My Controller Died

[Serilda]

I'm on ps4, using one controller while I keep the other plugged in and charging. Can't even count how many times it ran out of battery and gave out on me while playing. Just usually you wouldn't notice this happening, cause I've gotten very fast in jumping to my ps4 and grabbing the charged one xD

This is what I do too! I ran a USB cable next to my chair and have one pad constantly charging so I can just throw the spent one down and swap within a second or two. I usually check the battery before content but when we've been failing for a while and I've missed the warning it can suddenly drop out. Only had one actual accident from it ever though, and it was in a FC group so no big deal (solo healing Titan EX, of course...)

Everyone just laughed at me :/

[Dzian]

easily the most common excuse for when someone fails in a duty. like i'm supposed to believe they're really a good player, except their controller died. a really good player who can't keep their controller charged

to be honest it's believable because:-

1: the battery life on the ps4 controller is utterly horrendous.

it's the sole reason I bought a 20ft usb lead so its never unplugged.. be lucky if a full charge on the ps4 lasts a few hours.. totally unlike the ps3 where you could charge it once a week and be fine..

2: pc gamepads are fairly notoriously buggy in this game where they drop and freeze for a few seconds or trigger random buttons something to do with a root enumerator, can be incredibly problematic. times where ive auto run off the island in Bismarck less than 5 seconds into the fight. or into a wall of instant death despite knowing for a fact I didn't press auto run. it just froze for a sec when I happened to press a direction and thus I kept running in that direction too my demise...

it's a fairly well known issue if you searched the forums pretty sure you'd find more than a few threads about it.. the problem is the solution ofdisabling the enumerators and stuff isn't terribly easy to find. SE could at least have it on there support pages or something as its seems to work for most people

[Zomkei]

As a PS4 controller user, sometimes it'll warn me the battery is low during a fight, and I forget to change it. Then, it dies during another. It's not an excuse, though it's funny when it happens during savage runs. I usually bolt up and grab the charging one though.

[Gamer3427]

Honestly, since I keep my PS4 controller plugged up most of the time normally, (usb wall plug, since the cable is way too short to connect to my PS4 itself), the few times I don't have it plugged in, it has a pretty high chance of dying on me when I forget to charge it when it gets low. The battery life on a PS4 controller is far from spectacular, and the notification that your battery is low is quite easy to miss/forget about because you're doing something, like you know, playing the game itself, or glancing away while waiting on a DF que. Obviously that doesn't mean that every player who claims their controller died is telling the truth, but I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of them are. Besides, if that's their excuse then they can only use it once per run, and one mistake in an entire run, no matter how bad of a screw up, isn't anything to be upset about.....

[Ignnis]

Sometimes my controller freezes and it locks my character running forward, love it when it does that.

[Dualgunner]

My favorites are "my fish is drowning" "my gpu literally exploded" "my bathroom is on fire " and "I have no excuse you just amplify my disgust in humanity"

[Vidu]

I got hit by a landslide in Titan EX once because I sneezed... I felt like that must have sounded like a really, really stupid excuse, but it was in the middle of hayfever-season and I was sniffeling the whole week already. And then that massive 3minute sneezing started just when Titan was doing his landslides...

[HyoMinPark]

2: pc gamepads are fairly notoriously buggy in this game where they drop and freeze for a few seconds or trigger random buttons something to do with a root enumerator, can be incredibly problematic. times where ive auto run off the island in Bismarck less than 5 seconds into the fight. or into a wall of instant death despite knowing for a fact I didn't press auto run. it just froze for a sec when I happened to press a direction and thus I kept running in that direction too my demise...

Basically this. I have this issue frequently with my PS4 controller I use on my PC. My character tends to just start auto-running balls-deep into mobs while my PC tries to remember that the controller is, in fact, plugged in. But by then, it's too late, I've pulled stuff, and I'm genuinely not trying to be a jerk. I apologize, and rarely does anyone ever give me flack over it because they know that it's a thing that happens. Same with controllers dying. I had that issue a lot when I played on PS4 because those controllers have the worst battery life for something I pay $59.99 for. :/

[Averax]

"Your controller's battery is getting low"

Okay, i can totally finish th--

"Your controller has disconnected"
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I haven't had this problem ever since i left the PS4 version, because i have to connect it via usb to my computer. It can't die if it's always plugged in. Though for a while, the gamepad setup on my PC had its own special set of problems that caused my own death and others, like:

-Let go of thumbstick abruptly and start casting -> The reverse momentum of the thumbstick caused it to move me slightly backwards, interrupting my cast.

-It couldn't register diagonals properly sometimes, and it would rapidly switch between going forward/backward and either left or right depending on what direction i was trying to go.

-It would randomly forget that i was running and randomly switch to a walk cycle for a split second periodically.

All but the first one has stopped, but i've adapted to that one so i no longer have that problem.

[Xlantaa]

It is not a excuse, it happen a lot of times. I play on PC with PS3 controller. There are not official drivers or apps for this. The only way to know the battery life is look the led and see if it flash quick. Otherwise, it will run out of battery and you won't notice till stops work. There is not a screen message or any sound to alert you. Also because this drivers are not official, they can stop work because yes or whatever.

It is not as simple as "it is a excuse".