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What do you use the back buttons for?

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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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WerDei@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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In first-person games, I always rebind the jump to one of the back buttons. Coming from kbm, it weels weird that looking around and jumping at the same time is not possible.

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smeg@feddit.uk
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Yeah, ideal for any games where you don’t want to take your thumb off the right stick to press A/B/X/Y

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MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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Or games where you don’t want to take your finger off the left stick to hit a direction bound to some action on the D-Pad.

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