What a great game, my only downside is there isn’t a controller option that suits my hands and for some reason, games NEVER let you just set your own buttons anymore (on console at least.)
To be able to play at my best, I need this configuration option:
Left Stick Click: Sprint
Right Bumper: Action/Reload
Red/B: Melee Attack
X/Blue: Crouch
With other controls the same as “default” option.
My hands are mildly crippled and I actually can’t move my fingers from the trigger to the right bumper with the kind of immediacy required to use melee effectively. Likewise, having crouch on the left stick gets me killed because I activate it every time I move the stick.
I have to use the default option, and because my physical memory is keyed to previous versions of Halo I crouch every time I want to melee (and so die) and melee every time I try to get in a vehicle, pick up a weapon, reload etc. I find the blue button challenging to hit and would prefer it mapped to a function that is either generally useless or only used in very considered circumstances, eg crouching.
I also find it very difficult and confusing to drop turret guns and get out of vehicles, as it seems the buttons for this change or something…
Oh yeah, and if new configurations DO get added, please make a PR release song and dance about it so I get to hear that it happened.
Hopefully the developer actually scans these forums sometimes, wasn’t sure how else to give feedback. Game has been terrific so far and only scratched the surface, looking forward to what a new Xbox is capable of given what you’ve pushed out of this one!
The closest to what you are looking for is Recon.
Yeah. I need bumper jumper because being able to aim effectively while jumping is key in Halo, but then my armor ability is assigned to X, so I can’t really use the hardlight shield. Because if I press X, I don’t have anymore right thumbs for the right stick, so I can’t turn while using it. So basically I’ve decided not to use hardlight shield at all, even though I believe it could really help me a lot if I could use it effectively.
I did try Recon briefly but the left-stick crouch makes things much worse. My fingers are all slightly to severely frozen with arthritis and I seem to control the thumsticks mainly by using my wrists rather than fine thumb movement, (my thumbs are rigid on the stick and I push and pull them from the wrist, if that makes any sense) and it works quite well but I can’t not grip the controller hard. The whole “stick click” thing was the worst invention ever as far as I’m concerned, but it’s much less catastrophic to activate sprint accidentally than it is crouch. Usually in a hectic situation, the former is the right action to take anyway!