• ShadowRam@fedia.io
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    21 days ago

    I just wanted a D-Pad on the left of the old controller.

    In fact, just throw out the touch pad on the left altogether.

    The touch pad is fucking amazing… but I don’t see a use case where you want two of them.

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      21 days ago

      Have you used the steam deck?

      There’re quite a few controller layouts where the left pad is put to good use

      Valve probably also don’t want to split the controller layouts contributed by the community either

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        20 days ago

        Yes.

        I own two steam controllers, Vive, Index and Steam Deck. I’m acutely aware of the track pads and their uses.

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      21 days ago

      If you’re not sure of how useful the left trackpad is for not only scrolling in desktop mode or on older PC games, I would also like to mention that the Steam Community that you can use others layouts can sometimes make the left track pad so so so much more useful. I found a picture that shows just how many things you can fit into this useful part of the layout. I found out about it while I was playing some older games on the Deck with the help of the EmuDeck community.