Ultimate PC Controller

AntsaK2 · April 14, 2019

I have been for a last year methodically searching the best controller for PC gaming. I have been a keyboard and mouse player for whole my gaming "career" but in recent years I have been moderately bummed that game interfaces have been designed straight up to gamepads. Latest example of this in my opinion is The Division 2 which is really cumbersome to use with kb/m combination.

All this is totally understandable because this way developers don't have to design 2 different interfaces for PC and consoles. I have tried many different controllers and come to a conclusion that DS4 controller with Steam configurations and gyro aiming is very good compromise between mouse and gamepad. However with it's poor battery life and lack of programmable paddles (that could be used e.g as face buttons) I have been searching through 3rd party "Elite" and "Pro" controllers.

This is just another can of worms that I can't to my skull. For example Razer Raiju Ultimate wireless costs 200€ but does not support Gyro on PC! For a 200€ one should absolutely get every feature and then some. I also tried both Scuff DS4 controllers and with these Gyros work on PC but their build quality was not even close to their asking price.

With this post I would like to hear your thoughts on how Gamepads could be utilized on PC gaming even beyond their default features and also answers on few questions for users that have using controllers mentioned down below:

- Does Nacon Revolution Unlimited Pro work with Gyro controls on Steam?

- Does C40 TR Gaming Controller work with Gyro controls on Steam?

- How is the build quality on Evil Controllers and does these work with Gyro on Steam?

.Apex. · April 14, 2019

1 hour ago, AntsaK2 said:

All this is totally understandable because this way developers don't have to design 2 different interfaces for PC and consoles. I have tried many different controllers and come to a conclusion that DS4 controller with Steam configurations and gyro aiming is very good compromise between mouse and gamepad. However with it's poor battery life and lack of programmable paddles (that could be used e.g as face buttons) I have been searching through 3rd party "Elite" and "Pro" controllers

Not sure about the other controllers you mentioned, they look like normal controllers to me.. don't know what's that high price for.

From my experience Steam Controller has been the ultimate controller for me, it seemed to have been hated by everyone for some weirdo reason but I was so intrigued by it I had to try it out, and all that "cheap feeling" garbage everyone has been saying is just beyond me, It feels like any other controller, definitely no cheap plastic used.

But anyway now that's out of my system, I think it's a sweet spot between Mouse/KB and a normal controller if you're into that, and it it highly configurable, you can configure everything you could ever need in Steam Configurations, the Touch Pads are very responsive so for shooter games you can get really quick with aiming but it won't be as quick as a mouse ofc, but it's a huge advantage over a stick, but I think it sometimes falls short in some games especially because they switched the D-Pad for another Touch Pad that also can be used as a D-Pad but it doesn't feel the same, it's a flat surface with a slight indentation that you can feel but it's confusing, so if there's any game that heavily relies on the D-Pad like fighter games, it will suck, but I "kinda" got around that by configuring the stick to click at the corner so it kinda feels like an arcade stick, and that helps but it's not perfect, I definitely recommend you try it out if you want to.

It also supports Gyro and has paddles that you can configure to any button you want