I’ve mostly done joy sticks.
I only really use them with the keyboard, desktop mode or any game that uses mouse emulation.
What games do you use the pads with?
Submitted 10 months ago by InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
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TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
n0xew@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Age of empires II, I’ve cleared a few campaigns with it! Left pad as mouse region on bottom left icons, right pad as mouse.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Can you respond well with the pad and no keyboard?
n0xew@lemmy.world 10 months ago
To give context I was never a good competitive player, so I’m talking about casual play. I think I’m slightly less responsive than mouse+kb, but playing on the train is just a blast!
I also had to bind other buttons to improve response time:
- dpad down to go to last notification
- dpad to cycle between forums
- dpad eight for inactive villagers, left for army Then Right Joystick is a radial menu to go to 6 groups. A is select all on screen. On top of that, I binded shift to L1 (the bottom left palet) which can be user in combination of most other buttons I binded: e.g. create 5 units, assign to group, select all inactive villagers etc…
I went through the William Wallace campaign to tune my conf, but I find it pretty good now!
nycki@lemmy.world 10 months ago
right pad for mouse, left pad for hotkeys, all the way. Great for games that use the entire left half of the keyboard.
lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
I pretty much do precisely this
Telorand@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Anything that’s an FPS, like Deep Rock Galactic or Borderlands, or any game that requires a mouse, like Little Inferno or Machinarium. Usually it’s a combo of left stick and R pad + gyro.
I also use a combination of stick and L pad for Helldivers, with the pad being set up as a Dpad.
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Interesting. Had not thought of it for FPS
Telorand@reddthat.com 10 months ago
It becomes your mouse. Making quick turns or precise aims is a lot easier with the pad and gyro.
I bought a Steam Controller years ago for that same purpose, and it makes a world of difference.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Turn based strategy games. Especially 4X games like Civilization or the Master of Magic remake.
Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Came here to say. Dominions is pretty cool on deck.
Eggyhead@kbin.social 10 months ago
There’s a community profile for Monster Hunter rise that maps the quick access wheel to the right touch pad really well. I wish I could do whatever that guy did but for world as well. It’s really useful.
Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RPGs, mostly isometric ones without gamepad support. Currently Pillars of Eternity 2. Works surprisingly well.
cevn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
MineCraft and Dune spice wars
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 10 months ago
I did the original Deus Ex on mostly pads, worked pretty well!
ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Epic Game Launcher … OwO
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
Factorio - but I tend to flip between both pads and sticks
Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi 10 months ago
Factorio
zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Only as mouse or shooter games
Olhonestjim@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ixion seems to require them. It’s playable on Steam Deck, but probably much easier on PC with a mouse.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
My fingers naturally rest on the back buttons, and I find them really easy to use. I usually have them set to mirror the face buttons for shooters (so I don’t have to take my finger off of the right stick to jump/reload/etc). In some other games I have them set as dpad buttons (Elden ring for example) to swap gear and use items.
Finally I don’t like button mashing, so in games where you have to mash a button I will often set the back buttons to be turbo buttons, where I can hold to spam a key.
Leon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
the back buttons got a lot easier for me when I realized you’re supposed to push the flat part of the buttons on the back of the deck instead of where they curve around the grips. like, if the deck was sitting flat on a table you’d be pressing straight up instead of to the right or left.
bind the top two to the thumbstick clicks and finally be free of those terrible inputs
solberg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
I use the right pad instead of the right stick for any game that could use it for pointing/aiming. Really, the only ones I wouldn’t use it for are games that use the right stick for other stuff, like Skater XL or Session maybe
piskertariot@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Civ VI and Inscryption required me to use the pads. Basically everything else is sticks.
Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Guild Wars 2 and Civ V are my go to games for trackpads.
lordnikon@lemmy.world 10 months ago
star trek: starfleet academy
it’s an old game but setting up the pads to be an action menu. makes that game fun to play in handheld mode. I would say I’m faster with the trackpads than with a keyboard
Zahtu@feddit.de 10 months ago
Mom’s for mouse movement (right) and function buttons via radial menu (left). Works surprisingly well on GW2 and TurtleWoW
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Right pad is frequently a mouse, often worth using a trackpad mouse for menu/inventory management.
The trackpads are huge for PC games with a lot of inputs, but can also be used for communication. There’s a lethal company control scheme that uses the trackpads to 1-click type the console commands to navigate to moons/view players on monitor/etc. I have a Deep Rock Galactic profile that uses the left trackpad as a mini keyboard to type “r”, “gg”, “wait”, and a few other frequently used communications.
kilgore@feddit.de 10 months ago
Using them currently for Against the Storm. Way easier than moving the cursor around with the joystick.
4am@lemm.ee 10 months ago
My thumbs.
uninvitedguest@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Everything I can, except for twin stick shooters.
Nima@leminal.space 10 months ago
world of warcraft and Terraria come to mind for me.
Edge004@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I like to use pads as a substitute for a mouse. Games like peggle, zuma, and mini metro are great with the pads. I also like to use the pads with gyro to aim in first person games. Portal is a good game to ease into that.