PS3 / XBOX controller support

[jdraper12]

This game still doesn't fail to impress me after playing Tremulous to death - the constant updates and support are great!
I'm curious, however: after a long and arduous process of getting my Dualshock 3 controller to work flawlessly with Ubuntu 14.04 and, in turn, with steam, I'm wondering if Unvanquished has any built-in joystick support or if anyone has had any luck getting their gamepads to work with this game? Would be amazing as there certainly are enough buttons to match the bindings!

[kharnov]

We dropped controller support for the meantime because we are in the process of rewriting the engine in C++. If this is a strongly desired community feature, then we will do it again in beta, in a much cleaner way than with the code we inherited.

[jdraper12]

Oh I see, that's quite understandable seeing as the game's in alpha! Controller support is notoriously buggy from what I've heard and experienced (even in fully released games). Cheers for replying; it's great to see an awesome game being actively developed!

[Ishq]

I think we still have the native SDL2 joystick/gamepad support. Try it and see what happens.

[jdraper12]

It'll be a project setting up the mappings and events handling and whatnot but I'll give it a shot! Thanks