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Its excellent for certain types of games but the lack of a right joystick made it useless with the vast majority.

I mean like “oh no, I’m being shot from behind, just give me 5 seconds to swipe 6 times on this touchpad and line up a shot”

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turtletracks@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Not quite the same, but I set up my steam deck’s right track pad to be a flick stick, turn around 180° with a flick. (And gyroscope)

I don’t play any multiplayer games, so this could be considered cheating, but it’s too nice to not use

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morbidcactus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It could totally be setup to feel/work like a trackball, remember playing a bunch of warframe with mine and being able to “throw” it and have it stop when you touch the pad again, took getting used to but substantially more flexible than a regular analogue stick.

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0ops@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

oh no, I’m being shot from behind, just give me 5 seconds to hold my joystick all the way to the edge and line up a shot

I agree that the touchpad isn’t best for every game, but your example just sounds like your sensitivity is way too low. I used to have a couple steam controllers, I have a steam deck, and I used to play a lot of mobile shooters before I could afford a pc. In any case, I like my sensitivity to be 1 full swipe = 180° in game. Add in gyro and I’ll make that about 1-to-1 device rotation to in-game rotation (or if anything a little more sensitive).

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- helenslunch@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  your example just sounds like your sensitivity is way too low
  
  I mean you can increase sensitivity but then it’s terribly difficult to aim for shit. That’s the problem.
  
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  - turtletracks@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Steam input lets you do different modes, if you’re holding the aim button, you can make the track pad much more sensitive or use gyro. Solutions for everything!
    
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