QRD Spark N5 Controller Review-When Hall Effect Isn’t

Just opened it up and spent about an hour with this unusual hunk of plastic.

Has an axial deadzone on both joysticks, making it the first hall effect gamepad I've used or heard of with that implemented. It's horrible and makes pretty much any game that's not racing unplayable.

The joysticks and triggers auto calibrate every time the gamepad is turned off and on. I believe this is the phenomenon that Gamer Heaven was experiencing in his review. They will not function properly until you have fully rotated the sticks and pressed the triggers down at least once.

This gamepad has a bug where if you are connected through Bluetooth, which is read as a DualShock 4, and then plug in the gamepad the PC will see both seperate inputs! This means double inputs. Both DS4 and X360 showed up together in gamepadtester, and I could run Xinput test while I was still connected as a DS4 controller and to my surprise the polling rate was different than when just connected as a X360 gamepad.

It's a very comfortable gamepad for someone like me who prefers symmetrical stick layouts. The smooth cheap plastic is a nice change from stippled cheap plastic lol.
The 4 main face buttons are a surprisingly nice texture, but lots of wobble, almost no pre travel, and tons of post travel.

The joysticks have a resolution that seems on par with my T4K. I believe each step is 0.78% giving it about 128 from center to edge. Definitely not as granular in the center like the G7SE.

XInput test gives me a consistent 6ms in Xinput mode wired. I have a Bluetooth 5.2 motherboard with antennas, and at about 3 feet away I got a moderately consistent 4ms similar to the DS4. Gyro was 5ms.

Touchpad is useless in Xinput mode, which I expected and is unfortunate because I play wired.

Dpad is atrocious. Diagonal inputs basically impossible without unusual amounts of force.

Back buttons had potential. Very comfortable and placement for me was nice, but because they are flimsy plastic it means the plastic must first bend before actuation happens giving them pre travel, If they were more rigid they would be commendable.

When I reached out to QRD support about a week ago they led me to believe they have software to adjust the controller, but I see no sign of it. I will be contacting them again when I have time to at least see if anything can be done about the axial deadzones on the sticks, although I imagine not.

Would not recommend this gamepad in it's current state!

Hey bro I have a question, I am considering getting either a evil controller, aim controller or a scuf which one should I get? I play shooters like Fortnite and siege

Dang I was hopeful. I'd like a slightly larger xbox controller, plus I like the symmetrical sticks.

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100 ms latency on a controller is crazy

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Question tho I hope I get an answer this 3 controller I mention is the one that are on my budget range and available on my country…

Which one is more worth to get? I mainly use it for pc gaming…

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