Controller stops working when AutoCast is enabled

[Keltin]

First off, Last Epoch is great, I just started playing, and really joining it. Thank you for making such a great game! I can’t wait to see where it goes in the future!

I use a controller when playing. I’m on computers all day, and so I get a lot of wrist/forearm/elbow pains, and I avoid them by swapping things up (trackpad on the left on my mac, mouse on the right on my pc, etc.).

I started playing a druid, and I’m using Ice Thorns, and with the instant cast and reduced cool down it really seems like it should be on autocast, and sensibly that is what the guides recommend. It does seem very odd that autocast is not an actual feature of the game, given that some skills seem designed to work with it … but ok. It then took me over an hour to get it working, because my keyboard doesn’t have a numlock, so I had to create custom macros, blah, blah, blah.

Finally, I get it working! Ice Thorns is autocasting! Wahooo! I grab my controller and … nothing happens. The buttons will still active abilities, but the joysticks no longer work. If I turn off the autocast, the controller immediately starts working fine. If I turn autocast back on, controller joysticks stop working again.

My ask:

• The controller should work with autocast turned on
• Autocast should be an actual feature.

Thanks!

[Shtrak]

This one is a bit touchy. Autocast is not a feature of the game. Actually, you’re trying to use something external to the game, that’s preventing the game from working.
So first, it’s not a bug in the game, it’s an unexpected and unwanted interaction.
And second, EHG said multiple times they want the skills to be used actively. They feel that if we need to autocast a skill, then this skill has a design flaw. Long term, their goal is to get rid of autocast, by changing the skills. They will change them in a way that we feel it’s better use them actively.
So for these two reasons, I’m not sure EHG will want to troubleshoot this problem.