Steam Deck Trackpads: Why you think they suck, and HOW to make them BETTER than sticks!
UPDATE: Watch a better, updated version of my First-Person Shooter settings here: • Steam Deck First-Person Shooter Controls I... The majority of Steam Deck users, including many prominent YouTubers, apparently find the trackpads to be useless for most games. Unfortunately, Valve seems to be repeating the same mistakes with the Steam Controller: terrible lowest-common-denominator defaults, lack of any in-depth tutorials, zero visual feedback, poor user experience for discovering and tweaking settings, etc. Here is my attempt to rectify that, showing you how you can make trackpad control feel good, and in fact, potentially way BETTER than conventional stick controls in the popular genre of action shooters, both 2D and 3D (first-person, third-person, twin-stick, etc.) 3:44 Left Trigger Primary Fire/Click 8:12 2D Shooter Background Info (pardon the incorrect use of "e.g.") 15:35 Trackpad set to Fullscreen Mouse Region 20:45 First-Person Shooter Background Info 26:42 Trackpad + Gyro To Mouse 30:56 Trackpad + Gyro on Soft Pull 34:45 Flick Stick + Outro Chronos's Steam Deck Controller Configuration Guide: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfile... (I do this as a hobby in what little free time I have, so you'll have to deal with the inconsistent mic audio. Also, I've been sick.) Games shown: Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising Hotline Miami Noita Hades Terraria Quake II (Remastered) Borderlands 2 Ion Fury: Aftershock SPRAWL Turbo Overkill Borderlands 3

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