Valve snuck a Wilhelm scream Easter egg into the new Steam Controller

3 months ago by MrSoup to c/games

My Steam Controller just screamed at me, Wilhelmingly.
magnetosphere 100 points 3 months ago

Okay, that’s just funny

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perishthethought 27 points 3 months ago

... the first few times, but then after that...

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Davel23 73 points 3 months ago

How often are you dropping your controller?

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otter 32 points 3 months ago

Frankly, I think this is their way of asking nicely, "Please, take good care of this one in particular— or it'll scream like a magic white boy jungle savior, and nobody wants that, right?" 🤔

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Viking_Hippie 2 points 3 months ago

scream like a magic white boy jungle savior, and nobody wants that, right?" 🤔

Rule 34

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cunnililgus 7 points 3 months ago
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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 2 points 3 months ago

i'm more clumsy than i'd care to admit. also i have cats. and once i sneezed and knocked over an entire row of schooldesks without touching them. and i have cats. probably four or five times a session if i'm using that controller?

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samus12345 20 points 3 months ago

Maybe it will help remind you not to throw your controller around!

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Skankhunt420 8 points 3 months ago

Surely there would be a way to disable it altogether

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bjoern_tantau 4 points 3 months ago

Supposedly it only does it every 5-6 times.

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tempest 42 points 3 months ago

I legit hate the trend of sound designers sneaking that into media. It immediately pulls me out of the story.

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RaoulDook 53 points 3 months ago

It's not a trend, it's a long-standing tradition spanning decades. It's hilarious.

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mushroommunk 2 points 3 months ago

It was fine the first thirty years but now it's no longer a fun Easter egg. So many sound engineers don't think one bit about where they're putting it like in the middle of emotional climax scenes where people are getting bloodied in the face of a nigh impossible uphill battle and stuff.

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Viking_Hippie 11 points 3 months ago

It was fine the first thirty years but now

..sounds like you're just getting old and cranky tbh 🤷🏻

I'm 43 and the number of things that haven't bothered me for decades only to become a source of endless exasperation for no apparent reason in the last 5 or fewer years isn't enormous, but it's not zero either 🤷🏻😄

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mushroommunk 5 points 3 months ago

You're ten years or so older than me. I'm just passionate about movies.

Now the actual kids on my actual lawn....

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RaoulDook 1 point 3 months ago

IDK, that scenario still sounds funny to me

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mushroommunk 1 point 3 months ago

Sure if it was an action comedy, but that doesn't belong in a drama

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Minnels 21 points 3 months ago

Why would you drop your controller like that in the middle of a game? Unless you play eternal darkness I guess, the only game I have ever thrown away my controller...

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duplexsystem 7 points 3 months ago

I bet this guys fun at parties

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Kolanaki 22 points 3 months ago

"Hey Steam support uh... I was triggering the easter egg and my controller broke. Hm? Where did I drop it? From the roof."

Also: Will it also scream if shot by a gun? 🤔

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bright 17 points 3 months ago

Why does a controller have a speaker in it?

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Davel23 82 points 3 months ago

It doesn't. The haptic motors which provide vibration and tactile feedback can be used to produce sound.

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Ulrich 14 points 3 months ago

Doesn't that make them speakers, technically?

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Davel23 21 points 3 months ago

I suppose the argument could be made. It's not their primary function though.

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cunnililgus 11 points 3 months ago
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otter 5 points 3 months ago

I wonder if they function any way similar to the mic/speaker polydirectional thing. 😅

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imetators 16 points 3 months ago

Remember those floppy, printer, other old hardware noise music videos? Something like this one. Steam Controller works kind of in a similar way. Tiny motors are able to squeak fast enough to produce multiple waveforms that mimick sound.

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Dunstabzugshaubitze 14 points 3 months ago

haptic feedback of the touchpads can be used to produce sounds.

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ricecake 12 points 3 months ago

Plenty of controllers do. They can be used for multiplayer in place of a headset. Some games will also use them for non-world audio, like an audio log or a mission update. You can also use them in conjunction with haptics for communicating menu interaction. A different timbre of click for allowed vs disallowed, for example.

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HEXN3T 9 points 3 months ago

For Wii emulation obviously

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piccolo 7 points 3 months ago

The playstation controllers have a speaker. A lot of games use them for interesting things. Like in some games where you can find voice recorders, the recording will play through the controller as if your holding it.

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LiveLM 2 points 3 months ago

Dying Light did that on the PS4, pretty neat!

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 3 months ago

it's neat having the bowstrings ftht from the controller

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couldhavebeenyou 3 points 3 months ago

Read in a game review that used a PS (?) controller speaker for radio messages that this worked great for immersion

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amgine 6 points 3 months ago

I tried to read it but the Adblock pop up prevented me

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MrSoup 6 points 3 months ago

I don't see any popup with ublock origin. Anyway, inside the description, I linked the OG youtube video referenced in the article.

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darkstar 2 points 3 months ago

Your adblock is from Temu, get uBlock Origin its the original

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VoteNixon2016 5 points 3 months ago

It took me a few times dropping it onto the couch to get it to trigger, now I'm wondering what other Easter eggs are in here

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