Steam deck

[gilded belfry]

So, I'm going on a trip this week and it'd be great if I could play Factorio on my deck. Those of you who do… what do your bindings look like? How have you set it up?

[spice gorge]

Factorio has a default console controls layout now

[forest gull]

Same as the Switch mapping. See the Controls page on the Wiki, and I also have a rough draft of a control diagram in the "Controller Diagram/Cheat Sheet" question.

[gilded belfry]

I gave that a shot the other day, and it was… fine. Not amazing, but fine.

It doesn't really take advantage of the deck's capabilities, though, so I'm hoping someone here has a really neat layout.

I actually found one, but it was customised to adapt M/KB controls, and my M/KB controls are weird and I don't want to adapt it (but I guess I might).

[forest gull]

Having only played on the Switch, the control layout seems more natural to me.

[vast harbor]

I made a controller configuration a while ago that felt really nice, but it was for a bluetooth controller and it was way before controller was officially supported

the default controls are okay, but I recommend using a different layout

[jolly canopy]

I just connected a m&k to the steam dock and play it on a table.

Then default PC settings

[misty drift]

That kind of defeats the purpose of the steam deck. At that stage you might as well buy a laptop which has the mouse and keyboard part built in if you only plan to use it at a desk while on the go. Or a desktop which is more performance per cost if you plan to have the thing docked at the same desk constantly.

If you are using the steam deck in hand-held mode, which is one of the primary use-cases for the steam deck, then mouse and keyboard are not really an option. Which is where console controls help, even if they are less precise than keyboard and mouse.

[gilded belfry]

So, actually the touch pads are great. I feel like the default controls do not make adequate use of them.

[mild mural]

back when I played a bit on Steam Deck (which was before the controller support came) I used the community layout by Zirbs and that was pretty neat tbh

[warped shore]

I personally play it a lot on my deck, i can recommend using the left trackpad as a radial menu and just add buttoms you frequently use from time to time, and the right trackpad as a mouse. Other than that just stick with tbe default controller config

[gilded belfry]

I may or may not have gotten sucked into MHR and not spent any time playing this on my deck…

But I was thinking about binding mining to RT instead of X. May not make much of a difference outside of the very early game though.

The inconvenience of using the right touchpad and using X to mine really jumped out at me.

[warped shore]

I personally just have the triggers bound to m1 and m2 and right trackpad as a mouse. That aline is a godsend already

If you want you can look through community layouts too as inspiration

[gilded belfry]

Yeah, I grabbed one that looked promising. But my keybinds are janky so… it doesn't work. 😄

[warped shore]

Oh yeah i dont recommend messing with the keybinds in factorio itself

It will just become a mess, steaminput can do everything factorio can do but better

[gilded belfry]

No no, I changed them for playing with MKB lol.