I have had my Steam Deck for a bit of time. While most games I am able to control fine I find myself slightly struggle with FPS games on it. With a regular controller I do fine but the spacing of the joystick on the SD tend to tire my hands out fairly quickly.
I recently tried Gyro aiming on some games and it does feel better, but I can’t quite get used to aiming that way through an entire run of the game. I’ve heard of things like FlickStick aiming to help.
Does this feel like a niche? Wouldn’t it be better to just bring a controller or M&K with your SD if you want to play a FPS?
I don’t own a steam deck and I’m not playing in competitive FPSes, but I’ve been using PS4 pad with gyro to play Elite Dangerous and Cyberpunk. Maybe these 2¢ will be helpful in some way.
What I’ve found out to work for me was:
That way the big movements I do with sticks, when I need precision I switch to aiming and can aim with gyro, and gyro input is less twitchy because of low output range and low sensitivity
How long did it take you to get used to controller Gyro? I do play competitive games but not really serious about them either but anything to be more comfortable over using M&K at a desk sounds nice.
I’m not sure. I feel the answer is “none”, it’s very organic and immersive.
But I did spend some time fiddling with settings. You probably don’t want the same sensitivity in both axes (you need more left-right than up-down); having a little bit of deadzone/minimal movement can be a good idea; I also think there was an option to have some curves defined (so movement scales with speed of movement).
And I wasn’t completely new to gamepad, I’ve played many hours in Dark Souls on xbox pad before.
Switching from mkb to gamepad did take some time. Something like 2-3 months of playing 2-3h, 2-3 times a week