OK, reporting back that the (ironic) “Airplane Mode” worked in getting XBOX Cloud version of the game to recognice my XBOX controller
- Launch Cloud version of game
- At Intro Menu Screen, mouse over the icons in the upper left of screen to expand the little Xbox menu
- Select the 3 button option “show stream menu”
- Select “Toggle Full Screen”
- Now, open you computer settings/Airplane Mode
- Turn Airplane mode on…wait a few seconds, then turn it off
- XBOX controller with proper bindings should now work (I have done this 3 times to be sure)
- edit…the proper bindings part (shared with your non-cloud based install of game) seem to connect only some of the times