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ASTRO Gaming C40 TR PS4 Controller, Fully Customisable Professional Wireless Controller for the Elite Gamer, Compatible with PlayStation 4 & PC, Black

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By loosening them with the included hex driver, you can remove the plate (the screws themselves are locked in even when loose, so you don't need to worry about losing them) to expose the analog stick and direction pad modules.

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It's covered almost entirely in a rubberized matte black material, with a textured black plastic panel on the face to hold the analog sticks, direction pad, and face buttons. These options are standard, but what makes them stand above their Razer competition, is the use of a screw, not magnetic swap out mechanism. PC gaming allows you to play with a controller or keyboard, and the C40 TR allows you to customize the controller to exactly your preferences. I’ve heard scattered reports that wear and tear on sticks is happening faster than you’d expect, but I haven’t noticed any problems myself yet.

I adjusted the right analog stick to be less sensitive with slight tilting, but more sensitive with deep tilting. Great battery life, reliable connectivity, durable build quality, trigger stops, grip buttons…the C40 does it all. The PlayStation 4 usually connects through Bluetooth, but Astro’s omitted that from the C40 in favor of a 2.

ASTRO Gaming C40 TR PS4 Controller, Fully Customisable

It’s hefty, but covered in soft-touch plastic that’s every bit as luxurious here as it is on Astro’s headsets.But that doesn’t stop it having a completely unique look and feel to competing controllers with the same layout, like the Razer Raiju Ultimate Edition. Since the triggers provide variable input like the analog sticks, different games activate their functions at different pull distances.

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The Razer Raiju’s magnetic customisation system – which lets you change which caps you use just by pulling the old ones off and slotting the new ones in – is great for speed and convenience. Astro also includes force graphs for the triggers and sticks, and it’s here you can really dig into the C40 and make it your own. The same goes for the triggers: Those generally need less tweaking, but you can make sure you have a 100-percent pull at the trigger stops no matter what game you’re playing.To its credit, the C40 does more than the Xbox One Elite Controller and SCUF’s various offerings, but is it enough? That alone is incredibly useful, though you can also manually remap any inputs to the UL and UR buttons by holding down one of them and the remap button on the underside of the controller. For instance, you could make it so moving the stick even 20 percent of the way is equal to a full 100-percent tilt, or give yourself a larger dead zone for additional finesse.

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The combination of a pseudo-dead zone in the middle of the stick followed by a wild swing as I tilted farther felt awkward, but I could feel that the ability to craft that sort of behavior could be very valuable to a skilled player. Originally posted by Newgun66:I’m about to purchase the C40 to use exclusively on Steam Big Picture and need the gyro and touchpad to work. If you have the money to spare, the C40 is probably the best third-party controller available today. I also tweaked the left analog stick to be more sensitive along its entire curve, letting me bob and weave faster with less tilting. Because they're modular, you can swap the layout of the C40 between PlayStation-style parallel analog sticks and Xbox-style offset analog sticks.

I’m hoping someone can confirm that the C40 shows up natively as a PS4 controller in Steam so that the gyro and touchpad are recognized and functional. On more than a few occasions, it would simply start and say no controller was connected, even when the C40 was connected to a USB 2.

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