How to Get Used to Flick Stick : A Comprehensive Guide for New Flick Stick Users 

This was a fantastic way to dip my toes into this new control method! I've got a lot of tweaking and learning to do but I'm already getting comfortable thanks to your introduction and explanation!

Thank you so much for this, excited to learn this but there's definitely a learning curve after being used to traditional analog aiming for so long, this is gonna help a lot

Hey, loved your video. Great approach. The hardest part of customizing controls for me is finding a starting point, so starting with 90 degree turns and then fine tuning from there made it feel doable.

Thanks for this video. The calibration tutorial helped me a lot. Looking forward to playing some games with this control style.

awesome video. i had kinda written off fps games on the steam deck because i thought that flick stick was kinda difficult to get used to, but this video cleared up a lot of stuff for me. specifically the part where you cover calibration - that was super helpful. thanks.

Good video! I also like flick-stick but was never sure if I was using right. It's nice to see you use it more or less the same way I do. I really like your system for dialing in your settings. I also like your tip for copying values across games, but I like to share my configs so that means keeping my in game mouse sensitivity at the default for easy sharing.

I didn’t know this existed. I’ll have to try it out. Very informative. Great video!

This has me excited to try flick stick thanks a ton for going into detail.

I've been using this for MW2 on my deck and I love it! After about 2 days, Im already starting to go positive

I wish I had seen this before I spent hours figuring this stuff out the hard way. Very good explanation.

I've been trying to get used to motion aiming and flick stick. Thank you for the guide!

Having just tried it tonight, I recommend also turning Sweep Sensitivity Scale all the way to 0 while calibrating if, like me, you find that your 90 degree turns are inconsistent. I was calibrating for the game Prey, and unfortunately I wasn't able to find a way to get sweeps to work without completely throwing off the 360 rotation.

Love this video. I watched JibbSmart setup videos and other, but I like your approach about how you are supposed to feel because as an not experienced FPS player (especially on controller) I was always doubting if I finally got it "right"..often I spent more time setting up than playing because I was exhausted

Haven't played FPS PC games in aaages and the whole steam input had changed under me, but you got me back to where i was and further. Pretty good guidelines for making flick stick feel like a native config scheme.

This is the most informative guide for flick stick to me. Thank you

Great video, I'm trying to play Deathloop on PS5 with Gyro and flick stick. Although settings are very different for this game, your video helped me understand the basics of playing this way. Thank you !

This is my go to video for every new fps (and sometimes tps, haha) I play on my Deck. I can't thank you enough, mate. Godspeed.

Great video. I played Titanfall 2 single player for the first time on the Deck using flick stick, and I was surprised how quickly I got used to it (and how good I was). I don't think I'll ever be as good as I am with a mouse (20+ years of experience with kb+m will do that), but it's miles better than using standard controller joysticks layout.

Great video, got me going and taught me what I feel I need to know. Playin DBD. Thank you!

Hey, thanks for making this! Hope to improve some things based on this.

You trying this on Halo Infinite is perfect case study for me. It's the only game I struggle to play on Steam Deck, and I play it by far the most on PC.

Pretty cool, trying this out for Shatterline. Definitely takes some getting use to. But I like it so far.

Great video man, very helpful

Thank you for this video🙌🏻

Super video mate ! Thank you for going in with so much detail.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO

Even though I dont care for the sweep, this is a great tutorial. Thank you for all the useful info. The gyro settings actually helped me a lot in Gunfire Reborn. :)

That "yo" is so cute. Nice video!

God of War plays pretty well with flick stick, just FYI :) But to each their own! And great demonstration of how you can move back and forth between flick stick and traditional stick control. Great video. I've shared it with some people asking how to set it up on Steam Deck. I'm glad you're enjoying flick stick!

DualShock 4 left/right touchpad touch for gyro off has worked great for me. Those are underutilized, and the capacitive touch is super responsive for a quick cursor ratchet no matter what i'm doing (usually left thumb, sometimes right). Still gives pad clicks to play with, too.

Arent there mouse sensitivity charts for windows and game settings? Would be cool if steam had some statistics like that taking one game as the example for how to set the other games in comparison to have the exact same settings...

Is there are a way to add it to classic doom? I wanna add to Sonic robo blast 2 to see if it makes easier turn in game.

