How do I reflect?

[Sage]

Long-time fan of BH1, loving BH2 so far but no matter what button I press on my controller, I can't activate reflect.
I did the gamepad config and everything too.

[pLx | Demonee-Ho]

You have to unlock the Reflect Shield first. Whenever you level up, you can unlock a new perk.

Unlock reflect shield, purchase it in the "perks" menu, equip it, and you should be able to use it. Pickups for it will appear when you play if you have it equipped.

All perks are obtained this way, including the additional difficulty settings.

[Sage]

I already unlocked it, though.
I keep finishing songs with like 5+ reflects in my inventory because I can't activate them

[Starg]

Try remapping them to a different button.

[LupisDragon]

That's something that happened to me too. Going back through controller setup fixed that issue. As a side note, it just says things like "Press RB button", rather than saying what it actually does.

For me, using an X360 wired controller, it's:
RT = Super Bomb
LT = Shield
RB = Hyper Beam
LB = Micro Missiles

[Sage]

Originally posted by Starg:

Try remapping them to a different button.

Where's the option to remap? Configure controller just tells me to press which button for which button, it doesn't tell me what each buttons does or let me change what they do.
I properly mapped all the buttons, but LT never activates the shield...
Playing with a 360 controller btw.

EDIT: New problem today. Reflect (LT) works, but Super Bombs (RT) don't. I have changed absolutely no settings.

[Kruztee]

Just wanted to report the same issue here. Can't use Micro Missiles on LB nor Super Bombs on RT. Wired XBOX360 controller.

[Kruztee]

This is a kind of annoying bug for me to track down. Shoulder buttons and triggers (RB, RT, LB, LT) work sometimes when I boot up the game and play on locally stored songs, after I switch to open mic, at some point, they stop evoking any response in-game, though they still seem to be detected when using the option to configure controls.

It's kind of easier to play with M&KB anyway, since I have to be going between BH2 and Spotify all the time anyway, but I'd like to try and help track this one down.

[Starg]

Hummm, that is odd, especially with a wired controller.

I could add a debug mode that displays the raw trigger values on screen.

[death2cupbots]

I think it'd be nice to have a way to look at the default or your current configs without remapping. Unless you already have that in there and I just clicked through the tutorial too fast.

[Sanaki]

Any progress on this? Using the steam controller, LT triggers reflect correctly, RT won't trigger super bombs. RT is definitely being recognized correctly when I assign buttons, so I'm not sure what's gone awry.

This wasn't the case previously. I used to be able to use super bombs.

[Starg]

Are you sure you have super bombs enabled in the perk menu? Unlike with BH1 you can turn super bombs off in BH2

[Sanaki]

Yep. Just verified. I am on linux, but I also tested again with proton 3.7-8, 3.16-4, and 3.16-6 to make sure it wasn't a proton version issue. I'm not really sure what to tell you.

[Sanaki]

Okay, I rebound and switched L3 and RT when binding. Super bombs worked on L3. When I switched back to the normal binding, they started working on RT. After restarting the game it still works. I'm guessing it was just a lingering configuration issue from one of the prior beta versions.