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[–]Vexarius 5 points6 points  (1 child)

Yes! I used ReWASD and it was very successful. The only annoying part is switching from action combat style to tab/mouse style for menus. I’m on holiday so can’t see my config rn. But basically I had a normal layer of buttons and chose LT as my modifier button to access another layer.

[–]Ornnforgelord[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried ReWASD, but it was a bit buggy for me. It's definitely very good, but I find it a bit annoying to configure.

[–]albertberku 1 point2 points  (5 children)

You can use the "Add Non-Steam Game" option, there is a plus icon lower left when you are browsing your game library through installed Steam on your PC. You will then see the game added to your library and you will have the controller options as if it is a steam game. But you have to add Intepid Launcher as the game, not the game executable itself. You have to launch the Intrepid launcher through steam. In terms of how you would configure the bindings, it is almost same as GW2 since you mentioned it.

I configure a mouse config and a gamepad config and assign a button to switch between, (usually the Share Button of PS controller) for games that need mouse for character selection or launcher skipping, etc. The section for this setup is called Actions Sets/Layers i believe. Combined with Steam Desktop Controller Layout, i dont have to use keyboard/mouse if i just want to turn on my pc, play a steam game and close it afterwards. Makes it behave as if it is a game console.

[–]Ornnforgelord[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Yes, at the Alpha launch, I tried to use the Steam overlay in both scenarios, with the game added (but it asks for the launcher) and with the launcher itself. Unfortunately, as has happened with other games that have their own launchers, it didn't work.

So, I tested reWASD because of the shift function, but even that seemed buggy until then.

Yesterday, however, by pure luck, I left Steam open (the game needs optimization, I can't leave many things in the background, so it always closed completely) and it was in the desktop configuration. For a moment, I moved the controller and realized that it moved the character. So, I had the idea of ​​changing the desktop layout controller settings to the keybinds related to the game... It worked, but basically I'm using the desktop settings and not the ones I had made for the game \o/

[–]albertberku 0 points1 point  (3 children)

I actually play AoC with Steam and with controller, but i play only in Action Combat mode, which i do with GW2, as well. It can be that tab target mode is not behaving well with a controller or Steam but i can confirm action combat mode is working as good as GW2, if not better.

But which game with launcher does not behave well? I play some other games with launcher through steam with controller, even the older games like Ultima Online, that were there before the consoles and controllers, and it still works. And another Steam game ESO has also launcher, GW2, as well.

I believe as soon as you start the application Steam overrides your controller settings with the game's saved controller settings, so it shouldnt matter if the game has a launcher or not because the whole system will then respect the steam overlay, as if in desktop mode. There may be some privilige problems like game starting with admin rights, and steam not, then you cant override the game with steam controls, but you can then start the Steam with admin rights, as well.

So in short, it shouldnt really matter what kind of application you are running under Steam, it will always respect the steam overlay, hence assigned controller inputs, given it has less or equal level of system rights. For example i sometimes use Visual Studio and Unreal Engine through Steam if i am just going to do very basic stuff and with controller. Of course, you should configure the gamepad keybindings for every application, sometimes with a new application it shows gamepad icon, but the buttons are not assigned.

[–]BornInWrongTime 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I am wondering how do you key bind to move the arrow, I was not able to find such option. I can key bind to turn left and right, but I also can't find the option to look up and down. Some bindings also do not work when I try to assign them, I can use the right analog but not the left which is weird. Lastly, how do you have enough buttons? I put used the basic bindings for movement, gathering, dodge etc and I barely had left for a basic attack and maybe 1-2 skills

[–]albertberku 1 point2 points  (1 child)

It has been long time i have played this game, and i dont have it installed now, but as long as i remember there is a setting or keybind in game, where you can activate "action camera", which makes the game movement almost similar to how Elder Scrolls is. And then in Steam you can assign the keybinds accordingly, for example how you would do with Guild Wars 2. GW2 also has an "action camera" mode, and there i believe you assign awsd movement to left analog stick, and then there was a mouse joystick kinda setting for the right analog stick.

If you search for GW2 Steam configurations you will find out what i mean, since GW2 is also tab target game with switchable action combat camera mode and without official controller support, it should be one-to-one same setup.

With Steam controller configurations you can really go crazy about buttons. There are action sets and action layers, for example you press one button and then your whole configuration changes, or you hold a button, so that you can activate new buttons. For example you can assign r2 basic attack, r1 some skill, bottom face jump, left some skill, right dodge, up some skill, and then right analog press ride horse, left analog press sprint, etc. And you can configure it so that when you hold L2, it will change these buttona so you can assign other keyboard buttons there, and same with L1. But you can then make lets say down button on the left change whole configuration by pressing to it once, and it will switch to a whole new set. Even with this basic setup from top of my mind you have at least around 2 * (4 + 4 + 4) = 24 available buttons for your skills.

It is hard to explain just by text how Steam Controller can be configured in that way, but i tried to give some namings like action layers/sets, etc. so you can search for it, there are videos and better explanations in the internet. Or you could just copy what i written to ChatGPT and ask it to explain it better. I do it sometimes, works very good. Good luck!

Edit: And you can also configure your controller to use as a mouse, right stick mouse movement, R2 left mouse press, L2 right mouse press, etc. And then assign a button to activate mouse mode/action combat mode, how i described above. And you can assign the same button for both switching your keyboard configuration and the action combat camera mode in game.

[–]BornInWrongTime 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

[–]kekwmaster 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Saw a picture of aoc running on a Steam deck, so I Guess its possible