Dead-Zones!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWYitrt6PKI

And I thought Mass Effect Andromeda had canyon size dead-zones, what that video shows is beyond ridiculous levels of dead-zones. Seriously, what are these game developers thinking? Especially for FPS/3rd PS shooters where precision aiming is of the up most important and enjoyment.

Anyway, I'm bored waiting for cronusmax plus forum to verify me so I can view their GPC Compilers scripts to see is there's anything on there that can help me reduce extra dead zones introduced by these pesky developers. If I find anything, I'll post it here.

If you want a great example of very tight/non-existent dead zone size, look no further then The Witcher 3, Titanfall 2, Shadow Warrior, The Division (of these I only played TW3). In the meantime, know of any game that proved to be a dead-zone nightmare to you?

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Originally Posted by Thief

In the meantime, know of any game that proved to be a dead-zone nightmare to you?

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Super Monkey Ball Deluxe immediately comes to mind. When I first heard that game had a dead zone problem, I thought people were just being overly picky, or that the issue was merely that the Gamecube analog stick is a little tighter/better than the PS2 and Xbox. But nope, it's worse than that. Not entirely game-breaking, but bad enough to be an annoyance, especially if you've played it on Gamecube already.

^ Didn't Joe show in a GameShack episode that Super Monkey Ball for Gamecube has zero deadzone? He showed this with controller in front of TV.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnEvlPo-Xh8
^ SMB starts at 13:16 - but it doesn't seem to be the episode. Not sure which one it was.

It also seems the X-Box 360 controller is capable of zero deadzone when seeing readouts for it in CronusMax UI, only that's not an option for it since 360 controller have a slight wobble near the very center. So that wobble has to be deadzone designated otherwise you get stick drift. But that wobble gets bigger as 360 controllers wear out (I've must of gone through at least five 360 controllers by now due to this). ie. Playing Witcher 3 with it's minimal deadzone for the first time on a wired X-Bone controllers 3 days ago made me notice my controller had a slight forward drift on left stick, which wasn't noticeable in other games I play. Could have used Cronus to increase deadzone, but to heck with bigger deadzones, so I got a brand new 360 controller yesterday. Now I just need to figure how to decrease deadzones with Cronus and I'll be a happy camper.

Alright, figured out how to reduce deadzone size via CronusMax Plus. I used X-Mapper UI pluggin to set up my script. At first I was thrown off because it wasn't working lowering the deadzone value, I had to raise it. So I raised it to what seems about right for my 360 controller and Mass Effect Andromeda. At Deadzone set to 16. Also, X-Mapper is a little buggy, as it wouldn't always spit out a script with all the changes I've made in X-Mapper. So here's the proper script for 360 controller on PS4;

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// 2017-05-04 17:32:08
// Script generated by MAX Mapper Plugin
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unmap PS4_SHARE;
unmap PS4_ACCX;
unmap PS4_ACCY;
unmap PS4_ACCZ;
remap XB360_BACK -> PS4_TOUCH;

main {
deadzone(XB360_RX, XB360_RY, DZ_CIRCLE, 16);
stickize(XB360_RX, XB360_RY, 100);
sensitivity(XB360_B, NOT_USE, 142);
}

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Just copy and paste that in CPG Compiler. You have to open a new GPG Scrip first, then just paste it in. Should look like this;

http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/...0Andromeda.png

To make adjustments to Deadzone with this script, just change the number 16 in the line - deadzone(XB360_RX, XB360_RY, DZ_CIRCLE, 16);




Oh, and here's the same script but with both Y and X axis on right stick inverted for guys like QuickSciFi;

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// 2017-05-04 18:01:42
// Script generated by MAX Mapper Plugin
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unmap PS4_SHARE;
unmap PS4_ACCX;
unmap PS4_ACCY;
unmap PS4_ACCZ;
remap XB360_BACK -> PS4_TOUCH;

main {
deadzone(XB360_RX, XB360_RY, DZ_CIRCLE, 1);
stickize(XB360_RX, XB360_RY, 100);
set_val(XB360_RX, inv(get_val(XB360_RX)));
set_val(XB360_RY, inv(get_val(XB360_RY)));
sensitivity(XB360_B, NOT_USE, 142);
}

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Anyone want any further help with anything Cronus related or have questions, feel free to pm me or post about it somewhere.