Comment on Steam Controller

• Nindelofocho@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The joysticks on the steam deck are touch sensitive and can bet set as the gyro aim activation you can also set it to be a combination of that + another button so aim down sight and finger on aim joy could activate it if you want or some other combination. Its slick as shit

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• 5too@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have mine set so if I want it to stay still, I lift my thumb off the movement joystick, turning off the gyro control. If I still need to move, I nudge from the side where the e sensor isn’t

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You use both thumbsticks for identical movement control?

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    • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      One is lateral movement, the other is aiming. My deck’s offline at the moment, so I’m going from memory… but now that I think about it, I’m pretty sure I have the right stick set to aim. Then I have the gyro set to only activate when my thumb is on the right stick. Big rapid changes in direction I use the stick and the fine adjustments don’t much matter; then for fine control I hold the stick still, with thumb on top, and physically shift the deck to aim. Sometimes bracing my wrists on my knees or whatever’s handy.

      Then when I end up angled weird, I lift my thumb and settle back in. My play style tends to end up with me twisting around while I play anyway, this just lets me harness it a bit!

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That sounds like too much cognitive load. Stick go left, guy go left.

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• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Same, I always have to disable it or greatly dial it back, for example in fallout nv I leave it on with low sensitivity while I’m holding the trigger to ads, so I can have the fun aiming experience when I want to, what I really can’t stand is “thumb on joystick activates gyro” MF I leave my thumb on the thimbstick when I want to use it, why would I want to trigger gyro?

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I play shooters and rts games with a gyro toggle, and I only toggle gyro off when I am putting my steam deck down or some other random thing. To each their own!

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Super weird to me. I can’t imagine playing DOOM like that.

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    • dualpad@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I played through Doom Eternal like that on my Steam Controller where I mapped mouse to the touchpad for quick turns, gyro activated on touch, and mapped some of the weapons on the touchpad so I could swap to them when I clicked by setting up a dpad modeshift on right pad click with an inverted outer ring for center click.

      Turned off aim assist and went my way.

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    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It is very effective for me, I can play multiplayer fps games against mouse and keyboard players fine and honestly I enjoy it more than mouse and keyboard, probably because I grew up playing xbox/consoles (not that I find it difficult to use a mouse and keyboard, just not as fun) but also because it just feels like I am aiming so snap shots and things are wayyyy more satisfying to me than if I just moved a mouse to click on them.

      In practice it isn’t necessarily easy to tell I am using gyro except for when I do brief quick reaction shots just relying on gyro for aim, the rest of the time I don’t ever think about using the gyro consciously, I just used the joysticks for rough aim and let my brain figure it out with the gyro to lock my joystick aim in. Recoil in FPS games is also way more fun to control with gyro, it is a more direct control relationship rather than dragging a mouse down a mousepad for me.

      I don’t move the Steam Deck much though, it isn’t like I am getting a work out whipping the Steam Deck around, the gyro is really just there to lock in broad joystick movements to be accurate and on target consistently without the small aim adjustment problem that joystick deadzones create.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Sounds like lot more work than “move stick left, guy go left”

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