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edin · 2026-08-05T21:37:44+0300

New interview from me on RPG Site: I interviewed Owlcat Games' Head of Publishing Andrey Tsvetkov about Rogue Trader's Switch 2 launch, the possibility of cross save, and much more.

Forgot to quote this relevant bit:

RPG Site: As head of publishing for a beloved RPG developer, do you worry that you are conditioning the potential players to wait for major updates before playing your next title going by how much better Owlcat releases are after a few patches?

Andrey Tsvetkov: It is a valid concern and, honestly, I cannot blame players who decide to wait. We have earned part of that reputation ourselves, and the Rogue Trader release on Switch 2 we’ve been talking about didn’t help. At the same time, I do believe we are getting better with every new game, even if the progress is not always as fast or consistent as we would like.

We want players to buy our games at launch because they are already great experiences, not because they trust us to fix any issues present and implement gameplay improvements later. That being said, the whole Owlcat team is extremely grateful to all the fans who support us and have faith in us — even when something unexpected happens, we are always committed to making things right.

lashman · 2026-08-05T21:38:59+0300

Steam :: Steam Hardware :: Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Gyro

A guide for the motion controls with the Steam Controller

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Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Gyro
A guide for the motion controls with the Steam Controller

The Gyroscope
The Steam Controller has a gyroscope inside - a highly accurate sensor for detecting the controller's rotation. It allows you to do things in-game like:

Control cameras in an exploration game

Aim precisely in an FPS

Move a mouse cursor around the screen for casual mouse focused games

Turn a car's steering wheel/plane's yoke in driving/flying games

And much more just by turning the controller!

The past several years have seen a growing, avid userbase discovering the benefits of the gyroscope, showing that it has a high skill ceiling. When mastered, it can be as good as using a mouse - and often more fun!

It's worth noting that setting up the Gyro can sometimes require a lot of adjusting/testing and is generally game dependent as well, meaning you might need to tweak further for each game.

This initial guide is meant to help you get started without too much tweaking needed. We'll also be doing a deeper dive on some of this sometime in the near future.

Quick Guide
You can enable Gyro by choosing a Gyro Behavior Mode, either from the Quick Settings Menu:

... or inside the Edit Layout->Gyro screen:

The Gyro dropdown in the Controller Settings Quick Menu gives us 3 modes to play with (there are others which you can access in the gyro screen within Edit Layout, but this guide will focus on the three in the quick menu).

These translate gyro motions into virtual mouse or joystick movements

Gyro to Mouse

Used to mimic a mouse cursor, or to control a camera (aiming)

Gyro to Joystick (Camera)

Gyro Speed is used to rotate a standard joystick-driven camera.

Gyro to Joystick (Deflection)

Turn the controller to simulate vehicle steering controls, or an airplane's yoke, via a virtual joystick.

Which Gyro Mode Is Best?
Generally, Gyro to Mouse is recommended for the best game feel. There are two exceptions:

If you want to simulate vehicle steering controls we recommend Gyro to Joystick (Deflection).

If a game doesn't handle mixed input (simultaneous mouse and gamepad input)

You can tell if this is a problem if the game behaves strangely when both gyro and joystick are moved at once: UI glyphs may flicker, or the camera's movement may stutter.

We have a couple of work-arounds to fix this:

Keep using Gyro to Mouse, but set up your configuration to mimic Keyboard and Mouse buttons only - the downside is that game may not display the gamepad button prompts.

If you want to keep the gamepad button glyphs, use Gyro to Joystick (camera). The downside is that this tends to take more setup to get the feel right, since every game treats the joystick response differently.

Common Settings: Gyro Activation Buttons
All three Gyro Modes give you options to temporarily turn off the gyroscope in order to "reset" your hands back to center after rotating too far - much like lifting a mouse to reset its position on your desktop. This is also known as "ratcheting".

We allow you to set this up with any button combination you like. We also provide some settings to adjust exactly how this works. You can get to this setting by clicking the gear next to the Gyro behavior drop down.

This will take you to the Gyro settings menu, at the top you will see the gyro activation buttons options.

