Controller Triggers Help

[Dephotic]

I feel most comfortable playing with an Xbox controller, but the triggers always seem to be a problem for me. Before the Mistlands update, the triggers would be switched in game, i.e left trigger acted as right trigger and vice versa. So I switched them in Steams controller menu and it was working great.

After the update though, the triggers don't register correctly at all. Hard pressing the right trigger acts as a left trigger pull, while a soft press barely registers as a right press before becoming a left trigger pull again. It's hard to describe, but a couple examples are:
When in server select, pressing the right trigger to mark it as community server activates the private server tick beforehand, making it become a community server, but trying to untick that ticks private server so a simple tick and untick is impossible. The fact it activates both at all is a huge issue.
In game, a left trigger pull, from stopped to full, activates a block, punch, then block, then no action, same with the right trigger but reversed. A full press, like really holding down the trigger, results in no actions at all.

I just find this maddening and puzzling since they're supposedly working on a release for Xbox, the controls for the controller should be working. Anyone have any advice aside from learning to use k&m (which at this point I am indeed considering)?

[HangarPilot]

I'm not sure if this will help... but I'll give it a go...

I find the Steam controller configuration thing very confusing and convoluted. Multiple controller profiles and even multiple "controllers" listed like Xbox, Generic, etc.

I find if I start the game, turn on the controller, and get Valheim to the start menu where the controller is working...

I can then use Alt-Tab or the Windows key navigate back to Steam. Go to Library, click Valheim, right-click manage, select Controller Layout. I can get the profile the game is using and make changes.

I can't really explain it better. I've gone to the Steam controller configuration thing many times and what I do there doesn't translate to the ACTUAL profile the game is using. I've also had a two games that were "unplayable" because the camera would spin. Digging through this quagmire I find (for some unfathomable reason) the analog stick deadzones are properly calibrated but a drop-down box has them "disabled" by default.

I know that if you use the Steam Overlay there's a way to get to the controller setting without using the Alt-Tab method I mentioned but I don't use the Overlay. I believe Steam Big Picture Mode also changes everything and I don't understand it at all.

Long story, well, long... I suggest you look at the controller configuration WHILE the game is running but paused. It may be it's using a different configuration/profile than you think it is.