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This is my first experince with using a controller on PC
Assassin's Creed Origins supports the Xbox 360, Xbox One, and Playstation 4 (Dualshock 4) controllers, with proper button prompts for each.
Long answer about controllers on PC:
Pretty much all modern cross-platform titles (except some RTS games, older Bioware games like Dragon Age 2, etc.) support Xbox 360/Xbox One controllers on PC. Windows sees them as functionally identical because they both use the Xinput API. Microsoft deliberately made Xinput easy to use on Windows, so most developers have been including Xinput support in PC games for the last ten years or so.
The Playstation 4 controller is officially support on Windows, in the sense that Windows immediately recognizes it as a device. However, most games do not have native support for it, in the sense that it doesn't Just Work in the game and display the correct button prompts. This is because the PS4 controller uses the older DirectInput API, which is harder to use on PC for developers. So, until the last few years, most people didn't use it. If you see a game that came out between 2006-2014 or so on PC and it's listed as having "full controller support," that usually means that it only supports Xinput controllers.
However, the last few years we have seen some more developers putting effort into including native Playstation 4 controller support into their games, including proper DS4 button prompts. Every Ubisoft game since AC Rogue supports DS4, as well as the Witcher 3, Rocket League, Destiny 2, Wolfenstein 2, and a few others. It's nice to see that support is becoming more common.
For games that support Xinput but don't support the DS4 controller, you can use the Steam PS4 controller configuration option in Big Picture Mode to emulate an Xbox controller with your DS4. That way you can play games that only support Xbox controllers. However, they will show you Xbox prompts, which you'll just have to get used to. That's less good than having native DS4 support, but better than nothing.
Unfortunately, native support for the Dualshock 3 just isn't in the cards for most games right now. It's too old of a controller for developers to bother with.
There's also the Steam controller but that's an entirely different beast.
So basically the TL;DR of all that is that if you want an easy plug-and-play controller for your PC, buy an Xbox 360 or One controller and it will Just Work. If you prefer the Playstation controller layout, a Playstation 4 controller will also Just Work in a few games and will work with some tweaks in any game as long as you can get used to seeing the "wrong" button prompts.
Xbox One controller is what I use for my playthrough and it works great for me!
Full controller support on STEAM means that the game can be booted, played, finished, and exited by using only a controller at all times.
Partial Controller Support on STEAM means that another form of input (VR, Mouse, Keyboard, ect) will be required at least once while booting, playing, and exiting the game.
Neither of the terms actually refer to what controllers are supported by the game.
Additionally you can link just about any controller to Steam and use its controller API software to change the inputs to any other key (including Xinput and Keyboard and mouse inputs)
Thanks for reaching out! I'm really sorry to say, but PS controller is not officially supported, so we cannot guarantee that it will work. Officially supported controllers are Xbox One and Xbox 360. You can find this information {LINK REMOVED}here.
I hope it clarifies the situation and if you have any additional questions, please let us know!
- Ubisoft Support
dev u shd know better instead of promoting microsoft product :/
op u can select DualShock icons no matter what controller u use :D
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198156525668/screenshot/785233007825143939
(that part from Odyssey is same as Origins)
Eh, it's more complicated than that, I've had discussions with some of the Ubisoft employees about this since my last post in this thread.
The DS4 is "supported" in the sense that the game can display PS4 icons and it can detect the controller without requiring a third-party software like Steam or DS4Windows to translate DirectInput to Xinput.
However, Ubisoft does not "officially" claim that the controller is supported because there is no 100% guarantee that it will work. As far as I can tell, the main cause of this issue is that there's no guarantee it will work with the proper icons wirelessly (or at all), and there are also multiple hardware revisions of the DS4 that don't always interact with Windows in quite the same way when you plug them in. I played the game with an "original" DS4 (that shipped with the first iteration of the base PS4 in 2013) and I had no issues at all. However, I've also talked to people that tried to play it with a later iteration of the DS4, specifically the one that shipped with the "quieter" PS4 Pro edition from 2018, and they had trouble getting it to work right without using third-party software.
So, essentially when Ubisoft says it's "unsupported," it's a CYA measure. Even though it will probably work, they can't 100% guarantee it, so they call it "unsupported" so that nobody tries to sue them for false advertising.