Button Icons appearing as numbers; Camera aiming upwards

[Rabbin8ter]

Hey all, I'm having control issues with both God Eater Resurrection and God Eater Burst 2.

I just bought the game and went to play God Eater Resurrection with an Xbox 360 Controller. Everything worked fine, except the button icons appeared as numbers, and every time I pushed and held a button on the controller, all the icons would change to Xbox 360 controller button icons. Once I let go, the icons went back to the numbered ones.

This didn't seem too bad at first when I went in-game, did the character creator and walked around the hub talking to people without issues, though the numbers were still there whenever I wasn't touching the controls.

It's when I got into the tutorial missions when the big issue started up. Once the mission started, the camera immediately started looking upward. I could move the camera with the right stick and D-Pad, but as soon as I let go, the camera went up again. I did get the camera into a spot where it wasn't panning up, but it's such an awkward downward angle that I can't see anything in front of me. I move the camera to see properly, and the camera turns upward again.

So I suspect the reason this is happening is related to the button icons showing up as numbers. I tried playing with Keyboard and Mouse, and the Mouse doesn't show up on the screen unless I'm holding a Key on the Keyboard. I let go, the Mouse on the screen vanishes. And again, the camera constantly aims up, and I can't move the mouse for the camera unless I'm holding a key.

I also tried with a Dualshock 4 Controller with and without using an external program called DS4Windows, and the problem persisted. Well, the controller doesn't work at all when I don't have DS4Windows turned on, and when I do have it on, it has the same issues as the 360 Controller and regular Keyboard + Mouse controls.

I tried running God Eater Burst 2, and the issue persists with all the controller methods. I looked it up on Google and these Steam Discussion posts to see if someone else ran into this problem, and I haven't found anything at all. Seems I'm the only one to have this problem?

My brother also bought the game, and he did not run into the issue I'm having at all. He just booted it up (after fixing an issue with the screen being black, something that didn't happen to me) and played without flaw using an Xbox One Controller. The Mouse and Keyboard controls also worked fine.

I did find a method to play the game without the camera issue and the buttons showing properly, sorta. If I hold the Left Bumper Button on the Xbox 360 controller the entire time I'm playing, all the button icons will appear correctly and the camera will stop moving up on it's own, and I can move it freely with the right stick and D-Pad. Of course this means I'd have to hold the Left Bumper the entire time playing, or at least during missions, which sounds like it'd be uncomfortable after a while. Also, the camera will automatically lock onto every Aragami that comes within range, which stops my free camera movement until I can kill all the Aragami in range.

I don't know why I'm the only one having this issue, but if anyone has any advice or suggestions, please let me know. I think it might have something to do with drivers, but I don't know where to even begin with that.

[Doresh]

I think there could be a problem with the mouse. The UI switches to number and letter icons if the game registers input from either the keyboard or mouse (including mouse movement). This could also explain why the camera is going crazy.

A quick way to check this theory is to unplug the mouse while playing.

[Rabbin8ter]

Originally posted by Doresh:

I think there could be a problem with the mouse. The UI switches to number and letter icons if the game registers input from either the keyboard or mouse (including mouse movement). This could also explain why the camera is going crazy.

A quick way to check this theory is to unplug the mouse while playing.

I tried that, but it kept changing to those number icons anyway. The icons are different from the keyboard icons, since they're just circles with numbers in them. I did find the solution to the problem just now, though!

Those icons were listed in the Controller Settings under something called vJoy Device, which the game kept defaulting to for some reason. I looked it up and it's some kind of driver that lets you play with controllers not natively supported by PC I think. I guess it came preinstalled on my computer? I don't think I need it since the Xbox 360 Controller is natively supported by Windows, so I uninstalled vJoy Device and sure enough, God Eater's controls started working! No more camera aiming up or button icons switching, so it was vJoy Device that was acting up. The mouse icon still flickers for some reason, but it functions correctly.

Not sure why only God Eater of all my games was having issues with vJoy Device, but hopefully I didn't need it for anything.

[Doresh]

Oh right, I forgot number icons are often used as generic gamepad buttons. Glad the mouse is fine XD

I guess it's just the way the game scans for input devices.

[parmalatu joe]

i play on playstation 2 gamepad with x360ce. game see it as x360 gamepad.

[Doresh]

Well, as long as it works and its not expecting an actual XInput device... XD