Hey everyone,
I took the gamble on Starfield on the Deck and am honestly having a good time. The Bethesda jankiness is bringing me back to playing Oblivion. I have never used a controller with back pedals and really want to dive in. I went through the controller settings but couldn’t find a way to pass through the back pedals to be assignable buttons.
What I would like to do is be able to toggle the in-game flashlight or pulling up the map. I can do the binding in game, but I just cannot figure out how to pass through the buttons to the game itself.
Would this be something the Deck would be capable of doing, and would anyone have some recommendations on good ways to use the extra rear buttons inside controller oriented games?
The flashlight is already bound to LB; holding it for a second vs tapping one of the back buttons doesn’t really seem like a worthwhile use to, same for the map (which can be opened directly by long pressing “start”; or “select” if you haven’t reversed their mapping in Steam input to get the correct button prompts).
Honestly, I’ve yet to find a good use for the back buttons in Starfield; I’m considering mapping one of them to F5 for quick save, but that’s generally just a double tap of start and one tap of A, so it’s not inconvenient enough for me to have gone with the button mapping.
I agree that it’s not the most worthwhile use of the buttons and you are right about using the triggers. For now I’ve just mapped the back buttons to mirror the shoulder buttons and it’s working well. I also agree that all of the shortcuts I asked about are already present with long presses, I just am not a fan overall of buttons having more than one action associated just in general not even specifically about video gaming input.
To me it’s one of those things where if I was playing the game on my desktop I would bind small things like that to macro keys just for convenience.
I’ll be honest I didn’t even notice the prompts for start/select were backwards. Today I learned LOL