I’ve mostly done joy sticks.
right pad for mouse, left pad for hotkeys, all the way. Great for games that use the entire left half of the keyboard.
I pretty much do precisely this
Civ VI and Inscryption required me to use the pads. Basically everything else is sticks.
Factorio
Factorio - but I tend to flip between both pads and sticks
Right pad is frequently a mouse, often worth using a trackpad mouse for menu/inventory management.
The trackpads are huge for PC games with a lot of inputs, but can also be used for communication. There’s a lethal company control scheme that uses the trackpads to 1-click type the console commands to navigate to moons/view players on monitor/etc. I have a Deep Rock Galactic profile that uses the left trackpad as a mini keyboard to type “r”, “gg”, “wait”, and a few other frequently used communications.
In any games that support quicksaving I usually have some quicksave/quickload options in a menu on the left trackpad.
There’s a community profile for Monster Hunter rise that maps the quick access wheel to the right touch pad really well. I wish I could do whatever that guy did but for world as well. It’s really useful.
Age of empires II, I’ve cleared a few campaigns with it! Left pad as mouse region on bottom left icons, right pad as mouse.
Can you respond well with the pad and no keyboard?
To give context I was never a good competitive player, so I’m talking about casual play. I think I’m slightly less responsive than mouse+kb, but playing on the train is just a blast!
I also had to bind other buttons to improve response time:
- dpad down to go to last notification
- dpad to cycle between forums
- dpad eight for inactive villagers, left for army
Then Right Joystick is a radial menu to go to 6 groups. A is select all on screen. On top of that, I binded shift to L1 (the bottom left palet) which can be user in combination of most other buttons I binded: e.g. create 5 units, assign to group, select all inactive villagers etc…
I went through the William Wallace campaign to tune my conf, but I find it pretty good now!
Mom’s for mouse movement (right) and function buttons via radial menu (left). Works surprisingly well on GW2 and TurtleWoW
Using them currently for Against the Storm. Way easier than moving the cursor around with the joystick.
Turn based strategy games. Especially 4X games like Civilization or the Master of Magic remake.
Came here to say. Dominions is pretty cool on deck.
Epic Game Launcher … OwO
I did the original Deus Ex on mostly pads, worked pretty well!
MineCraft and Dune spice wars
My thumbs.
world of warcraft and Terraria come to mind for me.
