Comment on Steam deck FPS game weapon switching
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 days ago
You should give radial menus a try. I use one in Dishonored 2 and a different one in Warframe, both on the left trackpad.
In Warframe, the entries send keypresses for the eight numpad numbers corresponding to the direction that I press on the trackpad (bottom left is 1, top is 8, etc), which activate some of the hotkeyed gear items. In Dishonored 2, it just sends a number row keypress in order (first entry is 1, second is 2, etc), which switches the active power or weapon.
In other games, I just use it as a secondary D-pad (usually directional swipe) with a mode shift on one of the back buttons. My ideal setup would be to have an eight-way directional swipe without having to define a radial menu.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
I have tried but find it inconvenient to take my fingers off the thumbstick. Especially with Doom Eternal. It does work well for other games that aren’t so intense.
rtxn@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That’s valid. The only thing I miss from my previous XBone controller was the ability to use the D-pad with my right thumb, or even the middle of my left thumb to an extent. The asymmetric Xbox layout is supreme.
I’m pretty sure you can also combine radial menus with mode shifts. Dishonored 2’s default Deck config has a mode shift bound to L1 (which opens the in-game weapon wheel), which temporarily reassigns the left analog sticks as mouse input while the button is pressed. I’m pretty sure the same could be done with Steam Input’s radial menus too.
uninvitedguest@piefed.ca 4 days ago
Because I use the touchpad for mouse aim, the right thumbstick can be great for switching weapons without having to that your thumb off movement.