Controller stick only moves character diagonally

[sinis]

When playing the game with an xbox 360 controller I can only move my character diagonally. I checked the windows usb game controller callibration tool and all seems fine. I've used both an official controller and a 3rd party one.

From what I can tell, the game has a really low threshold for when it applies 2 directions (diagonal movement) compared to when it only applies one (up/down/left/right). This results in always moving diagonally, unless I set the stick perfectly alligned with one of the four cardinal directions, which doesn't last very long.

The 3rd party controller seemed to work a little better in that regard, but moving as I'd want to proved cumbersome and annoying, the threshold for non-diagonal movement was still too low. Playing with the keyboard or the d-pad works fine.

I really hope there's some fix/option to change this as I was looking forward to some hectic local matches.

[Ribbet]

I've noticed this too, but even though it looks & feels cubersome, I have a feeling this was intentional, unfortunately. I mean, you'd think they would notice only diagonal movement, eh?

[adentw17]

I'm having this problem... just bought it... Been very dissapointed so far to find out that it is very limited single player, and my controller only moves diagonally unless I use the game pad, which only goes up down, left right. Any chance this could be fixed?

[Team ZANRAI]

Weird, that shouldn't be happening. We'll take a look into this to see if we can pinpoint what's going on. Sorry about that.

[A.W.S.H.]

Same problem here. Nice game otherwise, been looking forward to it for a while, but the messed up controls are a severe issue. And I'm frankly pretty damn surprised that this is still a thing, considering the game has been out for quite a while now.

[Team ZANRAI]

Sorry about this, we see the problem and are taking a look at what we can do about it. The issue just seems to have arisen after the update we pushed just a few days ago. Can't say for certain quite yet, but I suspect something probably changed under the hood in the engine we're using without us being aware of it, but we'll report back as soon as we have a clearer picture.

[Team ZANRAI]

Do you guys mind telling me what operating systems you're using when running the game when experiencing this issue? Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Linux, etc?

In the meantime, the DPAD should work fine while we feel this out. The joystick is actually set to act like an 8 direction DPAD anyway (digital emulated too, so no analog sensitivities for balance), so while we take a look at this just know that functionally it should play fine with the DPAD too. We're actively taking a look. It appears to work on Windows 10 machines fine but not on Windows 7 or 8 machines. We're looking into the reports to see why exactly this is occurring.

[Harima]

Same problem, windows 8.1

[Ribbet]

I have this issue, & I mainly use Windows 7

[sinis]

Happens on both my machines, both are running Windows 8.1. Thanks for the update.

[anhedonia]

Haha, wow, I had no idea it wasn't supposed to be like that. Played it with a friend for a few hours (both with x360 controllers, one wired, one wireless), had tons of fun, but didn't even give the diagonal movement a second thought, we both thought this was intended. We were also playing on w8.1.

[Team ZANRAI]

I'm really sorry about this, we are genuinely baffled by why this is occurring 8 months after the game released. For now the dpad should work perfectly, and if you're on Win10 the joystick should work perfectly there. This seems to only be affecting users on Windows 7 and 8 systems.

Thank you for your OS reports and your patience, and we apologize again for the inconvenience. We'll keep you updated on the situation.

[Team ZANRAI]

Okay! Our programmer Simon figured this out and we're in the process of getting a update available on Steam. Should hopefully have it online by tonight!

[Team ZANRAI]

The update should be available right now on Steam (v1.2.1)! Everything should work just peachy now. Thanks for your patience and your bug reports!

[sinis]

Can confirm that the stick now works as it should. Thanks a lot for the support guys.

[ivan866_z]

you need to manually reassign Right Stick Y axis to whatever your gamepad thinks it is
on my generic gamepad (which turns out to be actually G-Shark GS-GP702) it was assigned Axis 3 by default, but when i manually reassigned it, it appeared to be Axis 4 and the movement became as it should (not diagonal anymore)