It’s not mentioned often but one thing neither video goes over is that if you are on windows 11 play in editor seems to be flaky detecting multiple gamepads with unreal engine 5.1 if your using play in editor. You can however test in standalone as long as you’re certain both controllers are indeed working properly and showing up in device manager and appear under your device list in control panel. The bugs mentioned are simply around the skip keyboard input with enhanced input system in ue5.1 and the strange focus behavior of the editor in windows 11 seeming to compound making a lot of people give up because things just don’t work the way they did in ue4. I’m the author of the local multiplayer template and have a support discord for people using the template. I hope you get around your blockers. Happy developing 
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