I'm making a game for PC and I, as a mouse & keyboard player, want to ask Sup Forums's controller players what they think the general "run" button is, or, specifically, what button is equivalent to "Shift" on the controller.
TL;DR what's the controller's run button
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William Young
That's actually a really good question, what the fuck.
Robert Lopez
Moving the stick as far as it goes, usually. It's the big advantage controllers have over KB+M, the stick allows for far greater directional control and also how fast your character moves.
If you mean like a sprint command, then I guess it would probably be LB or LT.
Tyler Hernandez
Okay, that's what I was looking for. Thanks.
Gabriel Davis
A lot of games make the run button pushing the left stick in, sorry i'm not sure what it's called.
Eli Diaz
Good luck.
Colton Flores
L3
Xavier Green
L3 for sure
Josiah Foster
Can't go wrong with L3.
Tyler Cox
pushing the left stick all the way forward and pushing it in at the same time is normally the run button for alot of games.
Chase Hill
Usually called "L3", when you press the stick until it clicks.
It sucks though, because it makes controlling the stick harder. Then again I guess it fits for sprinting, but I always feel like I'm pressing too hard and damaging it.
Hudson Cruz
right trigger worked well in mad max
but it is almost always L3
Carson Myers
It is a toggle in most games that come to mind.
Angel Baker
I don't think I've played those games, any examples?
Jayden Watson
>toggle sprinting There's probably a shitton but the only one I can think of right now is S.T.A.L.K.E.R., and that's PC only. What games do toggle sprinting?
Michael Ward
I think it works better left instead of right trigger due to how in controllers, the left hand controls movement and the right hand controls actions.
But it works either way.
Xavier Thompson
If the game involves guns, right trigger is almost always fire weapon and so running should be left trigger
Cooper Roberts
>L3 retards >preferring to click the stick and awkwardly directing it at the same time >all while R2 exists I think you guys play mainstream western games. Am I not wrong?
Cameron Gomez
>R2 >When L2 Exists Dude.
Jayden Martinez
analog stick slightly to walk, analog stick all the way to run.
Justin Parker
>awkwardly directing I would wager you don't play very many games at all if you find it awkward. R2 is for weapon selection.
Wyatt Diaz
the start button
Alexander Morgan
MGS V The Division Resident Evil 7
Xavier Cox
Pretty much every, somewhat modern, first person shooter on consoles has sprint toggle on L3, and I'll go as far as any game that has sprint bound to L3 either offers to make it a toggle or it's the default. But off the top of my head, from the recent games I've played there's For Honor, Dragon's Dogma and Dying Light who all have sprint toggle on L3.
Blake Gomez
L3 is the only answer
Levi Jackson
>Dragon's Dogma You're right. I hate it on L3 though.
Plus I play DD on m+k since I play archer.
Lucas Brown
I don't mind sprint on L3 at all. What I fucking hate on stick buttons is jumping in DS2 and 3 and switching lock on target in For Honor. Since I get so tense during multiplayer I tend to press the sticks by mistake quite a bit specially when I'm moving for one edge of the stick to the opposite side. Which leads me to jumping off the pvp bridge in DS2 when I'm trying to do a sick sprinting 180, or switching lock on in for Honor when I'm trying to block consecutive left and right attacks.
Dominic Baker
>Jumping Yeah, I have no idea who approved that shite. At least you can change it because God DAMN was that shitty.
Jaxon Adams
the run button is left stick in or a bumper but left stick in is the best out of all of them as a 360 controller player
Daniel Gomez
Why would anyone ever not put jump on Xbox A?
Nicholas Garcia
ever heard of fallout?
Oliver Martin
A game with no jumps?
Cooper Smith
maybe skyrim? cuz they have Y as the jump and A as the interact button
Austin Murphy
Toggle on pressing left analogue stick, toggle off on character stopping.
Isaiah White
That's fucking stupid, as stupid as playing Skyrim without a mouse+KB.
Julian Price
X or B A is for jumping
Ian Hall
only emo's play with a mouse+KB because it will give you wrist problem's but you probably already have some wrist issues from cutting so much.
Michael Allen
>Sprint on the face buttons
Henry Williams
>Babbies only talk about kiddie point & shooty
In an action game or plateformer sprint should be on face buttons. Hell, if your game requires more imputs than there is buttons it probably sucks
Joshua Cox
No it's not.
It's when you push in L3. Like almost all games
Jordan Reyes
The only game genre where sprint on the face buttons is acceptable is 2D platformers, in which case the "Mario" solution of holding the attack button = sprinting is acceptable.
Aiden Carter
It's the same for Dark Souls
Logan Kelly
Dark souls has jump on L3 it's fucking stupid.
Owen Williams
>shit game has shit button layout wooow
Jaxon Foster
The question was for sprint not jump, and you can put jump back to B in the options, like in the first one (because yes L3 is fucking stupid)
Nolan Davis
Dark Souls has it on circle, II and III both have the option to switch between L3 and circle.
Jacob Johnson
The point is the control scheme for Dark Souls isn't that great, so it's hardly exemplary.
Andrew White
How is it not? It's a pretty good control scheme.
Thomas Young
Jump button for Dark Souls is X (or L3 in 2 and 3 if you prefer that). Of course in some idiot countries they switch X and O functions for no good reason, so that might make someone claim that O is the jump button, but canonically it's X.