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Zortch

Zortch Maxinum against The Alien Brainsuckers 路 By mutantleg

Controller Support

A topic by Pastoring Pasta created Sep 12, 2023 Views: 299 Replies: 3
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Hey, I'm a Steam Deck user & Zortch is super rad, but its gamepad support is kinda wacky. Analogue movement isn't supported, instead the game just translates the digital cardinal directions & diagonals to the left stick, & all the default mappings for everything else are very non-standard & really weird (e.g. LB to fire instead or RT). The game does let the user remap all buttons, which is good, & on Deck I've also got the per-game SteamInput API I have at my disposal, but yeah.

Developer

that is odd, the aiming is supposed to be analog 馃
for movement it only made things worse (it makes you walk slower than with keyboard)
strangely enough the defaults are based on suggestions on the steam forums
I had no idea there is an accepted standard (or at least didn't found any)

anyway i'm glad you like the game 馃憤 but alas the gamepad controls were just a kind of extra
I'm surprised the game works with them at all - everything was designed with keyboard and mouse in mind 馃

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thanks for the reply!

'that is odd, the aiming is supposed to be analog 馃
for movement it only made things worse (it makes you walk slower than with keyboard)'

yeah, the aiming is analogue but the movement isn't is what I meant, but the point of analogue movement is you move slower if you just move the nub a little bit & at full speed when you move it all the way out & the stick hits the ring

'strangely enough the defaults are based on suggestions on the steam forums I had no idea there is an accepted standard (or at least didn't found any)'

on console for instance, you'll find most games map primary fire to RT & alt fire to LT, so you can imagine my confusion when primary fire is LB

Developer

I guess the default controls will never be perfect 馃
I probably can add an option to make the walk work with analogue but I'm not sure if it makes sense for the sprinting 馃