u/MiniMouse2309

I can’t believe I need to say this, but please uninstall the Essential mod. If you want to play online with friends, use the Worldhost mod, or the e4mc mod, there’s 0 reasons to use Essential.

Edit: Essential is literal bloatware (like others mentioned, filled with microtransactions and completely unnecessary things so that they can more easily collect users data), and borderline malware (a few users mentioned that the patch no longer works? If this is true and they crash your game for having the patch installed, it IS malware).

I am not sure about the current situation, but the developers also were pushing against making the mod opensource, a huge red flag with any software that collects user data (especiallyfor a Minecraft mod). I think right now they have a version that is sort of open source, but given their past, I highly doubt that it is the same as the actual version users are able to install.

It is very sad to see that people install it just for the online feature, not knowing about the much better alternatives I mentioned before

Several years ago I used to play Battlefield 4 almost everyday with an Xbox controller. Today I tried to play as normal, but now my controller is acting very strange.

What used to happen:

Plugging in my xbox controller would immediately work, no drivers nor mapping required (if I recall correctly, the mappings were exactly the same as the console version of the game)

What happens now:

Plugging in the controller will correctly let me navigate the menu, look up servers, etc…

However, once the gameplay starts, the mappings will be different to how they are mapped in the settings (for example, the trigger does not shoot, instead, the A button is mapped to both Jump and Shoot). My mappings settings are exactly the same, and remapping does not work to fix the issue. I have always played on controller because I started playing back on the Xbox 360, so I got used to the controls (besides, I find flying very uncomfortable with keyboard and mouse, and 90% of my gameplay is flying).

Has anyone experienced something similar? Same PC, same controller, and same Battlefield 4 account. Last time I played when it worked correctly, the EA Launcher was still called Origin, so it has been a while.