Interrupt enemies with Right and Left Trigger the same way to do with mouse buttons: hold Left Trigger while you tap Right Trigger.Much of the basic play should be somewhat familiar to Elder Scrolls controller users - block with Left Trigger, basic attack with Right Trigger, Triangle to jump, click Left Stick to sneak, etc.I also tried to maintain a sort of "Feng Shui" with the controls - here are some key features about this profile that may not evident from the diagram: Note that while a DualShock 4 is shown here, I’m not (yet) using the touchpad or PS button so you should be able to set this ControllerMate profile up similarly for an XBOX 360 controller, DualShock 3, or just about any modern controller with the "standard" set of sticks, triggers, and buttons.Ĭonceptually, I tried to maintain some Elder Scrolls basics while incorporating the fact that we now have 6 disparate attacks we can use at any given moment. Here is the layout diagram for my profile:
Please enjoy - and I welcome all questions, comments, and constructive feedback!įirst things first, before you just download and implement some random stranger’s controller profile, you should probably study the layout and make sure it’s something you can play with. This is going to be a pretty long post, so I’m going to package the sections up in spoiler tags to make it more digestible. I’m going to present my controller layout, provide my profile file, and give some instructions on importing it to ControllerMate. If you take the time to learn it, I’m sure you’ll feel the same. It costs $25 and has quite a learning curve, depending on how deep you want to get into it, but the power and flexibility it brings to the controller set up - not just for ESO, but for any other games or applications - makes it 100% worth the cost in my opinion.
The one I’m using is called ControllerMate.
If you’re using Windows there are many options that work well (I happily used Xpadder in the earlier Windows-only beta sessions), but on Mac there are fewer options. ZOS has stated that this is not going to happen in the desktop version of the game, and they recommend using a 3rd party Controller Keyboard/Mouse bridge. I’ve been seeing a lot of posts requesting controller support in ESO.