Using PS3 or XBox controller - read this

[JustUrAvgGamer]

Right, I "THINK" I may have an idea why so many people are seeing poor performance/black screening and cut scenes not working and the game not progressing during certain missions.

Up until last night I was using my PS3 controller plugged in via USB like I've always done for loads of games I play on my pc... Then I read you can actually use the built in bluetooth on the PS3 controller to play games wirelessly on pc by using motion joy (DS3 tool) it was a bit of a bugger to set up - had to manually add the hardware ids of my laptops internal bluetooth controller to a xml file in the install dir of motion joy (there's a vid on youtube for anyone interested) but once you get it working its well worth it as I can now hook my laptop up to my TV and sit back on my couch without a massive usb extension cable dragging on the floor tripping my mrs up every time she gets up lol So I play a few hours of FC4 last night and I'm happy to report performance was vastly improved - I don't know for sure if it was the fact that I no longer had my USB controller plugged in and if its some weird driver issue causing the slow down but using it with bluetooth seemed to speed things right up! I cranked everything to ultra and went about my business - GREAT! Hang on! there's STILL bugs in this game - even with a bluetooth controller - Has anyone else had problems with the game progressing with missions and cut scenes? EG I complete a mission and I'm supposed to get a phone call from someone right? Well I don't get the phone call until I press CTRL+ALT+DEL to come out of the game then I just press cancel and go straight back in and the game loads the phone call! It's so strange! Any ideas?

[Pork Justice]

That's because... to put it bluntly... it's f*****d.

It's currently not possible to play with a controller on some setups without it scripting errors that you are seeing.

[M1917Enfield]

Wait im going to buy this game and I played FC3 entirely with a 360 controller. So using a controller in FC4 makes the game broken?

[FTL_FAM]

OP, you might want to have a look for "Better DS3".

This version doesn't phone home to China and send God knows what back to whomever. That's why BDS3 was developed based on the core from the original.

Also, I use a wired XB1 controller on Windows 8.1, and I have no problems with the game in the sense all the cutscenes and scripted in-game events happen as they are supposed to. I read that there may be instances where the controller prevents scripts from running, but I have not encountered that, luckily.

[Secret]

Originally posted by Pvt Kia:

Wait im going to buy this game and I played FC3 entirely with a 360 controller. So using a controller in FC4 makes the game broken?

HELL NO! Thousands of us played through the game using controllers without a single issue.

[Pork Justice]

Originally posted by Pvt Kia:

Wait im going to buy this game and I played FC3 entirely with a 360 controller. So using a controller in FC4 makes the game broken?

It is broken for a good few of us, you take your chances really, nobody can say if it will work or not - could be dependent on what version of Windows/If you have a fake dongle ect...

[JustUrAvgGamer]

Originally posted by JConnor:

OP, you might want to have a look for "Better DS3".

This version doesn't phone home to China and send God knows what back to whomever. That's why BDS3 was developed based on the core from the original.

Also, I use a wired XB1 controller on Windows 8.1, and I have no problems with the game in the sense all the cutscenes and scripted in-game events happen as they are supposed to. I read that there may be instances where the controller prevents scripts from running, but I have not encountered that, luckily.

Thanks for that - I do hate it when Motion joy launches its web page as soon as you load it but there are not many decent controller configurators out there and this one works very well but will use better ds3 from now on!

As for the game being "broken" when using a controller I would say its not completely broken as you can progress if you come out of the game and go back in well it works for me any way - I think Ubi just need to concentrate on getting all the bugs out then it will be an awesome game!

Has anyone had any progression issues with just using keyboard & mouse?