Is this controller legal in tgctours? I was considering buying. I noticed your able to desensitize the horizontal axis. This could be beneficial. Legal or allowed??
I was told you can't change the axis to help you this this game. I don't have one so I can't confirm. It just from word of mouth. It's a pretty touchy subject around here and will open up a can of worms.
I have one and like it a lot. The settings give you different sensitivity on the sticks. What that means is the force needed for a game to register the movement. There are 5 settings and a couple of them (in my opinion) make the game unplayable. Two of the settings (Default and Delayed) play like normal with the exception of the Delayed setting forcing you to wait longer on your 'upswing' I had very similar results with those two settings
There is nothing in the settings to restrict the variance of the Y Axis (Vertical - the up and down motion). You can't set that to 0 or to have a small variance or restrict it in any way. The swing motion is the same for this controller as with any other. All the settings involve how much pressure you need to apply to the sticks (or triggers for other games) to see results. I can see this being a big advantage in some shooter games where you don't have to fully pull the trigger to get a shot off.
I watch a lot of streams and videos. I do think inherently the all Xbox controllers are a little easier (or stiffer) on the swing mechanic and results in more consistently straight shots. If anything, and just my opinion, the Elite controller is a little less stiff than the stock controller that comes with XB1.
Since this comes up often, here are the results from my unofficial/unscientific testing that I sent to Doyley. I just copied and pasted this from the message I sent him. He also recorded my API results using all the settings in a tournament round, but I never heard back from him what the results were.
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There are 5 settings:
DEFAULT
DELAY
AGGRESSIVE
SMOOTH
INSTANT
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Default - this is what I've always played with. The sensitivity curve is equal from beginning to end of the motion. For my poor swing, I get slight variances at the top of my swing pretty consistently. Usually a slide fade is the result. I hit 10 shots and about 8 of them were slightly right of center line. I hit one shot I would consider almost perfectly straight. That's about right for me when I am playing. Maybe 1 or 2 out of 10 are very straight.
Delay - The sensitivity curve is equal at the beginning and then highly sensitive at the end of the motion. The results were pretty close to Default. Out of the 10 shots I was only 6 slightly right of center line. I think it is a slight improvement but I never hit one exactly straight.
Aggressive - The sensitivity curve is high at the beginning and then slightly lower the last 50%. The results were bad. I did not hit a straight shot out of 10. All shots were pulled left pretty severely with 4 of them completely missing the cone. I don't often go left so this was jarring. I would never use this.
Smooth - The sensitivity curve alternates from high to moderate and then back to high. 25% high, 50% moderate, then last 25% high. I did not hit a straight shot out of the 10. This one was odd because I hit 6 left and 4 right. 2 to the left missed the cone. None right missed the cone. I also hit 94% swing on 2 of the shots. Felt very inconsistent.
Instant - The sensitivity curve here is almost vertical the first 25% then flat the last 75%. This was unplayable. I couldn't even control a shot to get a full swing. My swing animation would start before I even touched anything. I think it was sensing movement of my hands on the controller (not using the stick...just the natural movement of my hands on the controller). Of the 10 shots, I never had one over 40%. And of those I never hit the cone or came close. Not even close to playable.
So Default and Delay would be the only settings I would use. I tried each with Flop shots to see if there was a difference in judging the swing strength. I seemed to be a little more consistent with the delay setting. But...unscientific because I hit 10 in a row from default and then 10 in a row from Delay....and maybe I just got a little better?
And here is the video trying to make the 'Instant' mode work...couldn't even get a swing in.
I ran these tests again for myself later and had similar results. The only difference in those was I tended to get more 94% shots with the Delayed setting. I just use Default setting as I always have.
If someone wanted to manipulate a controller, I'm sure there are plenty of ways to do it. But that goes for all controllers. The Elite settings don't allow for straight shooting any more than others. It might be easier to hack since it has an application to allow for settings manipulation - but I don't know of one. I have no idea what can and can't be detected by API though. You can go to your local game store and buy a controller that has a 0 Axis setting if you want - but you'll get caught.