You specifically mentioned SoT and I was curious if you ever tried flick stick in it. I'm trying to configure flick stick in SoT and it seems inconsistent. I slowed down the flick speed and noticed that the game kind of auto snaps prior (sometimes after) to the 90 degree snap. I'm losing my mind trying to figure this out and was hoping you might be able to help.

nice tutorial

this was an excellent vid! i wonder if flick stick would also be great with trackpad? for playing in bed, some people use the steam deck case to rest the deck on. i actually made a chest-stand for it with a wide base, so it can stand on its own. picture the switch dock glued to a stiff mouse pad. i made the whole thing out of higher-density (stiff) cardboard. its awesome! on another note, trackpad + gyro is great for steering in racing games, and also great for special moves in fighting games like street fighter as well...

Great stuff

Why when I try flick the nice it sometimes does like a double flick?

Can you use up on the flick stick as “return to center”? Can’t tell what it does in your setup

Awesome! Have you found the flick stick technique to translate well across all games?

Let me start by saying this is a great tutorial for those who do not know anything about flick stick or gyro yet. Great explanation. But I think you switch what yaw and roll are on the deck. What you mentioned as yaw is actually roll and vice versa. Roll is a steering wheel. I get that on a controller you hold it flat, and then tilting the controller left or right is roll and moving left and right while keeping the controller flat is yaw. But you dont hold the deck flat. the sreen is more yowards you r fae and you are looking ahead at it, not from above.

I want to say that in my experience, Flick Stick is better with Gyro always on and only disabled when a button is held (I use R5 for that). With normal stick+Gyro the capacitive enable is for sure the best way to do it but when I use Flick Stick, I like to start using the face buttons and only touch the stick rarely for the flicks and turns. Often times I just use my disable gyro button to ratchett instead of a flick just so I can keep my thumb on the buttons.

This is an awesome video and was exactly what I was looking for to start out with Flick Stick. Though just to be pedantic, and it doesn't change anything in your video or instructions but you have yaw and roll swapped in your explanation. Think of your device doing a barrel roll and well ... that's roll. Yaw is what you start with on the left/right movement. Again doesn't affect anything in the video since your advice is to combine yaw and roll which means it doesn't matter which one is which but figured I'd just let you know. What's the point of putting a video out on the internet if not for random strangers to point out every minor thing, though seriously great video!

I'm trying to set this up for predecessor but with 90 snap on I consistently get inconsistent results. Clicking right 4 times sometimes overshoots and sometimes undershoots. If I hit right 4 times and then hit left 4 times I should end up in the same location. But this isn't happening. Why and how can I fix this?

im not sure why but no matter how much i change the Sensitivity (pixels per revolution), it only moves a small amount, i even moved it to the max and it doesnt change at all. anyone know how to fix this? I tried resetting my Halo controller settings and mouse sensitivity but it doesnt seem to chance anything

I set up flick stick and I'm trying use the "snap mode" setting for my dualshock ps4 controller on steam input yet everytime I change it it sets it back to "no snap" when I want it to go to "half snap". Do you know how I can fix this? It's perfectly fine if you don't.

Can you create layout for apex legends?

I dont have the Snapping, Smoothing Deadzones, Outer ring settings when I go into the right joystick settings. Is there something I need to enable?

How do you make custom command for top trackpad to press a button and turn off the flick stick? I can't see it anywhere

Awesome! Sub’d.

With a steam deck the aiming is kinda scuffed because you move the entire screen while aiming via gyro. Also whats going on with your camera? Did you forget it in a microwave? Cool so I tried some risk of rain 2 with dualshock 4's idk why I didn't just play it on deck lol. But the biggest issue as usual with controller gaming is jumping while aiming, its alleviated with gyro quite nicely but anytime you try to circle an enemy its very hard to do properly, i guess take it with a grain of salt with me having a whopping 30 minutes of gyro experience lmao. But i wish I had some additional buttons like on the deck to keep jumping while shooting and aiming properly. Also aiming up and down is a bit of a struggle, and then I recenter the camera by pulling it up past the point where i can look up and then bring it down lol im too lazy to set up the recenter properly as it fails half the time for me just putting the camera into the dirt. (now i remembered because ror2 isnt a very button heavy game I could have used the right top bumber to jump and switched X to equipment use to have the jump key easily accessible, though i would have probably swapped left top and right top bumpers to be able to shoot easier while jumping because I'm a bozo and dont use my middle finger with the index finger to have all 4 back buttons easy to press at any time. I mean you don't either but a lot more understandable on a deck because its pretty hefty and those backbuttons are a better way to spend the middle fingers anyways. Also a good way to calibrate gyro for yourself is to lay the controller on a flat surface and if the game spins around like 3 times or something on 1 spin it should be a pretty solid sensitivity to start fiddling off of.

