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6cminganioyd
Seasoned Newcomer
6 months ago

Second controller setting issue

Hi,

 

hope somebody can help with the following issue:

 

System: XBox Series X / Game: EA FC 26 / Issue: Controller Setting using 2 local controller ( Series X Controllers )

 

Today I wanted to play FC 26 with a friend doing a local match (Kick Off with two Controller).

 

Following Issue, I am playing classic settings on the controller the friend of mine is playing alternative, thats where the nightmare began.

 

We changed the settings for Controller 2 into alternative, system asked us if we want to save. We used the empty space to save the settings. We started the game but the settings were not changed (still classic on both controllers). We entered the settings again (already in a match) it changed both controllers into alterantive settings.

 

We tried it for at least one hour in different ways to have controller 1 in classic mode and controller 2 in alternative after 1 hour it worked for one match but the setting stepped back into classic after and it was again not possible to do the settings.

 

I googled for a fix/work around, seems others have the same problem (even on other systems like PS) but there is no temp or perm solution

 

We have changed the Controllers from 1st to 2nd and from 2nd to 1st. We have connected another Controller (XBox one) we created another Profile for Controller 2 and tried the Guest account tried to connect the controller with the USB-C cable. Nothing worked! I never faced such an issue with any other Game.

 

Is there any solution for this problem I was not thinking about or I did not find online?

 

Thanks for your feedback.

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  • ReyDaniel852's avatar
    ReyDaniel852
    Rising Newcomer
    2 days ago

    I'm a little late, but I ran into the same problem today, and in case it helps anyone, I thought I'd share the solution my friend and I came up with:


    In our case, I started the game with Profile A and Controller A, but it was my friend with Controller B who wanted to change the settings.

    The thing is, the game seems to have trouble recognizing that Controller B belongs to another player if it isn’t linked to a profile (in fact, we couldn’t even link it, but anyway), so if you change the controls, they apply to both controllers.

    What we did was simply start the game with the same Profile A but using Controller B. It sounds like a bit of an obvious solution, but basically the game seems to understand better that control changes should only be made on the controller that started the game.

    So basically that’s it: start the game with the controller you want to change the controls on, so the game detects it as the main player. Then, if the second player wants to change their controls too, there are still issues, but at least it seems like a simple solution for the first player.

    And like I said, it sounds obvious, but I don’t get why it’s such a hassle to set up a simple different controller configuration for each player. If I want to shoot with the joystick, just let me do it, **bleep** it!

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