Guild Wars 2

https://gitlab.com/Espionage724/AntiMicro-Profiles/blob/master/Guild-Wars-2.amgp

I had interest in playing Guild Wars 2 with a controller on my HTPC. My main points for figuring out how to make this happen was:

• Had to support or be adaptable to the Xbox 360 controller I already had
• Worked on Linux and was FLOSS
• Didn’t require too much investment time initially in-case it didn’t work out

With that in-mind, I ended up using AntiMicro as the controller binding software. It worked with my X360 controller, ran on Linux, and was FLOSS. In order to test it out, I looked for some pre-existing profiles. I found this one: https://redd.it/51uk51 which looks nice, but required a re-bind of most of my key in-game, and at the time, this looked like more effort than I cared to do initially. So with that, I just ended up making my own profile (which ended up taking way more time than just re-mapping my keys for the above profile, but oh well :p).

The buttons the controller map to are all labelled in AntiMicro, but here they are:

• Left-stick is WASD.
• Right-stick controls the camera the way it would if you held RMB down and moved the cursor.
• Skills are on the right-side of the controller (RB, Y, X, B, A), and without the modifier button held down, they activate skills 1-5 respectively. With the modifier button held down (LB), the same buttons activate skills 6-0 respectively.
• Jump is LS-button and Dodge is RS-button. Guide is escape.
• Left Trigger is RMB and Right Trigger is LMB.
• D-Pad handles profession skills. Holding down D-Pad down instead of pressing it will activate the 5th skill that some classes have.
• Back handles interaction and if held-down, opens the map.
• Start handles cycling of targets and if held-down, swaps weapons.

The controller layout applies directly with the default keybindings in GW2. I’ve played around casually with this layout and I find it complete, but it could be possible it’s missing something major that I haven’t thought of (I’ve done no PvP/WvW or anything outside of basic map completion). I’d appreciate hearing about any suggestions though!

For the best experience in my case, I found some in-game settings should also be adjusted:

• Adjust Camera to Character Height (immersion)
• Fast With Range Indicator Ground Targeting
• Disable Double-Tap to Evade (LS controller movement causes a bunch of false-positives)
• Disable Right-Click to Attack/Interact (RS movement can sometimes switch targets)
• Enable Snap Ground Target to Current Target (easier targeting)
• Use Free Camera (I’m not entirely sure if I like it or not but it works well either way)