Post #2108022

2026-05-05 00:08 UTC

the community creates a lot of custom layouts too, so you just need to scroll down the list and find one. The default ones also generally work pretty well and are easy to modify. It's just like changing your controls in any pc game. Id hazard a guess that while the majority of people don't change their controls, those sort of people also don't tend to buy a steam controller.

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@Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 2026-05-05 19:30

I'm completely familiar with community layouts as a steam deck user. The point for those to me is creating controls when a developer does not have them themselves. I have been using specialty peripherals for multiple decades, starting from when they used serial and peripheral ports. I'm quite aware of being able to bind buttons from flight sticks, yokes and other devices in games in many different ways. I still can't find a good use case in any game i've played for those touchpads though, especially not if I have an R4/L4 and back paddles (because cardinal direction keybinds are an easy 'oh it's x extra buttons!') Would be awesome if someone could chime in with actual examples of how they are so awesome in a game like crimson desert, pragmata, stardew valley, dynasty warriors origins, nioh 3, monster hunter wilds, or even games that aren't really controller games like cyber knights: fliashpoint or factorio or something. I know some people use the trackpads for games that really ought to use a mouse and keyboard like non-controller FPS games, and RTS games... but I still don't see a real reason why I would want to try and suffer through trackpads intead of a real mouse or even a trackball mouse on a couch htpc scenario.

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