Christmas Time is coming and I have found new very innovative gamepad which would suit perfect for gamepad collection - Flydigi Apex 2. Ofc, I would be happy having full support of this controller in reWASD. It looks like fusion Xbox Elite controller with Xbox Classic S controller adding gyro support, mobile navigation buttons (menu, home, back), 4 back buttons (M1, M2, M3, M4), customizable led and something new - BXY patented draggable wheel. Sounds like perfect controller Xbox layout + gyro + new cool features. According to official website - total 27 buttons. I definitely worth give a try.
I would expect that we can select if we want to emulate Xbox or PS4 controller. Draggable wheel can work as:
Rest is rather normal. We need button to activate gyro - can be one of back buttons. C and Z buttons can be RB and LB to have better immersion in fighting games. Select and start are normal xinput buttons. Menu/Home/Back can act as PrintScreen/Guide/ESC. Rest keys will be determined by games (I like crouch and jump on back buttons). No more ideas for now.
It would be nice to have support of this controller, as it looks fresh, and finally something new from different camp than Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo.
I would expect that we can select if we want to emulate Xbox or PS4 controller. Draggable wheel can work as:
- For Dualshock emulation it can emulate movement on touchpad - swipe up-down-left-right or tap up-down-left-right.
- For Xbox emulation it can emulate mouse movement (it's nice to have mouse control when both sticks are used already by game).
- Finally we can have flick stick without losing ability of using normal right and left sticks! Flick stick can be on draggable wheel or on normal RS, then draggable wheel will take over RS control.
- Ability to emulate sticks movement to be able to fast select guns from weapon wheel - instead pressing RB + right stick we can just move wheel in required direction and controller will emulate press of RB and movement in required direction. Coming back to position zero will release accept our choice.
- Feature is created for MOBA games, so maybe we it will make LoL games compatible with gamepads. Looks perfect for skillshots. So standard stick can move coursor/camera but draggable wheel will activate actions:
- press of skill button (B/X/Y button), move cursor in desired direction (wheel), release skill button activates skill.
- teleport cursor in place selected by us earlier (eg. middle of the screen), press skill button, move cursor in desired direction, activate skill by release button.
- Emulation of triggers for racing games - top maximum speed, down activates break, left/right emulates left stick for car control.
- Menu wheel for games which does not support it. Up - activates key 1, Down - activates key 2, left - activates key 3, right - activates key 4.
- Generally I think that it's nothing special to implement. It has to act like third stick. Nearly all my actions are possible to replicate with normal sticks, this one will be just third one and has possibility of press not one button, but three (B/X/Y).
Rest is rather normal. We need button to activate gyro - can be one of back buttons. C and Z buttons can be RB and LB to have better immersion in fighting games. Select and start are normal xinput buttons. Menu/Home/Back can act as PrintScreen/Guide/ESC. Rest keys will be determined by games (I like crouch and jump on back buttons). No more ideas for now.
It would be nice to have support of this controller, as it looks fresh, and finally something new from different camp than Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo.
and for example, in Vader 2 Pro, we have more chances to work with the gyro directly.
)
Comment