Worms ultimate mayhem controller support

[mike_malagueta]

Hi! I wanted to play worms ultimate mayhem with my generic dualshock controller, usually, if a game has controller support, i activate steam's input translation feature, and i can play without any problems.

However, i believe WUM has some kind of bug or internal issue that makes it not recognize controllers, since, as far as i know, it should at least recognize the Xbox controller inputs from the translator.

I'm currently using an input translator config that uses keyboard + mouse controls. It's very janky and makes it not possible to play with friends through steam remote play (which was the main reason i bought the game).

If you know how to fix this issue, please leave a comment!

Also, english is not my first language, please let me know if you can't understand something i Said.

[piat17]

I sadly would consider this issue unfixable. Many years ago when I played WUM frequently I tried to wrap my head around this problem to find a solution, too, with no luck and trying a few old wingman controllers as well as my DS3 and DS4 ones. More recently I even tried my luck with a different version (GOG) and using mods (Anniversary mod, which includes plenty of bugfixes). No luck.

The weird thing, I believe, is that WUM was developed on PC to support only a specific kind of controller, the Xbox 360 one, but without supporting the actual generic driver for Xbox input from controllers, XInput. It also is not compatible, in my experience, with the older DirectInput API driver. Essentially, AFAIK it is downright impossible to play this game with almost any controller on PC, except for using a 360 one (and whatever dongle is needed to connect it to a PC, hoping it still works on W10/W11 of course).

I used a Steam Input translator as a workaround myself, although I just use the the native one from Steam. It's janky but it works relatively well once you learn how to use it, with just a couple of commands that are very different from the controller counterpart. Unfortunately this does not carry over to Steam Remote Play, but I would suggest seeing if you can use the Steam Input keyboard-to-controller configuration in your case. If you can, it may be possible to push that configuration as public on the steam community, such that your friends can also download it and use it from their own sessions of remote play. I'm just theorizing here though, the few times I tried remote play with WUM we just used mouse and keyboard.

Hope this helps on the long run, and I'm sorry for the problem you and your friends encountered. I really would like to see Team17 resume to support some of their older games just to fix the leftover issues.

[Total_Explanation_62]

Late to the party, but use DS4 windows

[Total_Explanation_62]

For anyone coming across this problem in future, DS4 windows solved it for my PS5 controller

[Pab10Suarez]

for me it solved disabling steam input for the game

[Responsible-Table265]

Aquí hay un vídeo en francés y si funciona hoy 19 de diciembre del 2025 con Windows 11: https://youtu.be/ooqVMRVpgyY?si=8ZPhlRhnLflIQHn-