Choose Gyro Button(s) - this is the button that will enable/disable gyro when pressed down. By default it is set to the touch sensor in the right trackpad and the touch sensor in the right thumbstick - same as the Steam Deck. As long as your finger is touching one of those things, the gyro will be enabled.

Gyro Enable/Suppress/Toggle - by default the button you chose for item 1 will turn Gyro ON while the button is activated. You can set it to Suppress - meaning Gyro is always on UNLESS the button is currently activated. Or you can set it to Toggle, which will switch Gyro from on to off (or vice versa) on an activation.

Multiple Gyro Button Behavior - if you have multiple buttons selected, this determines whether you need to be pressing/holding all of them or just one (any) of them.

Here is a quick set of instructions to get set up with our suggested options:

Select the Choose Gyro Button(s) button (item 1 above).

The Gyro Buttons popup appears: Select the button you'd like to control the gyro's activity. You can pick any combination. We recommend using both grip sensors for this; but triggers, trackpads or the capacitive stick sensors are also commonly used.

Choose whether you want the buttons to Enable, Suppress, or Toggle the gyro by clicking on Gyro Enable/Suppress/Toggle (number 2 above). For this recommended set up, we suggest "Hold to Enable Gyro"

(Optional) When you have multiple Gyro Buttons selected, you can choose "Any" or "All" buttons to Enable/Suppress/Toggle the gyro. When using the Grip Sensors, we recommend "All". Click in item 3 above to open up the options.

A note about Gyro haptics: Grip sensors don't have any physical feedback of their own (by design - holding in a button for a long time can be fatiguing!) but you can turn on a haptic effect to help physically confirm that they've registered a grip or release.

You can also turn on a haptic effect that will activate each time the controller rotates through an assigned angle, this gives you physical feedback as you rotate the controller.

At the bottom of the Gyro settings screen you will see a haptics menu. They will be defaulted to "Off".

If you turn item 1 or 2 to anything other than "off" new options will open up (see items 3 and 4 below):

In items 3 and 4 you can adjust the settings for these haptics.

Common Gyro Settings: Sensitivity
All three gyro modes have these settings in common. Again, you can access these settings by clicking on the gear next to the Gyro behavior drop down. The sections that primarily affect sensitivity and other output modulations are shown below:

Gyro Angles to Mouse Pixels: (Advanced) This setting is used to make real world angles line up with in-game angles - this takes some fine tuning so we recommend skipping for now.

Gyro Sensitivity: Higher values will make the camera (or mouse) move faster in response to your turns. This is going to be a new gyro user's primary slider to adjust when getting into a new game. We've found people gradually increase this as they start to get the hang of gyro.

Invert X/Y: Toggle these on to invert the Horizontal (X) or Vertical (Y) outputs.

Vertical/Horizontal Output Mixer: Moving the bar to the left will reduce vertical output, whereas moving it to the right will reduce horizontal output. Your wrists have more freedom of movement vertically than horizontally when holding the controller with both hands, so we recommend setting the slider toward the left side (reduced vertical output). Again, tune to taste.

Gyro Speed Deadzone: this is option 1 of 2 that can help you reduce tremors/shakes. This will entirely stop gyro output if the gyro moves slower than the given speed value. A high Deadzone will cause the gyro to feel a little unresponsive - most proficient users turn it to 0. It's still useful in "Drag and Drop" interfaces, so that you don't accidentally drag when you mean to click. Think of it as a way to simulate the friction of a mouse against a mouse pad.

Gyro Precision Speed: this is option 2 of 2 that can help you reduce tremors/shakes. Adjust this if you feel like your fast motions are good, but your fine/precise motions are too fast or a bit shaky. This will merely reduce the output movement when moving slower than the given speed. This can help you with fine movements, without a loss of perceived responsiveness.

We'll share details about the advanced options and more in an advanced Steam Input setup guide coming soon.

Gyro to Joystick Common Settings: Joystick Output
As mentioned above, instead of setting your Gyro to mouse, you can also use one of the two Joystick modes.

Both modes mimic a joystick:

Gyro to Joystick Camera: This maps the speed of the controller's rotation to the joystick's position. Turning your controller pushes the joystick in a direction; keeping your controller still brings the joystick back to its center.

