Playing Eu4 with the Steam Controller

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Hello,

I've read quite a bit about the Steam Controller and how it is supposed to make mouse and keyboard driven games playable on a controller. The question remaining is: Does it work with EU4? Has anyone of you already tried playing games (PD titels in particular) with the controller and would be willing to share?
 
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Hello,

I've read quite a bit about the Steam Controller and how it is supposed to make mouse and keyboard driven games playable on a controller. The question remaining is: Does it work with EU4? Has anyone of you already tried playing games (PD titels in particular) with the controller and would be willing to share?

Eh, based on the review I saw the Steam controller has a vaguely trackpad-like mechanism that kinda-sorta mimics mouse movement. Other than that, all of its buttons can be bound to different keys. Both of those can be construed as good things, but there will remain any number of games that heavily favor mouse+keyboard.

In EU4, all you really need is the mouse and the spacebar. So if you can tolerate the trackpad experience for the former, then you're good. If not, then you're not. I'm leaning towards not, but at least EU4 doesn't require fast reflexes and complicated key combos.
 
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I tried playing ck2 with the controller, and if you have the right controller setup it definitely seems doable. I would say it's most likely preferable to play with mouse and keyboard, but if you don't mind the trackpad it'll definitely work. Someone just needs to bind the keys to the right buttons on the controller, which I don't think is too difficult. All the keys one will most likely need would be: pause, speed 1-5 and the trackpad.
 
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Yes.

Iirc @Shams was showing eu4 with a steamcontroller to the press at pdxcon 2014
 
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It worked decently 1½ years ago - it works a lot better with the improved controller.

We're also updating the default controller scheme so it's somewhat more optimized.

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Hmm. this is really interesting. Steam box is something I'd consider next games machine purchase.