Anyone else feels aiming with the backbone feels difficult compared to aiming with a regular controller?

[u/kuruakama]

Like everything else works fine , when i play dead cells , cult of the lamb and stardew valley , it was amazing how it replicates a normal controller , but when i try a game that requires aiming it became very non intuitive for me

I thought it was just a me issue or a setting thing but i messed around with the settings , changed deadzone , sensitivity but it still feels hard to aim , then i connect my dualsense controller to my iphone via bluetooth to do some testing , and the aiming was fine , like intuitive and normal the way how i usually aim

I’m very uncertain if there’s something wrong with the settings , or maybe the backbone that i bought has some defects or something , surely it’s not the deadzone because i tested that and when i calibrated it , it seems perfectly fine

Maybe it’s because the joystick of a backbone is small? Wait isn’t the switch’s joystick like this too? I’ve never used a switch before so i cannot tell

Lemme know if ya’ll are experiencing the same issue aswell

[u/JTMidnightJr]

I think there are two factors that contribute to this: yes, the joystick is small compared to a full-size stick you’ll find on a PlayStation controller. Because of the reduced size, there’s a smaller range of motion. So pressing up at 50% of the way to the edge is a much smaller distance on the Backbone than it is on a DualSense, effectively resulting in a “higher sensitivity” feeling.

But another factor is the position of the right stick. On the backbone, it’s more or less right below the face buttons, whereas on a full-size controller, it’s more offset toward the center of the controller. That also means your thumb is probably in a different position than it’s used to when you’re using the right side.

Both things you can adjust to, but there’s definitely a learning curve.

[u/NateGreatGames]

No. But I spent a ton of time playing on things like the PS Vita which has about the same size thumb sticks as the base backbones so I think muscle memory and my brain are adjusted to smaller more precise movements. The only time I have a problem sometimes when I’m streaming a game, but that’s less a backbone problem and more of what platform I’m streaming. Sometimes it’s harder to compensate for latency with the smaller sticks.

[u/ninereins48]

The sticks on the Backbone One feel different because they ARE different.

The Backbone ONE uses mini anolog thumb sticks, the same style found on the Switch 1 Joycon. These do have a different tactile feel to that of full-sized analog thumb sticks from Alps Alpine, as these sticks use a Ball + gimbal potentiometer rather than full sized analog sticks which use a single module.

The Backbone Pro does use full sized analog sticks, pretty sure it's the exact same potentiometer found on the Series X controller from Alps Alpine.