Left 4 Dead on PC with game controller

Hachface

So I recently purchased Left 4 Dead on PC. Even though I know a mouse and keyboard combination is best, all my friends play on the 360 and so I want to get good at using a gamepad. I use Xpadder to map my gamepad buttons to the default L4D commands because L4D's support for gamepads is wonky (right analog stick won't change the perspective left or right, only up and down).

I'm having a lot of difficulty finding the optimal Xpadder emulation speed to make the right analog stick feel right. It's either too responsive or not responsive enough. What settings should I be using? Or are there better solutions?

delphinus

yeah there should be an enable gamepad option in the options menu.

easiest option is to get a 360 controller, get the drivers for pc here

reset the computer and then plug and play

set your sensitivity settings then have fun

weijiesen

ANY controller can be used when playing Left 4 Dead. You do NOT need to go out and buy a 360 controller and download any drivers. Just go to the config folder and open 360controller.cfg with notepad. Now change the values to match your buttons. It may take some trial and error. but not more than 10 minutes I'd say. You don't need to waste money or time getting a 360 controller especially if you have a PS3 controller or Logitech or Microsquash or whatever you like just keep using it. If you want to know how to make both analogs work properly i can help with that. I'm using a PS2 controller to play L4D and it works fine ah

weijiesen

ANY controller can be used when playing Left 4 Dead. You do NOT need to go out and buy a 360 controller and download any drivers. Just go to the config folder and open 360controller.cfg with notepad. Now change the values to match your buttons. It may take some trial and error. but not more than 10 minutes I'd say. You don't need to waste money or time getting a 360 controller especially if you have a PS3 controller or Logitech or Microsquash or whatever you like just keep using it. If you want to know how to make both analogs work properly i can help with that. I'm using a PS2 controller to play L4D and it works fine ah

you can set the Z AXIS and turn autoaim off therefore you have complete control of the aiming. You can set the analog sticks so that one walks and the other strafs. you dont need to set the autoaim off because it sucks and doesnt work well anyway but if you insist just open the console and type sk_autoaim_mode 0 ok? dont forget after you've changed your controller settings in notepad of that 360controller.cfg that in the game you need to manually load it in the console just type exec 360controller.cfg ok? its quite easy really i dont understand why EVERYONE keeps "insisting" that you "need" an xbox360 controller when really you dont. come on people try to keep up has NO ONE heard of "scripting" sheeeesh

YourFatAuntSusan

I know your friends play L4D on the 360, but intentionally handicapping yourself on the PC seems silly.

Apogee

Yeah, screw the gamepad. Stick with the mouse and keyboard and laugh at them.

Hachface

Apogee wrote: »

Yeah, screw the gamepad. Stick with the mouse and keyboard and laugh at them.

This works until I go over to with them, and they laugh at me because I suck with the gamepad.

proXimity

weijiesen wrote: »

ANY controller can be used when playing Left 4 Dead.

This is irrelevant, he's trying to get better with the 360 controller specifically.