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[–] FishFace@piefed.social 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Can't be bothered connecting a mouse and keyboard to my deck for that kind of game.

Turns out that "that kind of game" also includes more than I expected!

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I have a dock. Highly recommend it if you don't have a desktop. It's a one second plug in for games that are better with keyboard and mouse (RTS / FPS).

Although there are few games that simply won't let go of the steam deck controls.

You need a 3rd party decky plug-in to get it resolved.

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I do have a desktop so no real point. I use a dock to plug in to the TV and connect controllers though.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How do you connect the controllers?

I tried my Xbox wireless adapter but it doesn't work

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 2 points 4 days ago

I had no problems so no idea about troubleshooting. Wired ones show up on plugging in, Bluetooth ones are detected fine. We even have an official Nintendo controller working.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Steam + X opens the onscreen keyboard. Hope that helps

[–] FishFace@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

Thanks so much, with this I will be a counterstrike pro in no time!