menu scrolling broken on steam deck

[PhantomBuggo]

after updating to 1.4.2 on the Steam Deck (Linux, Flathub) install, the game menu scrolls 2 or more options if pressing the D-pad, as if direction inputs on the menu aren't buffering.

I apologize for the lack of detail, the description is as accurate as I can make it with my knowledge.

[Akaricchi]

Unfortunately I'm way too broke to afford a Deck right now (as much as I'd love to get one), and I can't reproduce the issue on my desktop machine, so all I can go off here is an educated guess.

I can't think of any changes in v1.4.2 that could've caused this input doubling. Only the joystick handling part of the gamepad code has been touched, which shouldn't affect the D-pad. However, shortly after the 1.4.2 update, I've also updated the Flatpak package's org.freedesktop.Platform runtime version to 24.08. This is a total shot in the dark, but it's conceivable that something about that newer runtime (an updated SDL perhaps?) has a bad interaction with Steam's input abstraction.

Can you still navigate the menu with the joystick? If possible, please go to Options -> Gamepad & Joystick options…, and change the Device from Any to a specific input device (move the stick left/right while the option is selected to do this). Then press B to exit the menu and apply the changes. Does that fix the problem, and do you have more than 1 device in that list?

Please also attach the log file from $HOME/.var/app/org.taisei_project.Taisei/data/taisei/log.txt.

[PhantomBuggo]

OK so yes, the Device options had 2 devices: Steam Deck and Steam Virtual Gamepad. I managed to get the game to select the specific devices (both individually fix the issue). I have the log here:
log.txt
Thank you for the suggestion of the options, I admit I should have tried checking that when I found the problem.

[Akaricchi]

Thank you for the suggestion of the options, I admit I should have tried checking that when I found the problem.

It's ok, you did the right thing by reporting the issue anyway. Even though it's possible to work around in the settings, it's still a bad "out of the box" experience and needs a fix. Though I'm not yet sure what would be the best way to go about it. I could add a workaround specifically for the Steam Deck's controller, but I think it would leave other handhelds with a SteamOS-like system affected.