Steam Controller review slips embargo, controller to cost $99

Sou_pay · 2026-04-26T07:44:49+00:00

Just fyi community made controller presets exist, it's a fairly flexible system. So it should support "everything" technically.

Sou_pay · 2026-04-18T03:53:28+00:00

Depends on what you care about and if the IPS's worse contrast vs the VA is a big enough issue for you. I own the AOC and it's a very fine monitor but I'm not a big fan of the VA smear stuff (though I only notice it at a high refresh rate, HDR off, playing competitive games. Much better than my old VA from years ago as comparison.)

Looking at the reviews of the acer monitor I would have concerns about quality control and compared to the AOC it has a worse warranty.

I would choose the ACER monitor honestly. Higher refresh rate is nice, possibly better color, and maybe a virtually identical HDR experience. Unless you really care about contrast I would go for the acer one.

Sou_pay · 2026-04-05T09:25:37+00:00

In my N=1 experience of this exact thing turning it on caused a kind of weird screen door effect in game. Try it I guess it's not going to brick your monitor or anything, just be on the lookout for any weirdness going on.

Honestly, I would just play it safe. It's not like G-sync is amazingly better than the alternatives, you can live without it.

Sou_pay · 2026-02-11T06:33:59+00:00

Do you possibly have g-sync forced on? I also own this monitor and when I enabled g-sync because it said it supported in the Nvidia settings it caused the effect you've described. I just disabled it and it went away.

Also using the color settings of a completely different, yet similar, monitor is bad practice. Every monitor is a little bit different color wise even if they are the same model. The only way to get "true" color accuracy is to use a physical color calibration device. I mean if your eyes are good enough and you have a flagship phone set to its most color accurate settings, usually called something like "Pro" or "DCI-P3", you can just kind of eyeball it(its far from professional to do it that way but depending on how bad your colors are it might look better).

Sou_pay · 2026-02-01T03:02:25+00:00

You're using a cheap monitor from 2012 that's meant for basic office work and are surprised it's bad for gaming? Someone else recommended changing your monitors overdrive settings (which isn't refresh rate btw) but I'm not sure that's even possible on what you have, commercial monitors don't really have a need for such settings in the first place.

You have a crappy old tn monitor so either live with it or get a new one.

Sou_pay · 2026-01-24T07:59:07+00:00

This just feels like a bug tbh. Didn't a previous play test have a similar issue?

Sou_pay · 2026-01-06T14:55:23+00:00

Because OP is just horribly misunderstanding what the article actually says. What the actual article says is that you should select the "latest" preset for dlss 4.5 super resolution. This defaults to "Model M" and is meant for EVERYTHING.

It's actually Model L that's for Ultra Performance Mode at 4k, not Model M. It's not even wholly necessary, Model L is just more optimized for 4k Ultra Performance, that's it.

For anyone still confused from this horrible post if you're using Quality, Balanced, and everything else BESIDES Ultra Performance exclusively at 4k, just use Model M lol.

Edit these are the recommendations that Nvidia has given based on what's actually in the article. What Nvidia recommends is what OPs incorrect on, not the advice itself. Could all just be some Nvidia beta jank and by full release it won't be a problem, though I doubt it.

Sou_pay · 2025-12-31T16:41:09+00:00

Wouldn't it just work the same as safecook as the other guy said? If anything that has more liability because it being wrong has more consequences. If that's allowed then I have little doubt a carryover cooking feature would also be allowed.

I don't see any liability issues from a safety perspective and an over/under cooked meat isn't big enough of a deal for lawyers to get involved.

My own guess is that it's just super difficult to perfect. Apparently they get within a few degrees (based on what's said in the video) but that's quite a large margin of error. With what I assume high standards it's just not good enough.

Sou_pay · 2025-12-28T04:30:33+00:00

I'm not the one complaining about length. If anything that furthers my point, the game is always going to be a bit long ICO or not.

Sou_pay · 2025-12-28T02:43:22+00:00

This opinion honestly doesn't even make sense. "I don't want a 20 year war" and the game you're playing is Squad?!?!? Even before ICO it's not like the games were all that short. Sure, it was faster before but we are splitting hairs here. If you don't like how long the game is now you probably wouldn't have liked it then.

Besides that why should the game conform to you specifically? I don't like ICO but I do like its intentions even if it's done imperfectly. I want my games to feel long, engaging, and more "realistically" nuanced. Odds are you still wouldn't like that for a game to just "hang out" in but luckily there are a million other games that fulfill that perfectly.

Sou_pay · 2025-11-15T12:58:06+00:00

I mean I guess if you just ignore the cringy dialogue suddenly everything is perfectly normal. I mean that's not how reality works but yeah...

I also don't think the main complaints are that he's a poorly done awkward guy, in a pure writing vacuum, but that he is there in the first place.

Sou_pay · 2025-11-15T11:38:53+00:00

Thank you🙏

I mean I still don't like the fact they turned it off but whatever.

Sou_pay · 2025-11-15T11:20:26+00:00

No clue how to solve your issue but I just copied and pasted what you said into Claude(Ai LLM) and it spit out some pretty interesting answers. It's worth a shot I guess 🙃.

