However, if you find the keyboard too little or small, you can connect an external keyboard and use it. Steam Deck has its own in-built keyboard. Just like a normal computer, when you want to type something, you need to use a keyboard. You can connect it to a monitor or TV and pair it with controllers, a mouse, or a keyboard. It’s made explicitly for gaming via Steam, it looks more like a Nintendo Switch. It enables players to access and play Steam-based games without using a regular PC. Not everyone who buys or has bought a steam deck, also has a dock attached to it into which they have a normal PC keyboard and mouse attached, which presently seems to be the only way to get the keyboard and data entry to work with the game on the device.Steam Deck is a handheld gaming PC. The Steam Deck is a great device for being able to play this game on as it's higher spec then many laptops and it's also got a much better form factor for playing on the move and on the go, however the inability to use the keyboard with the game's interface is a bit of a drawback and pain. I'd really be hoping this could be resolved very quickly for either the full release of FM23 or in one of the patches shortly after. In FM22 this also was a problem with the In-Game Editor as you could not select any text input fields once you had opened the editor and could not change, delete or enter any information.

This is noticeable on the manager profile creation screen when setting up a save where the game will not let you enter a name, and then when you actually manage to get into game you can't use the search box and type in any values to search for. As soon as the keyboard is enabled by pressing the Steam Button+X on the device, in game it seems to effectively tab or move away from the text box and not allow you to edit or enter any information. Would like to add to this conversation by saying I've played a lot of FM22 on the Steam Deck and also being playing the FM23 Beta on Steam Deck and having issues with the games working with the Steam Deck's built in on-screen keyboard.

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