This is a short clip of me playing Xonotic on a Steam Deck using joysticks + gyroscope to control my character. Xonotic is a FOSS game (it runs on an engine that is actually a direct descendant of ...

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!

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
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    11 months ago

    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?

    • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyzOP
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      11 months ago

      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.