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What is your favorite Open Source Game on Steam Deck? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In Desktop Mode there are plenty of free and open source games available, which can be manually added to Steam Launcher.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why sticks and gyro instead of trackpads and gyro (I come from a Steam Controller, so that setup is usually my go-to for FPS games)? Seems like you can get faster turnarounds and more precise aiming versus a stick, which has a fixed maximum movement rate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Honestly, if that is your jam hell yeah.

The point isn’t the joysticks, it’s the use of a gyroscope aim as a complement to whatever other input method you like. I vastly prefer the joysticks and I can attest to being able to play Xonotic at a fairly competitive level (I am NOT good but I can play Xonotic the way it is meant to be played with strafe jumping, rapid weapon switching, blaster jumps and immense dynamics of aim and movement). I imagine you can get that synergy with gyroscope and trackpads but I just haven’t personally seen it in action so I figured I would let someone else be the champion of that control scheme!

I love playing shooters with joysticks because I grew up playing Halo 1-3 on the Xbox as well as Call Of Duty and all the other controller shooters that came out in that era on Xbox. It wasn’t that I wouldn’t play a shooter with a mouse and keyboard, I just never had the money for a gaming computer and neither did my family. It is how I feel at home in a shooter, but it always frustrated me (like everyone else) that fine aim control is just shit with joysticks even though they are a blast to use (and then you have to layer a big dollop of auto-aim on to make controller shooters work). For me, gyroscope is like magic because it allows my subconscious to “fix” my joystick aim with the gyroscope and I don’t ever have to think about it except to remember how fun it is to do when I pull a flick shot with the vortex (rails) mainly using a gyroscope.

Also please try steering devastator rockets with gyroscope aim, it is like realizing you have been petting cats and dogs with an oven mitt on your whole life and haven’t been getting the real experience.