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This is one of my favorite games. I still occasionally play it on a Nintendo 64, but the N64 controller isn’t great and I can’t easily screen capture gameplay.

I own the game on Steam, but playing it with a mouse and keyboard feels very clumsy. Is the Xbox controller support for this game actually functional and decent feeling?

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[–] skoberlink 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well not sure what was different this time but it fired right up after install.

I didn't test extensively but the controller support seemed to work reasonably well. I just played through Mos Eisley and nearly got gold even with a little delay on figuring out controls.

There are definitely some tweaks to the control scheme I'll want to make - it doesn't follow modern conventions very well (e.g. the fire button isn't any of the trigger/shoulder buttons). The only issue I noticed is if I accelerated, the camera didnt always keep up. I'm not sure what exactly is causing that. I'll have to play with settings later to see if I can get it right.

IMO, much better than keyboard though, for my preference anyway.

Unrelated to the controller, it doesn't want to use the right sound output and I can't figure out how to control that. In my setup a fairly minor inconvenience. I might be able to figure that out when I get more time to mess with it.

[–] setsneedtofeed 1 points 11 months ago

Good. And I will definitely go with the controller. My quick test flying around with mouse and keyboard was pretty terrible. I can get used to an unusual button layout I hope.