PS4 controller issue in Overcooked

[jelinkova.alex]

Hi all,

I'm having an issue playing Overcooked with a PS4 dualshock controller(s). Keyboard works fine.

The issue: I start the game with one controller, which works great in the Big picture menu (and other games). I load Overcooked, press A (X on the controller) to start the Campaign (or any other option in the menu), the option gets selected... and another player (red) gets active - which leads to one controller controlling 2 characters. Pressing B (O on the controller) goes back in the menu and de-activates the red controller.

Same situation with two controllers (second controller is also a PS4 one) - pressing X activates the controller and pressing X for the second one adds another player, so we end up with 4 characters instead of two as we want to.

Controllers are connected wirelessly.

The setting in my steam big picture settings: PS4 configuration support is on (nothing else is selected), steam overlay is off. Everything else is default.

I've found some old threads, however they were either not solved or were using third party options (DS4windows etc) - however I have friends with the same setup (same settings as far as I can tell, same controllers) and they don't have to use any third party software, so I'm a bit lost regarding what's wrong with the setup on my PC.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you :)

[Team17_Assistance]

Greetings,

Sorry to hear that you are having this issue. Let's try the below steps to see if they help:

1. Unplug the controllers
   
2. Launch the Steam client and click the controller icon at the top right to enter Big Picture Mode
   
3. Go to Settings > Controller Settings and make sure that "Playstation/Xbox/Generic Configuration Support" are all toggled on.
   
4. Then simply plug your controller and retest the game

Regards,

Team17 Support

[jelinkova.alex]

Hello,
thank you for getting back to me :)
I have tried out the solution (unpaired the controllers, went to Steam, checked all three options - PS/XBOX/Generic on, repaired controllers - I've also tried to restart Steam/restart PC/reinstall Overcooked afterwards), however still no change - pressing X still confirms the selection in the menu + adds a second player :/
Anything else I could try out?
Thank you.

[Team17_Assistance]

Greetings jelinkova.alex,

Sorry to hear that it did not help - can you confirm if you are connecting with a cable or wireless? If wireless, can you test connected with a cable?

Regards,

Team17 Support

[jelinkova.alex]

Hello,
thank you for getting back to me :¨.
I'm connecting wirelessly, but I've tried switching over to cable - same issue again (so the some trouble both on wireless + wired).

[Team17_Assist]

Hi jelinkova.alex

Thanks for responding, sorry to hear the issue is still ongoing.

You might have the controllers set to run with split input.
This allows two users to play with a single controller.

Please follow the steps below to check:

1. Launch Overcooked
   
2. Open the Options
   
3. Go into the Controller Split Settings
   
4. Move the left analog stick left or right until the controller is a single colour and only has one number above it.

If you're still having problems after this then don't hesitate to come back to us.

Regards,
Team17 Support

[jelinkova.alex]

Hello,
Thank you for the reply :)

I've tried to check the settings, but with one active controller, I'm getting one red and one blue controller (moving the analog stick left changes both the controllers at the same time to split controllers and back).
When I connect the second controller, pressing X activates a 3rd controller and pressing X for the second time activates a 4th controller. So I end up with 4 fully coloured controllers afterwards, each with a single number above.

So it doesn't really seem like a split controller setting - I hope I described it well enough to be understandable :)

[Koght]

Hi, I had the same problem when trying to play as two players, but found a way around, here's how. I did have one not buggy controller though... But here it is anyway.

I have two controllers, and only one had the problem of duplicating players when hitting "A" : when trying to lock the player on this controller, it would lock it but also enable another player. After some testing, I was able to fix it though :

1) Chose the map you want to play on WITH ONLY ONE PLAYER ENABLED, with a "good controller" (works with keyboards).
2) Do not lock your character on the "good controller".
3) With the "bad controller", hit "A" two times, so that you enable AND lock one player and enable but not lock a second one.
4) Then, with the "good controller", hit "Y" to enter commands screen.
5) Here, with the bad controller, hit "B" once so that it removes one of the duplicated players.
6) With the good controller, leave commands screen by hitting "B". You should have two not locked players by that time, each on different controller.
7) With the bad controller, change the appearance oof your character to your liking : THIS IS GOING TO BE YOUR CHARACTER.
8) Then, with the bad controller, hit "A" once so that it locks this character while enabling a new one, unlocked.
9) With the good controller, hit "Y" to reenter commands screen.
10) With the bad controller, hit "B" to remove one player.
11) With the good controller, hit "B" to leave commands screen. At that point you should have one player not locked on the good controller, and one player locked on the bad controller. Just chose appearance for the good controller player, and hit "A" twice on the good controller to launch the game.

WHY IT WORKS : when you delete a duplicated player from the command screen, the game choses automatically the one closest to 1st place. This is why you want to lock the player of the bad controller in the third spot : because when you lock him, you also enable player number 2, which is the one who is deleted when you do it through the command screen. The remaining player for the bad controller is the locked one, so you just have to lock with the good controller to play now.

This worked for me, hope it's useful to other people too. I don't see why it wouldn't work with 3 players, you just need a "good controller" to be able to make this work. The only downside is that you have to do this every time you enter a map, but it can be done quite rapidly after you've done it once. Good luck and have fun !

[matxbb]

For anyone that struggled with possibly related issues, I'll leave this here:

My controllers (Dualshock 4) were not working at all when connecting via Bluetooth (using Steam compatibility mode for the controller). I was, however, running Overcooked 2 as an admin* (in Windows 10). By not starting it as admin, the controllers started to work again normally via Bluetooth, but then other unrelated problems showed up.

--> The solution was to run Steam itself as admin, as well as Overcooked 2. Then, controllers work normally via Bluetooth and I have no other problems.


* This was a workaround (provided by Team17) for problems with creating a crossplay session.

[gtfonas]

Hi, I had the same problem and found a solution, maybe it will help someone.

You need to install a program DS4Windows. When you first open it it will ask to install necessary drivers, do it, especially ViGEmBus.
Then connect both your controllers with cabels to your PC. In DS4Windows you'll see "Controller 1" and "Controller 2". Then go to settings and put a tick next to "Hide DS4 Controller".
To check that all is ok press Win+R and type joy.cpl and there should only be 2 controllers, not more.
Don't close DS4Windows when you launch the game.

That's it, you can play now. The only issue is that you can't play wirelessly I believe. This program helped me with duplicating players and with sticky keys when a bus and a player were going up without pressing anything.