Crysis 360 Controller Configuration

[Fat Ninja Walrus]

What's the one major thing PC gaming has over console gaming, especially when it comes to FPS? Mouse aiming. So what did I go and do? Knowing full well that I would be using a mouse and keyboard to play Crysis, I went and configured the controller to a much more comfortable setup anyway. Why? Cause I was bored, mostly. So here you go, a Crysis Controller setup that doesn't suck, utilizes all the buttons on the controller, and doesn't use three different buttons for the same command.

http://www.mediafire[dot]com/download/ej2gy1ho2r7m067/actionmaps.xml

Just dump this into your C:\Users\[your username]\Documents\My
Games\Crysis\Profiles\default[or whatever profile you use]. I'd keep the old actionmaps.xml handy, just in case this one messes something up. It's only been tested by a team of monkeys, not by actual gamers yet, so it probably has some kinks that I don't know about - the monkeys are really bad at filling out playtesting reports.

And here's a list of why it no longer sucks, in case my radiant personality, showmanship, and obviously reliable playtesting methods hadn't already convinced you.
Button maps:
A = jump
X = use/reload
B = binoculars
Y = grenade

"Those were all the same." Sit, Ubu. We're only a fourth of the way through the buttons. Here's where it gets interesting.

Left shoulder = Sprint
Right shoulder = Suit menu. Because some of us have very stiff L3 buttons and when you're getting shot at and you need to cloak or sprint out of there like Usain Bolt, ain't nobody got time for stopping, pressing, selecting, and then moving again. Suit select should be able to be done on the move.

Left trigger = Aim down sights. Because that's what it's supposed to be. I'd like to have a word with the guy who thought it'd be a good idea to have ADS be right shoulder.
Right trigger = Fire (duh). Fun story: while trying to make left trigger be hold-to-aim instead of press to aim, press again to stop aiming, I accidentally turned THIS trigger to press to fire, press again to stop. Imagine my surprise when I go to put one bullet in one head, release the trigger and end up putting 5 in his head and the rest into everything that was sitting behind him minding its own business. There's a fully automatic gun for ya, nerdreaper404. Don't worry. I changed it back. Maybe.
L3 = Crouch - Crouch is no longer hold to crouch, because let's be honest, that ♥♥♥♥'s obnoxious. Press it and you STAY crouched. Press A to stand back up. It may take a bit to get used to, but it's way better than having to hold the entire time. Cause there's a lot of crouching in Crysis.
R3 = Melee

D pad up = Toggle fire mode
D pad down = Prone. Press again or press A to get back up. Prone wasn't even mapped to the controller. That means that half of the best hiding spots are immediately unaccessible to anyone silly enough to play with a controller in the first place. But now they too can recharge their cloak while lying under a table in the middle of a room full of bad guys.
"Wait, but that button was already mapped to the weapon customization menu." Yes, it was. But are we really that lazy, that we need to waste a button just to make accessing it one click shorter? You can get to the exact same menu by using right shoulder, which is now the suit menu instead of ADS, remember?
D pad right = Toggle grenade type. Because this button wasn't even being used before I mapped it. It was just sitting there. Not doing anything. I wonder if that was let's-put-ADS-on-the-right-shoulder-button guy's idea too.
D pad left = Toggle weapons

Enjoy, edit it if you want or if you feel that you can make improvements. Let me know how it works and if it's got issues I'll get the monkeys to try to fix it.

[Gumballthechewy]

Ha ha! I guess when I went to replace the file I accidentally told it to cancel or something because I just replaced it again and it works fine!

Anyway, thank you for the help and thank you even more for the setup, works great!

[76561198125902183]

Here are my two alternative xbox 360 bindings, partly based on the OP's work, but mostly influenced by Crysis 2/3 bindings.

Highlights:

• Right Shoulder: simple click to Cloak Suit, or hold it to select another suit mode.
  
• Left Shoulder: simple click to Speed Suit, and hold it to sprint as in original binding.
  
