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flat-fuchsia
Alan wake button mapping is horrible.
Hello,
Alan wake has horrible button mapping and configuration. I press a button on the mapping section in-game and the button icons will switch from A to esc icons. It doesn’t read all of my button inputs in game or when I try to map the buttons in the options menu. Nor is the game mapped to steam deck buttons out of the box. I gave up. It cannot confirm my button maps but I can navigate to some button options.
31 Replies
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
are you running the game through a shortcut added to Steam by Heroic, or are you running Heroic first?
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I have to launch the game through heroic to play Alan wake from my gog games.
dependent-tan•2y ago
are you in desktop mode or in gaming mode?
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
why do you have to do this?
post a game log #:pushpin: Read Me First | Frequently Asked Questions
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
Gaming mode.
xenophobic-harlequin•2y ago
alan wake doesn't have anti-cheat right? i though that was the only reason to do that
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I launch heroic to play gog games because it’s a windows game. That’s why we use heroic, to play non steam games.
Have you all tried this? Does any of you have Alan wake to replicate this?
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
the sarcasm is unwarranted
my point is that you do not need to directly launch Heroic first
which is the purpose of adding a shortcut to Steam from Heroic to directly launch the game
and by doing so, you allow Steam input to take over
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
Is this the intended use of heroic or is this a side track to not use heroic? I’m confused?
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
it is built into Heroic to add shortcuts to Steam
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I don’t want to fill my steam library of non steam games when I can launch heroic and play from there.
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
that certainly is a choice
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
In gaming mode of course.
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
but I don't see why you would consider it filling your library when it's either upon installing a game or manually adding the shortcut
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I don’t appreciate your sarcasm
I see your point but it sidetracks my use case. Is this the only solution to this concern
?
xenophobic-harlequin•2y ago
i'm gonna step in here and lay it out clearly.
if you want to launch from heroic directly, that is your choice. it's not the intended method, the intended method on steam deck is to add it to steam. steam will then launch the game using generated launch commands that will invoke heroic and whatever DRM nonsense goes on in the background.
term is trying to help you out without stating it clearly, the sarcasm is not necessarily intended. you both talked past each other with sarcasm and i don't think either one of you intended it. let's all take a second to re-evaluate and assume the best from each other
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
it's the one intended by Heroic
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I will concede that this is the best solution. So, for the heroic launcher… it’s just there as a configuration tool then? I’m not supposed to play games from there, just to hit the point home?
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
it is not ideal to launch desktop apps, including Heroic, in game mode
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I see.
I Will save my use case for desktop mode then.
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
many things don't play nice. for example, installing a game will appear frozen for extended periods of time
I personally don't have a heroic shortcut in Steam anymore
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
That’s interesting. Thank you for that information.
xenophobic-harlequin•2y ago
i do for updating games and wine prefixes, but i do most of the work in desktop mode
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
and when I did, I would only use it to change Wine runners. I reserve all maintenance for desktop mode
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
Okay. I see how I’m supposed to use heroic, as intended. It’s not a free for all. Okay, let me try this method and I will mark this as solved when it works.
Thank you, again.
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
even with the Steam shortcuts, Heroic is still doing the heavy lifting
between wine, prefixes, updates, etc.
but the important part is that the shortcuts are associated with controller configs and steam input, which I believe is your main issue here
xenophobic-harlequin•2y ago
it's using the steam front end for game mode, and when you think about it like that it's kinda hacky lol
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I see. I noticed that some PC exclusive games (at one point) are the strangest. Knights of the old republic is one game that I had in the past try to map and it worked for a bit but I think I lost patience with it. Hence my going back to steam version of games.
xenophobic-harlequin•2y ago
not spending money means sacrificing convenience
in a lot of cases
flat-fuchsiaOP•2y ago
I usually play gog and Amazon games through heroic.
unwilling-turquoise•2y ago
same. whatever is free