Playing the game with a game controller

[holiviabr]

Hi!

I bought a controller to play TW2 with (nintendo switch controller) but this game seems to hate it.

Anyone have any ideas how you can set up this game so it works with a controller on your laptop?

[Thundorz]

I gave up and just played with keyboard and mouse. I strongly prefer to play with controller but this game was not designed with controllers in mind.. that said, I pulled this from another post:

Originally posted by retro_Ed:

YES: There is a way to play this (any) game with controller.

Start Big Picture with controller on. Use keyboard&mouse mode as a base template.

Make and tweak your own settings or use community templates if available.
It may need a little work but it is very much possible.

If you decide to go that route, good luck.

[Maximus]

Umm just came from W3 and never realized that the first title have to play as a MOBA

[holiviabr]

Originally posted by Thundorz:

I gave up and just played with keyboard and mouse. I strongly prefer to play with controller but this game was not designed with controllers in mind.. that said, I pulled this from another post:

Originally posted by retro_Ed:

YES: There is a way to play this (any) game with controller.

Start Big Picture with controller on. Use keyboard&mouse mode as a base template.

Make and tweak your own settings or use community templates if available.
It may need a little work but it is very much possible.

If you decide to go that route, good luck.

Tah thanks for the advice though :) Think I may also give up with the controller and try playing it via the usual keyboard

[bobhome2]

Yeah, the first Witcher does not feel like it was designed for controller. That said, it's fine on the keyboard - nothing particularly challenging in the mapping there.

If you haven't played the "newer" Witchers, those should be fine with controller. I'm playing Witcher 2 now, and have found keyboard OR controller to be just fine.

[raventhehunter]

Witcher can be played with a controller--I'm doing it myself--but it definitely takes some work (still haven't gotten a satisfactory dodge working yet, for instance). Unfortunately, I don't know the particulars of how the NS controller interacts with Steam to offer any useful advice in that regard.

[bobhome2]

Controller type shouldn't matter much, since (often) Steam handles controller support. Though button mappings will change, so it's hard to refer to certain buttons without knowing the controller the player is using.

[holiviabr]

Originally posted by bobhome2:

Yeah, the first Witcher does not feel like it was designed for controller. That said, it's fine on the keyboard - nothing particularly challenging in the mapping there.

If you haven't played the "newer" Witchers, those should be fine with controller. I'm playing Witcher 2 now, and have found keyboard OR controller to be just fine.

I've actually worked my way backwards ironically with The Witcher games so I played TW3 first but on my switch then TW2 on steam with my controller but yes now I see that TW1 doesn't really have anything too challenging the keyboards fine :) I hadn't actually properly started playing the game when I posted this forum chat so hadn't realised how easy it is just to play with a keyboard.

[holiviabr]

Originally posted by bobhome2:

Controller type shouldn't matter much, since (often) Steam handles controller support. Though button mappings will change, so it's hard to refer to certain buttons without knowing the controller the player is using.

Yeh I found this out the hard way, ended up just sticking to the keyboard but changed some of the short cuts to make more 'logical sense'. Least the game isn't as complicated control wise as I thought it might have been :)

[holiviabr]

Originally posted by raventhehunter:

Witcher can be played with a controller--I'm doing it myself--but it definitely takes some work (still haven't gotten a satisfactory dodge working yet, for instance). Unfortunately, I don't know the particulars of how the NS controller interacts with Steam to offer any useful advice in that regard.

That's okay no worries! I ended up realising that the keyboard works just fine anyway for TW1 :)

[Thaxlsyssilyaan]

Originally posted by Maximus:

Umm just came from W3 and never realized that the first title have to play as a MOBA

Actually, there is an option to play with OTS (over the shoulder) camera, it then play like any third person shooter.