Controller question

[Lak]

Not sure where to ask so I'mma try here. So I've always used a controller to play this game, ever since it started way back in 2004. Anyways I've recently been gone for a few months and when I came back... I noticed my left joystick (which controlled the view) is no longer doing that. I was told it was due to an update. Can anyone tell me how to change it back so that the left joystick can control my camera angles again? 

[Maelwys]

There was a change to the default control scheme a while back, but any older characters you have that were created prior to that should still be using the previous scheme.

If older characters are still working; great. Then the easiest way to lock this into place will be to open your menu, go to the keymapping tab and save their scheme/binds as your "default file"... then load it again on your newer characters.
There's also a "Profile" dropdown box at the top left of that tab which lets you swap between a few sets of default binds - like "Modern" (the new one) or "Classic" (the old one).




If older characters are NOT working then that suggests your controller itself is playing up or that the driver's been updated and your computer isn't binding it to the same outputs as before. So check it's working in a different game, and update your drivers.

Personally I have an old DualShock2 pad that I tend to use for CoH, with character movement bound to the left analogue stick and camera movement bound to the right analogue stick. Sometimes depending on the driver update; one of those sticks might get picked up as Joystick3 instead of Joystick2; or the X axis might become the Y axis etc.

My current binds are below as an example:

JOYSTICK1_DOWN "+backward"
JOYSTICK1_LEFT "+left"
JOYSTICK1_RIGHT "+right"
JOYSTICK1_UP "+forward"
JOYSTICK2_DOWN "+turnright"
JOYSTICK2_LEFT "+lookdown"
JOYSTICK2_RIGHT "+lookup"
JOYSTICK2_UP "+turnleft"
JOYSTICK3_DOWN "+turnright"
JOYSTICK3_LEFT "+lookdown"
JOYSTICK3_RIGHT "+lookup"
JOYSTICK3_UP "+turnleft"


(Also, Controllers rock. My favourite is an Illusion/Time...) 😉
 

Edited May 27 by Maelwys

[Lak]

the characters are working fine, its just the left analog controller wasn't working for the angle on demand. I tried what you did with the "classic" mode but its the same thing. I play Champions online as well and my Xbox controller works fine there. The controls were basically the same here until the update. Anyways, I was messing with it some and manually binded some of the camera movements to make it work. Not the same as it was but close enough to play. Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. 

[Doomguide2005]

Lol I'm getting old.  I keep clicking thinking it's about the AT 😁