Steam Deck First-Person Shooter Controls IN-DEPTH Guide: Make It Feel Like Mouse & Keyboard!
Summary of my usual settings for your reference:
0:11 - General Settings: Lower Deadzone and Calibrate Gyro (plus Desktop Mode)
Prodeus Game Layout Settings
0:52 - Right Trackpad As Mouse: Sensitivity increased to 360-per-swipe, Vertical Scale 40%, personal Rotation of 20, higher Smoothing, Trackball Mode OFF
Trackpad Press: Reload (or Melee or Use)
3:30 - Trackpad Press D-Pad Menu Hack
6:02 - Gyro To Mouse: 6x Trackpad Sensitivity to get approximate Dots per 360 (Future video will cover finding exact value for Flick Stick)
7:06 - Right Stick: Joystick Mouse, 1/2 of Pad Sens, Vertical Scale 40%, Extra Wide Response Curve, minimize Inner and Outer Deadzones
8:32 - Left Stick
Option 1: Joystick if game can handle mixed input
Option 2: D-Pad w/ Analog Emulation. Try Lower Active %, Slower Pulse Rate
Option 3: D-Pad w/ 8-Way, Overlap 8000
Shift Sprint on Outer Ring, Command Radius 29000
9:46 - Triggers: Trigger Threshold Point to Zero, Analog Off
Left Trigger = Left Click, RIght Trigger = Right Click (swapped from default)
10:42 - More Trigger Haptics Trick
11:35 - Buttons
Bumpers: Grenades, Special Abilities, Weapon Select, etc.
ABXY: More Weapon/Item Select
Back Buttons: Jump, Crouch, Dash, Reload/Use/Melee, ADS, More Weapon Select
"Select": Tab, "Start": Escape
13:18 - Conclusion + Gameplay