The Tower Bar - Off Topic Chat

On the nacon revolution: Personally I find the inner buttons (M1 and M2 if you are looking at a diagram) too awkward to get to - you don't press them in as much as you do push them to the side, and I find it an awkward movement - so I've pretty much ignored them at this stage, and just go with the two outter buttons which are near perfectly placed.

I've only watched a review of the Razer(or whatever it is) one, but based on what I saw in the review:

It suffers from the same 2 button issue as the Revolution does. Two of them are behind the pad around where your hands rest in normal holding anyway - but there are two on the inside of the L1 and R1 postions - and to me it looks like they would be a little difficult or awkward to use without hitting L1 or R1 at the same time, you would have to arc your finger over or around them. It was something Hotzman (DCP) mentioned in his review.

For mapping the buttons - the Nacon controller has to be hooked up to your pc/laptop in order to change button mappings (very indepth and you can change the stick and trigger sensitivity as well - as well as creating macros for assignment; such as mapping the button inputs for a Street Figher special move to one button press). The Razer pad maps buttons on the fly, but pressing a mapping button on the controller, the button you wish to map from and the one you wish to map to - so you could change quickly in game. I don't know if stick or trigger sensitivity can be messed with via a seperate app though. I think both controllers allow multiple profiles to be stored on the pad - so on the Nacon, for example, you can store and switch (on the fly) between 4 different profiles depending on the game or character etc.

I think the Nacon is significantly cheaper than the other pad. I got mine for a little over €100 on Amazon, I think the Razer pad is €160 or €170.

I like my Nacon well enough, can't compare it properly to the Razer - but I would say I do miss my standard DS4 pad, which may just be a familiarity/muscle memory issue. I do like having the jump button available without having to leave the sticks, but you can do that with a different control layout in Destiny. I'm not sure I will spend the time (though I should having spent the money!) getting used to 3 other mappings (i'm nearly there on a second one for crouch, but not as natural as the different jump button) to take full use of what I have paid for. I would almost say a well spec'd Scuff pad might be better (I've heard there is another similar brand but have forgotten the same, battle something?) as it is a modified DS4 pad so you have all that familiar comfort and two extra paddles where you would want them. However, they are costly, and I've heard stories about the build quality.

Oh yeah, got Battleborn yesterday and have an untouched Division installed on the PS4 for ages now. Will wait til a few are starting up a campaign playthrough and prob leave it at that.