TL;DR
Allow players to use the traditional Desktop (KBM) UI layout while keeping Controller/Gamepad input active, especially for Steam Deck and trackpad users.

What?
Add an interface toggle in the settings that decouples the visual UI layout from the active input mode.

Currently, the UI layout ...

... find into the config menus.


If you change the control scheme to "keyboard+mouse", you can get the standard UI layout, but you lose all of the gamepad functionality. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to get the standard UI layout while using a gamepad.


Understood. I'll open a post to ...

... change it to the same as Desktop? Cannot find into the config menus.


If you change the control scheme to "keyboard+mouse", you can get the standard UI layout, but you lose all of the gamepad functionality. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to get the standard UI layout while using a gamepad.

... is primarily to support Steam Input's native/action-based mode rather than relying on Steam translating controller inputs into ordinary keyboard/gamepad inputs. This would enable things such as contextual action sets/layers, better use of Steam Controller/Steam Deck controls, and mod-defined ...

... makes it possible to determine the character's direction and magnitude of walking state. When using a keyboard, magnitude is always 1, but on a gamepad, magnitude is proprotional to the magnitude of the character's stick pitch from [0,0]. This field would help mods read the state of the player's ...

... on macOS ARM. Steam reports that the game is running, and the factorio process remains alive, but no game window appears. Launching with --nogamepad works immediately.

Note: The investigation and the working workaround above were identified with assistance from ChatGPT/Codex.

Environment ...

... console» games :
«Desktop» games are designed for a larger angle of view, so can afford to have more & smaller elements on screen (presuming similar eyesight) than «console» games.
(This in addition to mouse giving more precision than gamepad / touchscreen to interact with these smaller elements.)

... scale setting.

Mouse mode I quite like. But I do feel it would be significantly improved if it could automatically switch between mouse mode and gamepad mode. Games that do this seem to be using both the optical sensor and the gyroscope to determine what orientation the player is using the ...

... belt building to make a turn, the player can decide to change the direction after the turn by dragging in the opposite direction.
Don't change gamepad selection center when the character starts flying in mech armor. (https://forums.factorio.com/120769)
Improved the GUI responsiveness in the ...

... equipment, you can now click and drag to pick up, transfer, and fast-replace equipment.

Changes

Improve relative vehicle driving with gamepad in multiplayer, especially when shooting.
Included priority and train limit of train stop into blueprint parametrisation.
Changed pipette to ...

I just found this again after playing & dealing with gamepad issues while playing with keyboard, & I can say it's not gone away in keyboard/ mouse mode, but the --nogamepad works! & I'm excited to comfortably play again! I put this away for a while waiting for spaceage to come out. Thank you for the ...

I can't replicate the issue. I tried plugging and unplugging a few times, reconnecting Bluetooth.

I've seen similar gamepad USB issues a few times but never figured what's happening, best I can do is blame them on poor USB connections.

You can try enabling Steam Input and see what happens.

... to prevent a recycling loop. (https://forums.factorio.com/122574)

Changes

Tweaked how entities are selected in remote view when using a gamepad. The entity directly under the crosshair is much more likely to be selected.

Bugfixes

Fixed a desync related to building rails with rail ...

... handling input (SDL) in version 2.0.16, so maybe that fixed it.
If it's still happening, does the mouse have any proprietary software? Do you have gamepad/game controller connected to your PC?

Can you use a profiler to capture data for us to analyze? See https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p ...

... Fixed "Make it better" achievement not obtained when dropping modules in. (https://forums.factorio.com/116552)
Fixed dragging sliders with gamepad in free cursor mode.
Fixed a sound instance leak related to sound priority. (https://forums.factorio.com/120086)
Fixed that selection tool ...

Minor Features

Added gamepad stick sensitivity setting for map movement.
Selecting a spidertron remote selection in the quickbar which is for a different planet than the current one will center on the planet.

Bugfixes

Fixed that selecting a quality comparison option when "any" quality was ...

... but the tab for official layout is missing.

I would just recreate the layout for myself, and found out that the official layout is based on Gamepad with Mouse Trackpad, but not what all the buttons are mapped to. Just the defaults? And what about the back buttons, as I think they don't even ...

Hey there,
I've been using Steam Controller for some time, but rarely made use of the gamepad controls, favoring KB&M bindings.

One thing that I think works well is enabling scrolling in and out using Gyro as a scrollwheel. I have a config that will do that, enabling gyro scroll, when I press Y and ...

... 8192x12288
51.278 Factorio initialised
51.282 Steam Storage Quota: 23563/23841
54.648 Game controller disconnected: instance: 0, Steam Virtual Gamepad, Steam Virtual Gamepad
54.658 Joystick device disconnected: instance: 0, (nil)
63.814 Loading map /home/flish/.factorio/saves ...

... include "IOS_MFIJoystickUpdate" I realized I had a retro USB controller plugged into the Mac. When I removed that, the game launched correctly. I didn't think these were related because I never use that controller with Steam or Factorio. The controller is a Buffalo Classic USB Gamepad, model BSGP815GY