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Recommendations For a Controller for PC? (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So my old wireless Xbox 360 controller is kind of on its last legs, bad stick drift, thumbstick rubber starting to rub off, and I'm looking for a replacement. Would gladly just buy another 360 controller but they haven't made them in years.

Got an 8bitdo Ultimate earlier this year and it has not lasted. Out of the box, the thumbsticks started losing sensitivity in one or two directions after a few hours of play, but I could get around this by messing with the deadzones in the software. Not an ideal solution, since it lowered the resolution, but it worked.

But now it's got new and exciting problems that I can't work around. Sometimes the B button won't register at all. Sometimes the A button will press on its own. And my favorite, sometimes the entire controller just freezes and won't accept any input for seconds at a time.

I had a coworker recommend a GuliKit but the face buttons are backward and that's enough to put me off it.

Any advice?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

PS5 controller hands down. Feels great in the hands, connects with no issue to my Linux machine, and the dpad is very good. With Microsoft, I never had any good experiences with their offerings, so I cannot recommend those. Some part of the controller would wear down or stop functioning and I went through too many of them. However, the first Steam Controller was pretty good, so maybe the v2 will be worth waiting a little longer for.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

and the dpad is very good

huh, none of the fighting game people i know like the ps5 dpad

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I will never be a fighting game woman. This is coming from a medium-high skill speed runner of Super Metroid Randomizer though. It’s the best one I’ve used aside from the SNES OEM pad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

makes sense. different gameplay different demands.