The latest Steam beta client includes support for Steam Controller 'Activators'. Activators take your input and transform it into a funky new output, enabling you to create custom controls like long presses, double taps or delays.
Activators make the Steam Controller wildly versatile, as Valve's rather more in-depth examples demonstrate:
- You can use a Start Press activator and a Release Press activator to turn a toggle crouch into a hold crouch. Conversely, the toggle option will allow you to turn any action, such as a hold crouch, into a toggle.
- Turbo can be set on Activators, meaning any button can have customized rapid fire. This can be combined with multiple activators, so single press for single fire, while a long press will engage turbo mode.
- Use a Start Press Activator to switch to a new action set, with a Release Press on the same button to switch back to the original set. Using this technique Action Sets can act like an entire-controller mode shift. Also included in this update is the ability to copy any existing Action Set into the new set, making customization a lot faster.
- Mode Shifts now also use Activators, so a mode-shift can be toggled on and off without continuously holding a button.
- Activators can also cycle through a set of bindings. Put Stand, Crouch, and Prone on a single button and cycle through them with each press.
