You can now map the Steam Controller's buttons to different key presses and modes

The Steam Controller is amazing, I still love it and probably will for a long time. This new update has me in awe.

The latest Steam Client Beta has been released, and with it comes many changes for the Steam Controller.

QuoteActivators sit between inputs (such as a button on the controller) and binding outputs (such as a keypress). They control how the input is turned into output and provide a number of settings to control this. Some simple examples are long press, double press, binding cycling, toggles, and delays.

There is no limit to the number of activators that can be placed on a single input, so a button can have a normal press, a long press, and a double tap on a single button, each firing off different actions in a game.

They list a few examples of things you can do, like turning a crouch ability from holding down a key into just tapping the key. Lots of games don't allow you to press once to crouch, this sounds amazing to me to be able to map it like that.

Things like this may actually make me use the Steam Controller more than a mouse and keyboard for how amazingly useful it can be.

They have also updated the visualisations for deadzones, which I found to be quite annoying previously. It looks much better now at least in my opinion:


Valve really have done something great here at least with this bit of hardware. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.