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What do you use the back buttons for? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml to c/steamdeck@sopuli.xyz

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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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[–] rotopenguin@infosec.pub 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In a visual novel, as another "advance text" button. In Crosscode, I have the "switch elements" arrow keys on the back buttons (you need to flip it on the fly a lot). In some games, I'll put the B-button action on R4 (particularly when it's a dodge-roll). If a game needs a random keyboard key out of the blue, I'll bind it on a paddle.

[–] Father_Redbeard@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Oh...Crosscode, first game mentioned so far that I actually play. Interesting. I'll have to try that out. Thanks!

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago

Heh, I actually started my replay on the Deck yesterday. Bind guard (b iirc) to a back button so you can do it while shooting without accidentally dashing all the time.