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Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« on: July 19, 2013, 10:03:20 pm »
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What started out as a simple test to use my 360 controller as a joystick for my Legend of Zelda emulator around this time last week quickly developed into me using the controller as a replacement for my mouse altogether for most PC gaming (Generally FPS which already had joystick settings implemented)due to it's untimely death at the hands of my younger brother. I was able to do this using a program that a simple google search helped me discover called JoyToKey.

 After hours of trial and failure I finally got it working as a simple mouse, and used it to check facebook, youtube, and a few simple broswer games. I quickly got tired of this as the novelty wore off, because I could do things much easier with a mouse+keyboard. Searches being impossible without a keyboard. I simply went back to using it exclusively for emulators or games that had implemented Joystick settings(Generally FPS, Counter Strike: Source, CoD, etc.).

Today My mouse had entirely crapped out and armed with nothing other than a mousepad. I decided to give the controller a shot for more intense games CRPG as an example. I have spent the last hour configuring and testing my controls in The duel server until I was comfortable with the controls. I'm confident that this could become a viable alternate than the stock mouse+keyboard options, with advantage liked being able to map nudges and kicks to easily accesible locations such as the left and right bumpers. I just felt I should share. I'll probably make a demonstration video. And depending if people are interested or not. Even a tutorial. I'll go ahead and link you
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EDIT:If you want to try this is a good congfiguration IMO. Althought you may want to adjust snesitivity. My configuration By the way, safe link. All I did was upload to my gmail and then paste the download link.


How to confugure
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TL;DR: I play cRPG with an xbox controller for now.

UPDATE: Melee seems rather doable just with a bit of a learning curve, still practicing
UPDATE: This dosen't seem to work with NW at the moment configuring that for those who care. NW recognizes the controller and JoyToKey Is not required.
UPDATE: Swing cancelling is possible by mapping a second key to the block button other than one of the triggers. B for example. However continue to use the original button for blocking as blocking with b is near impossible.
UPDATE: I now recommend using a key you can block with while still being able to turn and move, such as a bumper or one of the analog sticks itself, because for some reason that I cannot figure out you cannot feign with the right or left triggers but all other buttons work entirely fine. Will try to solve this.
UPDATE: Using a computer Mic Is possible while having the Controller hooked up simply by going to your volume mixer, then devices. And Disabling the "Headset" device that installs with your controller.

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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2013, 10:13:11 pm »
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Good luck with that (   ^____^ )/
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2013, 10:16:23 pm »
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Good luck with that (   ^____^ )/
Thanks.

This'll probably be better implemented as a ranged character or a mod like NW. But Again. I just did this in the last hour so no way of knowing how It'll actually fare in melee. I'm joining NA as we speak to test in an actual battle.
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #3 on: July 19, 2013, 10:21:31 pm »
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I wouldn't mind trying this out but it seems that it won't work for Windows 8. I wish I had stuck with Windows 7.

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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #4 on: July 19, 2013, 10:21:45 pm »
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Thanks.

This'll probably be better implemented as a ranged character or a mod like NW. But Again. I just did this in the last hour so no way of knowing how It'll actually fare in melee. I'm joining NA as we speak to test in an actual battle.

I am actually really interested in how it goes, keep us posted.
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #5 on: July 19, 2013, 10:29:02 pm »
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I will stay with mouse and a keyboard. All kinds of joysticks or other controllers aren't for me, I just suck with them - even more than with a mouse.
Good luck anyway.

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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #6 on: July 19, 2013, 10:55:56 pm »
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Thanks for the replies guys.

Anyways so far what I've learned this that Feigning requires much more precise timing, Canceling crossbow aiming is hard(right clicking to put it back down after aiming). This would probably be best for archers/shielders if you wanted to use this effectively from the beginning there is quite a bit of a learning curve. But I've already begun some improvement. But still lingering around the .33 K/D doing this
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #7 on: July 19, 2013, 11:02:39 pm »
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It appears my left analog stick(Which I currently have mapped to movement WASD) is a little off it's axes so I move when I don't want to making archery RIDICULOUSLY hard to test. So I may not be able to give an accurate assesment of archery with this.
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #8 on: July 19, 2013, 11:08:34 pm »
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heh you make me remember the guy who was perma banned for auto block and blamed it on using a 360 controller :D
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #9 on: July 19, 2013, 11:57:26 pm »
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #10 on: July 20, 2013, 01:44:49 am »
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I have messed around with a program called Xpadder to use my 360 controller with crpg, been doing it on and off for awhile now. Very playable, very fun. It's all smooth, feinting feels just like it normally does. Don't expect to go blocking longsword combos for any extended period of time though.

Works especially great for long polearms (perfect circle dances into a swing) and support roles in battle.

protip: bind up on the D-pad to Q and down to A so you can apologize to your team while you get used to the controls.  :wink:

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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #11 on: July 20, 2013, 01:46:29 am »
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heh you make me remember the guy who was perma banned for auto block and blamed it on using a 360 controller :D


I like how he avoided to answer that  :P

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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #12 on: July 20, 2013, 01:51:39 am »
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I like how he avoided to answer that  :P

Cause he was unbanned and proved innocent. Was goretooth.
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #13 on: July 20, 2013, 02:03:30 am »
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protip: bind up on the D-pad to Q and down to A so you can apologize to your team while you get used to the controls.  :wink:
Thanks for this. I generally just do it in chat as I have my laptop right in front of me but this will help a ton. Starting to get the hang of blocking. However feigning for some reason is near-impossible using my right trigger, while it works fine on other bindings. It just initiates my swing when I try and feign/cancel my swing with the right trigger. Do you know why it does this?
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Re: Playing Mount and Blade with an Xbox 360 controller.
« Reply #14 on: July 20, 2013, 02:04:15 am »
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Cause he was unbanned and proved innocent. Was goretooth.

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He was called sevensins or something like that and the controller thing was a lie he made up. Goretooth was never banned for autoblocking.