Gyro to Joystick Deflection: This mode maps the controller's relative rotation to that of the joystick. In this mode, rolling your controller left/right is like turning a steering wheel - the stick's position matches how far you've turned the controller from a starting point.

Unlike Gyro to Mouse mode, these modes won't trigger "Mixed Input" issues like "Button-Glyph Flickering" in a typical game.

The downside is that it can be difficult get a good feeling Gyro to Joystick mapping - this is dependent on how each game translates joystick input into camera movement, and how patient you are with tuning.

The most important value to tweak is the Minimum Joystick Output.

You are trying to make this line up with the game's joystick deadzone setting. A typical game will have a deadzone of anywhere between 20% to 45%. When correctly lined up, your smallest gyro movements should convert into the smallest detectable joystick readings in the game. This will take a lot of tweaking, but we suggest starting at around 30%.

While tweaking Gyro to Camera Joystick: small movements might be suppressed by the default gyro deadzones, and it's useful to turn the "Gyro Speed Deadzone" and "Gyro Precision Speed" to Zero so that even small movements are coming through. Once you have found the right joystick remapping values, remember to revert the “Gyro Speed Deadzone” and “Gyro Precision Speed” back to your preference.

In some games, you can find joystick deadzone settings - for the best gyro feel, we recommend that you reduce the in game deadzone as close to zero as it will go. If you do so, you may want to increase Steam Input's joystick deadzones to compensate, as a more sensitive in game joystick deadzone will result in more phantom movement from your joysticks.

For Gyro to Joystick Camera: We've seen some awesome community-made tutorials around this, and recommend looking around and learning from each other. We'll have more detailed guides covering more advanced aspects of gyro remapping in the future.

Drift Calibration
If your gyro is active and you're holding the controller still, but notice that your aim continuously drifts in one direction over time, you may be witnessing "Gyro Drift" - a very common phenomenon in gyro controllers, but also easily fixed.

Find the "Calibrate" button at the bottom of the Controller Settings-> Edit Layout-> Gyro Page

... Or at the bottom of the Controller Settings Quick Settings, or, alternatively, inside the Steam Controller Calibration settings.

Calibration requires you place the controller on a stable surface so that the drift can be detected and subtracted. Follow the wizard and within a few seconds, the drift should be gone.

If you still encounter drift, double check that the source of the drift isn't coming from your joysticks - you can temporarily set your Joystick mode to "None" to make sure.

Steam :: Steam Hardware :: Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Grip Sense

A guide for the cool new sensors in Steam Controller

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Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Grip Sense
A guide for the cool new sensors in Steam Controller
There are lots of features we're excited about when it comes to Steam Controller, and Grip Sense is one of them.

Wait, what IS Grip Sense?
Grip Sense is what we're calling the two capacitive touch sensors inside the handles of Steam Controller. They sense when your fingers are touching the locations highlighted in the image below.

Sounds cool. But, like, why?
Because it's, like, cool! Actually, our driving motivation in building these was to provide another way to activate/deactivate Gyro quickly when you've moved it past your comfortable zone and need to recenter it (called "ratcheting").

It's similar to when you're using your mouse and reach the end of your mousepad: you naturally pick it up and put it back down in the middle. With ratcheting, when you get to the "edge" of your comfortable zone while using Gyro, you can lift your fingers up off the back of the controller, recenter the controller, and then put your fingers back on the controller.

The threshold for activation is adjustable. You can make it so a very slight lift of the fingers will deactivate gyro; or you can make it so you almost need take your whole hand off the controller (like in the animation above). We outline more on how to do that later in this article.

While the original intent was for ratcheting (and it does work for that!) we have found a few other cool use cases, like using it to bring up a weapon wheel, map, or menu. You can lift your fingers off the controller, the weapon wheel will pop up, then you can make your selection and put your fingers back to lock it in. We'll show you how to do that too.

