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.
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Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoI 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.
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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.