A month ago, started selling an unusual game controller Steam Controller, which was developed by the engineers Valve. A month later came the first update of the controller firmware, which includes several major and hundreds of minor changes. And its developers have released an amazing video in which we demonstrate the process of creating Steam Controller robots.
The December update was created taking into account the comments and wishes of the rank and file players who were bombarded their suggestions in the Steam forums. For example, now you can combine the control of the trackpad and gyro, making aiming in games is even more accurate and fast. Also in the controller was added to the control scheme, which will allow players to emulate the mouse aiming in those games, which used to be provided only aiming handles analog gamepad.
Strategies touchpads will now behave as comfortable as possible for those players who used to play with the help of a computer mouse. The touchpads surface is now divided into regions, so that they can be used to quickly navigate through the map level, quick access to different interface elements and much more. For example, holding a certain button, the entire touchpad turns into a map by clicking on an area which you will be transported to this place. The touchpad can also be turned into a menu from the hot key assigned to the player.
Each controller is customized for its owner, and its settings are stored in the cloud, so came to visit a friend, you just connect the controller to his computer or Steam Machine, and your settings are automatically loaded from the Network. The Valve developers have listened to players ‘ request to add Steam Controller support to games that were released outside of Steam store. In the very near future this gamepad can be used with any games from third-party stores, including the services of EA, Ubisoft and other major publishers.
But the most interesting is that published on the official Steam website, this is an amazing video, where the music from the game Portal numerous robots on the Assembly line gather Steam Controller and pack the resulting product in the box. Personally, I like the video always fascinated. How would say the robot Bender from the cartoon Futurama, “Glory to robots!”.