How to assign Grip Sense to Gyro activation
Navigate to the layout editor for a game in the Steam App or in Big Picture Mode (we outline this in our blog post on the Steam Input Configurator). Once there, ensure Gyro is set to "Gyro to Mouse", then click on the Gyro Behavior settings gear

Once in here, you will see the Gyro to Mouse settings. The first option is "Choose Gyro Button(s)". It will default to right trackpad touch and right thumbstick touch. Click in the box to the right to access the button selector menu:

This window will show all options for activating Gyro. If you are unsure what an icon means, you can hover over it and a text description will appear on top. The Grip Sense sensors are the two circled in the image below. When a button is selected, it will turn blue. To deselect, click on the button again; it will turn gray.

Once the button is selected, it will work to disable/enable gyro in game. In this example, when you lift your right fingers off of the controller, gyro will be disabled. When your fingers are on the controller, gyro will be enabled.

Multiple activation buttons

If there are multiple buttons selected (see example below where both grip sensors were picked), an option will appear to let you choose whether Any or All buttons are required to Enable, Suppress or Toggle the gyro. By default, it will choose Any. For grip sense, "Any" means you need to extend the fingers on both hands to disable gyro. "All" would mean you only need to extend the fingers on one hand.

How to use Grip Sense for weapon wheel/map/menu
In order to use Grip Sense like you would a "press and hold" button to bring up things like weapon wheels, menus, maps, etc, you need to access it a little bit differently.

Within the game of your choice, navigate to the Layout Editor (read more in our "How to make the most of the Steam Input Configurator" blog post). Once inside the layout editor, in the Buttons section, navigate down to the grip buttons.

Pick whichever one you want to use and assign it to the button that opens up menu, weapon wheel, etc.

Here's the tricky part: Grip Sense looks like a pressed button when your fingers are touching the grip, and we want the opposite. We want it to look like a pressed button when your fingers lift off of the grip. To do that, click on the gear icon next to the button; click on settings; then towards the bottom of the settings screen you will see an "Invert Input" toggle. Turn that on (blue).

Now, whenever the grip is released, it will activate as a button press and hold until the grip is touched again!

How to adjust Grip Sense sensitivity
Everybody's hands and preferences are different, so we provided a way to adjust the Grip Sense sensitivity. If you want to change the sensitivity, you can do so by navigating to Calibration and Advanced settings for the controller.

From the Steam App

From the menu in the top left, click Steam > Settings > Controller > Click "details" for the controller you want to modify > Scroll down until you see "Calibration & Advanced Settings" and click on "Open" > Navigate down to "Grip Sensors" where you will see the sensor adjustment interface.

From Big Picture Mode

Hit Steam to open the Steam menu > Settings > Controller > Click "details" for the controller you want to modify > Scroll down until you see "Calibration & Advanced Settings" and click on "Open" > Navigate down to "Grip Sensors" where you will see the sensor adjustment interface.

Adjusting the sensitivity

On the Grip Sensor Calibration page, you will see two sliders:

Grip Sensor Range - The further the slider is to the left, the closer your fingers need to be to the controller grips for them to be sensed. If you want slight lifts of the fingers to turn off the sensor, move it to the left. If you want to move your fingers substantially before deactivating the sensor, move it to the right.

Flicker Guard Size (aka Hysteresis) - This makes the states (on vs off) a bit more sticky around your sensor range. The further this slider is to the right, the more sticky the sensor state is. Meaning, if the sensors are on and the slider is far to the right, you need to move your fingers further to turn them off. If you're looking for very snappy quick response, keep this low. If you're looking for very stable performance with no accidental activations, put it higher.

As you adjust, the UI will provide real time feedback when the sensor is "on" (blue line on grips) vs "off"

Note: if you move the Grip Responsiveness slider all the way to the left, you may have issues with the grip sense flickering or responding to touch events on the trackpads or thumbstick. Moving it slightly to the right can help resolve this issue.

Learn more about Steam Controller on its product page, and keep an eye on the Steam Hardware Blog for other how-to guides and closer looks.

Joe Spangle · 2026-08-05T22:16:04+0300

lashman said:
Snip

Yeah but what does Steam do for that 30%.

crimsonheadGCN · 2026-08-05T22:52:32+0300

I wonder if Everquest Legends will come to Steam? I bought it just because I've always wanted to try it. It's a game that I will need to get used to because the UI is pretty bad.

