Textorio plays on a controller now.
Not a remap layer. The pad is made to look like the keyboard and mouse the game
already had, which is why it reaches all of it: every machine panel, the
research tree, the build list, the inventory, the Spiker's sockets. There are
about 45 separate panels in this game and not one of them has controller
specific code in it.
A virtual cursor does the work. It sends the same events a mouse sends, in the
same order, so building placement, drag to build and sweeping out a belt run
all behave the way they do with a mouse, because as far as the game is
concerned they are a mouse.
- Hold L2 for a second action on every button
- L2 plus the right stick scrolls any panel
- L1 inventory, R1 grenade, R2 fire, R3 rotate
- Triangle mines, Square engages, Circle cancels
There is a Controls screen in the main menu and in the pause menu, with
tabs for Keyboard, PlayStation and Xbox. It reads the real bindings rather than
a list I typed out, so it cannot drift out of date.
Fixed
- The mote destroyed everything it drove over. It was being registered in the
spatial grid, which holds one thing per tile, so crossing a belt overwrote it.
Existing saves repair themselves on load. - The steel furnace charged you 90 kW it never used.
- Starting the game with a controller left it silent for the whole session,
even if you picked the mouse up later. - A controller could not get past the name screen in the intro.
- Scrolling a panel fired the Spiker, once per scroll, into your own base.
- Circle closed windows but would not cancel a building you were placing.
- Ten icons rendered as colour emoji instead of the monochrome glyphs they
were meant to be. - Four hover styles had been dead for everyone, controller or not, because one
bad selector in a list silently kills the whole rule.
Changed
- Triangle mines and Square engages. Square is where your thumb rests, so the
button you reach for in a fight is the one that is easiest to hit. - Controls moved out of Settings and into its own menu entry.
- The mote panel was rebuilt on the standard window style.
Notes
Single player is fully playable on a controller. Multiplayer still needs a
keyboard for the parts where you type a name, an address or a chat line.
If you have been playing a while, a Steam review helps more than you would
think. Honest ones. If the game turns out not to be for you, that is useful to
know too.