Hey everyone so I've recently been working on a native controller mod for the steam version of MW3(2011). - Please note I'm aware that plutonium has controller support to an extent(MP) but this is true native controller support and I plan to support SP, Survival and MP.
The game shipped with no controller support and has never had any real controller support, everyone has historically used workarounds and such I decided to make a mod for MW3 that natively hooks the calls for input directly.
My aim is to get this to Xbox 360 parity. So far I've got both sticks working perfectly as you would have had on Xbox 360, button mapping needs work right now but it'll be done by tomorrow. Also the ADS is a proper hold ADS like on console not toggle like it is on PC normally. This is all 100% done and working already in game.
The next steps I have to make before releasing this publicly will be to get proper configuration in the MW3 native menus. Along with certain improvements to configuration like enabling you guys to make your own custom bindings on controller!
Also I'm going quite in depth with this, button prompts will be shown and also configurable between styles. (XB360, XB1/XB Series, PS3/4/5)
In future if this mod is well received I may also decide to make some general improvements to MW3(2011) for modern hardware..
This is not an XPADDER
This is truly built to be 1:1 with console
Follow the project here on GitHub (It's Open Source!) : https://github.com/k8se10/MW32011NCP
Update 15/07/2026:
The mod is progressing nicely and is almost at a playable state. Just fixing edge cases and correctly mapping all buttons to their native calls.
Genuinely its next to no latency at all, got a few things to fix, then going to focus on UI and configuration for the mod and i'm hoping to have it released soon. When everything is fully working i'll do a live stream using the mod live so everyone can see how it works and maybe try it for yourself! Thanks for all the support everyone!!
Update 2 15/07/2026:
Will be doing a stream over on my YouTube Channel (@OfficialK8YT) playing survival in the next day or two using the mod in the pre-alpha state so people can see it in action.
Please bare in mind there is still quite a lot of general improvements and work that needs to happen before I can release even an alpha version of this, stuff like UI and making sure things like killstreaks work correctly on controller too!
Also it works in campaign at its current stage but it's largely untested beyond the start of the first campaign level.
Update 3 15/07/2026:
I've decided in line with my live stream (link in comments below đ) to release the first pre-alpha v0.1 version of the over on GitHub which can be downloaded here(All releases here) https://github.com/k8se10/MW32011NCP/releases (Link updated 16/07/2026)