Controller Support Issue

[thaumaturge]

This game says it has full controller support on the store page, but while a Playstation controller DOES work, FULL support would, by definition, include SHOWING YOU THE CORRECT BUTTONS for your controller. Do you know how confusing it is to have to figure out in the heat of a battle that X actually means Square, and that there IS NO Y Button???

This makes the game virtually unplayable with controller unless you use an X-box controller. Which is NOT "Full support". Playing with mouse and keyboard sucks but it is the only way I can play unless this is fixed.

[Losername]

My PS5 controller works perfectly in-game and shows the correct graphics as well. Can I get more info about your setup please?

[thaumaturge]

Originally posted by Losername:

My PS5 controller works perfectly in-game and shows the correct graphics as well. Can I get more info about your setup please?

What do you need to know. I'm on a Windows 11 HP Laptop, with a PS4 controller. What else do you need to know?

[Losername]

The game should support PS3/PS4/PS5 controllers equally, but I admit I haven't tried playing with a PS4 controller because I don't have one. I'm pretty sure one of us on the team does, I'll ask him to try it and see what happens.

[thaumaturge]

Originally posted by Losername:

The game should support PS3/PS4/PS5 controllers equally, but I admit I haven't tried playing with a PS4 controller because I don't have one. I'm pretty sure one of us on the team does, I'll ask him to try it and see what happens.

Sorry this is just like the 4th game I've had issues where it says full controller support but my controller doesn't work, and it's too late to refund it. I've tried multiple controllers, and I've tried the controllers on other games. I have no issues using my PS4 controller on about a dozen other games, and it technically DOES work with this one too, but not displaying the correct buttons has gotten me killed far too many times for the game to be fun.

[Losername]

If you've had this problem with 3 other games it's very likely that the problem lies with your controller, not with the game. We explicitly map playstation controller graphics when the user has a PS3, PS4 or PS5 controller so I suggest trying another one if you can.

[WALL OF JUSTICE]

A workaround is also use the command /forceglyphs 0 to manually assign PS glyphs

[Losername]

Great point, thanks for the suggestion!

[thaumaturge]

Originally posted by Losername:

If you've had this problem with 3 other games it's very likely that the problem lies with your controller, not with the game. We explicitly map playstation controller graphics when the user has a PS3, PS4 or PS5 controller so I suggest trying another one if you can.

No you misunderstand. I've had this issue with 3 other games, but in all of those games it turned out the game itself only supported x-box controllers, or only PS5 but not PS4 ones, even though it said full support on the steam page. So false advertising basically, and I assumed that was happening again here when it wouldn't work correctly.

Anyway, I have 10 or so games I'm actively playing now where my controller DOES work. So it is NOT the controller, or those games wouldn't work. And I have tried 3 different Ps4 controllers, and NONE of them are changing the button maps.

[thaumaturge]

Originally posted by WALL OF JUSTICE:

A workaround is also use the command /forceglyphs 0 to manually assign PS glyphs

I will see if I can figure this out

[Losername]

Sorry for the misunderstanding!

[Damien Scott]

I'm on an XBox One controller and can't for the life of me get the game to change from Keyboard and Mouse to Controller settings. my controller semi works, like it used to where right stick moves the pointer and right trigger is confirm. No new controller UI in game either, just the 1-0 hotbar. the controller also works about as well as it did before while in game, can punch and move around but functionality is still quite lacking.

i've tried restarting the game and my controller, starting the game with the controller on, nothing i do allows me to change to controller within the menu.

Any ideas?

[WALL OF JUSTICE]

Originally posted by Damien Scott:

I'm on an XBox One controller and can't for the life of me get the game to change from Keyboard and Mouse to Controller settings. my controller semi works, like it used to where right stick moves the pointer and right trigger is confirm. No new controller UI in game either, just the 1-0 hotbar. the controller also works about as well as it did before while in game, can punch and move around but functionality is still quite lacking.

i've tried restarting the game and my controller, starting the game with the controller on, nothing i do allows me to change to controller within the menu.

Any ideas?

Hi, check steam controller settings and set the controller profile to "gamepad" or default, sounds like it's using a mouse input profile or our old outdated official config

[Damien Scott]

Originally posted by WALL OF JUSTICE:

Hi, check steam controller settings and set the controller profile to "gamepad" or default, sounds like it's using a mouse input profile or our old outdated official config

Thanks for the quick response. i poked around with the controller settings a bit but just uninstalled and then deleted the Barony folder completely to get rid of the old settings.

Reinstalled and it seems to be working like a charm. Thanks for the suggestions, it's looking CLEAN!

also, i love the exit game messages, reminds me of Dungeons of Dredmor's "The Diggles Need You!"

[Losername]

On the original topic, my colleague mistersneak tested his PS4 controller and found he only got Xbox glyphs as well. So we can confirm the problem exists on our end. On the same note however, we rely on SDL to detect the controller type for us, and it is supposed to be able to detect not only if a controller PlayStation type, but specifically whether it's a PS3, PS4, or PS5 controller. So the fact that it's not working is unfortunate, and we would need to rely on a different API to get info about connected controllers. Which would be a non-trivial amount of work, I'm sad to say. So for now, in regard to PS4 controller support, the suggested workaround is the best we can do:

/forceglyphs 0

That will force all controller graphics to use PlayStation style graphics/glyphs instead of xbox. You can also use /forceglyphs 1 to enforce Nintendo style glyphs, /forceglyphs 2 to enforce xbox (for whatever reason) or /forceglyphs 3 to use steamdeck glyphs. Hope this helps someone.

[thaumaturge]

Thank you, all! This helped.