for those of you who have played on console, how does the game work with a controller? i have a gaming PC but id rather play on xbox tbh, unless the game is really gimped on console
It's not too bad at all. There's a few quirky bits, but you adjust to em.
For general movement you just use the left analog for direct control vs clicking. If you need to stand still and go into a more cursor mode to look around or select something you can toggle it with clicking the left stick. There's the ability to hold A/X pending on console to do a radius search and brings up a menu of every container, torch, item in the radius that can be interacted with.
For the most part you can just run up to stuff and it'll be selected letting you can press A to do the default action or press X/square to open the more detailed alternatives.
Combat is pretty obviously untouched(minus using a button to switch to/from the hotbar), though I do know console get the LB/RB and L1/R1 cycle through targets. You get 5 smaller hotbars vs bigger across the screen ones.
The only loss/negative is you can't tell what effects are on someone, unless it's under examine. I forget at the moment, but possibly there. It's also easy to interact with the wrong thing such as stealing a pot vs talking to an npc if you're too reckless. Other than that I've not had any real issues.
Oh, nearly forgot... managing the inventory/party etc is a bit weird, but not bad. Say you want to change someone's weapon, you gotta hold RT/R2 and go to the appropriate petal. If you don't wanna open one of those menus then tough, you're commited once you let go of the trigger. Right trigger handles journel/inventory/etc while left trigger handles who you're controlling and their grouping/seperation. So yeah, it takes a moment to adjust, but could have been much worse.
One of rhe reasons I adore this dual lone woolf run. Managing two characters is so much easier. ---