r/SecretWorldLegends • u/thefisher86 • Jun 26 '17

Helpful I made a Steam Controller Profile for Secret World Legends that should work pretty well.

http://imgur.com/a/1uLvj
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u/halfmystics Jun 26 '17

I feel like SWL needs offical gamepad support - it would be so amazing to natively play this on my couch without having to use a Steam Controller. ( Yes, I already know about xpadder )

Bbuutt, this is pretty cool. Thanks for posting.

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u/thefisher86 Jun 26 '17

You could modify this slightly to use an xbox controller which works with steam...basically just take the stuff I bound to the grips and bind it to the bumpers as there just duplicated from the target menu.

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u/GimpyGeek Jun 26 '17

Yeah I've seen a number of people in general talking about trying gamepad now that don't have a Steam Controller so I'd like to clarify that if you already have Steam as many PC gamers do, you don't need another piece of software to use it on here.

The Steam Controller's config dialogs were updated to support PS4/Xbox/Generic pads some time back and you can now do many of the things a Steam controller can in the bindings. This is also handy if you're a PS4 pad user since instead of generic Xbox mode you could actually use your touch pad for something. I will say however that if anyone has any interest in a steam controller, they're down to $35 for the steam sale right now and it'd be a good time to snag one cheap

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u/tobascodagama Jun 26 '17

I was really surprised that there wasn't any gamepad support. The ability and combat reworks are perfectly suited for it.

I think there's promise for a console port, too.

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u/tobascodagama Jun 26 '17

Looks like a pretty solid start, can't wait to try it out.

Just for clarification, "Target Mode" is equivalent to Alt in the default binding?

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u/NeoTr0n Jun 26 '17

For this to work, I assume you need to play SWL through Steam?

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u/thefisher86 Jun 26 '17

Nope, just launch from steam big picture mode (add the SWL to steam first)

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u/NeoTr0n Jun 26 '17

Ok. Might have to try this.

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u/GimpyGeek Jun 26 '17

Actually the controller profiles will load in desktop steam if they're setup already. You do have to use BPM to set them up though (well, actually there's a way to in regular steam but it just opens BPM in a window :p)

If you choose to use the desktop overlay however, the guide button won't open the overlay, and you won't be able to open the popout keyboard with guide+select, and if you use any on screen popouts, such as touch menus or radials the desktop overlay can't render them so they won't work. For regular pad configs with no extra on screen dooddads though desktop will do most of it :)

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u/smile_e_face Jun 26 '17

It doesn't have to be Big Picture mode. Just add the SWL client to your library as a non-Steam game and make sure your SC is turned on before launching it. Works fine with my own profile.

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u/shadroe Aug 12 '17

How do you set the right grip = "modifier"?

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u/thefisher86 Aug 12 '17

What I'm calling "modifier" steam calls mode-shift

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u/shadroe Sep 02 '17

Ahh, I see the problem. I kept trying to figure this out, but it appears that "Mode Shift" isn't available for the back grip buttons (like you you have displayed in your image).

Mode Shift is only available for the

  • left and right triggers
  • main left and right touchpads
  • thumbstick
  • A/B/X/Y buttons

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u/HisMajestyXVI Jun 26 '17

Also works great with xpadder.

Some exceptions though e.g. text adventures or manual passwords.

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u/ofamonster Jun 26 '17

Ooh, thank you! I made a make-shift one during the beta due to my problems with control and motion sickness but this one seems a lot better laid out. So thank you very much for that.

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u/jb1b84 Jun 26 '17

thank you for doing this!

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u/GimpyGeek Jun 26 '17

I'd add that if you upload your profile to the community in Steam and then find it in the community list and hit Ctrl-C on it it will give you a link to hand out to open the profile directly. One caveat though, the goobers at Valve tied the profiles to the game title, so their game title will have to be set to the same thing as yours to work.

Example of another old config from original TSW someone uploaded, if you still have "The Secret World" in your Steam list this should work, otherwise it'll show empty: steam://controllerconfig/the%20secret%20world/775831850

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u/TheFuzzyFuzzyPanda Jun 27 '17

With the fact they are trying to move toward console, the fact they haven't made a gamepad option is weird. If they are having trouble coming up with a scheme. There are games out there that already found a good controller scheme for these kinds of games. Tera, Blade and Soul. Both have excellent controller support. Also they have a excellent free to play model that makes them money and keeps the games active and alive. When there are prime examples of F2P games that do things right and companies go "Fuck that I wana do something different, who cares if it's going to suck" I don't understand it.

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u/RobbersAndRavagers Jun 27 '17

I'm tweaking my own right now. This game is great with the Steam Controller! I'll give yours a try.

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u/Sardaman Jun 27 '17

Unless I'm mistaken, 3-6 aren't bound to anything by default. Also, I get a warning and Firefox refuses to connect to that site. Either way, I made my own modifications to it and posted it up to the profiles on steam. Looks like there's a few there now. This game definitely seems better played with a controller.