the Xbox One Elite controller what makes it Elite well has a ton of pretty wicked
features and almost as much modularity as your buddy's 1990 Civic hatchback but
unfortunately costs almost the same as well what are those features how does it
feel how does it perform let's find
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the link in the video description to learn more the truly badass features
start with the magnetized interchangeable thumb sticks the default
one is the Xbox 1es concave thumb stick
and then you have a more PlayStation style domed top or last but not least
you have the tall concave thumb sticks which are great for precision but do
feel a bit weird being so tall and make pressing other buttons a little bit more
difficult but if that's your thing go for gold following that we have the
swappable d-pad the default one is this kind of satellite dish style thing which
I personally felt was kind of weird in many situations I found myself
misclicking on it fairly often and if I was playing a game where I had to
quickly slam a direction on the d-pad it does have the ability to lift off due to
the magnetic nature of its Mount but that's not to say it doesn't have its
rightly place this is hands down the best d-pad I've personally ever used if
I was looking to to play a fighting game not only is it lightning fast to use but
doing moves where you have to roll your thumb around the d-pad becomes a breeze
and hey if you don't like it the other d-pad is super standard and to be honest
I even kind of liked using the d-pad raw without any of the magnetized features
on top of it which actually worked surprisingly well the last feature in
the modular category are the paddles on the back of the controller they can help
improve your gameplay in almost any game that would benefit from you being able
to press buttons while both your thumbs are on the thumbsticks which is almost
every game that I know of but they can also be kind of annoying because it's
kind of where you grip your controller and that can cause accidental inputs
which are frustrating as hell but it's
cool just take some of them or all of them off it's super easy to do just
rotate them out of their little magnetic sockets my favorite configuration is
with the small paddles in the upper positions and no paddles in the bottom
positions this allows my pinky and ring finger to just grip the controller while
my middle finger pointer finger and thumb do all the actual input work the
triggers however are undeniably way better they come with trigger stop
switches on the back of the controller which are awesome personally if I'm not
playing a racing game I find the long travel time and soft ending of the
normal Xbox One controller trigger pull to be very unsatisfactory engaging the
trigger stops will result in a shorter travel distance and sharper stops which
feels way better in anything that isn't a racing game to be
honest the inclusion of trigger stops alone if it was a unique feature would
have sold me on this controller let's take a little break with the hardware to
cover some software which is available through the Xbox store on both your PC
and Xbox under the name Xbox accessories
fair warning going to get a little bit angry here but first off the good stuff
you can change a ton of things like mapping any button to any other button
which is pretty damn cool and I'm sure very helpful for disabled Gam or just
those who love customization you can change the brightness of an LED or even
the sensitivity of either of the thumb sticks or triggers you might be
wondering how this possibly made me angry well Microsoft apparently decided
that the PC version of this app just didn't need graphs labeled why I don't
know the console version has the labels my guess is that it was probably a
complete afterthought yep you click on the hardware settings button then on to
left right stick or triggers and Bam a
bunch of random slidy bars that change some random stuff or buttons that add
dotted lines to your graph I mean I know they're for sensitivity but I'm
reviewing the product I knew these were going to be in the menus before I even
open up the software also an afterthought was that the default
predone configs were for console games yet still shown on the PC version does
this mean we're eventually going to get more of them than just Gears of War
hopefully but I doubt it I'm tired of the PC afterthought this may not seem
seem like a big deal but it feels more like another minor slap in the face and
a tease from Microsoft I mean come on guys you show these games off on PCS at
shows anyways just give them to us and at least give us software that has some
freaking labels on it okay rant over
back to Hardware yes there is also the included 3.5 mm Jack but that's not
actually a uniquely Elite controller feature and before you go run and check
your current xbone controller this is a relatively new thing but it is included
in their newer standard controllers as well to cap things off with the Fairly
obvious yes this is a wireless controller as you've probably seen by
now it does come with two ablea Duracell batteries in the box so it is ready to
rock right away and if you're a PC person no it won't automatically connect
to your computer you do need the Microsoft Windows 10 Xbox controller
dongle which is about $25 or if you want to bypass all of that
because honestly screw batteries they include a pretty nicely braided standard
length 9t micro USB cable which in my opinion could actually be a little bit
longer because I know a few buddies that have setups that have the couch further
than 9 ft away from their home theater but there are always USB extensions now
I'm seeing loads of early reviews harking about how this thing is so
expensive and they're correct I'm not saying it's cheap of course not but
let's not ignore the fact that scuff exists a ton of the features on this
controller were already available in some way shape or form form whether you
think it's better or worse that's up to you on a scaf controller and this is how
Gamers have been getting these features for a long time so yes in conclusion it
costs a load but it's a relatively similar price to a medium kit scuf
controller and I don't find that the least bit surprising what I also don't
find surprising is that it has already sold out practically everywhere people
love their peripherals I mean look at mechanical keyboards I've definitely
purchased a few overpriced versions of those so pick your poison if if it's too
much for you move on if you're looking for a premium controller this might be
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