Dear devs, your game has terrible controller support

[Child of Doom]

I wanted to let bygones be bygones and not really care too much about the issue, but my friend kept bugging me to do it as if someone will even see this message let alone fix the issue, but yeah your game has terrible controller support. I can't seem to configure this dualshock 4, a completely unsupported controller on the windows platform, at all. The main reason for this being that the game seems to want the triggers to be on a split axis much like the 360 controller. Even if I turn off gamepad support and use joy to key, my right trigger is always mapped to pause menu for some reason. Hope this helps!

[Vahnkiljoy]

Well it's not that the game has horrible controller support like you claim, the ps4 controller just seems to have issues with the game itself, I can play the game flawlessly with my ps3 controller, the ps4 is new and hasn't had any drivers made out for it yet so, give it time in THAT respect.

[Shinkyi]

my controller works perfect ! so its more likely your controller and not the game

[S73v3NH4wk1n9]

works bout 95% with controllers with actual drivers.

Just a few menu quirks. It said partial controller support on game page anyhow.

[Child of Doom]

Yeah I'm just being a prick because my friend wouldn't shut up about "you should report it to the devs!"

Also there are drivers, its just they're bog standard directinput drivers or something to that effect, similar to one of those logitech rumblepad controllers

[Paptamis Prime]

My issue is that on some menu screens there isn't controller support and I have to use the mouse to select options.

[Yalre]

My issue is that rebinding the xbox keys it gives them odd names instead of that button name. Like they use in the default xbox controller

[AyezRed]

Tell your friend to make a Steam account and report it himself...

[SkyMango]

I don't feel like starting a new thread, but I have controller issues with a Logitech controller (which is treated as an Xbox 360 controller). The game itself works fine, but some of the menus just don't work. The character select screen doesn't let me cycle through anything on the page and I have to use the mouse to press Play. The options menu doesn't let me change certain things with the controller, and it also sends the cursor to the top of the options list whenever I press anything.

I have a feeling these issues may be the same on PS3/4 controllers, but I can't be sure.

[Dr Rick Dagless, M.D.]

Skyman, that happens to me using a legit 360 controller. I feel like that's probably why the game is listed as partial controller support, rather than full support. Partial support usually means that the game will play fine with a controller, but menus may be iffy.

[Khadgar34]

I got my PS4 controller to work by editing the Prefs.ini file in the folder for the game (usually found in C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Risk of Rain)

Just replace the [Joystick] section with the following:
http://pastebin.com/cHRYAynK

Don't try to modify the keys in game, it ends up not working very well. One benefit of doing this is if you are trying to use the DS4 with joytokey it makes it so R2 no longer pauses the game

Hopefully this helps your friend, I haven't really been able to test it with a bunch of DS4s so I can't say it works flawlessly but it did work for me.

[Child of Doom]

Khadgar, that works PERFECTLY. Thank you very much for this workaround.

[Ramiel]

Would this work with a ps2 controller?

[Khadgar34]

I am not sure if these settings exactly will work with a PS2 controller, but if you go to the settings of your controller you will see something like this: http://i.imgur.com/40QGFhT.jpg

You can use this to determine which button on your controller corresponds with the button number, for example if I press the X button on my DS4 the 2 button lights up. So to make the X button on the DS4 jump instead of what was previously set to the A button on a 360 controller I replaced

joy_setting[5,0]=0
joy_setting[5,1]=0
joy_setting[5,2]=-1
joy[5]=A (Xbox 360)

with this:

joy_setting[5,0]=0
joy_setting[5,1]=1
joy_setting[5,2]=-1
joy[5]=X (DS4)

Basically the middle "joy_setting" line is the button's number found in the controller settings minus 1, for example since the X button is button 2 on my DS4 I put a 1 in the middle line. The other two joy_setting lines deal with axes of the controller, like for analog sticks or triggers, and the last line is the button's name that shows up in game. So I repeated this process to remap all the buttons to the corresponding buttons on my DS4. I also removed the axes stuff for my triggers to make them basically act as buttons.

I hope that wasn't too confusing

[Gnutzilla]

Thanks a lot, khadgar34. I just bought an DS4 and that fix worked out perfect.

[Erik]

Use Joy2Key or JoyToKey (yeah they're seperate programs) or any other one that does the same stuff. Bind keyboard keys for your controller inputs. Then everything is gravy. Otherwise, yea, I have a 360 controller and a dual shock and the game likes to override directional inputs. Sometimes it doesn't, othertimes it does. Pressing up to climb a rope while moving in a direction sometimes it won't read the up, sometimes it will read the up but will stop the directional movement. It's pretty crappy. I don't know wtf these other guys are all about, but perhaps it's like those morons that say you can't see over 30 fps. This game has crap controller support.