This is a short clip of me playing Xonotic on a Steam Deck using joysticks + gyroscope to control my character. Xonotic is a FOSS game (it runs on an engine that is actually a direct descendant of ...

Edit Sorry about the ugly word vomit from lemmy ripping out the video description on peertube, I didn’t know it was going to do that

I decided to try Xonotic on my steam deck using joysticks + gyro to see if I could play somewhat competitively. Turns out, it is a blast!

Not claiming I am amazing at Xonotic (the bots are HARD btw) but wow there is a huge potential here for strafe jumping mechanics with games designed to be controlled by joysticks + gyro. It is a blast!