TAKE CONTROL of your Steam Deck with Steam INPUT 

On the topic of RTS I like to use long press on a control to set a group and short press to select it. You have to add an additional command as a long press and then a sub command to that to press ctrl or whatever at the same time.

damn these are both really smart ideas. How do you nest radial menus?

I'm still terrible with Flick Stick, but its so cool. Thanks for making it.

thank you, how you think about the win max 2，especially amd 6800U version?

Thank you, this was a helpful tip!

@War on Winter Can't say that my touchscreen felt inaccurate... but i'm using it as little as possible to not get smudges on the screen. I also have no clue if there are any options or settings for touchscreen, i think i looked at pretty much everything that you could reasonably find in the various menu screens, but no, nothing about touchscreen i could point you to... sorry.

Excellent comment

I second that ^

This is interesting. Could you provide a real world example, and is there a genre you specifically prefer using this for?

@@johnnyboy35 Sure! My general setup for an FPS game is to have the interact/reload button as a center press in the touchpad. Then I'll usually map weapon swap buttons to left or right touchpad presses and other frequently used abilities to the up and down button presses. And I'll typically have jump and crouch mapped to the back paddles. The idea is to be able to keep your finger on the touchpad as often as possible. For me it just feels better than having to reach for the buttons on the side while your character can't look around at all. But your mileage may vary.

Facts this is quality content

Thanks. Feel free to share the video to all the places!

Absolutely 100% agree with this. There is literally nothing out there about this stuff. Nerdnest is leading the way here.

Very late question, but still, can you explain how do you do macros and multi-button combos? More specifically, I'm playing Sifu ATM, there's lots of combos in this game that I'd like to map to just a single press of a button. I'm trying to get my R4 button to execute this sequence: left stick down - left stick up - X and I can't get it to work. I know it's possible, people do it in Street Fighter a lot I think. What would be correct or ideal setting for fire delay on buttons in this case? If you see this reply and know the answer, thanks in advance!

@@basshabits292 So you can use Add Extra Command to trigger multiple inputs with a single button press. Then in each commands settings Fire Start Delay gives the delay before the input is sent, you can use this to stagger the multiple commands so they fire off in the proper order. Fire End Delay basically tells it how long to hold an input. So for your use case you'd want 3 commands assigned to R4, Lstick down, Lstick up, X. Lstick down should have a Start Delay of 0 and maybe an End Delay of 25. Lstick up should have a Start Delay of like 30 and an End Delay of 50. X should have a Start Delay of 50, End Delay of 0. This will push down for 25ms, then press up 5ms later and hold up for 50ms, 20ms after up is pressed, while up is still being held X is pressed (I'm assuming you have to press X before you release up, so those 2 inputs have to overlap). I don't currently have sifu to test this, but this sounds like a standard Street Fighter 2 sequence (spinning side kick). In SF2 you have to "charge" down for a bit before pressing up. If that's the case in sifu, then add an End Delay to Lstick down so it charges for a bit, and whatever number to add it its End Delay, add that same number to the Start Delay values of the other 2 inputs so they're pushed off for a bit. It takes a bit to learn the system, but once you have it down it's very powerful. I did run into an issue with the same input twice in a row, I'm not sure if it's that's still and issue or if it has been fixed.

@@dayveemanwow man, that's a comprehensive and awesome tutorial you wrote here. Gonna try today, thank you so much :) will report back if it works

I’ll try

I also add a turbo button to each game I play. I am too old and tired to have to keep pressing my buttons manually. Makes shaking off those little monsters in Stray much easier. :)

It's not to bad. Mine is coming today. Once it ships it you can start buying screen protectors and sd cards or whatever else you need in preparation. It's kinda like opening a present on Christmas eve while you wait for Christmas to come.

Can you explain what you mean,? Because the way I see it the only way that they would be useful as if you’re controlling the mouse with some other input and then you just want to tap on your trackpad in order to send the input.

Probably hit many inputs would you need?

@@NerdNest specifically, all 6 degrees or freedom without using the triggers. I've been using directional trackpads with the "analog spoofing" option but I've yet to find an arrangement that feels comfortable and doesn't use gyro. I dont see why steam input doesn't have a "use as joystick 3/4" option to make mapping simple.

@@NerdNest Specifically, emulating the 6 degrees of motion using the joysticks/trackpads. Forward-back, Left-right, Up-down, Yaw(turn left-right), Pitch, Roll I was talking about Steam Deck with a friend and that's what he wanted to control.

They take some getting used to but once it clicks it becomes 2nd nature. The haptic feedback helps

You can.

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I don’t believe they are order dependent.

Actually, it is order dependent.

Oh, I don’t know, I’ve never tried that. Very interesting idea. I don’t think so though.

@@NerdNest I am trying to have a button alternate between left stick L and left stick R. A tomb raider game has quick time events for wagging the stick back and forth. I am fairly certain you can have it do left when you press and right when you release, but that's still button mashing. It could turbo both commands at the same time, but that's not right. Maybe both turbo when held but one has a ms delay to throw them out of sync?

I know exactly what you’re talking about, I hate those QTEs

In that case if you want to use flick stick use mouse controls and customize your layout.

@@NerdNest and set like left stick to WASD?

Yep.

Try adjusting the dead zone.

Of course. Controls are fully customizable

Yeah, you can see it in the video.

Palm ride

There was no 'Q3' status before. There was 'Q3 or later' and 'After Q3', and those have been split into more specific 'Q3' and 'Q4' bands now. Valve have said no-one moved backwards, just some lucky 'After Q3' moved forwards into 'Q3' instead of staying back in 'Q4'. Are you sure you weren't in the 'After Q3' band?

No it didn't. It got clarified from the vague "After Q3" to the definitive "Q4". After Q3 means after quarter 3 of the year, and could only ever have been Q4 or later. You were never in Q3. Well, you may have originally been Q3 back in July-November 2021, before everyone got pushed back 2 months when they announced the delay. But back then there was no Q3 estimate, it was either December 2021, Q1, Q2 or After Q2, so your estimated availability was "After Q2", which eventually became "After Q3" when they clarified the Q3 shipments back in ... March? They just recently announced that everyone that had already reserved one will be getting their Deck this year, which is great because "After Q3" could not only mean "Q4" but could also stretch out into 2023, even 2024, 2025, etc. if they were plagued by production shortages. Sounds like now even people reserving about a week ago will be getting one this year.

I can't play every game, so I'm showing how to accomplish things in Steam Input so others can apply it to the games they want to play.

@@NerdNest I know and ge that, it's more for the community as a whole.