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Steam News28 January 20251y ago

Controller Support Beta Testing - Now Available

Hello Chrysalis community! I just pushed a Beta release for controller support on all platforms! To opt-in, right click Chrysalis in your Steam library and go to Properties. Then go to the Betas tab and select "patch1.

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Hello Chrysalis community! I just pushed a Beta release for controller support on all platforms! To opt-in, right click Chrysalis in your Steam library and go to Properties. Then go to the Betas tab and select "patch1.5-beta". You might also need to tell Steam to treat your controller like a normal gamepad: go to the Controller tab to do that. Click the "Controller Configurator" link. Change the template to "Gamepad" (instead of Keyboard/Mouse).

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changedHello Chrysalis community! I just pushed a Beta release for controller support on all platforms! To opt-in, right click Chrysalis in your Steam library and go to Properties. Then go to the Betas tab and select "patch1.5-beta". You might also need to tell Steam to treat your controller like a normal gamepad: go to the Controller tab to do that. Click the "Controller Configurator" link. Change the template to "Gamepad" (instead of Keyboard/Mouse).
removedIMPORTANT NOTE: your beta saves are NOT backwards compatible with the normal game. You will be able to load your current saved game and saved options, but if you swap back to the non-beta version of the game, your saves/options will no longer work. Your achievements and scores will not be affected. If you want to save your current game and options before switching to the beta, go to your saves folder (listed below) and rename your save.dat and opt.dat files to something else like "save-old.dat" and "opt-old.dat".
changedSave file locations:Windows: C:\Users\ [Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\Chrysalis. The drive letter might not be C if you have a different setup. Linux: /home/[Your Username]/.local/share/Chrysalis Mac: /Users/[Your Username]/Library/Application Support/Chrysalis

Load the game, plug in your controller (if necessary) and go to Options. Change your input method to Controller. The keybinds will be listed below that. You may want to re-enable Game Tips to relearn the controls since there are some differences between the mouse/kb and controller schemes.

IMPORTANT NOTE: your beta saves are NOT backwards compatible with the normal game. You will be able to load your current saved game and saved options, but if you swap back to the non-beta version of the game, your saves/options will no longer work. Your achievements and scores will not be affected. If you want to save your current game and options before switching to the beta, go to your saves folder (listed below) and rename your save.dat and opt.dat files to something else like "save-old.dat" and "opt-old.dat".

After playing, please post about your experience here in the comments, on the Steam forums, or on Discord. I'm especially interested in the experience of Steam Deck users since I don't have one myself. Thanks in advance!

Save file locations:

Windows

C:\Users\ [Your Username]\AppData\Roaming\Chrysalis. The drive letter might not be C if you have a different setup.

Linux

/home/[Your Username]/.local/share/Chrysalis Mac: /Users/[Your Username]/Library/Application Support/Chrysalis

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