Controller support

[Emoseasider]

I love this game, however due to myself sucking/hating keyboard and mouse for this game, i was wondering if anyone knows when or if we will get controller support.

[superjay1345]

+1 Same Here. I just can't use keyboard and mouse because it makes my hands cramp up and hurt after just 15-20 min. Also in this day and age its a given to put controller functionality in a game so that your reaching as many people as you can and in the long run it make's porting it to consoles easier. The time and money to implement this will pay for its self ten times over in less then a month of it being done. It is truly amazing that any company would throw away so much money for such a little investment and improving / broadening there player base and quality of enjoyment in such a great, ambitious and massive world.

[Victor]

+1 for native support.

For anyone interested, I made a template for the PS4 controller.

steam://controllerconfig/648800/2343610895

[skynetsys]

+1 for native controller support

[SFlav]

Originally posted by Victor:

+1 for native support.

For anyone interested, I made a template for the PS4 controller.

steam://controllerconfig/648800/2343610895

Nice, thanks.

[EvathCebor]

Originally posted by hazardousgamingarcades:

steam://controllerconfig/648800/1882876144

For all those rafter who prefer a controller, I have created this template to get everyone going. I did however set it up for a wired Xbox One controller, so steam and dualshock might need some adjustments. Hope this helps get players going.

Thank you very much !

[DeeMcSpicy]

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do I do this? I keep walking off my raft and getting eaten by the shark on keyboard. I'd really love to be able to use a controllder.

[EvathCebor]

Originally posted by DeeMcSpicy:

Sorry for my ignorance, but how do I do this? I keep walking off my raft and getting eaten by the shark on keyboard. I'd really love to be able to use a controllder.

Maybe you ever heared of a software called joytokey or xpadder : these softwares emulate a keyboard and a mouse with any controller, you can assign any keyboard button to any of your gamepad button, such as "when I press A on my gamepad, it's as if I was playing the letter S on my keyboard.

Using third party softwares is not always very user friendly. Here come the good news. Steam already has a built-in functionality that allows you to do the very same thing ! You can configurate your controllers the way you want, very precisely. Even better, you can share your configurations online and other people might be able to use it without downloading anything !

// If you're playing on BigPicture, you have to go on your library, select the Raft game, go to 'manage game" (under "your game"), and controller configuration.

// If you're using the standard Steam, just go in your library, select your game, and you'll see the controller configuration available near the up of the page.

You're in front of a new window in which you can configurate your controller as you wish for this game, emulate a keyboard, emulate a mouse, adjust the joystick sensitivity, etc.

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/img_588264e48082b.png?width=1198&trim=1,1&bg-color=000&pad=1,1

From there, press the X button on your keyboard (as noticed at the bottom of the screen, it will browse the configs available for this game. Standard configs or, even better, configs uploaded by the community. Select "community", and then select the config you like. I chose the first one on the list, called "Raft Xbox One/360 controller", which has a recent playtime of 493,768 hours. Select this one (or another), and a new screen will appear in which you can see how this configuration works, what it does, etc. Press X again to apply this configuration. From now one, when you'll start the game, your gamepad will not act as a gamepad but as a keyboard and a mouse. Which means the game will not tell you "press xbox buttons to do such action" but will show you keyboard touchs instead. You can look at the configuration whenever you want, by pressing the Microsoft button at the center of your gamepad if you're on bigpicture, or by pressing shift+tab on your keyboard if you're in standard mode, so you can check which of your buttons does what.

In this configuration I chose, the right stick emulates a mouse, the right trigger emulates a left click and the left trigger emulates a right trick. The rest of the actions are all doable through the A B X Y buttons, the dpad and the other triggers ; it is far from perfect when navigating through the menus but hey, it's perfectly playable. I have a couple of hours of gameplay with it, it was a little difficult at first but I got it quite quickly. The only complain I have is when I have to look at the lists of items and craftables ; but again, you can tweak the configuration the way you want and adjust its sensibility.

If you're not using a qwerty keyboard, you might encounter some problems : the configuration will have problems with the zqsd or the wasd buttons, for example. Your character might move right and left perfectly but might be unable to move forward or left, as Steam does not recognize the right button ; this is all because the configuration was created by a qwerty keyboard owner. You have multiple solutions if you encounter any such problem :
1) edit the configuration yourself through the controller configuration.
2) search for another configuration among those available in the community list, which may suit your hardware.
3) switch your keyboard to qwerty when you launch this game. Your keyboard might be able to behave as a qwerty one, which would resolve such problems instantly.

Please apologize my english. If I'm not clear enough, here are some links that may help you :

https://www.howtogeek.com/234427/how-to-remap-buttons-on-your-steam-controller/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hejOBYUNhZg


Be assured that the manipulation is VERY QUICK and VERY EASY to do.

[skynetsys]

Just make it native support and we'll be all happy!

[DeeMcSpicy]

Thank you EvathCebor!

[Avrution]

Also waiting for native support - always checking every few months for any changes.

[💎 Andy 💎]

+1 native gamepad support.

🎮🎮If Conan Exiles, ARK etc can do it, Im pretty sure Raft can. 🎮🎮

[Boondock]

yup only reason i dont have this game is no gamepad support. if they add, i buy

[ahirst]

I suffer from arthritis in my Vertebra in my neck so after working 8 hrs at a PC playing games on a PC with a controller is a given. Its very disappointing that native support has not been implemented. It goes to show that people with a disability or a medical issue are still given no thought.

[💎 Andy 💎]

Originally posted by ahirst:

I suffer from arthritis in my Vertebra in my neck so after working 8 hrs at a PC playing games on a PC with a controller is a given. Its very disappointing that native support has not been implemented. It goes to show that people with a disability or a medical issue are still given no thought.

A VERY valid reason for alternative play styles.

Whether the reason is, "its not enjoyable." Or the extremely compelling nature of a condition, that is eased.
It just goes to show that controller support, would be appreciated by so many.
💎

[Markus]

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