• Y Button: Next weapon, as in Crysis 2/3.
  
• Customize weapon: Hold B Button! Select Y=1, X=2, A=3 D-Pad-Up=4, D-Pad-Left=5. This was not even possible before!
  
• D-Pad Right: Drop Weapon - useful for dropping one of the pistols or half-empty rocket launchers.

{LINK REMOVED}http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=04077169420856261666

Alt. 1 bindings: My current choice.

• Back Button = toggle map / night vision (hold)
  
• Start Button = open pause menu / toggle scoreboard / objectives
  
• Y Button = next weapon
  
• X Button = reload weapon / use item
  
• B Button = binoculars / customization menu (hold)
  
• A Button = stand up / jump
  
• Left Trigger = zoom / alt fire / view mode
  
• Right Trigger = shoot
  
• Left Shoulder = sprint + speed suit
  
• Right Shoulder = cloak suit / nanosuit menu (hold)
  
• Left Analog Stick = player movement (click to crouch)
  
• Right Analog Stick = player view / weapon melee attack (click)
  
• D-Pad Up = throw grenade (hold to switch grenade types)
  
• D-Pad Left = fire mode
  
• D-Pad Down = prone
  
• D-Pad Right = drop weapon

Alt. 2 bindings (only differences from Alt 1). This has Left Stick press bound to Sprint, like in Crysis 2/3:

• Left Shoulder = throw grenade (hold to switch grenade types)
  
• Left Analog Stick = player movement (click to sprint + speed suit)
  
• D-Pad Up = crouch

NOTES: Make sure you have the cl_crouchToggle=1 in system.cfg in the Crysis folder (also included in zip). Zoom (ADS) cannot be made hold only. Unbinding binoculars from B Button is also impossible.

Have fun.

[Trayhunter]

I tried the xml for Crysis Warhead, but some functions seem to not work. It alls works in the normal Crysis but in Warhead the crouching won´t toggle and going prone seems impossible. Any chance OP could look into this? I´d really apreaciate it.

[Fat Ninja Walrus]

not sure if i'll be able to help at all - i don't own Warhead and so there's no way i could test it to find out if it would work. the problem could be anything from the actions in each game being named differently to something way more complicated than that. my best suggestion would be to compare the two files and see if you can find anything in the one from warhead that correlates to crouch and prone. perhaps they're named different things, or the buttons they're assigned to are set to different values?

[Trayhunter]

Allright. I´ll have a look at it. Thanks for the help though.

[Boizaum]

pretty good!

[Perfect Consumer]

Does anybody have Tylo's bindings? The file is no longer hosted on the server he linked to. I'd be incredibly grateful.

[Fat Ninja Walrus]

sorry i couldn't be more help Tray

Perfect Consumer i wouldn't be opposed to trying to improve it more like you mentioned, but my knowledge in this area is actually relatively limited. what did you have in mind?

[Perfect Consumer]

I there needs to be a way to rapidly uncloak and then go back to cloak as you can in Crysis 2 and 3. As it stands, you can't really do a real stealth playtrhough with the current config because it takes too long to return to stealh. A hotkey that did 'Crouch' twice in rapid succession would allow you to enter stealth. Also assigning 'back' movement key twice would allow you enter armor mode instantly. That way you could be cloaked, line up a shot, hit the shield hotkey, then go back to cloak with the stealth hotkey. That would be great.

[bobeagle77]

I been playing Crysis for a while and was looking for some guidance to change layout on my xbox 360 controller. I found this post. I only change a couple of buttons. I will show you how I did this manually. Go to C:\Users[your username] \Documents \MyGames \Crysis \Profiles \ default[or profile you use]:

STEP 1. Make a copy of "actionmaps" XML document file and place it in a different folder
location, as a backup. In Case we make any errors in XML document which we are going to be modifying. In case of errors replace modify XML file with the XML backup file to make game into original configuration state.

