People have complained about controllers, aim assist & how bad is the controller support inside the game currently so I decided I could probably do something about it
And yeah I have some configurations that we will look at today including Gyroscopic Aim, Flick Stick, Mouse Joystick & etc
All of this was made possible with Steam Input
Section 1 - Basic Mouse & Keyboard to Controller translation!
Well, the current state of Shatterline controller support is well, lacking and needs a lot of configuration so the first idea is to port the Mouse & Keyboard controls to a controller.
Firstly you should open Steam and open the Steam Input panel and start configuring your controller keybinds to mouse inputs & etc.
I decided to implement a literal translation from M+K to a controller. so my left joystick is pushing WASD buttons virtually to move with some overlap with other directions & I might as well Aim with my right stick as a mouse input.
Shooting with the triggers & etc are just virtual inputs to the keyboard from the controller everything can be controlled & configured by just using Steam Input
Steam Input with a Xbox Controller M+K configuration.
This method eliminates any controller assists like Aim Assist but I don't like this configuration due to it relying on the right stick compared to gyro + flick stick which I will be covering in the next section
Also if you don't want to configure it yourself I have a premade config for a few controllers including the Xbox One Controller!
Xbox One Controller: steam://controllerconfig/2089760/2857571343 and the PlayStation 4 DualShock: steam://controllerconfig/2089760/2857651508
Section 2 - Right Stick aiming is bad, lets throw it into trash and lets use gyro !
This section will require a controller that has Gyroscopic controls. Xbox controllers are not gyroscopic controllers as they do not have any gyro's inside
I hated using the right joystick to aim so I thought would there be any better alternatives to using the right stick? I started researching and I found out there are some good alternatives to using the right stick, namely Gyroscopic aim and Flick stick.
Well I started configuring again and I got into some roadblocks, namely, how do I recenter my cursor mid-game? I can recenter my mouse by lifting it as it pauses the tracking but how do you do this with Gyroscopic controls?
Well I started using a "pause" or a "toggle" button when gyro-aiming so I can always pause the gyro and recenter my controller and resume killing people
The gyro pause / toggle button configuration on Steam Input
Along with gyro I decided to enable this cool thing called Flick-Stick which was made by a cool guy named Jibb Smart. Basically, the right stick is bad at aiming so why not just use the Flick-stick as a way to move the camera and do rough camera movements and adjust your aim with the gyro?
Well yeah, that's what I enabled and it felt better than just using the right stick for aiming. so let's look at how we configured it and what you need to change & etc!
Section 2.1 - How I configured it
Let's look at what things we enabled.
The configuration I used for the gyro
Firstly I enabled "Mouse Like joystick" on the Gyroscopic aim options and decided to start configuring it a lot.
You may have just noticed that my Vertical Sensitivity is pretty high and might be wondering why I have that high of a Sensitivity.
Well because the sensitivity is high so I really don’t need to make many big movements compared to with much lower sensitivity. I mean you don't need to have that high so you can configure it to whatever you like it
The next step is to enable the flick-stick. It's very easy and usually does not need any additional configs but I do suggest trying some snap modes if you want to use them. I won't cover them in this guide sadly.
Well this is what flick-stick looks like
And now you are done. You have enabled Flick-Stick, Gyro & M+K controls.
But if you don't want to read this guide fully and do everything yourself below this paragraph are some links to some controller layouts.
Gyro + Flick-Stick without M+K Inputs: steam://controllerconfig/2089760/2857283431
Gyro + Flick-Stick with M+K Inputs: steam://controllerconfig/2089760/2857653398