Hi all,
I'm new to this family
Never had a handheld, and didn't have any console since Playstation 1 in early 2000s.
All the way a PC gamer only.
I wanted to have a Steam Deck for some time and finally got one a month ago.
Since then I spent some time with it, went through lots of "what to do with new Deck"-like videos and guides, installed Decky, Emudeck, 3rd party game stores, etc.
General experience is as good as I expected.
My point of frustration though is not related to Deck itself, rather to general impression of and experience to play PC games on controller.
I can't say it's a straight bad experience, but I spend a few weeks and still feel myself like a disabled player.
There is no issues to play games which are traditionally has gamepad-oriented controls, like racing, sport, turn-based, etc.
But stuff like Fallout 4, No Man's Sky, Helldivers 2 are just painful to play.
I can get used to layout, but cannot to response. Aiming is like typing in boxer's gloves, moving is like a running being drunk af, no strafe, no quick turn around.
I wonder if its a basic console-like experience or I just messed some crucial controls settings, like dead-zones, sensitibility, etc which everyone adjust, but almost no one talk about?
I mean I can understand how to play in general, but completely don't how to have fun of it because of control response.
Another point of my frustration is Steam Input system, which is a great thing on its own.
But brings some problems using Steam Link, because it expects actually input from streaming machine, but not Deck (or whatever device used) itself as a "client" one.
So I cannot even remap some controls or use community profiles in a normal way.
Would love to hear some tips and thoughs regarding this.
Thank you in advance!