Dash direction seems erratic

[GAMING_Alligator]

I've lost count of the amount of times I've dashed to instant death because I moved diagonally instead of horizontally, or the other way around.

Does anybody else find the direction a dash will occur in to have a certain element of randomness?

[Grottowalker]

what sort of input are you using...

are you using an analog stick ?

i think in other threads people came to terms that digital inputs are very accurate.

pretty much keyboard/d-pad/ any other input that uses 4 buttions for movment /8-way movement. is very responsive.

[GAMING_Alligator]

Originally posted by Grottowalker:

what sort of input are you using...

are you using an analog stick ?

i think in other threads people came to terms that digital inputs are very accurate.

pretty much keyboard/d-pad/ any other input that uses 4 buttions for movment /8-way movement. is very responsive.

Yes, I'm using the anolog stick on an XBox controller. I'll start using the D-Pad, hopefully that will help. Still, other games like this manage to cope fine with analog input, so it seems there must be something there that can be tweaked...

[Aemony]

It's not random, but it's weighted differently. For example, since downward dashes are uncommon as hell, the axises and their thresholds are weighted more towards common horizontal dashes than down-left and down-right.

Eventually you'll get the hang of it.

[clap saddle]

i found that the best way to dash in the direction you want is to treat the dashes like you're playing dance dance revolution lol. you have to get the timing just right but basically when i want to dash to the right lets say, and i'm having problems with doing up-right. i make sure to take my thumbs off of the d-pad and off of the dash button and then i press them both at the same exact time. instead of having the direction already pressed that i want to go, and then pressing dash after. might be a weird way of explaining it, but until i was doing it this way i was getting frustrated at some parts.

[GAMING_Alligator]

I found the D-Pad on my XBox 360 controller pretty unusable for this. It seems really unintuitive, so I'm persisting with the left stick.

As I've been getting better with the game, I'm getting less false movements, but the issue still hasn't gone away entirely. I sometimes have to make a realy mental effort to make sure I'm pointing the stick in _exactly the right diretion_.