I cant play with my ps4 controller

[Mary Propane]

I cant play with my ps4 controller

[Zekiran]

Then play with a keyboard and mouse, like this PC game is intended.

[Mary Propane]

OMG REALLY ??????

[Knight_of_Gallifrey]

Don't know if it will help at all but having the official program too connect your PS4 with your computer installed may help. At least I was able too use my PS4 controller for some games after installing it. No real guarantee sadly.

[Boboscus]

Downgrading I see.

[Cyber Diver]

Originally posted by Lanqiu:

I cant play with my ps4 controller

If you wanna play most of the games on Windows using a controller, just use an Xbox controller since it works with most of the games on Windows.
EDIT: There should be some programs online that can let you play using the PS4 controller.

[SCIM]

Try using big picture mode and enable ps4 controller support. Anything made to work with an xbox controller will work with a ps4 controller. Actually if you play with the settings enough you can technically get any game to work.

Also on a side note aren't stealth games made for gamepads? How are you supposed to precicely control your movement speed with a keyboard? You'd always move at full speed and make too much noise I would imagine. Either way I've played all the Dishonored games with a gamepad on the hardest difficulty so far and I never had any trouble sneaking around so I can say that it's not a bad way to control these games.

[Boboscus]

Originally posted by Chosen "SCiM" 41:

Also on a side note aren't stealth games made for gamepads? How are you supposed to precicely control your movement speed with a keyboard? You'd always move at full speed and make too much noise I would imagine.

That's why all the stealth games that don't muffle your sounds completely while crouched have another key that will slow your movement to the point where you make no sounds. Dishonored does not need that as you move completely silently when crouched.

[SCIM]

That makes sense but I don't see how others can say that this means that the keyboard and mouse is the intended way to play over a gamepad and that the gamepad is a downgrade. Seems like either way works out just fine. These seem like very strange statements that these other people have made for this game. Their comments would make more sense for like an RTS game or something like that.

[Zekiran]

Having only ever watched people play with any controller: this game is intended for k/m.

[SCIM]

How so? This isn't some kind of complex sim game with a thousand different commands. I just don't see what you would get out of a mouse and keyboard that you can't get from a gamepad with a game that has very simplistic controls.

Heck apparently you can't even walk slowly standing up with the keyboard and are forced to crouch if you want to move slow so it seems that the keyboard controls is lacking in functionality if I am to understand here. Nothing game breaking sure but I can imagine that being immersion breaking at the very least.

Also what, do you often invite people over to your place and hand them a gamepad and then ask to them to play this game and observe their hands as they play or something? What do you mean you've watched people with a controller?

[Zekiran]

My housemates play with controllers on a variety of games that I have played on PC.

The aiming and movement on a controller is... I mean I am literally SCREAMING at them (... sometimes in my head, sometimes with my voice) to look around, move around, just to see the things they very clearly are missing by virtue of the lack of responsiveness of the controller.

Maybe they're all absolute garbage players? Maybe not - because most of the online videos I've seen of console-playing games I play with k/m also have the same woeful lack of flexibility and responsiveness to the environment. It might just be a learned thing, but honestly the freedom of movement when using a mouse to view and aim rather than either a stick or a pad based anything... it just feels so much more restricted when i watch. Like they *refuse* to look up, or scroll past something obvious, or 'aim' at something and ... just... don't have the cursor where it needs to be because it doesn't have enough fine motion control?

It's possible that all the people I've ever seen playing the game either live or online, have just *been crap*.

But I'm talking about Outside Xbox and other such videos - they're *abysmal* at it, and it's every game. Portal. Anything with what would be a remarkably smooth mouselook and aim, winds up being 'overshot by half an inch every time you move', that kind of thing.

The "only running or crouching" thing I have no idea why that's a thing for some people to bicker about. Never once bothered me at all. Do I notice it? .... no? Like, not at all? There've been several threads about that, I just don't even comprehend how that's a gamebreaking thing (and apparently it was for someone).

[SCIM]

Actually I think I know what you are talking about. I have been in a situation where I watched a friend play a game and I was like "why do you never turn" and then I noticed that they would keep their right thumb over the face button at all times execept when the absaloutly needed to turn. Think of it like playing with a mouse and keyboard but your right hand is constantly over the right side of the keyboard and occasinally you nudge the mouse to turn and then move your hand back over the keyboard.

It was a very strange thing to me but maybe it's a lot more common than I thought.

Actually I remember that same friend commenting on how I never let go of the control sticks and use my pointer finger for the face buttons which he thought to be bizzare. I mean like, I kinda want to be able to still look around while I'm hitting the face buttons don't I?

Maybe most people don't know how to use a gamepad well and this is where all these weird misconceptions about gamepads come from.

[Zekiran]

Yeah that absolutely sounds like my experience watching. So weird the instincts we have that are geared specifically to our hand muscle memory.

Of course, I want to know now, what the correlation is between those folks driving style (hey can they drive a stick shift? :D ) and how much I want to scream at them while they drive hehe.