with a controller and Big Picture Mode so this thing was made for me. I have games that require a kb&m but they usually get ignored so I'm way more likely to play them with this.
Also I think the biggest issue we'll see with some games (especially older ones) is that the UI will be too small to read from the couch.
Edit: never mind about ESO, didn't realize it will be getting proper controller support in a few weeks anyway.
Blak_Status
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Are all GS stores receiving stock tomorrow regardless if the store has any pre-orders or not?
The Cowboy
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What a disappointing day, get home from work and no controller or a "we tried to delivery your package, but you weren't home" card .
Dam you RM and dam you Game - i wanted my pad a day early.
.Dam you RM and dam you Game - i wanted my pad a day early.
Glowing Bovine
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There's also that new mod for Mass Effect that add controller support.
atomic moth
Member
Is there a separate Link thread to ask these questions:
-what is the lowest resolution I can run the link in? I was hoping maybe to get 480i to run through a VGA connector into arcade machines. I'd be able to use a stronger computer downstairs to run it.
-any way to run a PS3/PC joystick through it?
-what is the lowest resolution I can run the link in? I was hoping maybe to get 480i to run through a VGA connector into arcade machines. I'd be able to use a stronger computer downstairs to run it.
-any way to run a PS3/PC joystick through it?
FrontalMonk
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I searched for a Link thread and didn't see one. I'm mainly curious to see how things work for the Link with games that aren't 100% big picture games, like uplay games and games that go straight to launchers before you can play them. As an example, I know a lot of people getting links and controllers (like me) are excited to get their Civ on, but Civ V has a launcher that asks you if you want to play in DX9 or DX11 mode first.
ashecitism
Member
480p I think. You can set it in Steam.
I don't know about those. It has xinput emulation, so you can do DS3 and DS4 etc, but joystick, no idea.
Jay Shadow
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Mine stayed on Label Created for a few days until it started moving last night.Anybody still waiting on a shipping confirmation? Mine still says "label created" on the FedEx page
I called GS and the guy said they only have 1 preorder on the books. He told me to call back tomorrow once they know how many controllers they have. He seemed to think they would have extras.
AwesomeMeat
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Anybody still waiting on a shipping confirmation? Mine still says "label created" on the FedEx page
I'm with you. I've been stuck at that phase for awhile now and ordered within the first 2 hours. Still hoping they send it next day since im only a state away.
I'm hoping they lift the street date or the guy was wrong, last thing I want is that to get there only for no one to get them due to an arbitrary street date. Especially if most others don't have to sweat it, including other GameStops.
digitalrelic
Banned
I'm only a state away as well. Maybe there's a method to their madness to ensure that everyone receives their controllers tomorrow. Here's hoping.
Gotta get dat controller huh.
Did you try lsusb to see if it's even showing up as a USB device with no driver?So I have an Xi3 Piston. Remember those? It was the very first announced "steam machine" before valve came in and said "nope, it's not a steam machine."
Came in this morning. Pre-installed with Suse.
The steam controller doesn't work on the thing, lol. Only device I own that flat out won't recognize the steam controller. Maybe I need to install steam in Linux... but I have an ubuntu box and the steam controller was recognized immediately on it.
It is not. Like it doesnt appear at all, anywhere. Not even the bios.
Got the Shakes
Member
I called two different GS around me and was told 11/10 by both. Both said they were still taking preorders, but they don't know anything about releasing tomorrow. The first one I called the guy at first said he thought they were coming out tomorrow, then checked his computer and said that Steam Machines are launching tomorrow and that the controller/Steam Link were November 10th. So I guess I'll maybe try calling them again tomorrow to see if for some crazy reason they got stock, but I'm not counting on it.
888
Member
I hope we at least see some sort of rollout over the next month rather than NEEDING to wait until the 10th. Less than a month isn't an awful wait, but this thing was announced quite awhile ago too. :/
Well, if you are getting the controller too, just use its right trackpad as a mouse in the launcher.
ashecitism
Member
CSD update is out with controller support, chubigans wrote a guide: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=534196039
Finally got movement on my shipment, both my GLS and Parcelforce tracking are active and on my Parcelforce tracking page it says the shipment is 'express 24', looks like it started moving earlier today (14:00 - NL time I presume) so perhaps it will arrive tomorrow if it gets in the UK before midnight.
Kinky John
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