ASUS are like that. They had me send a faulty tablet to a contractor that seemed very ‘general IT’ and unspecialised, who returned it unfixed a week later. I contacted them and went through the process again, and that time it came back with its fault just occurring less frequently.

The company Argos used when I returned a faulty laptop were surprisingly good.

Happy to be in the second batch, want to get some hands-on in depth reviews, especially around noise from fans, that’s the one thing making me consider not buying.

Well there are fans and there are fans. I'd be happy if it sounds like a Switch or PS5 fan, absolutely not if it is PC laptop levels. I don't play my laptop that much simply because I have to use headphones.

Infra is utter pish, I wouldn't recommend it even at the sale price.

Nfi. I play card games.

Big ol desk mat is bestest. And yeah a good quality mouse with a proper sensor is one of the most important things to have with PC gaming. You don't have to spend a lot and more often than not mice will have sensors that don't have any accceleration or other weird issues now. I used to have this old Mionix mouse that I thought was really good, but it was genuinely making playing games rubbish due to some built in negative acceleration and I didn't realise for years.

Make sure you get a big mouse mat, or just a desk mat, so you have the option of turning the in game sensitivity down. This makes it easier to be more accurate because you can make larger movements for the same effect, getting lined up on a specific pixel has a greater margin of error.

Also I hope everyone has "Enhance pointer precision" turned off in their Windows mouse settings, it's just acceleration which is bad for consistent aiming and pointing.

Anyone want white night?

Got horizon zero dawn cheap on fanatical and it came with a free mystery game. Looks like a nice looking point and click puzzler.

Let's do this again: I have spare humble keys to Katana Zero, Bloodstained, Elex (eurojanky RPG darling) and Heaven's Vault if anyone's interested.

I've not played it, but the rest of those are all worth a go.

So I got a USB controller to use with my Switch, thinking it'd also work with my laptop. Turns out I was correct. Only problem is that Steam sees it as an Xbox controller, and reverses the A/B and X/Y buttons. I've had a dig around in the settings and tried telling Steam that I want to use the Nintendo layout, but games still think that the A button is the one labelled B. What am I missing?

You need the game to support the correct button prompts. The USB adaptor and steam are doing their job, it's just Nintendo and XBOX label the buttons differently.

If the game does't support Switch buttons (and let's face it, who'd want to use junk switch controllers on a pc), you need to train you brain (like I do when using a decent controller on a switch). I think of the order of the buttons - A then B or B then A, and X then Y or Y then X in my head when I see a prompt.

mrsmr2 wrote:

... it's just Nintendo and XBOX label the buttons differently.

That'd be why I want to change the layout, yes.

mrsmr2 wrote:

(and let's face it, who'd want to use junk switch controllers on a pc)

Me? And it's not junk, but thanks for the help.

The Switch Pro controller is better than the ds4, except for lack of analogue in the triggers.

Blue Swirl wrote:

So I got a USB controller to use with my Switch, thinking it'd also work with my laptop. Turns out I was correct. Only problem is that Steam sees it as an Xbox controller, and reverses the A/B and X/Y buttons. I've had a dig around in the settings and tried telling Steam that I want to use the Nintendo layout, but games still think that the A button is the one labelled B. What am I missing?

I think that is the best you can get in most cases, unfortunately, which is why I turned the option off again in the end. A lot of games just don't include Switch Pro prompts.

Nintendo went first. Sony did their own thing. Microsoft fucked it by using the same names but in different places. Inexcusable.