UE5 thinking of poor people who only have 1 controller.

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So I understand that “Skip Assigning Gamepad to Player 1” no longer works in UE5… but I’m just thinking of say a younger brother who wants to play couch coop with an older sibling, but they only have a computer, keyboard, mouse and game controller.

Using the new “Enhanced Input Local Player Subsystem” is there a way to achieve this? I want one user to be able to control a character with the keyboard and mouse, and the other user to be able to use the gamepad controller.

…I don’t want them to have to buy another controller.

Any solutions other than some manually written code to direct the inputs from the player controller 0 to both characters?

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Yes ! I’d really like to know a solution too, because I’m developing a multiplayer racing game and this is an important issue…

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there’s a way, one of my coworkers was able to make it work when using the suggestion from this post:

Hope it helps!