Some friendly tips for PC gamepad controls
(This is not a "direct control sucks!" thread. If you're going to say "direct control sucks!", do it somewhere else.)
Let me start out by saying I really like the gamepad control scheme for The Penal Zone, and will probably use the gamepad for the whole season. With that out of the way, here are a few things that may help you improve it further:
Let me start out by saying I really like the gamepad control scheme for The Penal Zone, and will probably use the gamepad for the whole season. With that out of the way, here are a few things that may help you improve it further:
- When I bring up
Teleportation, I'm suddenly forced to use the mouse toselect a location. Please allow cycling through them as with hotspots.
- For some reason hotspot highlighting is currently getting mapped to moving my right analog stick. That's just weird.
- The picture showing which control gets mapped where is really nifty, but depends on having the right type of gamepad. If you could add button numbers to it that would make it more generic and useful.
- For that matter, while the default setting is really good, an option to change the bindings would still be appreciated.
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I will add numbers to the mapping screen in the future. I tried it with a 360 pad and a few others with slightly different layouts and the mappings lined up, but putting numbers on them should make it more clear even on more odd controllers. Didn't run into the right stick selection stuff you were seeing. What gamepad are you using?
Same with the newspapers at the street with Skun-Ka'pe's ship, you can't turn right enough to click them, you have to do so way back from at your office...
on mine the 5 and 6 buttons (L1 and L2) cycled through most everything well.
Like Jake said the right stick worked perfectly fine in Max-o-vision.
Just to confirm, it works absolutely fine with a 360 controller, no mouse or keyboard needed. Sometimes Sam wouldn't move in the direction I was pressing but it wasn't a problem really.
Wierd, with my Cordless Rumblepad 2 I can't cycle through the teleportation targets - tried every button on it, with and without MODE set...
I'm running the game on Windows 7 64bit.
For both the gamepad control and the click-and-drag control, you should make use of the analog format to control running/walking speed. Having a "run" button is a bit silly when you're using an analog input that can easily control both direction and severity of movement. Please check out Super Mario 64 for an excellent example.
Thanks,
LuigiHann
ahh cool , must be something wrong with my setup then :P. ( button shows up as 1,2,3,4,5,7 etc on my wireless 360 controller )
Using the 360 usb adapter from Ms ( http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/Hardware/Controllers/Pages/XboxWirelessGamingReceiverforWindows.aspx/ )
Never had a issue with it in games. ( well except that the fuse blows almost before you open the package , but that is fixable :P )