Hi Everyone,
I picked up an XBox 360 at a yard sale for $25... not a bad find! Works perfectly, but came with only a power cable (and a bunch of games.) I had to get a controller for it; bought it brand new from eBay. It appears to be a genuine Microsoft controller, as best I can tell.
Anyway, the sensitivity of the right stick is just ridiculous! Aiming is a matter of too far one way, then too far the other way; it's almost impossible to achieve any kind of accuracy at all when trying to do things quickly, as in a combat situation. I can get it to move very slowly and accurately, but only if I move the stick extremely slowly within a very small amount of stick throw.
There's this huge dead zone, maybe about a full third of the stick throw (in any one direction), then onscreen movement starts, and within a very small amount of throw it ramps up to full speed (whatever speed I set it for within the game.) The 'speed' or 'sensitivity' is functional, and does control the 'full-throw- speed of the stick, but no matter where I set that speed, from minimum to maximum, the overall behavior of the stick is the same: lots of nothing, then an abrupt ramp-up from barely moving to full-tilt in a very small amount of stick movement (maybe 10% of the throw, again in one direction, not total one side-to-other side), then the remaining throw is at full speed.
Pulling numbers out of thin air (no real way to measure this,) from neutral, pushing the stick to the left, say: about 40% of stick travel gets nothing, the next 15-20% ramps from very slow to full speed, and the remainder is just at whatever full-speed is set for. Hope all this describes it accurately; it's easy to feel/see, not so easy to describe verbally!
So, after all that, my questions are:
1.) Is this 'normal' behavior for one of these controllers, and it's just a matter of having to suck it up and get used to it?
2.) Is there any way to expand the 'range of response,' spread it out across more of the throw, so it'd be more like 25% nothing, 50% slow-to-full, and then 25% full speed? Within 'software' or 'settings,' that is. If that makes any sense? That's how the sticks on my PS4 controller behave... I just assumed the Xbox controller would be the same (or at least close).
3.) Can this be changed by physically modding the controller? Like, do I have analog sticks, and would changing them to digital sticks improve the situation (or, more likely, make it not work altogether....), or something along those lines.
It just this moment occurred to me that maybe I should be trying to adjust this setting within the Xbox's 'home screen,' somewhere in that menu, rather than trying to do it from within the game? Thatwould explain the 'faster-but-same-abrupt-ramping' behavior I have now.
I've long wanted to play some of the games that are 'xbox-only,' and this was such a good chance to do so, and on very short $$... and now this 'unusable-for-all-practical-purposes' controller issue... so any comments/suggestions would be very much appreciated.