Is it so difficult to make playstation button icons?

[KoweK]

It easy to make with simple option in settings. Game is coming to ps4/ps5 so why on pc I have to play with xbox prompts? Instant uninstall

[smelly]

I wish more pc games added playstation prompt buttons considering how many use them. It's not like those prompts don't exist since they usually make PS versions

[Keenslayer]

I really don't get this, why it is so hard to add PS controller icons? it should be 30min effort in development. And yet, many games don't support it. so annoying...
I wouldn't uninstall the game because of it though, give it a try.
Hopefully ps prompts will be added on release.

[deadscene]

hard to memorise 8 buttons?

[gamberana]

Usually engines don't have a way to do it in a simple way. Programmers need to implement some Steam api that I think are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ to implement

[LeFoV]

Video game developper here: the issue is not making the different icons (wont take more than a day of work to create them in a perfect way), the issue is to recognize what controller is plugged in on PC. If you have the default controller configuration enabled with steam, there is no easy way to detect if you have a playstation controller plugged in, a nintendo switch, xbox, nacon etc.

[p]

Bro just memorise 4 buttons

[MPN64]

Originally posted by LeFoV:

Video game developper here: the issue is not making the different icons (wont take more than a day of work to create them in a perfect way), the issue is to recognize what controller is plugged in on PC. If you have the default controller configuration enabled with steam, there is no easy way to detect if you have a playstation controller plugged in, a nintendo switch, xbox, nacon etc.

Easy workaround, have an option for xbox or ps icons in the setting as some games have.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by MPN64:

Originally posted by LeFoV:

Video game developper here: the issue is not making the different icons (wont take more than a day of work to create them in a perfect way), the issue is to recognize what controller is plugged in on PC. If you have the default controller configuration enabled with steam, there is no easy way to detect if you have a playstation controller plugged in, a nintendo switch, xbox, nacon etc.

Easy workaround, have an option for xbox or ps icons in the setting as some games have.

Pretty much this, I wish more games would default to this.

[KoweK]

Originally posted by deadscene:

hard to memorise 8 buttons?

I've been playing with sony pad for 25 years so it's not that easy. I was trying for very long time and beat many games like this but still when I see "X" prompt sometimes I press playstation "X" instead of xbox which is square on sony pad. It's just laziness of developers because it's easy to implement simple option in settings (switch to playstation icons no matter what gamepad you're using)

[LeFoV]

Originally posted by MPN64:

Originally posted by LeFoV:

Video game developper here: the issue is not making the different icons (wont take more than a day of work to create them in a perfect way), the issue is to recognize what controller is plugged in on PC. If you have the default controller configuration enabled with steam, there is no easy way to detect if you have a playstation controller plugged in, a nintendo switch, xbox, nacon etc.

Easy workaround, have an option for xbox or ps icons in the setting as some games have.

That's ... actually a good idea tbh and not a very costy one!

[Dregora]

Originally posted by LeFoV:

Originally posted by MPN64:

Easy workaround, have an option for xbox or ps icons in the setting as some games have.

That's ... actually a good idea tbh and not a very costy one!

I guess we have our answer why devs don't do it. They don't think of it haha. ;)

[LeFoV]

Well for our case we already have the tech allowing us to swipe every UI sprites of the game and detecting what controller is plugged in, however steam api is kinda not cool with controllers and causes a lot of issue;

allowing the player in the options to switch between "automatic detect" to "Xbox UI"; "Playstation UI"; "Other" isnt that costy if you already have the feature developped, but a small cheap feature plus another plus another... I can understand why some studios chose to skip this

[KoweK]

Yeah I know that there are problems with detecting pads, even Returnal from Sony shows me xbox prompts but it's easy to force playstation icons via single option. Even if devs won't make this option it should be possible to create easy mod to change UI textures.

[FlyBoogy]

Originally posted by deadscene:

hard to memorise 8 buttons?

try switching to a different controller and play a new game. It takes a good few hours to get used to X not being the X you are used to. I played TOTK for the last 2 weeks and could not get used to B/Circle being the run button and not the action button when playing this.

[Dregora]

Originally posted by KoweK:

Yeah I know that there are problems with detecting pads, even Returnal from Sony shows me xbox prompts but it's easy to force playstation icons via single option. Even if devs won't make this option it should be possible to create easy mod to change UI textures.

While this is true, the point is it shouldn't have to. Not everybody knows about mods, uses mods or knows how to.