cant properly control character !!!!!FIXED!!!!! (Manually: see EDIT below)

[Sheakiru]

using a controller
guy keeps hobbling off in random directions, often directly into mobs....
or just stops moving randomly

EDIT: i posted this over a year ago. and seeing how its been blowing over the last week i took it upon myself to fiddle with steam input customization for a few hours...

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AND THE SOLUTION IS (so stupid.... so very stupid)
open steam controller settings
edit controls
change left analog stick behavior to D-PAD
manually input D-PAD directions
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thats it....... that is... literally it.... now just back out... launch the game... and make sure you press controller buttons while its loading so it recognizes it and have fun slaughtering stuff

[Draconic Creature]

When the dev reads this, if it's any help, I have this problem too and it feels like it happens whenever a lot of effects happen at once, like hitting a bunch of enemies at once or the like.
Could be tied to performance too, perhaps.

[dan.procaccini]

Same, unplayable.

[paulxanders]

Yeah. I'm about to return this game because of this problem. Game NEEDS working controller support- the keyboard controls are too awkward.

[NhatCuong]

It works smooth with my PS4 Dualshock

[jbsales]

I've had this issue with a controller that had some drift (old Xbox wired controller). When I changed to a new Xbox One wireless controller it worked very nicely. Maybe the devs can try to add some sort of software filter with the controller inputs to avoid the effect of drift (if it does not impact the game performance, of course)

[Flannel Bear Games]

We are adjusting the sensitivity of the controller sticks to reduce the problems caused by controller drift on this case and we are introducing a setting that players can adjust the deadzone of their controllers in order to accommodate different levels of drifting they might have.

[deaderthanyou]

Originally posted by Flannel Bear Games:

We are adjusting the sensitivity of the controller sticks to reduce the problems caused by controller drift on this case and we are introducing a setting that players can adjust the deadzone of their controllers in order to accommodate different levels of drifting they might have.

You shouldn't have to go through with all of this as its a built in feature of steam. Every other game I play with the controller uses my steam settings to avoid controller drift but your game doesn't seem to work with it. It must be some sort of feature you enable on your end in the gamepad profile settings.

[Flannel Bear Games]

Originally posted by deaderthanyou:

Originally posted by Flannel Bear Games:

We are adjusting the sensitivity of the controller sticks to reduce the problems caused by controller drift on this case and we are introducing a setting that players can adjust the deadzone of their controllers in order to accommodate different levels of drifting they might have.

You shouldn't have to go through with all of this as its a built in feature of steam. Every other game I play with the controller uses my steam settings to avoid controller drift but your game doesn't seem to work with it. It must be some sort of feature you enable on your end in the gamepad profile settings.

Thanks for the information on this! Maybe there is something we can enable with Steam to have that feature. Going to do some research on this then.

[Draconic Creature]

Originally posted by Flannel Bear Games:

We are adjusting the sensitivity of the controller sticks to reduce the problems caused by controller drift on this case and we are introducing a setting that players can adjust the deadzone of their controllers in order to accommodate different levels of drifting they might have.

Deadzones unfortunately have nothing to do with the control issues that a lot of people have though. It's the sort where directional input gets 'stuck' repeating for a moment or two, meaning that you can point the stick in the complete opposite direction of where your character goes.

I feel like this may have something to do with the game's performance, as it does feel rather... variable, with the framerate.

[Hammy]

Along with those issues, I'm also getting pretty significant input lag. It's not severe, but in a reverse bullet hell game, even a little input lag is a game killer.

[BtJ]

A deadzone-related issue: The deadzone setting is also affecting keyboard controls for some reason. I cranked it up to full testing something while playing with keyboard (rebound to ESDF movement if it matters for reproducing the bug), and found that it would only react to one direction at a time. Diagonal movement was impossible; changing direction required coming to a full stop and then pressing the next direction.

Nearly impossible to play that way, of course. Probably not intended behavior for keyboard players!

[Moon Rabbit]

Yeah I noticed this too. Most of my deaths are from this weird movement issue. It's like lag. I'll dodge in a random direction or just won't change directions right away. I'll drift into enemies. It makes the game extremely difficult and frustrating. It's kind of like being on ice momentarily. 90% of the time I'm fine and then one or two movements and I'm out of control for a second or two. Luckily is the only bad thing I have to say about this game. Everything else is fantastic.

[Zombie]

The game feels unplayable to me with a controller. It seems to commit to a single direction of movement. If I move left, the character will move left. If I suddenly need to change direction, they will continue going left for awhile until changing to the direction I was trying to change to. This can lead to very confusing situations when you need to change directions multiple times.

You can't even move diagonally unless you come to a complete stop and initiate movement diagonally.

I'll keep the game because it was at a nice price, but I can't really play it unless this gets changed or fixed, it makes playing not fun at all.

[Flannel Bear Games]

Please disable the Steam Controller API on the the Steam.

We already changed the settings so Steam won't use the controller API on the game anymore, but users can still add the controller API themselves. So make sure you are not using the Steam Controller API. (Specially on Steam Deck, as even disabling it from Steam, the Deck still forces the input API)

[Moon Rabbit]

Originally posted by Flannel Bear Games:

Please disable the Steam Controller API on the the Steam.

We already changed the settings so Steam won't use the controller API on the game anymore, but users can still add the controller API themselves. So make sure you are not using the Steam Controller API. (Specially on Steam Deck, as even disabling it from Steam, the Deck still forces the input API)

Sadly, this did not seem to help.