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Does anyone else find the joystick button press not very good feeling? (old.reddit.com)

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The original was posted on /r/steamdeck by /u/big_ja36 on 2025-06-22 12:13:56+00:00.

Ive been playing nightreign for a few days now and its the first game i've played on the steam deck that uses the left joystick button press to sprint, and after using it for a bit i found it to not feel very good compared to the Xbox, PS5, and Switch controllers. All of those controller joysticks have little to no travel when pressing down and it doesnt have bumps during the travel, meanwhile the steam deck joystick has small tactile bumps with the travel before the actual button could be pressed down.

Additionally, trying to press down while tilting the joystick has different levels of tactileness depending on which way the joystick is tilted. Also, when trying to press down on the joystick while tilting it, for example when trying to run forwards, you have to press the joystick down by the bottom portion of the joystick or the tactile click would be very hard to feel, which doesnt feel very great due to the concave shape of the joystick.

It still functions perfectly and you can also bind stuff to the back buttons but i tried a bunch of other steam deck joysticks from friends and they all have a similar feeling to them.

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[–] profgrumpypants@midwest.social 1 points 5 days ago

I have never used middle click on a deck, but I dislike its joysticks. I have been playing Drakengard on and off for the past couple of months (get to a flying scene and put it down for another couple of weeks). You need to middle click in order to pull up the map. That middle click is the first one I have had to do in any game in a long time, and it's absolutely awful. It's cute to put a button there, but it's just awful, the sound. Even the feeling is a bit unnatural. I have found myself having to let go of the joystick, in order to get it aligned to do the click. Else I will click, and not have the controller properly aligned to utilize it.