Xbox Fan Highlights 'Biggest Gripe' With Star Wars Outlaws Which You Can Easily Fix

I don't think i'm alone here, but i've always considered X as the 'action' button - So bit of a whoopsi from Ubisoft there 🙂

It's a sad commentary on the state of gaming websites when this is considered news-worthy.

How is clicking the right stick melee or interact?! Who came up with that one?

It’s 2024 and I’m sick of developers forcing their control schemes on us. Every single platform holder should mandate that every game must have completely rebindable keys AND not have one button do several functions as to mess up custom controls. I’m looking at you, AC Valhalla.

And no, doing it at a system level doesn’t count. On Xbox you can’t switch the triggers for face buttons.

Are these the only two options in Outlaws? How is crouch not R3?!?

STANDARDISE CONTROL SCHEMES NOW
STOP THE MADNESS
I'm getting older and can't unlearn decades of standardisation to re-learn some new control scheme on a whim Ubisoft.

@DarthAmmii sharing problems and help has always been part of gaming magazines and communities.

@FraserG Don't you feel like that as someone who writes for a gaming website, that your job is trudging through comments on Reddit or finding ways to get fanboys all upset?

@DarthAmmii Don't ya think youre making a bit of a mountain out a molehill here?? 😐

@ironcrow86 Not really, I'm literally just having a conversation.

@FraserG my initial comment wasn't an indictment on you, it was on the gaming-news business as whole. It's just sad that there's so little actual news anymore that you are forced to write articles like this. Just my opinion, of course.

Thank you for passing along this tip. I may not have gone looking for this fix. I assumed this article was going to be about how you can tone down the yellow paint navigation markers.

Biggest gripe for me was the cinema screen mode. If you go into video settings you can change it full screen.

Game changer for me and I’m only 5 minutes in!

@itsfoz Yup. Just saw the same suggestion from Digital Foundrys performance review of the game.

Well it's no Pitfall Lost Expedition right stick to pick up objects/motion controls, God of War of old right stick to dodge, that Knack also had, others with right stick to attack. People are THAT used to modern controls being universal that oh right stick is used for WHAT.

I feel the same with the No Man's Sky sprint on right stick then LB or left stick in or old games with odd camera how it feels not just the button to re-centre or to do horizontal only camera and no vertical, sprint on different ones (left stick, LB, A or something else), reload on X or RB, melee on right stick or a button and interact button placement of yes X too but I'm used to it with old games. People go oh this is odd.

Getting used to L1/R1, LT, RT, L2/R2 for shooters and racing on PS3/360 depending. I'm jumping all over the place between games though from that era right now though.

It's always good games have rebindable controls but that's the gripe. I thought it was something else instead.

A button/input change is a big deal to people sure it makes sense to know how to play/what feels natural or games are near/all universal in some genres of controls.

But, wow, nothing new to me of buttons/sticks used in many ways of old games and getting used to control scheme presets or rebinding if they have them but just because everyone else is used to near or universal in modern games controls in the same genres then different per genres.

@RadioHedgeFund COD had melee on right stick and has for years of the Modern Warfare 2007+ era. It always threw me off compared to Halo or others though Halo 3/ODST or so era with dual wielding and LB/RB to reload then X was confusing. At least back then.

But playing many 3rd party shooters/arcade racing (or combat racing games) on PS3/360 I'm coming across the less universal of some of them now and going oh huh interesting between presets or binding. It's amazing going back to find out how different the same genres were, character feel and button placement for actions.

Or grenades/weapons/sprint on others many LB (Halo Reach/4), left stick in, A (Gears and a few others like Gears) or not on B to crouch or dodge that I usually would rebind if on a trigger or something.

Had A or X be interact unless it's a Bumpber LB/RB or something I forget which game though.

Or dodge for some games with right stick (old PS2 era God of War or Knack as a PS4 example of the same game design just for kids) or right trigger (Bayonetta). We don't get right stick to use as an interact like Pitfall on PS2/Xbox, the near motion controls use of a right stick. We don't get that anymore.

I'm coming across many PS3/360 games with the L1/R1, L2/R2 compared to the 360 where the triggers just make sense when it comes to racing or shooters I'm picking up for those systems.

PS2/Xbox/GameCube/Dreamcast it was all over the place with cameras or whatever buttons and right stick wasn't always camera, so modern controls it's rare other than No Man's Sky with right stick press in to sprint that I go huh that's odd.

People forget a lot of what was changed to be near/is universal for genres now.

Unless it's like a camera recenter maybe or a different genre where face buttons are more common like old hack n slashes or visual novels for the menus or something controls are very universal in the action adventure/RPG genres i think by now.

But for me going back it's like ah there is different not just because of genres I'm jumping between but even in old games of the most popular genres of Shooter, action adventure, etc it's weird going oh these games had that different between them even besides southpaw controls (not that I use them).

@SuntannedDuck2 I’ll admit I prefer unorthodox control methods. I normally map LB to jump so I can leap around in shooters without taking my hands off the sticks.

@RadioHedgeFund Understandable. LB works, Y never did for me.