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Gina Häußge

@gamingonlinux I recently sung praises not only on Easy mode but on easy switching of difficulty!

Playing #DeathStranding on the #SteamDeck. Wonderful game for me to relax with (for whatever weird reason). But then I found myself in a shooter sequence. And I just plain suck at aiming on anything but a keyboard and mouse.

So I kept dieing. And after a few repetitions I was THIS close to giving up on this game I have enjoyed for 50h now altogether. 1/

6 Jan 2023 at 14:09 | Wall-to-wall | Open on chaos.social
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Gina Häußge

@gamingonlinux But then I remembered the difficulty switch. Switched from Normal to Easy. Still sucked, but less so. Switched to Very Easy. Completed the sequence. Switched back to Normal & have been happily playing onward on that since.

I want to enjoy this game. I don't want to switch to my desktop just because the game switches to shooter mode for a short story sequence. I don't have to proof anything to anyone. I already have a job, this is what I do for fun. Easy ftw 2/2

6 Jan 2023 at 14:12 | Open on chaos.social
MacLemon

@gamingonlinux @foosel Are you playing with dual sticks only, or rest-thumb-on-right-stick-for-precision-gyro-aiming?

The latter works surprisingly well for me and I don’t even qualify as sucking at ego-shooters. It didn’t make any difference if I played them with a mouse or an old Apple Trackpad. :-)

6 Jan 2023 at 14:55 | Open on chaos.social
Gina Häußge

@MacLemon @gamingonlinux Currently only dual stick. Have played around with the gyro a bit but so far it's still not intuitive and doesn't really improve my aiming that much either. I need to build muscle memory.

Doesn't help that I consider myself fairly good at aiming with mouse and WASD. Used to play shooters in the past, still occasionally do, so it becomes extra frustrating when suddenly I can hit almost nothing anymore simply due to a different input device 😅

6 Jan 2023 at 15:16 | Open on chaos.social
MacLemon

@foosel I‘m not particularly good at twitchy shooters, even with a rodent and keyboard. I still enjoy playing at easy Settings though.

I was surprised how well my brain adapted to gyro control, while still using dual-sticks for movement.
I somehow really liked being able to roughly aim using the right stick and then seamlessly use the gyro with a rolling/twisting motion of the Deck to do the precision aiming.

Can’t assess how well this works for fast paced games. Worked for me in Portal/2. :-)

@foosel I‘m not particularly good at twitchy shooters, even with a rodent and keyboard. I still enjoy playing at easy Settings though.

I was surprised how well my brain adapted to gyro control, while still using dual-sticks for movement.
I somehow really liked being able to roughly aim using the right stick and then seamlessly use the gyro with a rolling/twisting motion of the Deck to do the precision aiming.

7 Jan 2023 at 13:24 | Open on chaos.social
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