Path of Exile 2 Controller experience on PC
Contrary to all the interviews and presentation prior to Early Access release, the controller experience is quite bad. I personally would say it is worse than in POE 1. I'll just go on to list why;
1. Combat for the most part is just fine, but with certain builds and skills it feels like trying to break a wild horse. I find myself constantly trying to force my character to go where I want it to go. For example; if you drop a Tempest bell, aim assist goes to 10000% and the character wants to do nothing but ring d*mn bell. Sure you can use the right stick to aim in the direction you wish to go, but you can't do this forever and most of us only have one thumb. Suggestion: we should be allowed to turn this off for certain skills and let targeting work the way it does in poe 1. Sure it's cool we can walk backwards while attacking, but it doesn't feel great when the character prioritises the trash mob behind you over the Rare mob you are walking towards. 2. Inventory management and dealing with menus is a nightmare in this game. You often need to drag items, close and reopen menus multiple times just to get things done. For example 1; respec-ing while taking jewels out of sockets in passive tree. when you remove jewel it kicks you out of respec-mode and takes you out of passive tree menu everytime. So you need to click on Doriani again to go back to respec. You do this dance everytime per jewel you need to take out. Example 2; trading feels bad, organising items feels even worse, trying to get the ring in a weird corner around larger items in a Quad tab is quite an experience. Suggestion: For PC, controller/kbm hotswap needs to come yesterday. For console, maybe let the right stick behave like a mouse? 3. Similar to point 2, it can be very difficult to pick up items off the ground in maps. For example; loot drops in one corner of the screen and the interactable icon is on the other side of the screen. With kbm you just reset the loot with "Z" iirc, but there is no such feature on controller. So we need to either leave the map for the loot and icon to reset or run far away from the loot until the reset happens then return to pick it up. Suggestion: I can't make one here. This issue is also present in POE 1, and I would like to imagine that it's also in POE 2 because it's impossible to fix rather then GGG just not caring about it. 4. Saving the best for last; If your controller disconnects for whatever reasons, it instantly logs you out of the game everytime! Last edited by nbkOken#7917 on Jan 12, 2025, 4:32:24 PM Last bumped on Jan 12, 2025, 3:53:48 PM
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!00% agree with this! As much as I love this game is unacceptable that we cannot swap between Keyboard + mouse and controller without having to log out of the damn game.
Well that's good news in an interview after the patch 0.1.1 announcement they said the control swap issues would be addressed Last edited by BacchusXL#4107 on Jan 12, 2025, 5:03:55 PM
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