I just started playing Uncharted 4 on my steamdeck and ran into a weird bug: when I move the left joystick slowly Nathan doesn’t respond at all at first and once I reach a certain threshold he starts running immediately. In essence, I can’t get him to do a slow walk animation. This is not a deadzone issue as when I quickly move the stick all the way to the end and then let it come back a bit he does a brief jog and then starts the walk animation. So the lower zone of the stick works but it’s impossible to enter the walking animation from standing still. Interestingly, when I connect my Xbox controller and use that I don’t have this issue at all and I can easily start a walk animation by pushing the left joystick gently. It’s just impossible using the steamdeck controls. I played around with the deadzone settings but it didn’t help and I’m convinced it’s a bug rather than a deadzone problem.

There seems to be a few other people with this problem and without a solution (the same bug appears to be in Last of us part 1) but there aren’t as many as I would have expected as it’s quite an annoying bug. So it might be something unique to a few devices?

Has anyone else noticed this and found a solution?

  • fragrantvegetable@sopuli.xyzOP
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    11 hours ago

    Thanks for the suggestions.

    • I tried disabling steam input but it appears you can’t do that for the Steamdeck controller. It says “Always enabled” next to Steamdeck controller.
    • I tried binding the walk key to a back button as well, but the back buttons aren’t recognised by the game at all. Possibly another hint that the game is having issues with the Steamdeck controls.
    • I did adjust the deadzone in the Steamdeck controller config. The game itself only has sliders for aiming not walking.
    • That’s a good shout. I had a quick look at profiles too but didn’t see anything that might fix the issue. I will look a bit more. As a last resort I might have to make my own keyboard based input though not sure how well mouse aiming will map to the sticks. It’s just a bit annoying I have to do this at all.