STEP 2. Go to C:\Users\[your username]\Documents\My Games\Crysis\Profiles\default[or profile you use] "actionmaps" open this with notepad. Once you are done playing withXML file exit and save changes. Next run game to test if changes worked.
Look for this lines and change them:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--------------------Find this Original line---------------------V--------------------]
</action>
<action name="hud_buy_weapons" onPress="1">
<key name="p"/>
<key name="xi_dpad_right"/> <----Cut this line

[--------------------New Modify line---------------------V--------------------]
</action>
<action name="nextitem" onPress="1">
<key name="mwheel_up"/>
<key name="xi_dpad_right"/> <----Paste line here
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--------------------Find this Original line---------------------V--------------------]
</action>
<action name="previtem" onPress="1">
<key name="mwheel_down"/>
<key name="xi_dpad_right"/> <----We are changing this line
</action>

Change this -----^ top line into this -----v bottom line

<action name="previtem" onPress="1">
<key name="mwheel_down"/>
<key name="xi_dpad_left"/> <---- Changed Line
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--------------------Find this Original line---------------------V--------------------]
</action>
<action name="crouch" onPress="1" onRelease="1"> <----We are changing this line
<key name="lctrl"/>
<key name="xi_thumbl"/>

Change this -----^ top line into this -----v bottom line

</action>
<action name="crouch" onPress="1"> <---- Changed Line
<key name="lctrl"/>
<key name="xi_thumbl"/>
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[--------------------Find this Original line---------------------V--------------------]
</action>
<action name="hud_weapon_mod" onPress="1">
<key name="c"/>
<key name="xi_dpad_down"/> <----Cut this line

[--------------------New Modify line---------------------V--------------------]
</action>
<action name="prone" onPress="1">
<key name="z"/>
<key name="xi_dpad_down"/> <----Paste line here
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Warning: If you are not sure how to edit file correctly. DO NOT TRY THIS. All I did was change crouch button as Toggle. Right pad to next weapon and Left pad to previous weapon. And Down pad as prone Toggle.

[Saza]

TY! I don't use a controller for games, but this will be very helpful for people who do!

[Fat Ninja Walrus]

Originally posted by Perfect Consumer:

I there needs to be a way to rapidly uncloak and then go back to cloak as you can in Crysis 2 and 3. As it stands, you can't really do a real stealth playtrhough with the current config because it takes too long to return to stealh. A hotkey that did 'Crouch' twice in rapid succession would allow you to enter stealth. Also assigning 'back' movement key twice would allow you enter armor mode instantly. That way you could be cloaked, line up a shot, hit the shield hotkey, then go back to cloak with the stealth hotkey. That would be great.

so, double click crouch to cloak? or the other way around?

[bobeagle77]

Thanks, Fat Ninja Walrus for this post. You made my game experience better. The Crysis original control layout really stinks. I was getting kind of annoyed by holding down on crouch all the time.

[Perfect Consumer]

Originally posted by TB} Fat Ninja Walrus:

Originally posted by Perfect Consumer:

I there needs to be a way to rapidly uncloak and then go back to cloak as you can in Crysis 2 and 3. As it stands, you can't really do a real stealth playtrhough with the current config because it takes too long to return to stealh. A hotkey that did 'Crouch' twice in rapid succession would allow you to enter stealth. Also assigning 'back' movement key twice would allow you enter armor mode instantly. That way you could be cloaked, line up a shot, hit the shield hotkey, then go back to cloak with the stealth hotkey. That would be great.

so, double click crouch to cloak? or the other way around?

Fair enough, but you need to be able to unlcoak rapidly... max armor needs a hotkey... so that you can line up a shot cloaked, then uncloak so you don't waste all your energy while firing, which spends it all.

[Fat Ninja Walrus]

hmm. i never thought about that. first thing i did after making the config was get in the habit of being able to select whatever power i needed really fast haha. maybe i'll look into it and see if i can make the shoulder buttons cloak/max armor. think those would make more sense?