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Just curious if/how anyone handles playing FPSes on consoles. My first FPS games would have been GoldenEye and Turok games on N64, which have okay-to-awkward control schemes. Turok's basically the southpaw WASD + joystick aiming, which isn't too bad. Then probably played Halo 1/2 on a friend's XBOX and later COD4 on PS3/360, so I didn't really have any opportunity to use KB+M ever until I pirated Half-Life years later, which I think I was even using the trackpad, not even a mouse with it. Although I started PC gaming after that and lost my abilities by a large margin. Really prefer KB+M but I put some thumbstick extenders on my controller(s) right sticks and that helps a lot. I notice how much gamers bristle at learning new control schemes. Only thing I really don't like is mouse games like RTS on controller. Also don't get why '90s consoles frequently had mouse accessories and support while later consoles seemed to do away with them when FPS and RTSes got even more popular if anything.

I found this Piranha FX mouse controller thing for PS3 for really cheap at a game store and decided to try it out and it's neat. It converts controller inputs to a mouse with a left-handed half-controller thing.

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[–] RondoRevolution@hexbear.net 1 points 2 days ago

That's cool! I always wanted to test the original Steam Controller, but these cost a fortune were I live. There are a lot of good third party controllers coming out of China right now too. I use a Flydigi Vader 3 Pro, which has 6 face buttons (ABXY are mechanical), 4 back paddles, 2 levers to make triggers instantaneous (and mechanical too) like the Switch and also gyro.

The best config I made for it was for Hollow Knight where I used every single button. The 2 extra face buttons (C and Z) were used for Dream Nail stuff and the back paddles were used for up magic and down magic (left paddles), and attacking up and down (right paddles), which was way better than having to hold those directions to attack.