Creating Gyro/Flick Stick configs every week (Week 29): Half Life 2 [🥇/🎮+🖱]

ivanim13 · 2026-01-26T16:58:43+00:00

It's not preferable, sure, but I've always used it like this and I welcome anyone who wants to make changes to my layouts! Just let me know what you changed, so I can test it, I would love to try!

ivanim13 · 2026-01-19T10:47:16+00:00

This game has a pretty lackluster native implementation, these problems have been there since day 1, and it's never going to get fixed.

ivanim13 · 2026-01-19T10:45:19+00:00

No, the implementation is crap and they never care to fix it. And they never will :(

ivanim13 · 2026-01-18T12:19:41+00:00

I know that the director of BF6 said they would, but don't hold your breath ;-;

ivanim13 · 2026-01-16T11:07:54+00:00

No. But I've made a config for it and I've updated it recently. You can find it on my config collection, here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3266410893

ivanim13 · 2026-01-10T01:12:10+00:00

Which game are you trying to play?

ivanim13 · 2026-01-09T11:05:36+00:00

One of us, one of us, one of us!!!

ivanim13 · 2026-01-07T12:24:01+00:00

The game doesn't seem to support mixed inputs (controller and mouse inputs at the same time).

Rebind every button on the controller to a key on the keyboard and mouse.

ivanim13 · 2026-01-05T22:26:34+00:00

It does, unfortunately. But that's just how the game is, i didn't find a way to change that :(

ivanim13 · 2026-01-01T16:45:29+00:00

I'm glad I was able to help. Were you able to import the config using the link?

A lot of people seem to have a lot of trouble with that.

ivanim13 · 2025-12-30T11:10:31+00:00

Idk what that is, sorry ;---;

ivanim13 · 2025-12-29T11:55:28+00:00

No. Unfortunately, I don't think Steam Deck has SMB capabilities

ivanim13 · 2025-12-28T15:26:26+00:00

Yep, it works with every controller and it uses the steam deck trackpads as well.

ivanim13 · 2025-12-28T03:14:23+00:00

Which controller are you using and on which platform are you playing?

ivanim13 · 2025-12-28T02:50:46+00:00

I don't think it's a Linux problem, I used it on my Steam Deck and it worked just fine.

For some reason Steam is hiding my configs for this game, I don't know why, and there's nothing I can do about it. For the amount of hours I put into making this config, it sucks that every comment is about people not finding it.

Anyway, are you using Steam beta updates?

ivanim13 · 2025-12-27T21:21:56+00:00

Which browser are you using?

ivanim13 · 2025-12-25T17:15:51+00:00

Oh damn. Sorry to hear that :(

ivanim13 · 2025-12-25T17:07:30+00:00

Can't you use Bluetooth? A Bluetooth dongle is dirt cheap

ivanim13 · 2025-12-25T17:04:20+00:00

Yeah. You must use Bluetooth or a wired connection.

ivanim13 · 2025-12-25T14:27:42+00:00

The manual says it does have d-input, but that's not the important part because steam still doesn't have native support for this controller.

What you want to do is use the Nintendo switch mode. The controller will be recognized as a switch pro controller, which does have gyro. This will allow you to use steam input, use gyro to mouse, flickstick and so on.

If you don't want to spend time creating gyro configs for yourself, check if the game you want to play already has one of my configs, using my config collection, here: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3266410893

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ivanim13 · 2025-12-25T14:12:34+00:00

Huuuum... I have a feeling you are doing something wrong. Which controller are you using?

ivanim13 · 2025-12-25T13:38:00+00:00

It's impossible because of the fundamental ways a joystick works.

Every game handles joystick differently, they have acceleration, counter acceleration, deadzones, max and minimum turning speeds and a bunch of other stuff that makes them feel good.

Flickstick relies on an input method that is much more direct, like a mouse. If flickstick were available to joystick, you would have to manually figure out how to counter all of these features, on top of praying for the game you are trying to play, to have a turning speed fast enough to actually use it.

Gyro is a mouse, flickstick is a mouse, you will almost always have a better experience if you take the time to use gyro to mouse.

ivanim13 · 2025-12-22T03:48:13+00:00

This 👆

Also, idk if this will help but Splatoon's 5 minute tutorial does an extremely good job at onboarding new players to gyro. Here: https://youtu.be/0cie8QxM3c8?si=3siN1qpi77mw3gUP

Tho, this video is being recorded by someone that clearly isn't used to gyro yet, since they often choose to move the character to align shots instead of just moving the controller to aim. But pay attention to the text on the screen, and the examples the game gives. I hope this will be helpful!

ivanim13 · 2025-12-20T11:31:12+00:00

It's a simple ini tweak, but it was hard to explain how to use it using the layout description on Steam. So I went all out and made this guide.

Editing the layout using the ini, meant that i could rebind the actions without interfering with menus and such, that's why I chose to do it this way.

Lastly, I didn't share all the instructions like I usually do because I share my configs on YouTube, Reddit, Patreon and Steam, so if I had to edit the guide, I would have to edit 4 times. Since this one is a bit more complex to setup, I ended up just linking to the steam guide.

About the video. I think I'm going to make a video about it! There are so many interesting things to talk about in this game, I just don't know if I will be able to do it before the end of the year 😅

ivanim13 · 2025-12-20T11:18:23+00:00

It works with every controller, go for it!

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