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!
I don’t have mine yet, but I do have a Steam Controller, and it just tickles me how excited people are by the gyro controls! They’re great, aren’t they?
I started using gyroscope while playing pubg newstate on my phone with touchscreen controls. At first I was like, gyroscope? That sounds like a dumb gimmick…. so I didn’t try it.
Then I played a round with some teenager who was obscenely good at the game and he got real with me and dispensed knowledge to my lame elder millennial self and was like shut up, turn gyroscope so it’s always on and just give it time.
I realized I like many old people don’t know shit, so I tried gyroscope in earnest and haven’t looked back since lol.
It really is the biggest leap in video games to happen in my life time since console shooters became the huge thing with games like halo and cod. It completely changes what is possible and brings a new sense of tactile immediacy to whole genres of video games.
Same! I’ve been playing since it came out, and Pubg mobile’s control scheme is honestly so innovative. I’m glad that other mobile fps have been following suit. I can look you dead in the eye and say that I’d rather play pubg on my phone with gyro always on than on console with without gyro every single time, without question. When you get good at it, it’s legitimately as good as a mouse.
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.
I really hope it becomes more mainstream. It’s really a game changer (literally)
Gamers have been looking for the next big innovation in gaming, many have fixated on VR as being that thing with $4000 VR goggles…
…meanwhile there are kids and randos everywhere mastering touchscreen + gyroscope mobile shooters on games like call of duty mobile, pubg mobile, farlight 84 etc and other touchscreen games like minecraft fleshing out this whole other realm of gaming that pc gamers as a rule have almost no clue about that will absolutely become a huge part of the future of gaming if not define it.
Simultaneously for the generation of people who grew up playing console shooters with gamepads (who couldn’t afford gaming PCs), gyroscope brings the capacity to finally make gamepads actually GOOD tools to play shooters with.
It is a wild time to stumble into all of this and I gotta admit I love how all the people with super expensive gaming rigs are utterly clueless about how gaming is going to change. It is a wonderful feeling that for once they don’t get to dictate how pc gaming evolves.
