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    Fix for controllers for farcry new dawn and farcry 5

    THIS SHOULD FIX FOLLOWING CONTROLLERS "XBOX ONE, DUALSHOCK 4" , SO THEY WORK PROPERLY IF GAME PURCHASED THROUGH STEAM:

    Must follow exactly. This is a UPLAY / STEAM conflict. What you’ll see is that when you load the game with STEAM the bindings for some buttons disappear somehow inside the game thus there is no Reverse, Ascend, or Descend for vehicles. Do this and it should work and the only way I have gotten the buttons to work:

    1) Go to Steam Big Picture Mode and go to Controller settings.
    2) UN -CHECK all boxes so there are NO controllers checked. THIS STEP IS IMPORTANT AND MUST BE DONE
    3) Completely EXIT and CLOSE Steam.
    4) Open UPLAY.
    5) Have controller plugged into PC Select game and LAUNCH.
    " Use Xbox One, or Dualshock4 controller ".
    6) Play game!
    7) PLEASE RESPOND THAT IT HAS WORKED ON THIS FORUM TO HELP OTHERS SEE!!
    NOTE: Xbox 360 gampad not working with New Dawn!
    NOTE: Nintendo Switch Pro Controller not Supported!! I could not get to function.
    NOTE: STEAM CONTROLLER NOT TESTED. SORRY I DO NOT HAVE ONE.

    If the above directions followed, the controller and all buttons will work. What you are doing is loading the game from UPLAY. As you will see UPLAY will then Launch the desired game through Steam but with NO CONTROLLERS SELECTED IN STEAM CONTOLLER SETTINGS, the game will play with the UPLAY and Farcry game being played default controller settings and will bind the buttons correctly. I trust and hope this helps everyone with the controller issues.
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    Hey Dboy4778,

    Thank you for the report, this has been forwarded to the dev team for further investigation.

    More information will be provided once we receive it.

    Thank you for the work-around!

    Thank you for your understanding
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    Im good alot of my favorite games are Ubisoft games so i love UPLAY. Controllers work perfectly fine through UPLAY!!
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    Hey Dboy4778,

    This worked like a charm for me, I was not getting the ability to reverse in cars or Descend in helicopters.

    I tried verified files within steam, tried to un-install and re-install and even tried to re-install to a new drive (because why not try it) and nothing worked until now.

    Thank you.
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    Hey Ubi-Swaggins,

    Please let them know this is still a thing. While the work around is fine, it would be nice to run the game from steam, normal without going through all this.

    Also, to note an issue I am also having, when my Controller falls asleep (plugged in or not) only with Far Cry New Dawn, the game refuses to let me use it again once the controller is back on and I can only use keyboard and mouse until i restart the game.

    I hope this is fixed soon.

    Thank you.
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    Update: Xbox 360 Controller Not Supported with New Dawn. Xbox One and Dual Shock 4 work perfect using this method.

    My pleasure Lockaboss glad this helped you like it did me. Hope it helps everybody that was going crazy like I was lololol.
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    Hey Lockaboss,

    It has been reported to the dev team and they are investigating it

    Cheers.
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    Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

    I can finally descend my helicopter and descend when grappling! Try to imagine going half way thru the game using my 360 controller and keyboard all at the same time

    Thank you!
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    Sad to say this didn't work for me, I'm using a generic weird Xbox One controller and while I can use Steam to force the game to recognise it by using the "force on" option (all other options do nothing), the left trigger for reversing in a vehicle as well as the B button for descending in a helicopter are both unbound. Any other options with Steam or other programs result in the controller not working at all, the exact same problem is in Far Cry 5 as well, here's some visual proof if it helps.



    As you can see, both actions are unbound and broken.

    I really hope this issue can be fixed for both games but the fact that its a bug from Far Cry 5 that has somehow persisted all the way to New Dawn tells me its just not on their radar, I wish Uplay had a refund policy. haha
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