I had no problems until now, I happily reached the Flooded District when suddenly a weird issue cropped up today.

Up till now I was playing with Xbox 360 controller and using super convenient F5 and F9 to quicksave and quickload. I could easily switch between kb+m and gamepad controls because the game was reacting to both control methods at the same time. So if I moved a mouse, camera would move, if I moved anolog stick, camera would move.

Today gamepad stopped working ingame - it works in the menu, but is completely "cut off" in the game. I made some tests, reinstalled the game, disabled/enabled cloud, reset options, etc, etc. Here's what I found:

For some reason, as of today the game REMEMEBERS what is your FIRST input method after you run it - if on the main screen with "press any key" you use keyboard, then you can no longer use a gamepad - it may work in the menu, but in the game it does not work at all. And all the prompts (press "X" to open door) in menu and ingame are for keyboard (previously if you touched gamepad, promts would automatically switch to gamepad buttons, and if you pressed some keys, prompts would automatically switch to keys).

BUT! when the first thing you do is press a button on the gamepad, then... you guessed it - KEYBOARD AMD MOUSE STOP WORKING IN-GAME! Sorry for caps, but this is mind blowing - when you "initialize" the game with gamepad, then the game completely ignores keyboard input while in game - it works in the menu, but not in game, so I can no longer quick save and quick load using keyboard, and play using gamepad.

I spent a few hour today trying to fix it, but no avail. Perhaps there some kind of "stealth patch" that borked it?

1: Same thing with a new game?
2: Have you updated any drivers recently?

Otherwise, it does seem like some kind of patch.

Thanks for your reply.

1. Yes. The issue begins immediately after "Press any key" screen - if at this screen you use gamepad - keyboard stops working, if you use keyboard - gamepad stops working,
2. I did update nVidia drivers to the latest beta but that was yesterday and I played normally, and the issue appeared today.

Can anyone reproduce this problem?

Update. I performed radical steps hoping to fix the issue and it worked.

1) I disabled cloud support specifically for the game, and then disabled cloud support globally.
2) Uninstalled Dishonored
3) Removed Dishonored entries from registry
4) Removed Dishonored saves and options from Steam\userdata (made a backup to restore after reinstall)
5) Removed Dishonored config files from Documents\My Games\Dishonored folder (made a backup to restore after reinstall)
6) Reinstalled Dishonored - run the game, the problem disappeared, so I set all the options (graphics, fov, subtitles) and quit
7) Restored whole My Games\Dishonored folder
8) Copied all previously backed up saves to "remote" folder in Steam\userdata

Right now it works as intended and I hope it will stay that way.

The only problem I have is that when I choose "Mission" from the main menu I do not have option "Stats" active, which is weird because I finished all the missions and saw the stats so I do not know why they disappeared.