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I have over 2000 hours played exclusively using a controller.
I decided to give the game another chance after stopping about a month ago, when playing with a controller became practically impossible. After reading in the patch notes that the controls had been “fixed”, I came back to try again.
After 5 hours of gameplay — and time completely wasted — I can confidently say that the game is still unplayable with a controller.
I’ve already provided feedback multiple times on Steam and Discord, and I will continue posting this in other channels because this situation clearly isn’t being addressed properly. If you actually care about feedback from someone with extensive controller-only experience, I’m available and willing to help — but right now it feels like controller players are being ignored.
Major issues:
Running system changes:
Moving sprint to the joystick instead of the R2 trigger is a terrible decision. It completely destroys years of muscle memory and makes basic gameplay frustrating. Actions like moving or reloading are constantly interrupted because sprint triggers unintentionally.
On top of that, the game claims that pressing B / Circle makes you run faster — this simply does not work.
Aiming with ranged weapons:
The new aiming behavior is even worse. Moving the right stick no longer brings up the aiming reticle, but instead a useless pointer. The reticle only appears when slightly pressing the right trigger, which has extremely poor sensitivity.
This makes aiming and shooting feel clunky, inconsistent, and unnecessarily difficult. Controller aiming was already harder than mouse and keyboard — these changes make it significantly worse.
I genuinely don’t understand why these changes were implemented, as they actively make the experience worse for controller players.
At this point, the controller experience is not just flawed — it’s broken.
Please take this seriously and fix it, because right now playing with a controller is simply not viable.
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