Kirk Hamilton

It has four underbuttons.

I love it, man.

Well, the older I get, the more I watch out for my thumbs, man, and jamming my thumbs on face buttons.

The main game I've been playing with this is Diablo 4, and I like to play that game with a controller, but I have all of my face button abilities mapped to those under buttons.

It's so much better for my hands.

I really feel like it's a real health thing for me more than fluidity with gameplay or anything.

It's just taking care of my hands, and I do really like that.

Another thing that this controller has, though, in addition to all those buttons, is it has remarkable gyro options.

And that is something that I think is a little underexplored, certainly underexplored by me, but a really cool part of using this controller.

I was playing some Cyberpunk and remembering playing that on the Steam Deck and having a similar kind of a setup, something very cool that both the Steam Deck and the Steam Controller have.

I'll talk about the controller, I guess, since that's what I'm talking about here.

The thumbsticks are capacitive.

They're TMR, I think it's called, thumbsticks, which are the really good ones that don't do the thumbstick drift that people are running into all the time on different controllers.

I'm not sure if they're hall effect.

I get kind of some of those terms mixed up, but they're really good and they're very reliable.

And they're also capacitive.

So when you place your thumbs on the thumbstick, that counts as an input.

The thumbstick knows that you've touched it, even if you haven't done anything.

So something I would do on Steam Deck and that I now like to do just for fun with the Steam Controller is when I place my right thumb on the right thumbstick, it activates gyro aiming.

So basically, anytime you're getting ready to move the thumbstick, you can move the controller instead for more precise aim.