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Posted by: tswehr.2143

tswehr.2143

What can I use to stream gw2 to the tv. I’ve looked at steamlink but i can find if steamlink supports games outside their library. I am not spending $300 on a NVIDIA shield. I also can’t run the HDMI cable from the PC to TV unless I drill kitten in the floor too feed it through the crawl space.

In the end I want to map a controller to the game somehow so i can relax on the couch and get some dailies done.

I have seen some videos where the steam controller is used. I’m not entirely sure on it all though.

Didn’t know where to post this so its here.

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Posted by: hornswroggle.8023

hornswroggle.8023

GW2 itself has no Controller Support so you’d need 3rd party Software to map it.

Also mapping all necessary functions to a usual Controller afaik is pretty kitten challenging. Let’s go throuh it:
Camera and movement can be done by a 2-Stick mapping, especially with action cam and ground target assist.
Then there are 5 weapon skills, a weapon swap (or drop bundle) button, an interact button, the heal skill, 3 utility skills, the elite skill and up to 5 class specific skills. For simplyfication I’ll assume you play necromancer who only has the deathshroud. That’s still 13 inputs which is more than a controller usually has buttons, so you already need a “Mode-switch” technique via the shoulder and trigger buttons.
You could save yourself the dodge by using directional doubletap.
While this all looks feasible, bear in mind that you sometimes need densely timed actions for decent play, which can prove difficult with such a setup.
Also you still need to emulate a mouse let alone for inventory management.

Tl;dr: Controller Setup may be possible, but very clunky and difficult.

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Posted by: tswehr.2143

tswehr.2143

Helpful thank you.

Can this be done with Steam-Link and Steam Controller? There are other games that I play that already work with the Steam products anyway and it would be nice to have a universal controller for all my PC games.

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Posted by: Kiza.5630

Kiza.5630

What can I use to stream gw2 to the tv. I’ve looked at steamlink but i can find if steamlink supports games outside their library.

You can add any external game to your steam library and stream that one to the steam link. Works with GW2. But I gave up on the controller. Really only plays well with keyboard and mouse.