Controller Support

[spartanberdi]

When we will get actual controller support?
Currently can’t use the bumpers to consume patches nor use grenades. Exiting the inventory makes you crouch. Can’t lean. No toggle sprint. Managing inventory takes and eternity, same as recycling, and doing puzzles.
Please we need some love.

[Seamus]

To be fair on one of those points, keyboard doesn't have toggle sprint either. And I can kinda understand why with the turbo boots.

The rest would be nice if they could do something about though. That and fixing cloud saves are why I've been waiting on playing on my steamdeck at all.

[Ricky Icky]

I have 50 hours with an xbox controller, never played without it....i've had no issues other than the inventory awkwardness and ive never had the ability to lean so i guess i dont miss it...
But, yeah some love would be nice. Kinda dissapointed it wasn't released with full controller support.

[erkman24]

Yeah something isn´t right with the controller i miss the support and the possibility to use an PS4/5 Controller.

[tenkday]

I would be grateful if this had full controller support

[QuesoBlanco]

Hey don't forget you cant scroll through text/ logs. Just started playing and already pissed theres no way to read logs unless i use my mouse scroll wheel

[cecoates]

I'm happy to have any controller support at all, but I agree it could use some tweaks/improvements.

FWIW you can lean, it's just kind of odd.

First, you need to aim down sights (left trigger). Then, you have to click in the left analog stick, after which you can use the left analog stick to lean side to side.

It's much more awkward to use than just having lean buttons like kbm controls do. And sometimes it just doesn't work and I have to "un-aim down sights" and re-aim down sights again to get it working properly. But it does work, and I tend to use it on enemies with repetitive firing patterns like the floating robots.

It can also be a pain to properly line yourself up to peak around a wall. I kind of aim down sights at the corner of a wall, without fully moving around it, but there's a learning curve for specifically how close you want to get to the edge so you'll still be protected when the enemy fires back.

Originally posted by Seamus:

To be fair on one of those points, keyboard doesn't have toggle sprint either. And I can kinda understand why with the turbo boots.

The rest would be nice if they could do something about though. That and fixing cloud saves are why I've been waiting on playing on my steamdeck at all.

The Steam Deck actually makes managing the inventory much easier. You can use the touchpads for mouse movement on logs/menus/inventory/recycling. I have the touchpad clicks set as left-click/right-click, and it works well.

You can also bind the extra buttons on the back to keyboard shortcuts. I have my Deck's back buttons programmed to toggle on the flashlight/shield/bioshield/jump boots.

Still can sympathize with the OP's complaints, but on a Steam Deck this plays great.

[Billy Blaze]

Yeah... I've tried the demo with a controller right now since I wanna get the game on PS5... noticed there isn't an option to toggle sprint and instantly uninstalled.

[RIVET]

Controller just broken. Tried to play with 8bitdo Ultimate Bluetooth in Switch Mode, remapped most of buttons, but when i open menu most of binds just closing menus. Terrible support, i don't know how they release game to consoles, if controller support is so bad

[BiskutMentega]

Still no toggle run. Feels like the controller support is mostly remapped keyboard input instead of, you know, actual controller support that was developed for the game.

It's better than compared to before the patch.

[Leafleap]

So the bumpers still do nothing? Supposedly they are use explosive and use consumable, but they do nothing.
Try to rebind them to something else and they just default back to RB/LB.
No holster bind for gamepad, no bindable flashlight or shield for gamepad. I guess the idea is that you should cycle through the hardware options and then engage them as there is a cycle hardware bindable key, but it does nothing and the use hardware button is by default the same button as use explosive.
Why is the controller support so halfhearted? Will the console versions launch in this state too?

[RIVET]

I mean yeah, they not even ruined all features with half-baked realisation, but literally don't know how to do games. God created weapon and item wheels - do it in your game, nooo we make some ♥♥♥♥♥♥ hotbar that you must scroll.

[Rayven]

Game has been out for almost a year now...people have been complaining about the lackluster controller support for almost a year now.
Don't really get the approach of implementing controller support at all if you're not going to include core feature like a toggle for sprinting...the bumpers not working at all makes this one of the worst games that actually supports controllers in the first place...

And the best thing is this has been announced to get a console port from day 1 basically...You guys do know that games are played with a controller on that system, right?

Well just add a female protagonist that doesn't change anything in the game instead I guess...development time well spent!

I really was looking forward to this and checked in regularly if the devs acknoledge that some of us just want to chill on the couch playing a game not being bound to M+K...guess we have to wait for modders to actually implement full controller support instead.