After a few weeks of playing the P-3C Orion platform in Dangerous Waters, I have made a Steam Deck profile.
I started from the existing community layout but changed almost everything…
The name is:
P-3 layout v1
User friendliness
I have labeled every button for what it does, kept the left touchpad popup menu and added one for speed and alt control via the right stick.
If anything is unclear, please let me know and I will improve the descriptions.
Room for more
There’s plenty of room for more bindings on buttons or another popup menu on the left stick.
But I’m having trouble finding more useful keyboard shortcuts, especially for the non-nav stations.
I need YOU to join the Dangerous Waters Navy
Please share feedback here, I’d love to use our collective experience to make this the best Dangerous Waters control layout.
I haven’t tried the MH-60 yet but I think that should work with the same layout. Not sure if submarines need very different bindings, but given the room for more bindings (especially with a modifier or 2 on the bumpers), we might be able to do everything with 1 layout.
P.S. This is the best Steam Deck game when your battery is low:
You can play Dangerous Waters comfortably with an FPS limit of 20 and a TDP limit of 3 Watts.
I did both of the MH-60 missions, and discovered that, annoyingly, the same F keys take you to MH60 stations as for P-3 stations, but it’s all shuffled: Sonar in P-3 is weapons in MH-60, weapons in P-3 is MAD/ESM in MH-60, etc etc.
Only pilot and map are the same, and the camera (P-3 exclusive) matches the Dipping sonar (MH-60 exclusive).
So I guess after refining the P-3 mappings a bit I’ll add an MH-60 profile with minor modifications such that the stations match and that MAD altitude is replaced with Dipping Altitude.
After the first mission, the campaign wants me to control a submarine. No air or surface option in mission 2.
So much to do.
Have you tried the P-3 mapping yet @Sryan? How about if I add L1 and R1 as modifiers on A (add WP at start or end) and X (drawing circles instead of manual solutions)?
I had a very short chance to try it out. I love the radial menus you made to swap stations and control alt and speed. As for the rest, I really need to study the Orion a bit so I know what I am doing. But great first impression! Thanks for the work.
Cool, glad you like it! Took me a bit as well, I should record a session (wonder if Steam Recording has an option to show inputs as “subtitles”) and/or write a guide to help with that first bit of familiarity
