Controller Support?

[keithowalshe]

Did the game ever get controller support? The devs were talking about it back in September. Did it ever happen?

[ihavenoname]

No, also why would you want to play this game with a controller ?

[Blauwy]

Originally posted by ihavenoname:

No, also why would you want to play this game with a controller ?

Why is that an odd request? Its not fast paced, online FPS but a story telling solo campaign. Why is it frowned upon to play with a controller in a relaxing "walking simulator" ?

[ihavenoname]

Originally posted by Blauwy:

Originally posted by ihavenoname:

No, also why would you want to play this game with a controller ?

Why is that an odd request? Its not fast paced, online FPS but a story telling solo campaign. Why is it frowned upon to play with a controller in a relaxing "walking simulator" ?

Typing, lots and lots of typing is required. And controllers arent made for typing.

[Blauwy]

Originally posted by ihavenoname:

Originally posted by Blauwy:

Why is that an odd request? Its not fast paced, online FPS but a story telling solo campaign. Why is it frowned upon to play with a controller in a relaxing "walking simulator" ?

Typing, lots and lots of typing is required. And controllers arent made for typing.

Huh. Thats why it took me so long to type this.
Well you live and you learn.

[draeath]

The game defaults to left click to walk forward right click to walk backwards. I wouldn't think it absurd to support a gamepad as well. You can always put it down to type.

[TheSecondEnd]

Originally posted by draeath:

The game defaults to left click to walk forward right click to walk backwards. I wouldn't think it absurd to support a gamepad as well. You can always put it down to type.

so whats the point in having it then?

[Challak]

If you don't get it yet, chances are you never will.

That's not meant to be an insult, it's just I've always found that trying to describe a preference to others, what personally "feels better", rarely works to change minds. The most we can hope for is, "I prefer it" and then hope others understand that what they too prefer really is just a subjective truth.

I prefer controllers. I can relate.

[mluthanen]

Has anyone tried brute forcing gamepad inputs? The Steam contoller customization is pretty robust. I only ask because I just bought this and expect to spend the first two or three hours trying to get it to work with a controller and am hoping someone already did the legwork. My computer is plugged into my television and I play everything with a controller. I don't mind setting it down to type, but I'd rather not have to use a keyboard and mouse to control a game.

I tried that when I played Fortnight (Fortnite?) with my little cousins and it's unbearable to control a game that way, though I am aware that there is a segment of the gaming population made up of people who prefer that.

EDIT: I created a new thread with about this same message. I'd delete this, but since the participants of this thread are already known to be familiar with this matter, I figure it might get results faster than the blind post.

[mluthanen]

I created a public controller configuration for anyone who wants to play this with a gamepad.

steam://controllerconfig/470260/1598653187

I do not know how to use that link, but the config is called "Event(0) Controller configuration" if there is some way to search public configurations.

EDIT: Oh, it appears right away when viewing Community configs for this game:
Big Picture Mode/Library/Event(0)/Manage Game/Configure Controller/Browse Configs/Community

The description input field is extremely limited, so I'll describe it here:


This is pretty okay, but certainly inferior to the feel of games that have native controller support. Look control feels pretty good, but character movement is halting since the inputs are merely keypresses mapped to a thumbstick and you're either walking full speed or not walking at all.

Also, I am left-handed, so if you want to use it right-handed, you can copy the settings from the left stick to the right and right to left.

There are two in-game control settings I changed to make this feel right:

- Set player control to Keyboard
- Set mouse sensitivity to 1.5

Left stick: look with iverted Y
Right stick: movement
B/Start: Esc (pause)
A: Enter
LT/LB/L3: Left Mouse click
RT/RB/R3: Right Mouse click
D-Pad: Up, Down, Left, Right arrow keys

[legrinch19]

if the game is on steam deck, can we use controller on PC now ?