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the new angle shot controls make this unplayable with a gamepad. if you pushing in any direction except precisely left or right you stop dead in your tracks. (this includes the down angles..) I'm playing on an xbox360 controller. I'm sure people can verify exactly how hard it is to press precisely 100% left or right using either the analog or whatever that thing is they stuck on there they call a dpad.
I just wanted to make a quick point here: The 360 controller is infamous for having basically the single worst d-pad ever created. No, seriously. It's *that* bad. No, no no.... actually, it's WORSE than that bad.
Did you know it's technically possible to, say, press UP on the thing and have it register as DOWN? Yeah. I wish I was making that up.
I play alot of shmups, the majority of which are, unfortunately, on the 360 for some bloody stupid reason, and that controller.... using it in those is pretty much a futile effort. It *will* just cause you to lose, over and over and over, through no fault of your own.
It's not the game's controls at fault here, I am 100% certain of this, and there's likely to be exactly squat that can be done from that side of things to make the 360 controller work better for this game. I'm using a PS3 controller, and havent even once encountered this issue. That thing's dpad is seriously about as good as they get. If you have one..... consider using it instead. Granted, it's pretty obnoxious to set up so that the blasted PC recognizes it. I use MotionJoy and Joy2Key both together in order to make this work. Havent attached the 360 controller to the PC since getting that to work, and hopefully, I wont have to ever again. That controller really is awful.
I dont understand WHY they got the dpad on that thing so completely WRONG.