Honestly, I can wait longer than the Ads run for to not have them shoved down my throat.

From what I have seen, nothing from the cracked version, it should be an improvement upon FH5.

Good list of cars, with some interesting stuff, and a rework of the class system(well R class being added compressing the other classes, so rework might be over selling it)

A way more interesting map, Mexico kinda sucked, but the rally map was great and Japan seems to be a much needed improvement.

Progression has returned to the campaign, and you have more to work towards. You aren’t the superstar of the festival this time.

The other improvements that I am exited for are the open world drag races and time attack tracks. As well as the Spec races, and removal of a bunch of FOMO from the seasonal playlists

The Lmao negates this. This is definitely a thank god I don’t have to go on a date with you.

Much closer to the steam deck. So has proper d pad, 2 analogue sticks with 2 square touch pads. Also has 4 back buttons, and capacitive touch sections on the grips. Has a few other features as well.

I don’t know how playing something like redout 2, screamer or inertial drift would go on a wheel(they all use twin stick driving).

Sim racing is definitely a wheel, but arcade racers are mostly controller for me.

I have been thinking about this for a while, and I don’t think I would be.

A few reasons to back this up, firstly Epic have no hardware background and so I have nothing to have previous excitement over. Compared to Valve, where I have used the Index and I own the old steam controller and a Deck. Epic launching a controller just isn’t exciting to me.

Secondly, there are a load of controllers out there, and a lot of good controllers. If I was only able to use the controller within the Epic launcher, I would just get something else.

Thirdly, this would be an epic exclusive, I am not sure I would have actually head about it. They are impressively good at being a marketing black hole.

Stick placement is not really a factor for ergonomics for me. I had used an xbox controllers for a long time, but now I have a PS5 controller as my current go to. The biggest thing that makes a difference is shape and how it sits in your hands, and for me the PS5 controller is just simply better than the Xbox controller.

I think the best way I can describe the difference between the two is that to be comfortable the xbox controller sits on my fingers where as the PS5 controller sits in my palms. I can also throw in a few other examples of this, PS4 sits in my fingers, but also has the worlds worst and most uncomfortable triggers. The Switch pro controller sits mostly in my palms and is better than the xbox controller but only has digital triggers.

As for the battery, internal batteries are annoying if you can not replace them. According to gamers nexus you can tear down and replace the battery fairly easily in the steam controller, and apparently valve plan to work with iFixit again for spares. So I don’t think this is a big difference either way because of the benefits you get from having the higher powered internal battery.

That also leads to by far the biggest pro. Repair-ability. The steam controller if it is supported like the steam deck is just going to be better.

With regards to the polling rate, I wouldnt worry about it. Gaming Nexus did a deep dive into the latency of the controller, and it is really good. Which is going to be signicicantly more important that the minute difference you would get from increasing polling rate over 250hz.

https://youtu.be/wfr4QN1Hvhs?t=494

My Adulthood has been morphing from Cookie Monster to Cookie Monster… Wait… Shit

I am going to presume/guess that pc gamers just weren’t all the enthusiastic about paying full price for the games 3 years after release.

I know I am still waiting for Spiderman 2 to drop to a price I am willing to pay, and the longer it takes the lower that becomes.

Ohhh I will jump on this one as well.

EAs WRC is unsupported, this isn’t a deal breaker by itself but is a contributing factor. AC Rally isn’t in a place to challenge it for now, but should get there eventually. I could also play more dirt rally 2.0 as well

Le Mans Ultimate, the performance for me is unacceptable. Jumping from 30 to 140fps and makes me feel motion sick because of that. It is my main racing sim, and dealing with that for long endurance races is impossible. Yes I had the LMU fork of proton, it is the only way to get into races. But the LMU Devs are not exactly Linux friendly and aren’t trying to help out.

And that’s about it for games that don’t work for me. If LMU worked as well or close to on Linux as it does on windows I would switch. But it is such a huge portion of my pc use I am having to use windows for now

Along with bazzite and cachyos, I will throw in Nobara which is fedora but gaming focused and supported by glorious egg roll.

Has been the distro I have had the most success with, even if I have had to go back to windows because of certain sim racing stuff being a bit rubbish on Linux(for now)

How can I boycott something I don’t participate in more?

Fuck these ages verification checks, for now, embrace the VPN life