• oillut@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Which buttons are pressure sensitive? Aren’t they all just regular buttons aside from the analog sticks?

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      1 year ago

      Almost all of them! Face buttons, dpad, and triggers all put out an analogue value on ps2 controllers.

      It was a bad feature that almost nobody used, which is why it was abandoned. But nonetheless, it’s mandatory in a few games from that era.

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        1 year ago

        It might not have been perfect, but I think MGS3 made fairly good use of them. They basically turned one button into two that perform similar actions for different results.

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          1 year ago

          I never played it, but I was reading about it while looking up info on this topic.

          Wasn’t it the case that a light press would hold a guard hostage non-lethally, but a heavy press would kill them? Sounds dangerous haha

          • Cethin
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            1 year ago

            Yep. If I remember correctly it actually worked pretty well. I think a light press would also grab someone and a hard press yould toss them to the ground too. My memories of this are very old, but I don’t remember having issues with it.

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        1 year ago

        That’s awesome! I’ll have to give this a shot with what few games took advantage of it. Been meaning to try MGS anyway

    • SeatBeeSate@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      On ps2 and ps3 controllers nearly all buttons are pressure sensitive with the exception of the l3/r3 stick buttons and start/select.