Xbox One Elite controller (Destiny)

by petetheduck, Saturday, December 05, 2015, 18:37 (3069 days ago)

This thing is ridiculous. In a good way. Is anyone else here using one?

I had been using Kontrol Freeks, so I opted for the highest thumbstick on the right side, medium on the left, but having my spare fingers rest on the paddles instead of gripping the controller made that uncomfortable, so I switched to medium on both.

I can definitely see, conceptually, how the paddles give an advantage. Basically, you never have to take your thumbs off their sticks, so you can jump and slide and swap weapons or whatever while still tracking your target.

In practice, I am having a hard time training my brain, and I end up having a brain fart and doing a combination of paddles and buttons in the heat of battle and hitting the wrong input periodically. I think that the paddles are going to take a while to get used to.

Right now I have:
Bottom left paddle = jump
Top left paddle = duck
So my left hand mostly handles movement

Bottom right paddle = x/reload
Top right paddle = swap weapons
So my right hand mostly handles aiming/shooting