Proton Experimental brings controller support for more launchers

Valve released an update to Proton Experimental for Linux and Steam Deck today which continues to expand the controller support available for various games launchers, amongst a bunch of other improvements.

Continuing to make use of the open source tool Xalia, the controller support was expanded to include launchers for Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Special Edition, and partial support of Fallout 3 (standard and GOTY edition).

Interesting to see Fallout 4 in that list, which had the launcher hidden in the next gen update recently on Steam Deck. Although you can get it back with a simple Steam launch option of: SteamDeck=0 %command%

Pictured - Fallout 4

Other improvements include:

• Fixed Apex Legends not starting after a recent game update (previously in Proton Hotfix).
• Fix The Finals wrongly detecting button mashing (previously in Proton Hotfix).
• Added raw HID support for VKB Gunfighter SCG.
• Improved font rendering in Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop.
• Fixed video playback in Twisted Sails.
• Made Xalia hidden when no controller is plugged in.
• Improved controller input support for Tower Princess.

Valve also marked Alpha League as now playable as of this update. See all in the changelog.