What do you use the back buttons for?

Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨steamdeck@sopuli.xyz⁩

I have really been loving my steam deck lately. I’ve now played through Fallout 3, New Vegas, all of their respective DLCs, and am about 100hrs into 4 right now.

Normally I play indie games since that’s where my interests are and I grow tired of the AAA jackassery.

I mention that to illustrate that I do use and live the deck. But I guess I’m not creative enough to use the back buttons at all. So to the title question:

What games do you play that make the most use of the back buttons?
What functions are mapped to those buttons?
Or are you like me and just never use them?

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AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So far the only games I’ve ever played on Deck that require them would be Portal 2 alongside the Portal 2 mod Revolution (or something along those lines). I think jump and maybe 1 other function is tied to the back buttons. Otherwise, I haven’t messed around with controls enough to find a use for them.

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CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Fast forward in emulators. Also, the menu toggle in Retro Arch.

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t0fr@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
In games where I’ve have to hold a face button, yet use another I’ll use the back buttons.

So I mirror ABXY in Hades II for example, and charge up my B spell while I dash away with A. Much more comfortable to charge with the back B and dash with the face A button.

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