Re: Controller on Steam PC for Mass Effect Legendary

MELE has native controller support, but once you are past the main menu and are into ME1 there is no controller support. Is this to be added later or a bug?

refunded the game until this is worked out ☹️

Controller support works fine.

To get past the bug where opening ME1 suddenly switches you back to mouse and keyboard (with controller non-functional), do the following:

Go to Steam > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings 

Now just check the box near the controller type that you have.

Worked 100% fine for me after that.

That didnt work for me and tried both xbox and ps4 controller too

Hey, I've been testing ME1 with my controller and it's worked fine. However there's been lots of reports of potential conflicts with other devices connected via USB. Can you remove anything not necessary, and try again?

There are also some steps here which may help: https://answers.ea.com/t5/Mass-Effect-Legendary-Edition/ME-Legendary-edition-controller-not-detected/m-p/10339435#M1247

decided to purchase the game today; and I have had this issue.  after implementing and trying multiple work arounds suggested elsewhere; the best I could do is to get my xbox 360 controller working in the LE main menu.  try to load a game and lose the controller.  even got the steam pop up that it was loading the controller settings.

would be nice to have this working as advertised.  have refunded the game from steam until can play it properly

I had a flight stick plugged into my pc and once I unplugged it, it works great!  Thanks!

Enable the Steam Overlay in your Steam settings and for some reason the controller is recognised.

Didn’t work for me

Still nothing. Game on steam doesn’t support controllers. Doesn’t matter which I use, what settings, the game doesn’t support controllers on steam. Refund requested. This shouldn’t be a thing still. I’d suggest just removing the line from the store page about controller support existing. 

Not always. 

Thufir18​ 

I normally don't play with a controller, but I tested it just now and it works flawless for me. 
Something on your system interferers.  

If anyone is still having this problem, this is how I overcome it.

When you get to the Mass Effect title screen that says "Press Any Button" and no buttons work, hold down the "steam" button and press a trigger (simulates mouse click.) From there, the controller is magically recognized. Your mileage may vary, but this was the only thing that worked for me after trying every other "fix" I could find.