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.

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

Called it. 🤣

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

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

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.

Nice!

Yes, I think you got the name right.

So, sorry for the confusion, are you able to use the bluetooth functionality on Linux then? That is something that would be appealing to me.

Interesting. I’m curious as to what examples you like for gyro aiming, because it’s not something I typically think of as a way of control for most games that I play.

Are you able to get much functionality out of the haptics, or the triggers?

How useful/customizable is the pad when using it on PC?

I can not handle their website XD

Their controller does seem pretty good. I like the (seemingly good) repairability aspect too.

A few features that I’ve grown accustomed to on my current controller are the additional buttons (this one has m1 and m2 buttons on the shoulders, though that isn’t really my favorite position for them), and the other thing would be the tactile switches in the face buttons. The switches in the face buttons for the Gulikit do look interesting, but I really like the tactile clicky switches that are in the Razr. I do wonder how they compare.

One of the main features that I feel like I’m lacking right now is definitely wireless. Using a ~10’ cable when you’re on a laptop is really no fun.

Another thing that I really like to see in a controller is an easy way to take screenshots, though, that can usually be remedied with a software solution as well.

thanks

It’s what plants crave!!!

🤣 😳

(not up to date)

What did GitHub do?

Thank you

Where can these be found?

I misread tonsils as toenails and was horrified for a second. 😅

Hell yes! Looks badass!!!