Setup Steam Controller Activator for Hotbar Swap

Grim Dawn498 views8 favorites2 min readby naiUpdated Feb 7, 2020View on Steam ↗

Step-by-Step Procedure

Step 1
- Turn on and connect your controller
- Enable Steam's support for your controller, go to Settings(top right corner) > Controller Settings
  • Image below is in Big Picture Mode (BPM)
  • If not in BPM, it should be in Steam(top left corner) > Settings > Controller > General Controller Settings
Step 2
- Select Grim Dawn from your Library > Manage Game > Controller Configuration
  • If not in BPM, there is a text link for [Controller Configuration] when game is chosen(not yet launched) from Library
Step 3
- Choose your desired button to configure
  • For this guide I chose [Right Trigger]
Step 4
- Select/Press the box under [Full Pull Action]
  • On first time configuring, without any activators yet, this would only bring up a list of ingame actions and some options below (as seen in Step 5)
  • If there are already activators, UI shown will be similar to Step 6
Step 5
- Select/Press [SHOW ACTIVATORS]
Step 6
- Change [Activation Type] to [Start Press]
Step 7
- Select/Press [ADD ACTIVATOR]
  • This will add a second activator [REGULAR PRESS] to the right of the [START PRESS]
Step 8
- Select/Press the second activator [REGULAR PRESS] and change its [Activation Type] to [Release Press]
- Select/Press [Binding] and set it to [Hotbar Swap]
  • Image below shows what the output should look like

Closing Notes

  • Assuming everything was setup correctly, holding [Right Trigger] should display Config 2 hotbar and on-release should revert back to Config 1 hotbar (hopefully enhancing/easing your gameplay experience)
  • I assume this should also work with generic controllers as long as support for those controllers are enabled in Steam's General Controller Setting
  • Also pretty sure there are other creative ways in using Steam's Controller Activators (I only learned about it recently after starting this game)
  • And as always enjoy everyone and hope you found this guide useful o/

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