The touch pads are especially a bit of unfamiliar territory, and I had definitely had to get used to this new way of playing. Using it will took a long time for me to get used to, though. Will it meet our standards? Umm, since how you like the controller is always going to be different than what we think, but nevertheless, Steam has done a good job with the controller. Steam Controller Mac Not Workingīoth are clickable, adding two more buttons into its arsenal. The left touch pad has an outline of a cross, signalling that it’s a directional pad, while the right pad is completely smooth. These are touch pads and they take up a lot of space. The main attractions are the two large circles located both on the left and right of the controller. At the back of each of the grip, there are buttons which are comparable to the R1 and L1. The three buttons on the middle are consist of the standard start and select buttons and Steam’s version of the DualShock’s “Home Button”. – thank heavens – though it still looks more like an oddball, with its buttons and lone analog stick placed in the middle.Īnyway, the four buttons in the middle follow Xbox’s layout and format (X,A,Y,B) and the single analog stick resembles DualShock and it’s depressible too.
Hands on with the Steam Controller for Mac If you expected it to feel like your standard PlayStation DualShock or Xbox controller, then you might be a bit conflicted with what Valve has come out with. We just hope Valve sends an email confirming Half-Life 3 as well. You can choose to refund your hardware, but you can still get the VCP – not a bad offer. We’re doing everything we can to resolve the issues.” Valve, owner of Steam, is also giving the affected users the Valve Complete Pack, giving you access to all of Valve’s games – past, present, and future.
We want to apologize for the delays in providing full functionality for the Mac platform. We expect gamepad emulation to become functional within a few weeks. If you opt into the Steam Beta client, keyboard and mouse emulation will be functional. The email also added: “The Steam Controller doesn’t currently support gamepad emulation on Macs.
We expect these problems to be resolved as we update firmware and drivers over the next few weeks.” Fortunately, this means Steam is working to fix these issues: we could see the Steam Controller for Mac in working order in less than a month.
The contents of the Steam’s apologetic email to its customers state: “Unfortunately, there are some there are some temporary software issues that prevent the hardware from functioning with Macs. Why isn’t it working? Both the Steam Link – the device streaming games from your computer to your TV – and the Steam Controller for Mac doesn’t work on Apple Computers due to some sort of temporary software issue.
However, before you rush to the and order yours, there’s one thing to keep in mind: the Steam Controller for Mac doesn’t actually work yet. This may also potentially open the floodgates to more games to enter the Apple market.
It’s definitely an accessory people who are looking to play games on the Mac should avail. And yes, this is what most Mac gamers (if such people exist) are looking forward to: a way to finally play games like XCOM Enemy Unknown and Total War without having to use the keyboard and mouse.
Steam, everybody’s “favorite” (depending on whom you ask) gaming client, recently released its very own Steam Controller, which is primed up to be a game controller for the Mac. There are dozens of great games on the Mac App Store and though the catalog is not as wide compared to PC, we can safely say that in the future.
Mac computers were at the receiving end of many jokes due to the lack of games in the platform – this is a half-truth at this point. Your best bet is to evaluate your entire library of games and select the controller most commonly supported. Even worse, only the wireless Xbox 360 controller is supported. For example, Star Wars the Force Unleashed only supports the Xbox 360 controller, even though it is not a natively supported controller in OS X.