I wish you'd share your settings on Steam Community

I briefly tested this in Half Life 2 and I took to it pretty quickly, but I am struggling with looking downwards. It seems to take more of a tilt to aim downwards than anywhere else and due to the weight of the Steam Deck, it quickly made my wrist sore. Any suggestions on what settings to tweak to overcome this hurdle?

Thanks

my deck arrives tomorrow. this feature makes it look like it could be very powerful in fps games.

Hey bro, amazing video thank you I just got my steam deck and am wanting to figure out how to set up flick stick on my own before trying community customs but I had a question. So I tried setting my sensitivity (pixels per revolution) to the same number as you and it didn’t work. Mine is like 7210, and I have completely default settings for halo otherwise. Why would your sensitivity be different than mine?

whats the point of this, VS using normal analog stick movement, with high look sense. + gyro? that's how I been using gyro for a couple of years now. is flick stick just faster turns? or am I missing something?

I personally use sensitivity converters to get as consistent sensitivity as possible. They're made for mouse but why wouldn't they works for gyro? It's a mouse input after all.

How to you keep your aim so stable and the vertical line and still get fully range of movement looking up and down

Man, steam deck is awsome! Thanks for the video!

Can you still have right stick click binded to an action when using flick stick?

This worked perfectly for me, one huge downside though (for me) was that it completely ruined my muscle memory for normal mode. Randomly gaming at a friends house made me look like a huge clown because I couldn't aim for shit anymore.

Readjusting the camera down or up isn't very ideal, like to "reset" the camera, is there a way to make the joystick look up and down? Because doing it with gyro puts my deck at an awkward angle.

Can you try this on apex legends?

Hey, have you tried out to use the right trackpad as a mouse for more rough aiming and gyro for the precise aiming?

Halo deck settings, please? Great guide.

Nice

I followed your steps to the letter, but every time I try calibrating the 90 degree turns its different (without changing the sensitivity), gyro is off, deadzones are identitical, release dampening zero. Every time I try I zero in on the starting spot, then tap to the right 4 times, the final spot I'm looking at is different every time, without even making any changes to the sensitivity. It changes somehow based on how hard you tap the stick and its preventing me from calibrating. Edit: It was easier with the deadzones turned up to 100, but its still inconsistent each time and I dont understand why Edit2: Turning up flick turn tightness made it noticeably more consistent, still not perfect, but way better

What joystick caps are you using?

Your sweeps for 180: It's prob cuz you can spot things on the turn and stop, whereas the flick is so fast, you will prob overshoot a target.

I'm trying to get flick stick set up on team fortress 2 and no matter what I do Even after setting it to 90°, it's turns aren't 90° every time. I'm getting little bits of variation that add up. I fiddled with all of the settings and can't get it to stop doing little movements after each flick.

18:41 Pitch, yes 18:42 No that's yaw 18:51 That's roll

Has anyone else here tried this on a Windows PC? Because I've tried setting it up for Infinite multiple times and it's never really worked. There's even a few setups explicitly for Switch Pro controllers and they don't work. Gyro as joystick works fine, but gyro as mouse doesn't work at all despite functioning well in other games. And it's not like mixed input isn't supported, I can use my left joystick for movement and my mouse for aim. Disconnecting my mouse entirely doesn't change anything. Steam itself is handling the scheme just fine as the mouse starts moving as soon as I exit the game.

26:00 Had to watch multiple times to understand whats happening there with the bots

Using the gyroscope entirely to control the y-axis would be too difficult to control the recoil. Originally, the recoil is a precise operation, and the operation in the real space is smaller.

the flickering in your video is pretty distracting...

9:38 NOOO don't activate automatic subtitles

it's like piloting a helicopter. actually, a helicopter might be easier.

Please, PLEASE edit the video to remove stuff like the popping at 5:25-ish... I was listening with headphones and had to stop because it got nauseating.

I get that it's a flick stick video - but the constant flickering of the video makes it very difficult to watch.

I just don’t see how one could be pinpoint accurate with this method

Found a good setting for Flick Stick in ULTRAKILL. ULTRAKILL Sentitivity: 25 Steam Beta Big Picture Controller Configurator Flick Stick Sensitivity: 0.090