I play southpaw, boxer and inverted while I played tons of Halo reach right up until the Halo 4 release. Now with sprint built in I am FORCED to use my left bumper for an armor ability instead of sprint. I have tried to adjust and despite doing OK at times having to sprint using my trigger finger bent over and my middle finger to fire makes my aim bad, my sprinting to bash bad and just feels awkward and eventually not fun.
I would gladly give up any armor ability to get sprint back to the button I have been using for the last few years on reach. There is excuse not to let players custom map their own buttons 100%. It would not in any way hurt the game and while I am not aware whether or not is a major concern among players in regards to this ,but I am sure none of them would be opposed to it. It is sad that this one button I have to fumble around with makes me sometimes not enjoy an otherwise great game.
so PLEASE put an update that allows 100% customization for controls it is not much to ask and I am very surprised that so many games lack this, so let Halo 4 set a standard to let people play how they choose control wise.
+1
I’ve never liked the way button layouts change slightly between halo games and there is no option to map it the way you want.
All games should be fully customisable so you can have almost identical setups between say all FPS games.
While I’d love custom controller layouts, they’ll never happen because tryhards will make the uber layouts that give a major advantage to those using them.
> While I’d love custom controller layouts, they’ll never happen because tryhards will make the uber layouts that give a major advantage to those using them.
Seriously?
Major advantages when you can use the layout yourself? Controls should be tailored to suit each person, if someone finds something that works for 90% of the playerbase, going back to my first point it’s not an insurmountable advantage.
I can understand wanting to preserve a game’s skill-cap but if that’s the case build things into game mechanics themselves, not create something artificial like controller layouts that aren’t logical.
Sorry but I wanted to bump this up I want to see what more people think. For me letting me map my own controls would be the single most important addition to this game they could possibly make.
With the addition of sprint in Reach and now changing that button to armor ability I simply cannot unlearn some 2 years of reach play to get used to being forced into using my trigger finger curled over side ways to hit sprint with my middle finger used to fire. It is clumsy and awkward and something i will never get used to.
I don’t think 343 wants their set controls to feel clumsy for anyone so why not allow us to map them ourselves? This won’t make me some great halo player, but I can go from being very spotty in my games to a consistently decent player from this alone.
Is anyone else but me effected by this change enough to be bothered by it? Also wouldn’t other people want to map their controls to more convenient areas of the controller so your nor trying to do too much with one hand?