Steam Deck

14245 readers

565 users here now

A place to discuss and support all things Steam Deck.

Replacement for r/steamdeck_linux.

As Lemmy doesn't have flairs yet, you can use these prefixes to indicate what type of post you have made, eg:
[Flair] My post title

The following is a list of suggested flairs:
[Discussion] - General discussion.
[Help] - A request for help or support.
[News] - News about the deck.
[PSA] - Sharing important information.
[Game] - News / info about a game on the deck.
[Update] - An update to a previous post.
[Meta] - Discussion about this community.

Some more Steam Deck specific flairs:
[Boot Screen] - Custom boot screens/videos.
[Selling] - If you are selling your deck.

These are not enforced, but they are encouraged.

Rules:

Follow the rules of Sopuli
Posts must be related to the Steam Deck in an obvious way.
No piracy, there are other communities for that.
Discussion of emulators are allowed, but no discussion on how to illegally acquire ROMs.
This is a place of civil discussion, no trolling.
Have fun.

Link to our Matrix Space

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

What do you use the back buttons for? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

58 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Often as a lazier way to press the face buttons for slow games. But also custom turbo patterns for fast games. E.g.:

In Genshin Impact, the back buttons are all face buttons, but with select ones set to turbo for automatic item pickup, or dialog skipping, etc.
- Also very comfy to use them while swimming
In Hades II:
- L/R4 are the two shoulder buttons for comfier portal/character interaction
- L/R5 do autoattack and autospecial on turbo
In Valheim, one lets me Dodge with a single button press instead of the chord the game demands you use
In Balatro
- L/R4 switches hand sorting modes, which has no in-game shortcuts, still
- L5 restarts a run on long press
- R5 quits to main menu and resumes with a multi button sequence, to "soft reset"
In Tabletop Simulator, the most common actions like clicking, selecting, flipping a card, and drawing, are all mapped to the back buttons for ergonomics, freeing face/shoulder buttons for more advanced stuff
In Minecraft, various back buttons are used to enable different overlaid controls when clicked/pressed based on the modpack.

Etc etc!