Hello everyone. We’ve been super busy adding and testing gamepad support for The Chaser’s Voyage. It took a lot of tweaking, but we finally got a control scheme that feels really good to use. Personally, I love playing with the Xbox gamepad now.
You can check out the gamepad in action on our twitter.
Once we get more gamepad functionality in, we’ll add it to the early access build so that you guys can get to play around with it. What was really tricky was finding the perfect control scheme for our, admittedly, non-standard game. We wanted something that was as easy and intuitive as our keyboard + mouse controls. We’re hoping you guys will like them, but even if you don’t, we do plan on making this control method just as customizable as the keyboard + mouse control scheme.
Default Gamepad Controls (Xbox Controller):
• Left / Right Thumbstick: Move The Chaser
• D-Pad Up: Toggle between Main Screen and Info Screen
• D-Pad Left: Engage / Disengage Autopilot
• D-Pad Right: Save & Quit (when available)
• Left Bumper: Activate Comms
• Right Bumper: Activate Space Jump Drive / Repair Space Jump Drive (if broken)
• Start: Open Pause Menu
• Select: Open Crew Journal
To increase power to a system, you hold the Right Trigger and then press the corresponding face button. To decrease power, you hold the Left Trigger and press the corresponding face button. Finally, to repair a damaged system, you just press the corresponding face button without holding either trigger. Each face button corresponds to one of the Chaser’s systems:
• A Button: Weapons Systems
• X Button: Shield Systems
• Y Button: Engine Systems
• B Button: Auxiliary Systems
• Right Trigger (Hold): Increase System Power
• Left Trigger (Hold): Decrease System Power
We’re really looking forward to having people play The Chaser’s Voyage with a gamepad and we hope you all like it as much as we do.
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