Edit Sorry about the ugly word vomit from lemmy ripping out the video description on peertube, I didn’t know it was going to do that
I decided to try Xonotic on my steam deck using joysticks + gyro to see if I could play somewhat competitively. Turns out, it is a blast!
Not claiming I am amazing at Xonotic (the bots are HARD btw) but wow there is a huge potential here for strafe jumping mechanics with games designed to be controlled by joysticks + gyro. It is a blast!
Yeah it is amazing how good some claw players are at touchscreen and gyro, it seems like such a stupid gimmick at first glance. I think the critical element for games like pubg mobile or other similar games is when they let you customize the layout, size and transparency of all the buttons. That transforms touchscreen buttons from the rip-off version of real buttons/keys to a control surface you can perfectly customize to fit the shape of your hand with each finger naturally resting right next to the buttons you need.
It is a very cool experience when you setup a control scheme that works good for you. It feels like learning to peddle a bicycle by sitting upside down and peddling with your hands and realizing somewhat to your horror that it is pretty comfy bicycling like that even though everything seems so wrong.
