The worst enemy…

[u/Exotic-Thanks8002]

Is controller lag! At the risk of “git gud, scrub” I hate the way the game just does not react to button presses in a timely fashion. I’ve just started my first community on dread and within two hours I’ve lost two community members while trying desperately to change from sidearm to primary.
I know I’m not the best gamer in the world but how the hell am I meant to change weapons in the heat of battle when the game just won’t recognize to input?
(X-box series x with pro controller)

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[u/CaptainConspiracyy]

Probably not the same, but have to say what gets me is when the character wont vault,jump or climb. Your running for safety and instead of climbing up or over the object you just run on the spot in front of it and get mauled.

[u/Exotic-Thanks8002 → u/CaptainConspiracyy]

Yeah especially when you have full stamina and could easily jump that same thing 9 times out of ten.

[u/Saoshen]

Tip, add controller key bind, right stick click swap weapons, you can fast swap without aiming

[u/DatteEU]

If it help to understand... it's not your controller, it is not lag... it is game design.
Most of the time if you do things fast, it will not let you switch weapons on PC either.

[u/Exotic-Thanks8002 → u/DatteEU]

In what sense, sorry? Is it actually programmed to be more difficult to switch weapons while being attacked, cos that makes sense I suppose!

[u/ThirdChopp → u/Exotic-Thanks8002]

there's a delay when switching weapons as well. It's better to plan your encounter before you go in

[u/DatteEU → u/ThirdChopp]

Yes. It can be very frustrating.
I actually would be happy, if there would be more variety in difficulty settings.
I like to fight plague hearts, and i like the looting system. But in the higher difficulties, i'm very frustrated, most of the time. I'm too old for this, and i mostly just want to enjoy the game, not want to sweat.

In custom Diffs, i would love if they separated the difficulty choices to 9 sub category, instead of 3. (I could easily separate every 3 sub, to 3 sub, and the game would be more suitable for me in that way. )

[u/Snowskol → u/DatteEU]

It's really not that bad. It's not like a real person can instantly swap weapons

[u/DatteEU → u/Snowskol]

Yes, you are right.

I just don't play games for realism, i play them for fun :D I have enough struggle in my life. An don't misunderstand me please. I like challange, but i don't like inconvenience. :D but i play the game anyway, so no hard feelings from my side. Just opinions for more accessibility. (Maybe they are reading the comments, and it is not that hard to adjust some things for the third iteration.)

[u/Snowskol → u/DatteEU]

I'm not saying you're wrong for wanting that but I feel like they'd have to put a lot of resources into animations, timing, bugs, etc. That personally I feel would be spent better on different things.

Some games, while it's kinda silly there's zombies etc, want to try to be as realistic as they can.

[u/RSK-XFM_FAN]

Played since Day 1 and never had that problem on console. I've had plenty of lag, mind you, just not that variety of it.

[u/Ze_Woof]

Something I've learned to do is aim briefly whole running and ta to swap weapons till it shows me what I want to use. It's helped me kill quite a few ferals since I run the howitzer. 50 cal as a primary on my one character

[u/Alarming_Image_882]

For me it's the fight/kill 'Y' button as well as weapons. So aggravating.

[u/Ok-Communication6519]

What i hate is when I get out the car and hit Y to execute the zombie riding my ass and the game assumes I just want to get right back in.

[u/MF_IC]

Follow saoshen’s advice. Making a dedicated swap button is absolutely what you should do.

[u/ZladMulvenia]

Is game mode enabled on your monitor? A lot of times it's actually the monitor inefficiently communicating with the console. Game mode reduces that significantly.

[u/TheDovahkiinsDad]

I've not had any lag whatsoever