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Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:06 pm
by shaft

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:10 pm
by scared?
Weird...

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:10 pm
by Κracus
Yeah..... That's.... something. I'm really not sure what to make of it... I kinda like the button placement. I don't like the idea of a touchpad intead of an analogue stick though.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:14 pm
by scared?
Low latency...could work good...keyboard/mouse still better unless ur a moron...

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:16 pm
by Κracus
It'll always be better until you want to sit down on your couch with friends to have a friendly game of something. Then it's a pain in the ass.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:18 pm
by scared?
Friends r for morons....

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:19 pm
by bitWISE
It actually sounds pretty amazing if it delivers what they promise and feels right. I applaud them for actually innovating in the controller space.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:21 pm
by Transient
I don't see how that button placement is a good thing. How easy is it to reach the X and Y buttons with your right thumb like we're all used to? Or do we start using our left thumb, thus taking our hand off the left analog stick? :confused:

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:25 pm
by Κracus
Well in most shooters going over to push a button for an action has always irritated me cause you can't use the right analogue while pushing buttons. This makes it difficult in racing games for example to pound the nitro while looking behind you, or switching gears when you're using a clutch. I can see some benefit to dividing the tasks to two thumbs instead of one. It's those touchpads that get me though...

I've done enough gaming on my android to know touch screens are great and all and so is haptic feedback but eventually your fingers stray from their intended location causing unintended direction presses.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:28 pm
by scared?
What kind of fucking idiot plays a shooter on a controller?...

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:34 pm
by Κracus
Can't play Halo on PC moran.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:35 pm
by scared?
What kind of fucking idiot plays halo?...

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:49 pm
by Κracus
Halo 1 and 2 appear as the top 5 best selling games of all time, the 1st being Halo 1. http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Best_sell ... n_shooters

So I'm guessing a lot of "idiots" play. Not that we'll be playing on this, but hey I'm sure this will do wonders for HL3 sales assuming people buy it.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:31 pm
by bitWISE
Transient wrote:I don't see how that button placement is a good thing. How easy is it to reach the X and Y buttons with your right thumb like we're all used to? Or do we start using our left thumb, thus taking our hand off the left analog stick? :confused:
It has four shoulder triggers and two rear triggers and each trackpad is also a button.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:04 pm
by GONNAFISTYA
Κracus wrote:Can't play Halo on PC moran.
Yes you can...with the PC version mornon.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:23 pm
by Κracus
That happened? I had no idea... TIL.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:33 pm
by MKJ
And just like that, I lost interest.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:27 pm
by shaft
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Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 3:26 am
by Transient
bitWISE wrote:
Transient wrote:I don't see how that button placement is a good thing. How easy is it to reach the X and Y buttons with your right thumb like we're all used to? Or do we start using our left thumb, thus taking our hand off the left analog stick? :confused:
It has four shoulder triggers and two rear triggers and each trackpad is also a button.
So they're going to remap controls that were usually assigned to X and Y to buttons at the rear of the controller? That won't take too long to re-learn...

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 10:41 am
by Don Carlos
Erm.... :/

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Sat Sep 28, 2013 8:43 pm
by bitWISE
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Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:50 am
by Mogul
controller seems very promising, imo. I imagine that aiming with a trackpad is going to be faster and more accurate than aiming with an analog stick. Not sure about character movement though.

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:40 am
by Don Carlos
This is one of those things where I think it needs to be tried to see how good it really is and to see if it really works

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:19 pm
by losCHUNK
I can;t really see this dragging away console gamers if they already need a PC and it comes down to how it's implemented I guess, I wouldn't like steam handling everything. Trying to get some games/mods to run in tandem can be a nightmare even when you do purchase through steam. In some aspects it's still a joke that I wanna burn down sometimes.

Main benefits I see is streaming directly from PC to TV, which can be done already with a HDMI cable provided PC and TV are in the same room. Can't see it making a world of difference like and removes any incentive to dev for linux, which kinda makes me think the whole endeavor is a little pointless :/

Re: SteamOS announced.

Posted: Mon Sep 30, 2013 6:46 pm
by scared?
That's why ur a failure in life...