The Mystery of Xbox one Controller with Forza 5. Deadzones

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Well having picked up a Xbox one the other week, I started to play Forza and quickly noticed that 50% trigger pull resulted in 100% braking and throttle. Really annoying coming from Forza 3/4.

I took some time searching for information and found that this is a common complaint, others stating that they’ve been through 4 controllers before they found one that worked…
I went to my local second hand shop and bought 4 Xbox one controllers, upon testing them with Forza 5 only 1 resulted in 100% brake trigger = 100% braking (although in truth its more like 90-95% trigger pull). I updated the firmware on one of the ‘bad ones’ which only made things worse. All the them had 50% throttle trigger pull equaling 100% braking. I might add the problem controllers included the brand new one I got with my XB1. I also updated the firmware on that.

I took the new controller back to the store and they replaced it with another brand new one which I have to report works, I assume, ‘as intended’. 95% trigger pull equals 100% braking. The throttle is the same.

So what the heck is going on with this game? Is a lack of effort on turn 10’s behalf with shoddy controller mapping? Or?

I would assume more have this issue given the 5/1 working controller ratio and have just assumed it to be right and learned to live with it…?!

Some light from a turn 10 rep would be nice…

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Never noticed this in terms of feel though I do see it on the throttle/braking display icon in race.

I find the cars to be very responsive to my inputs, but maybe I’m used to it.

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They are defiantly responsive. If you look at the throttle/braking display on the screen, press either trigger till its showing 100% and see how much free play you have left on the trigger, then you’ll see how much trigger pull it takes to achieve 100%.

Im sure you could get used to it, like you have, but playing Forza 4 and 5 is hard when 5 has the trigger/Dead zones issues as you end up constantly fighting how much to brake…

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The default controller setting has a dead zone of 5 - 15 % on brakes, steering, etc. in this game (and previous forza’s). You can change this in-game at your forza profile.

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I’ve had no problems, i play on default settings , original day one controller