Can't throw balls or packs as an assessor with a gamepad

[Ogrest aka the best]

Hello,
Since the recent update I now can't play as an assessor because my assessor will not throw his balls or his packs. I tried to change the controls but nothing seems to work.
All the other commands works except this one but it is a key one.

[René - Bippinbits]

By default twin stick controls are activated. You got to aim with the right stick and shoot with a shoulder button.
If you want to control it like before, disable twin stick in the options.

[claudiy0]

I encountered the same problem as Ogrest.

Using an X-BOX 360 controller that worked perfectly until the last patch (300+ hours, all achievments, top 100 all Prestige modes)

Right after I relized that twin stick control is enabled I turned it off.

Unfortunately that didn't fix all the issues:
Playing with the Assessor, I can pick up resources as before (A button).

Shooting an item/resource seems impossible. I tried to manually remap the key bindings to my preferred settings, the old defaults, but I couldn't get it to work.
At the same time, and I am confident this is connected to the above issue, it is no longer possible to shoot out a sphere.

In case you don't believe me, I even took a screenshot:
https://imgur.com/a/vrIygQW

I even tried to assign a different button, LB, but this also does not work.

It seems as if I can drop any item with "B" (e.g., Iron. By that, I mean I can drop it in place, without the item/resource moving. This might be useful in some cases, but being unable to shoot kills the Assessor.

The game is unplayable as long as there is no fix for this.

[René - Bippinbits]

Can you check if it shoots a sphere if you push the right stick in a direction before pressing the shoot button? This does sound like twin sticks are active. Maybe there is an issue that the setting is not correctly applied. We tested it and can't reproduce an issue so far. Just to be very sure, would you please also double check that twin sticks is disabled in the options?
And don't worry, i have no reason to not believe anyone.
Just trying to understand the issue. It might also be Steam Input related, as there are some things that can be changed in there. But that *should* not change just from a patch.

[claudiy0]

There is one thing I forgot to mention: I prefer using the D-dad over the analog stick to avoid shooting of sheres at an unwanted angle.

I just tried using the left analog stick instead and this actually works like a charm!
Therefore, I suspect the issue is limited to players you use the D-pad.

[René - Bippinbits]

With the angle snapping you can also be sure to shoot in cardinal directions with the analog stick. You can crank it up to 90° and then the analog stick only aims in the 4 directions, but a lower value should do too.

[Denny Crane]

I can't shoot my "orbs" while using my keyboard. I've reset to default as advised. I've quadruple checked that I was hitting the correct key on my keyboard ("Q"), still nothing.

[René - Bippinbits]

Originally posted by Denny Crane:

I can't shoot my "orbs" while using my keyboard. I've reset to default as advised. I've quadruple checked that I was hitting the correct key on my keyboard ("Q"), still nothing.

Disable "use mouse for keepers" if you want to play with keyboard only.

[Denny Crane]

Originally posted by René - Bippinbits:

Originally posted by Denny Crane:

I can't shoot my "orbs" while using my keyboard. I've reset to default as advised. I've quadruple checked that I was hitting the correct key on my keyboard ("Q"), still nothing.

Disable "use mouse for keepers" if you want to play with keyboard only.

I did that before I came here initially. It still doesn't work. Thank you for the quick response. Denny Crane.

[René - Bippinbits]

Hm, it does work fine for me, so it's hard finding the cause for this.
Can you confirm that your options.txt contains this bit: ""useMouseKeeperGameplay":false"
The file is in your equivalent of C:\Users\reneh\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Dome Keeper

[Denny Crane]

Originally posted by René - Bippinbits:

Hm, it does work fine for me, so it's hard finding the cause for this.
Can you confirm that your options.txt contains this bit: ""useMouseKeeperGameplay":false"
The file is in your equivalent of C:\Users\reneh\AppData\Roaming\Godot\app_userdata\Dome Keeper

My IT person confirmed "yes." It is contained within the file.

[Ogrest aka the best]

Thank you René !
It works very well and it's better than before.

I use this time to tell you that the game is very good, the music is great and the universe amazing. It reminds me a little bit of this old game "Heart of darkness".

Thank you you and your team !

Work well,
Ogrest

[Denny Crane]

I was able to fix it on my end. I ALSO had to turn off using my computer mouse in the menus. That allows me to launch my orbs again.

[René - Bippinbits]

Originally posted by Ogrest aka the best:

Thank you René !
It works very well and it's better than before.

I use this time to tell you that the game is very good, the music is great and the universe amazing. It reminds me a little bit of this old game "Heart of darkness".

Thank you you and your team !

Work well,
Ogrest

thank you, much appreciated :)
I'm always happy to fix things that are not working, but hearing something positive within the negative posts does feel good :D

Originally posted by Denny Crane:

I was able to fix it on my end. I ALSO had to turn off using my computer mouse in the menus. That allows me to launch my orbs again.

That's interesting! Really strange though, still can't understand why that would be. Mouse should be irrelevant if playing with controllers. Did the key hints always show gamepad icons?
In any case, i'm glad to hear it worked out.

[FruitLord]

I disabled mouse for keeper due to the fact that I couldn't throw balls in a straight line and even when using keyboard it would throw where the mouse icon was.

For the longest time I couldn't trigger orb explosions either. Shoot and gadget keys were not working, turns out it works with the collect key. The game can differentiate between a long press(collect) and a tap(trigger explosion). Hope this helps anyone in a similar situation.

[Denny Crane]

Originally posted by René - Bippinbits:

Originally posted by Ogrest aka the best:

Thank you René !
It works very well and it's better than before.

I use this time to tell you that the game is very good, the music is great and the universe amazing. It reminds me a little bit of this old game "Heart of darkness".

Thank you you and your team !

Work well,
Ogrest

thank you, much appreciated :)
I'm always happy to fix things that are not working, but hearing something positive within the negative posts does feel good :D

Originally posted by Denny Crane:

I was able to fix it on my end. I ALSO had to turn off using my computer mouse in the menus. That allows me to launch my orbs again.

That's interesting! Really strange though, still can't understand why that would be. Mouse should be irrelevant if playing with controllers. Did the key hints always show gamepad icons?
In any case, i'm glad to hear it worked out.

I am not using a "controller." I'm using my keyboard.