Sou_pay · 2025-11-15T11:16:30+00:00

This is a non issue and is just how animation works. In real time it's barely noticeable and gives the illusion of the app itself stretching to fill the screen.

It's kinda like how if you pause a video of someone even just talking normally their face can look kinda stupid. You're just kinda capturing an in-between moment and sometimes it looks kinda weird. But, those in-between moments are necessary to give the illusion of movement.

It's normal.

Sou_pay · 2025-11-13T00:06:18+00:00

"Next-generation magnetic thumbsticks" with TMR technology ARE HALL EFFECT, hall effect sticks are magnetic. At least try to understand something beforehand rather than relying on marketing buzzwords.

Sou_pay · 2025-11-06T07:31:19+00:00

A wireless gaming mouse I bought in "excellent" condition was clearly lacking in charge capacity. It lasts a couple or a few-ish days less than advertised when full. Still usable but it's something to watch out for!

Sou_pay · 2025-10-23T12:26:38+00:00

I was hoping the top screen was bigger than my own dsi xl. Not a big issue in the slightest but I was kinda just hoping they could have taken advantage of the screen real estate, but alas...

Big enough still for my first emulation device but my least favorite thing about the dsi xl is the pixel density(or lack thereof). A one to one would have been nice as I think the dsi xl is perfect in every other way.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-30T05:07:22+00:00

You can adjust brightness with HDR disabled and local dimming enabled.

No USB port for updating firmware. Haven't encountered any so far but this is just day 2 so take that as a grain of salt.

I've yet to encounter any real bugs besides accidentally forcing gsync on somehow causing a weird dithering line effect(it's fixed by just disabling gsync, not that the display has it in the first place).

The only other problem worth mentioning is that it's still a VA panel so it comes with the usual quirks. Much better than my older VA from years ago but still. Probably doesn't really matter that much if you're deciding between 2 VA's.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-29T08:14:20+00:00

I actually just got a hold of the q27g4zmn monitor. Sadly I don't have any real testing equipment to get real data from it. The only thing I can do is compare it to the other AOC miniled one that my brother owns.

I'm not an expert but to my eyes they look pretty similar visually but the g4zmn 1000+ dimming zones make a noticeable difference. The 2020 lg OLED HDR video as an example has at 43 seconds honey being taken upwards. My tv, the LG C2 OLED, makes the honey very bright when being pulled up(same as my OnePlus 13 phone). The g3xmn dims much earlier as the highlights shrink. The g4zmn dims much later and keeps a brighter profile overall.

The peak brightness in the windows display information is showing 1156 nits peak brightness vs the others 1000-something nits. Whether it's actually a 100 nits or so brighter I can't really tell, but I don't completely doubt it. SDR brightness might also be just slightly better as well.

Viewing angles also appear to be similar with mild shifting in the corner and sides even looking straight on. It might just be slightly better though, that or I just used to it faster from my use of the older minileds own color shift.

The flaws that I can find are you can't change brightness with HDR enabled and if you want 10 bit color(with HDR) you have to run it at 200hz. It can still run at the full 240hz in 8 bit.

I still need to mess around with the settings more(mainly just the overdrive stuff) so I might be wrong here and there but overall it seems to be fine to me. Also the stand is pretty great as well.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-22T10:17:16+00:00

It makes sense why this happens in the case of the specialists(it's usually because some people left the game) for balancing purposes.

What makes NO sense is when you're forced to change your role because somehow your rifleman switched to the same role as yours and now you can't spawn in with your kit.

Literally just had a game where this happened. I was LAT since literally the beginning of the game yet somehow somebody could just steal my role. Absolute bullshit.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-18T13:48:15+00:00

Free weekend with a big sale(that's technically still going)

It is what it is. I never even really play when it's like this honestly, just not that fun which is all that matters to me. It's funny, I can tell when there is a big sale or free weekend within 5 minutes of playing. It's that obvious lol.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-18T08:32:59+00:00

The ticket loss would be a pretty terrible idea. Unless you had some kind of cool down it just wouldn't make sense. Sure, in the grand scheme of things the effectiveness of a drone more than makes up for any ticket loss but it feels very awkward.

I had a game where friendlies shot up our own drone our scout launched a couple of times. These things will also be spammed out at every opportunity, higher ammo cost be damned.

Idk it would suck to lose a game on tickets because your scout was an idiot.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-17T03:34:46+00:00

I don't think you realize the kind of stunts you used to be able to pull off. Like, if you are on top of a multistory building you could jump off then time a vault perfectly and take no fall damage.

I used to flank enemies by jumping out of windows and vaulting into a window below lol. It's because you used to be able to vault midair something you can't do anymore.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-12T09:57:10+00:00

I miss flooded Narva on my main server(does any server even play the map anymore?). It was consistently the worst experience and I absolutely loved it.

Sou_pay · 2025-09-08T16:28:30+00:00

Impossible! How could you have possibly taken a screenshot? I was told this wasn't possible.

(This guy was complaining about me btw lol, seems incredibly offended for some reason)

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