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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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[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Some games have button layouts that make certain actions a pain. Two examples.

Horizon Zero Dawn - Healing is by default done by hitting dpad up. You generally want to press this button whenever you take damage to essentially trigger health regen, but doing so requires taking your thumb off the left stick, which means you can't simultaneously avoid even more damage. Bind to back button, problem solved.

BallisticNG - Weapons are bound to X, discard weapons is bound to B, and accelerate is on A. So when you pick up a weapon, to discard/use it you either have to drop thrust (bad, never do that) or awkwardly shimmy your thumb to either hit X or B without letting go of A. Bind X and B to back buttons, problems solved.

[โ€“] wfh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

BallisticNG

Hey fellow WipEout junkie ๐Ÿ‘‹

[โ€“] tiberius@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Thanks for connecting these two dots. BallisticNG never crossed my radar.

[โ€“] wfh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Best "Classic WipEout" homage I ever played.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Put it in 2280 mode and it's the best "Modern WipEout" homage there is, too.

It's literally the "get yourself a girl that does both" of WipEout games.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz as I've seen the game mentioned all over lemmy now.

Hoping to eventually organize some online tournaments, but we're gonna need players :D

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[โ€“] wfh@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Vita3k + WipEout 2048 + HD DLC + Fury DLC = almost Omega Collection on PC ๐Ÿคฃ

Runs great on Steam Deck too.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Oh I have to try that.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I set up !ballisticng@sopuli.xyz as I've seen the game mentioned all over lemmy now.

Hoping to eventually organize some online tournaments, but we're gonna need players :D