Posted 3 November 2021
The best Xbox controller? without stick drift
Just sent my Xbox controller off for warranty due to left stick drift so in the meantime best to have a spare so bought the blue controller that was on offer here about a month ago. Seems like I have wasted my money as in next to no time the right stick has no fine movement and drifts all over the place, strangely in Fortnite it drifts down in game but up when viewing the map.
It's not just Fortnite the xbox controls in menu are all over the place move one space normally moves two to three spaces so basically battling with the stick. Try to put a Shift gold key is impossible.
So basically what is everyone's opinion as to the best Xbox controller that has little or no stick drift issues?
It's not just Fortnite the xbox controls in menu are all over the place move one space normally moves two to three spaces so basically battling with the stick. Try to put a Shift gold key is impossible.
So basically what is everyone's opinion as to the best Xbox controller that has little or no stick drift issues?
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I'm guessing they are referring to in game character life - if not I'll defo be buying one of these to extend my life by 20%!
Comes with a realllly long sturdy cable and tbh it doesn’t get in the way, plus no wireless lag . Doesn’t work with wireless headphones but you don’t have to use the audio features of the controller but if you do it turns a normal set of headphones into a great set of gaming headphones!
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Cheers been looking at these, means running a cable which is a pain but I have been looking at wired. Does the audio work with wireless headphones guessing it's only wired types? I have the recon 600 Gen 2, great set of headphones.
Did as soon as I started it
I also had problems with drift on brand new design lab controllers - sadly Microsoft no longer deliver to Northern Ireland (!) - (just the design lab controllers though!?) I did get a full £60 refund, but that doesn't really help does it? Another design lab controller has gone faulty and like the other 27 controllers (Yeah, I know, Mr. Procrastinator Extraordinaire!) I can't be bothered to process it under warranty. I end up buying them a new one. Which reminds me that Halo Elite better be in stock before Christmas!
Sell them, people buy them and fix them, win win. Few quid in your pocket and the pad lives on another day
I was toying with selling them on ebay, but I don't want the hassle of having to deal with potential fraud - heard too many stories on here and the internet! I might have a go at fixing them up and taking them down to CEX, however I have been saying that for years!
Are you handy with a soldering iron, as in circuit boards? If not I honestly wouldn't even try to fix them.
Ebay is your best bet, just sell them as parts, but don't so a bundle sell them separately
What kind of fraud are you worried about exactly?
It's pretty hard for a buyer to commit fraud on eBay - as a seller you don't post until you have the money, and then the buyer can't just take the money back off you because it would have to go through eBay. So the only way they could get their money back would be to return the item - but if you're selling it as "for parts and not working" and describing it honestly they wouldn't have much of a case to return it.
The only kind of buyer fraud I've seen is when someone manages to buy something on someone else's account, or using someone else's payment details - but that's not fraud against you as a seller, it's against the account owner/card owner. eBay protects sellers in those cases - they might warn you of a suspicious buyer, saying not to post anything if you haven't already, but they don't take the money back from you.
Bear in mind that the horror stories you might have heard are the exceptions, not the rule - when things go smoothly people aren't going to shout about it on the internet. I've been selling on eBay for 20 years and only had a handful of issues like this in that time, none of which have actually cost me anything.
So with that said, if you put those controllers up for sale I might end up buying them - I do keep buying job lots to refurbish and sell on.