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by segasaturn 533 days ago
I have a Deck and almost never use the track pads, they feel totally redundant to me. The right one is pretty good on desktop mode and in games that aren't Deck-optimized and need a mouse, though. What are you using both of them for?
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I pretty much use them constantly. They're useful for playing any shooters or anything with mouse look, they're great for RTS, city builders, point and click adventure, Factorio, etc. Currently I'm playing Dawn of War, Ground Control, 688i Hunter Killer and Fleet Command, which basically requires trackpads. I also play Stronghold Crusader, Warhammer Gladius, Company of Heroes, Warframe, WoW and other MMOs on it. I honestly don't know how people get by without them, they're extremely useful.

Even for emulators, they're great for binding all kinds of extra functions.

Using the right trackpad also means I can free up the right joystick for other stuff, and there's always enough other stuff I want to access regularly enough.

I use them to play Stellaris/Rimworld/Oxygen Not Included. Rimworld/ONI you could do with Joysticks but I'm just quicker with trackpads and it's finer tuned control.
The right trackpad is absolutely a killer feature.

Rollercoaster Tycoon, FTL, point and click games are games the trackpad has vastly improved for me.

i use the right one as a mouse and the left one as a scroll wheel
> I have a Deck and almost never use the track pads,

This reads like "I never play mouse driven games"