Really? I found the trackpads great for it. The default mappings are honestly quite good; I made some minor adjustments, and in general it works. The only thing I didn't like was that the in-game tooltips didn't tell me what the steam deck controls were.

That said, they said in their original Switch blog post[1] that they intend to bring these control mappings to PC/Steam Deck

[1] https://factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370

> I made some minor adjustments

Personally I don't want to make any adjustments. All the steam deck games I've installed so far have worked flawlessly without me doing anything. Inscryption is the only one where I had, at some point in the game, had to pull up the keyboard, but the launcher warned me that I would have to do that (and even told me about the shortcut).

Use your Steam Deck how you want of course but the ability to customize controls through Steam Input is one of its best features.

For sure, but two things:

* most people just want to use the defaults

* if you've never played the game before, it's not clear how you should customize the controls

It is amazing that for every game I looked at there was a core of power users who did propose different schemes that you can just adopt. But it does suck that the game does not necessarily show you the steam deck buttons you need to use.

How are the controls terrible? Have you looked into modifying them at all?

Nope, I've been meaning to do that. But honestly I'd expect the best controls to be picked by default, why am I expected to go hunting for community controls?

Everyone has different preferences, it would be silly to not customize things to fit your wants and needs better. Good defaults are important, but when they're tailored to a large group they can only be so good.

Frankly because the developer is not incentivized to provide a useful controls specifically for the Steam Deck. Some go the extra mile, but from what I’ve seen a lot of them just hurl the default game pad mapping. Try checking out the community mappings!

> Have you looked into modifying them at all?

This is where you're losing

Try this new switch version on yuzu.

You're in luck, they've already announced it in one of their blog posts:

"Even after the [Nintendo Switch] launch, there is much to do. Next to my screen there's a stack of post-it notes with future improvements, possible features and technical debt I need to solve. As mentioned in the announcement last week, after the launch I will also work on controller support for PC and Steam Deck."[1]

https://www.factorio.com/blog/post/fff-370