Gamepad suport unusable since 1.193

Alan Grimes shared this feedback 4 years ago
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I'm stuck playing 1.192 if I ever come back to the game because the latest version of gamepad support is unusable. I don't think the developers have ever played the game with the old gamepad support and that the developers of the new gamepad system have never played the game. This change is far too drastic to be acceptable this long after the product is out of beta. I paid for the latest decoration blocks but I can't play them because thy can't be back-ported to 1.192. I'm very irate right now. I'm a 6,000 hour player who has never used anything but gamepad controls and have placed and cut millions of blocks. Seriously, WTF???

The old controls felt great, and were maybe one or two quirks from perfect.


These quirks were: roll buttons didn't work in spectator mode. and connectors were double-mapped with "move upwards" The "hotbar" system was Good Enough (tm) and, very importantly, allowed a substantial sub-set of the block library to be stacked up, at least enough to get work done relatively efficiently. yeah, there were other issues with using command-seat hotbarred ship tools, but that has varied with different versions. In some ways it works, other ways it doesn't.

The new controls were designed by someone used to run-and-gun games and are absolutely unacceptable for the open-space building that is the centerpiece of SE. Actually, the new controls are bad enough that we need to riot in front of KSWH offices... =\


I have a fleet of roughly 70 workshop posts that need to be maintained, right now there isn't even a point because I don't have access to the new block I paid for with a game that can actually be played.

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