Counter Strike 2 is surprisingly awful on Steam Deck right now

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Counter Strike 2 is surprisingly awful on Steam Deck right now - sh.itjust.works

You’d have to be a masochist to actually play this on steam deck or with any controller.

Unless they have some sort of “steam deck only” matchmaking, but even then it’s just not made for controller.

It’s not a standard xbox controller. There’s a gyro with several ways to handle it, including flick, which does take a little time to get used to, but works really well as a mouse substitution for such an environment. Some people are just that good with a thumbstick as well and can easily enjoy casual gamemodes.

Steam Deck is a capable beast, even for a game like Counter-Strike.

At its core, CS is a competitive shooter. Having casual games and have fun but the game should not cater to this play mode. If valve tries to make it casual friendly they will disappoint the competitive players and will not be able to compete with other casual shooters.

Basically I don’t want then to cater too much to the casual scene

Valve caters more to the casual scene than most companies do by allowing custom servers and an in game custom server browser.

How much more casual can it get?

Being on a console, on the couch.
CSGO was made entirely for the purpose of being a console game, bo body played it on console so they abandoned ot
This isn’t what’s happening, though? What are you on about?