how to play daggerfall with a controllers

#How to play daggerfall with a controllers Pc#
#How to play daggerfall with a controllers free#

At the time that Daggerfall was released, joysticks were still standard for PC games, and while you could technically buy gamepads for PCs I don't think anyone really started taking them seriously until around the Xbox/PS2 era*.

I'm intrigued that you feel Arena and Daggerfall were designed for gamepad controls, because I tried it with a gamepad and it didn't work for me. Contact your nearest Order representative for more info on how you can better the world. The Lord Vigil, High Avatar of the Order of the Mortal Gods Jesmate and the Patron Saints of Virtue. I think I'd otherwise have never played Daggerfall, but now it plays good as I did take a cue from you and switch the modes around because it does make more sense that way, so thanks. This way, it plays pretty well, and I even solved (quite easily), the infamous 'can't attack on controller' problem. This means no more cycling between modes on the d-pad or having so many 'hold' functions to open up different menus, because I can just set the main stuff to the gamepad via Xpadder (inspired by console TES controls) and leave the rest where it was.

And while I respect that others find their own ways better for them, I truly believe that my config is superior to all other gamepad configs for one reason: I use an Xbox 360 chatpad on PC. Maybe because I'm young (younger than those games, anyway), maybe because I'm a console gamer, but I felt it was designed with a gamepad in spite being decades ahead of my controller setup. Personally, I find the default controls of Arena and Daggerfall unplayable. Yes, I have put way too much thought into this. Weirdly enough, the other 'modes' don't seem to come up that often in actual gameplay, but I guess your mileage may vary. I've remapped F1 to Talk mode and moved Steal all the way over to F4, despite primarily playing as thieves. Hot buttons on the UI are reserved for scrubs only.Īlso, the various 'mode' buttons are clearly the wrong way around, since I think F1 is Steal mode in the default control scheme, making it way too easy to accidentally attempt to pick a guard's pocket and get yourself in a heap of trouble. I play in fullscreen to maximize my view of the screen and make ranged attacks as accurate as possible. Hence, A to draw weapon, Z to switch hands, and G to cast spells.

#How to play daggerfall with a controllers free#

Beyond that, my main goal was to move the buttons most commonly used as close to the left hand as possible, leaving the right hand free to move the mouse. V and B are mapped to 'look down' and 'look up,' respectively, with C used to center the view. I use DSXF for movement controls (previously I used SAZD but DSXF is clearly superior) with W and E mapped to strafing. I radically changed the default control scheme to match this, and it plays almost flawlessly. Sorry, but to me it feels like Daggerfall was designed for that.