I posted this on Era. The new extraction game, Mistfall Hunter has a skin that cost over 1,000$.

Also, new DLC character for The Bazaar came out today:

STHX · 2026-08-05T23:09:27+0300

Arc said:
Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games - Dexerto

Roblox has admitted that a lack of breakout hit games contributed to a disappointing quarter, as the company has now lost around $70 billion in market value over the last year.

www.dexerto.com

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Not exactly Steam related, but have some good news today.

lashman · 2026-08-05T23:27:32+0300

Memory capacity for all of 2027 has reportedly been booked and sold, with no more DRAM or HBM available

According to a new report, Samsung, SK hynix, and Micron's DRAM and HBM memory capacity for 2027 is now sold out with no additional supply available.

www.tweaktown.com

Madventure · 2026-08-05T23:40:40+0300

lashman said:
A lot of words and stuff

Yoshi · 2026-08-06T00:18:16+0300

Moonlighter is FREE @ Steam

Madventure · 2026-08-06T01:14:27+0300

the roblox stuff to me isn't like... surprising Lol

I applied to work there years ago (Like a deacde) but I just didn't want to move or commute that much for it

One of the big things with it I think might be getting overlooked is a lot of things at the moment is the seeming "rise" of friendslop is kind of stealing some of the thunder for games or things coming out super quick and well since roblox games basically every game in existence once you get bored playing a super super shitty knockoff you just go play the real thing and it's like "Oh hey wait a minute this is way better"

It's like why have I not just gone to mc donalds

I also don't imagine you have super huge amount of actual talented creators making this nonshit knockoffs that don't immediately age out

It's basically turned into Roblox Island as sponsored by Epstein the famous NY financier

Community MetaSteam | August 2026 - Zero Chill: A Frozen Hell

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Steam :: Steam Hardware :: Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Gyro

The Gyroscope

Quick Guide

Which Gyro Mode Is Best?

Common Settings: Gyro Activation Buttons

Common Gyro Settings: Sensitivity

Gyro to Joystick Common Settings: Joystick Output

Drift Calibration

Steam :: Steam Hardware :: Getting the most out of your Steam Controller: Grip Sense

Wait, what IS Grip Sense?

Sounds cool. But, like, why?

How to assign Grip Sense to Gyro activation

How to use Grip Sense for weapon wheel/map/menu

How to adjust Grip Sense sensitivity

Joe Spangle

Playing....

crimsonheadGCN

Death to Anime!

STHX

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Roblox loses $70 billion in value as company blames lack of viral games - Dexerto

lashman

Dead & Forgotten

Memory capacity for all of 2027 has reportedly been booked and sold, with no more DRAM or HBM available

Madventure

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Yoshi

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Madventure

The Angel of Deaf

Community MetaSteam | August 2026 - Zero Chill: A Frozen Hell

Coffee, Controllers, etc

Dead & Forgotten

The Gyroscope​

Quick Guide​

Which Gyro Mode Is Best?​

Common Settings: Gyro Activation Buttons​

Common Gyro Settings: Sensitivity​

Gyro to Joystick Common Settings: Joystick Output​

Drift Calibration​

Wait, what IS Grip Sense?​

Sounds cool. But, like, why?​

How to assign Grip Sense to Gyro activation​

How to use Grip Sense for weapon wheel/map/menu​

How to adjust Grip Sense sensitivity​

Playing....

Death to Anime!

MetaMember

Dead & Forgotten

The Angel of Deaf

o_O

The Angel of Deaf

The Gyroscope

Quick Guide

Which Gyro Mode Is Best?

Common Settings: Gyro Activation Buttons

Common Gyro Settings: Sensitivity

Gyro to Joystick Common Settings: Joystick Output

Drift Calibration

Wait, what IS Grip Sense?

Sounds cool. But, like, why?

How to assign Grip Sense to Gyro activation

How to use Grip Sense for weapon wheel/map/menu

How to adjust Grip Sense sensitivity