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The stadia controller needs a complete UI overhaul.

When you read a book and turn a page your character moves
You can't read spells in your tool bar, for example if I play a hex, I can't see what the hex spell is.
The ability to ungroup characters is broken.
The tooltip is out of sync in the inventory/equipment. It shows the wrong one.

While I appreciate most people are on keyboard and mouse the game is pretty much unplayable with controller in its current state.

Please sort for next patch

controller is actually not "officially" supported during EA from what I read somewhere. so perhaps consider it nice of them to already offer beta/alpha controller support at this stage, instead of nothing. I do agree that there is a lot of work there to be done before release but I hope they concentrate on more substantial things first. Small tip as well, if something is too hard with controller, simply switch to MK for a sec on a different screen, that's the beauty of stadia, right?

Thanks SerraSerra. I wasn't aware. I might wait a bit then and look forward to the full game.

No problem, why not try it with MK instead ? I found that once you get to know how the game is "supposed" to work with MK, switching to sometimes buggy and often glitchy controller was a lot easier as at least it gave me an idea what was supposed to be possible what not

I am in complete agreement on Stadia controller UI needing work. I have been providing feedback about it since early access started. I appreciate what Shadowmin said about support not being "official", but we are 3 quarters into early access now and when the game was revealed it was done so on Stadia's stage and the primary Stadia experience is with Chromecast Ultra and the Stadia controller, so I cannot give Larian a pass on this one. If there was only going to be keyboard and mouse support and fixes throughout early access, then they should have politely declined Google's offer the announce on that stage. I bought Stadia specifically, so I could play BG3 early access. It is the ONLY game I own on Stadia. If there is no intention to give love to the folks who purchased early access on Stadia, then they should have just announced a Steam only early access. There has been ample time to make controller improvements. Some of the feecback I have provided are not even major changes like UI overhaul. I would even be happy to see a sensitivity option to make selecting things easier with a controller because Stadia does not have one in their options.

Don't get me wrong, I love the game and all the incredible work Larian has done. I am just disappointed that they presented the game as something you can do with Stadia and then have not provided many improvements to help Stadia players.