Right, so hopefully I don't burn at the stake for wanting to play this with a controller in my second playthrough but it needs some serious changes, and I haven't seen any topics on it.

For some reason you need to pause the game for everything: Inventory, Journal, Map.

Why can't we have a radial menu with the select button? And the worst offender of all is how awkward switching signs is, the game uses the left stick instead of the right one and it doesn't use the direction of the stick, hence, you need to move through each individual sign icon.

That is expected because of the limited keys in controller. That show you this game was still built for PC.

Not to mention camera control is superior with the mouse.

Burn him at the stack! JK Seriously though I play with the controller and movement and combat is much more fluid in my opinion. Maybe it is just that I have used a xbox controller forever, but I don't see how it is worse. For example you dont need to click the signs individually and I dont understand how your having a problem switching the signs as it is way more fluid because you justmove the stick over it.

On as side note, the game only pauses if you have a huge amount of saved games when you open your inventory. Make sure you dont have to many saved games as the game loads your saved games even if you just open the inventory menu =/. I hope they change ...

Hmm.. I use a controller because I'm a lefty I just simply can't play the game with the mouse on my right hand.. And the controller is just fine.. (I use XB 360 controller)

I can move the Radial Menu with the Left Stick when it's up, so not sure why you can't, unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying which could be possible on my end.

If your still in front of your computer when using the gamepad, the Keyboard is still usable, so you can easily use the keyboard shorcuts like "M" for Map, "I" for Inventory, etc.. so you don't always have to press start to go into the screens.

If anything the biggest problem with the gamepad, is the lack not have a visible cursor in the inventory screen (as that goes away completely), yet the cursor becomes active in the dialogue screen, so I know it's still there and wondering why it doesn't comeback in the inventory screen or journal screen.

Also, if you go the Character screen with the game-pad and the "attributes" section, everything scrolls WAAAAYY to fast with the gamepad.. And there's literally no way around that, just by chance you have to land on the right ability you would like to see.

Other then those 2 issues the controller is fine and already beat the game once solely played with the controller.. Now hopefully when patch comes out I'm able to bind the arrow keys and numpad keys, and then I see see how a keyboard/mouse feels finally.

Yet K+M had to make a compromise for something that doesn't even work as good..

@mp84, the radial menu looks like it was designed with the rotation of the analog stick in mind, not selection of the icons like a keyboard having to move through each of the signs or traps individually. I should be able to point my stick in the direction I want and just tap A.

why the hell does anyone want to use a thumbstick when they can use a mouse?

*facepalm*

When your a lefty it kind of limits your options.. And yes some lefites have adapted to using their computer as if they were a righty (mouse in the right hand etc.).. But i simply can't, and I'm sure I'm not the only one..

Plus the controller options in this game is actually not bad, so I honestly can't see that as a complaint, if anything the complaint should be the limited options to change your keybindings which was utterly absurd, and hopefully the patch will fix that.

I'm lefty also. I use mouse on left side but mousebuttons are same as right handed would use. And WASD doesn't work for me in any game, so it's gotta be arrows. And It's really weird oversight in any game if you cannot chance controls wich ever you like.
So W2 completely supports xbox-controller for windows? Does it have working rumble-effect?