Controller/Keyboard Issues

[Melionyo]

Never had this before, but I cant play single player with a controller, it forces me to add a second player as the controller. Played the game 20 hrs ago and it was fine.

[AfoHT]

Same here. Running latest beta of Steam client using Steam Controller on Linux.

If Steam Overlay is disabled then it is possible to map the controller manually.

[Nathanle]

I have this same issue, not in steam beta afaik. game is now unplayable because im not player one

cant navigate menus with mouse/keyboard either, its stuck on controller controls

[GodEmperorDoge]

Same issue here. Can you guys please say what controller you are using. I honestly can't blame them for this issue for my controller. It's a crappy controller. It's a generic chinese rip off of the xbox controller. DragonRise Inc. PC TWIN SHOCK Gamepad

[GodEmperorDoge]

Is there really no solution to this yet?

[Melionyo]

I think my origional problem was simpler as I restarted my PC and it was fine, although at the time why that worked made no sense to me.

[joaojotta]

Same thing here.
(not the restart fix, I mean the bug)

This might help developers fix the issus:
I someteimes use a little amazing software called AntiMicro (it's a free controller key mapper for those games that don't support controllers) and when I turn it on the system detects a Sony Duakshock 4 (1) AND a Steam Controller (2). I think that's what's confusing the system. It's emulating the first Dualshock as a Steam Controller and then the games uses it as Player 2.

[Nathanle]

restart fixed it for me. i was using steam controller + xbox controller and neither one would be player one, there was some imaginary controller that didnt exist and had control of player one and the menus

[joaojotta]

Originally posted by Nathanle:

restart fixed it for me. i was using steam controller + xbox controller and neither one would be player one, there was some imaginary controller that didnt exist and had control of player one and the menus

Well, I've restarted a bunch of times and that's not even an issue most of the time (by my experience with Linux so far).

I only have one remote and, as I said, the system is creating a Steam Controler as a virtual device emulating the DS4.
Or so I believe that's how it's behaving as I never had a Steam Controller in this machi (or any other).

[TrackMan]

I have a logitech dual action and while the controller works perfectly fine under big picture mode, on the game I can only use it as second player, This is using Linux, controller works perfectly fine, the only issue is not been able to use it as First Player and forced to use mouse/keyboard.

[joaojotta]

Originally posted by TrackMan:

I have a logitech dual action and while the controller works perfectly fine under big picture mode, on the game I can only use it as second player, This is using Linux, controller works perfectly fine, the only issue is not been able to use it as First Player and forced to use mouse/keyboard.

What distro are you using?

[TrackMan]

I'm using ArchLinux

[TrackMan]

Originally posted by joaojotta:

Originally posted by TrackMan:

I have a logitech dual action and while the controller works perfectly fine under big picture mode, on the game I can only use it as second player, This is using Linux, controller works perfectly fine, the only issue is not been able to use it as First Player and forced to use mouse/keyboard.

What distro are you using?

I tested with the antimicro application that you mentioned in another thread and maybe what you are saying is true, it seems that steam creates some virtual gamepads in order to be able to do the custom mapping it does for each game, but this gamepads are detected in rocket league as secondary controllers, I have 2 controllers connected (Logitech Dual Action) see this:

ls /dev/input/js*
/dev/input/js0 /dev/input/js1 /dev/input/js2 /dev/input/js3

And antimicro shows this https://ibb.co/eADPYQ

I did a cat for each /dev/input/js like:
cat /dev/input/js0

And only js0 and js1 returned output when pressing the controller buttons so it seems js2 and js3 are the devices created by the steam application.

Also on rocket league one of the controllers is detected as player 4 so it really makes sense that there is a issue in the game picking up the proper order of controllers due to the additional devices created by steam for the "Steam Controller" features to work.

[joaojotta]

I think that's your problem (Arch).
I don't know if something in the kernel or some package that Arch uses (the version, I mean) is messing things up.
I've tried several installations and they all had this issue. Then I went back and tried installing Mint and Solus and they both worked fine. Now I have two drives and I just boot into Solus when I want to play Rocket League.

Do you use the LTS kernel or the latest?

[TrackMan]

Searching on the web https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/5mg0jw/a_script_to_work_around_the_player_2_game/dc58mxh/ I found that it is possible to switch the order of controllers for SDL applications by using a environment variable named SDL_JOYTSTICK_DEVICE, which can be set on the game launch options. So if you only have 1 controller connected it should look as follows:

SDL_JOYSTICK_DEVICE=/dev/input/js1:/dev/input/js0 %command%

Where js1 is the steam virtual device and js0 is the actual raw controller. Now, I haven't tested this... I'm going to try to see if it works xD

[joaojotta]

PLEASE!!!
And, also, please feedback if it works (my kid is playing right now...).