u/jackboy900

For context I watch a lot of Trackmania content but I basically don't play the game, I put like 10 hours into it 2 years ago and 8 hours into TMNF, essentially a complete beginner, I have no clue how drifting works level of player.

I decided to give this recent campaign in TM2020 a shot and played the free tracks, and got AT on the white tracks in one shot on 2 of them, and another after 2 tries. That feels way too easy, I get these tracks are free so aimed at people like me who have barely played the game, but I feel like a blind oneshot from a complete noob should never happen, you should at least need a clean decent line to get the AT. Like what am I supposed to do with the game now given I'm nowhere near good enough to get harder community medals and I've only got these tracks without club access.

I'm currently on my like 50th attempt of Arlecchino, but I've managed to run into a wall that I've not encountered in any other soulslike so far, that is being unable to hold my controller. In having to press the parry button so much my left index finger has moved from sitting over both L1 and L2 to now being firmly just over L1, and that's caused my middle finger to move up and sit on L2 and not the back of the controller, and now the back is just held up by ring finger. And it turns out that having to support the controller with my ring finger and having my hand splayed awkwardly is not something that is overly comfortable in the long term.

I've tried forcing myself back to a normal grip but it somehow isn't working, every time I exit the boss arena my fingers have moved back. It wouldn't be an issue except for the fact I can only do 5 or 6 attempts now before I have to take a break for a decent chunk of time as my hand gets sore. Though I might have to call it quits for today as a whole, as my left index finger is also sore from spamming the parry button so much.

Hello, I recently bought an Xbox Elite controller and use Linux (Kubuntu) to play games, I tried googling how it would work but a lot of the results weren't very helpful at explaining it, it's mostly self-explanatory once you have one but I wanted to write this in case anyone was thinking of buying one and wants an explanation.

The first thing that's important is that steam input, at least when using the xone driver, will recognise that it is an xbox elite controller and be able to see the 4 back paddles as seperate buttons from your regular buttons. This means that in practice you can simply use steam input for all steam games to handle remapping the paddles to whatever function you want to use.

However out of the box the 4 back paddles are mapped to be ABXY by default, and so if you try and use them in games you'll always be pressing those buttons. You will need to connect the controller to Windows at least once in order to use the windows Xbox Accessories App to remap the back buttons. I simply mapped them as unused, that lets steam recognise them but won't press any other buttons, allowing me to do everything in steam's settings.

If you need to use them with non-steam games the controllers have 3 input profiles available that you can switch between with a button, and they're saved to the controller, so you can have several configs as needed for various games and just save them and not need to use windows every time you need to swap what the back paddles do.

For everything else, they're just a regular xbox controller or the controls are on the hardware for the stick and trigger adjustment, and so there's nothing special to note.

I'd personally highly recommend one if you want a controller for PC games. Whilst the sticks aren't as good as some of the 3rd party controllers I don't really care about that, they're pretty good and I have a mouse for games where I'd need precision, and the overall ergonomics, the button placement and feel blows all the other controllers I've used out the water.