When I try to play online, my controller joins as a second player.

[Zuchanka]

Every single time I try to play Gang Beasts with a controller, I click online and it joins it in as Player 2, making my keyboard the Player 1. I play it in Big Picture mode, I have tried unplugging the keyboard all together, and nothing works. I literally can't play the game online with a controller because it puts it in as the second player.

[Darkjanggo]

remap the controls...

[Zuchanka]

Originally posted by Darkjanggo:

remap the controls...

No, its not a problem with the controls, its a problem that the game thinks that I am trying to use the keyboard as my main input, but I am trying to use a controller. So, when I start the game, I click online. Then it already has someone in the game named "Austin", then I click X on my controller to join in, and it says that I am "Austin [1]" as in, the second player. So I want my controller to be "Austin" so I can just use one player

[Phazonar]

The game might think there is a second controller connected. What controller do you use and are you using any program to emulate a 360 controller or anything like that?

[DrSpoof]

Hi!

If you're running through Steam's Big Picture mode, it has a tendency to do some funky things to controllers it thinks games might not recognise. Gang Beasts is usually pretty good at detecting controllers of all persuasions, so this extra funkiness added by Steam messes up how it reads the controller, and the game thinks every controller is duplicated.

What type of controller are you trying to use?

Does it work fine in local games?

(Ignore this if you're using a Playstation controller:) Have you tried toggling 'Enable XInput' setting in Settings -> Input?

Does it still do this if you run the game without Big Picture mode?

You have two options for an immediate solution:

1) Force re-bind the controller to player 1. This will make sure that the second 'phantom' controller is piped to the first player. You might have issues with double input though, because the first, actual, controller might still be bound.

2) Go to Online, add the second player with your controller, then remove the first player with the keyboard controls (duck [Left Ctrl] should remove an unreadied player). The second player should then become the first player (it's name should change from Austin [1] to Austin).

Thanks!

[L.A.Crasher]

I have the exact same issue with the steam deck and 8bitdo pro controllers. It worked for ages and then suddenly, phantom players. I have not changed a single setting and the steam deck clearly says that only two controllers are connected. However the game registers 4 and so I am forced to play with 4 players. While this sounds fun and indeed is fun, online lobbies seem to hate it. And so does my nephew who is basically the only person wanting to play this game with me.
As it stands, this issue makes the game unplayable and I cannot understand why this is the case.

I tried everything. Veryfying the game files, deleting and re-downloading with cache clearing and making sure that it registry file whatsoever is left behind. I also tried a USB keyboard and it is also registered twice. Even the steam deck as a controller itself is registered twice. I also tried rebinding and resetting the controls as well as using different community layouts, firmware upgrading my controllers and so on.

It must a game issue, however really lated to steam.

I was unable to reproduce this issue on another machine. My desktop pc registers the controllers fine. It is just the steam deck that doesn't.

[nepalninja1]

I have had this problem before and mine was an easy fix. when you load the game and it says to press any key to continue press "x" on your controller before pressing any keys. this fixed my problem and hopefully yours will be fixed too.