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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?

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[–] uymai@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

flappy bappy wise the bottom ones are the joystick clicks, and the top ones are the shoulder buttons (i find my shoulder button pressed to be on the runliable side while using triggers)

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nothing yet but this thread is giving me ideas :)

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

In games where I've have to hold a face button, yet use another I'll use the back buttons.

So I mirror ABXY in Hades II for example, and charge up my B spell while I dash away with A. Much more comfortable to charge with the back B and dash with the face A button.

[–] CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Fast forward in emulators. Also, the menu toggle in Retro Arch.

In Dungeons of Dredmor, an old mouse and KB roguelike, the community made a good layout where every button is mapped to a keyboard key to open the various inventory and crafting windows, etc. With the track pad right there to act as a mouse, it's honestly just as good as a mouse and KB. Maybe even better.

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