I have had my Steam Deck for a bit of time. While most games I am able to control fine I find myself slightly struggle with FPS games on it. With a regular controller I do fine but the spacing of the joystick on the SD tend to tire my hands out fairly quickly.

I recently tried Gyro aiming on some games and it does feel better, but I can’t quite get used to aiming that way through an entire run of the game. I’ve heard of things like FlickStick aiming to help.

Does this feel like a niche? Wouldn’t it be better to just bring a controller or M&K with your SD if you want to play a FPS?

  • INeedMana@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    I’m not sure. I feel the answer is “none”, it’s very organic and immersive.

    But I did spend some time fiddling with settings. You probably don’t want the same sensitivity in both axes (you need more left-right than up-down); having a little bit of deadzone/minimal movement can be a good idea; I also think there was an option to have some curves defined (so movement scales with speed of movement).

    And I wasn’t completely new to gamepad, I’ve played many hours in Dark Souls on xbox pad before.
    Switching from mkb to gamepad did take some time. Something like 2-3 months of playing 2-3h, 2-3 times a week