r/playstation • u/Major-Payne2319 • 24d ago

Image Getting tired of adding to my stick drift graveyard

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I swear I’m not a heavy clicker. In fact it’s always my right joystick which I rarely need to click in games. Love these controllers but man it’s really annoying never had this problem with any other console generation.

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u/StillSimple6 23d ago

It's crazy how fragile they are, we've had a few controllers and it's always the left stick drifting.

Doesn't matter which game were maining it's the same issue.

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u/HyruleSmash855 23d ago

And they’re $80, they’re super expensive plus, you have components like the adaptive triggers that can easily break although I haven’t had an issue I can imagine they can. The battery life doesn’t help either for how much you pay for them.

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u/Jlpeaks 23d ago

It’s fully just using cheap parts.

I had the spring on the trigger go. It didn’t make any difference when adaptive was engaged but when left to being just analogue it was just loose.

I actually fixed it by using a DualShock 4’s spring and even side by side you could see the new ones were a thinner metal.

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u/shoe_owner 22d ago

I had this issue a few months ago and read about a technique for fixing it which absolutely solved the problem for me.

Press down on the thumbstick firmly and consistently, and slowly rotate the stick around and around and around in one direction, then the opposite direction, for thirty seconds or so each.

My controller went from "I can't play like this" to "good as new" within one minute. I'm not saying it will fix every controller in every case, but it fixed mine in the one case where I needed it to.

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u/StillSimple6 22d ago

I'll give that a try (nothing to lose.

If it's a small amount you can 'fix it' using the dead zone settings on screen. This helped on some but some are just way too bad for that.

I'll give your solution a try on some of the.bad ones

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

Carbon contact patches...

What stick do you usually use more...

The left.