Controller support

New School 99 can be played with a controller. Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo and most other pads work, and controller support is on by default: plug one in and play. You can switch between the controller and your keyboard and mouse at any time.

If you already play through Steam Input, DS4Windows or reWASD, nothing changes. The game notices and steps aside, so your setup works as before.

Buttons are shown as Xbox / PlayStation. Hover over an icon to see its name.

Limitations

The controller's buttons can't select everything. Some things in the world can't be reached with /, / or / /. For those, use mouse mode: open a panel, like the inventory, click , move the mouse onto the thing with , then press / to left-click or / to right-click.
/ goes to the most likely thing. It skips signposts and plain furniture so that it picks what you most likely want. To reach something else nearby, step through with / /, or press / for all the options on your target.

Buttons

Button	What it does
	Move. Tilt further to run.
	Sprint
	Turn the camera
/	Attack. Hold it to keep attacking.
/	Dodge roll
	Lock on to an enemy. Flick to switch target. With a panel open, like the inventory, it switches on mouse mode instead.
/	Use what's in front of you: Bank on a banker, Trade on a shopkeeper, Attack on an enemy
/	All the options on that target
/ /	Step through the things near you
/	The action wheel: world map, travel, Pantheon, stats, chat, friends, quests and Combat
/	Inventory /, Equipment /, Prayer /, Magic /
Hold /	Your combat hotbar
Hold / +	Switch the camera's zoom level, when no panel is open
/	Use the mouse: shows the mouse cursor, and pressing it again goes back to the camera. Same as the C key.
/	The Menu. Hold it for the Controller window.

Moving a stick cancels a walk to something, and / leaves a conversation at once.

Combat hotbar

Hold /, then:

/ / / / fire slots 1 to 4: your special attack, then your god powers.
/ fires slots 5 to 8.
/ fires slot 9.
/ switches between your Melee, Ranged and Magic bars.

Menus and windows

The bank, Grand Exchange, shops, dialogues and the Menu all work on /:

/ selects.
/ shows the options.
/ is the quick option, like Withdraw-All.
/ goes back.
/ / switch tabs.

Chat, searches and amounts get an on-screen keyboard with a number pad. You can play the whole intro on a controller.

Button prompts on the hotbar and around the game switch to your controller's buttons (Xbox, PlayStation or Switch) as soon as you pick it up, and back to keys when you use the keyboard.

Mouse mode

With a panel open, like the inventory, click to switch on mouse mode. then moves the mouse, so you can use anything you could with a real mouse, including things in the world that the controller's buttons can't select.

/ is left click.
/ is right click, for all the options.

Without a panel open, locks on to an enemy instead.

Controller settings

Hold / to open the Controller window. There you can:

Rebind any button. Pick one that's already taken and the two swap.
Choose the Default or Southpaw preset.
Set stick deadzones, how sprint works, camera speed and invert, and aim assist.
Choose which button prompts to show, and whether / or / confirms.
Reset everything to the defaults.

These settings are saved on your PC.