Just a heads up regarding my personal experience with joystick issues

Hi Reddit,

I just wanted to let you all know that I recently bought a Lenovo Legion Go and had a subtle, but very annoying issue with the joysticks. My left joystick couldn’t detect being pushed all the way left unless I made a full circle with the joystick starting from the 3 o’clock position to the 7-9 o’clock position in a counter clockwise fashion. If I removed the thumb pad, it worked fine. This issue has been posted before in this forum, but I can’t find the thread on my phone. I was able to objectively see the issue using an online game pad analyzer to test circularity of my joystick.

I took my unit back and got another, and it did not have this issue. So please make sure to check your units when you buy it for faulty joysticks. Not worth finding out once your exchange period is gone!

I’ll post the game pad analyzer once I get on an actual computer if anyone is interested. Again, this issue has been posted many times before, but I wanted to let you all know to check your brand new units. The defect can be very subtle, and I only noticed it on Baldur’s Gate 3 which requires very aggressive movements with the joystick to use the radial menus.