Sprint Button, I hate you

[Vagrant]

Bioshock 1, left stick click is Crouch, all good.
Bioshock 2, left stick click is Crouch, still all good.
Bioshock Infinite, left stick click is Sprint. Offers 3 different configs but no way to customize buttons for controllers and they force Sprint on Left Stick click...

Who's the genius who thought putting Sprint in the left joystick click was a good idea? It needed to be either the Left or Right Bumper! You press the Sprint button more often than the damned Fire button, what's up with that?

After playing 5 minutes, my left thumb aches from all the joystick clicking. Forcing people to sprint with the left joystick click is some nazi-grade ♥♥♥♥♥♥ right there. Like hey, let's try very, very hard to be like COD or else the console FPS scene won't like us.

No really. You, the guy who put Sprint in the Left Joystick Click... I HATE YOU.

[Seamus]

But... why are you playing a shooter on pc with a controller?

[Vagrant]

Originally posted by Seamus:

But... why are you playing a shooter on pc with a controller?

This doesn't matter at all. It's still a bad button layout to put Sprint on the left joystick click and not allow it to be moved elsewhere. No matter what kind of game.

Example: You play a FPS shooter on PC with a KB/M, but somehow they don't allow you to rebind Crouch key so you are forced to use CTRL all the time. Maybe you don't want to use your pinky to crouch all the time, but this game doesn't allow you to. This is bad design, just like binding Sprint to left joystick click with no other possible options.

In the end, I will have to play with KB/M, because playing 10 minute feels like someone hit my left thumb with a hammer.

[whiteraven1000]

You can change your key-settings in the main menu:

Options -> Keyboard/Mouse

[L0G1STX aka MAGA Man]

um... most PC games DONT allow you to customize the controller inputs, it's kinda why things like joy2key and the Steam Controller were specifically designed for dude... Play M/kb

[Vagrant]

Oh boy, someone rezzed this thread and this threw oil on the fire.

I'm playing Fallout 4 right now and it's the same ♥♥♥♥: Left Stick Click is Sprint. You can customize it... BUT... if you put Sprint on anything else but the joystick clicks (left or right), you cannot Sprint in Workshop mode because some functions are hardcoded (you nazis).

No really, you, the guy who made it so putting Sprint on the joystick click became a mainstream trend, I HATE YOU. You are an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and deserve to get your left hand thumb smashed with a hammer.