SvennoJ said:
Leynos said:
Haptic shit is a silly gimmick. Switch has it. I turned it off. I did use it for Astro's playroom then never again. All it does is break a controller faster. Always felt Rumble was stupid. So I have turned that shit off since the 90s. Making the trigger harder to push reminds me of the few games that used the analog face buttons on PS2. It sucked esp in racing games. You had to really stress your thumb on some of those. It's neat in theory but in practice gets old fast. |
You can call it silly, it does help a lot while racing in GT7. I can feel what the wheels are touching, different edges provide different feedback. You can feel the tires starting to lose traction and consequently don't need that horrendous exaggerated tire squeal anymore. The 'thunk' when switching gears is very satisfying and different for what car you're driving. I don't really like the feedback on the throttle tbh, kinda interferes with input, however on the brakes it's very useful to feel ABS kicking in like in a real car. Going back to DS4 on GT Sport feels like a big step back, missing a lot of useful feedback.
In other games, yeah it's mostly a gimmick. Ok I can feel what type of ground my horse is running over, does that matter? However the haptic triggers are useful to make the distinction clear between zoom in / aim (half press) and shoot (press through). It basically turns the triggers into multiple buttons.
But in the end, I would like cheaper or more reliable controllers. Fact is, the Dualsense costs CAD 90 here ($66) and still has the same drift issues as always. It seems Sony fixed the triggers (I went through 4 DS4s playing GT Sport over the years because of L2 and R2 breaking from heavy use) but I already have 2 controllers with stick drift again.
DualSense edge is highway robbery at CAD 270, then still CAD 25 per replacement stick module. But I guess a DualSense edge plus 4 modules is about the same as 4 regular controllers. That's if nothing else breaks :/ |
My 8bitdo Ultimate controller is the best Switch controller there is. I love it has hall effect joysticks so no drift worries. It's time all 3 adopt Hall effect and catch up with SEGA 1996.
