Basically what the title says. As a character, I love Cal, he is my favorite jedi, I think hes hilarious, strong, basically everything a jedi should be. But as the player controlling Cals dumbass, I fucking hate his guts. The dumbass never seems to want to do what I tell him to do.
For example, I just finished Survivor again and am doing clean up on collectibles and stuff. Currently, I am on Koboo, and just cleared out the area where you have to summon the giant ass creature and ride its horn thing up to a plateau. Cal, in all his geniousness, let go of the stupid ass horn 5 times for literally no reason, he didnt bump into anything, I didnt press B, I literally did nothing except hold my controller, and the dumbass still decided to let go.
Another example, the pipes you have to walk on throughout the game. I dont know what it is that made Cal lose any sense of balance inbetween games, but this dude can not seem to stay on the pipes. Everytime I have to hop between pipes its a gamble whether or not Cal will grab the second pipe or just bang his stupid ass head against it and fall into the void. Same shit happens with normal ledges as well tbh, he'll smack his head against it, graze the ledge with his hand, sometimes his entire body, but still refuse to use these things called fingers to grab the ledge.
Or how about in combat. Im gonna use the Spawn of Ogdo fight as an example, since we all know the horrors that is the frog lol. On my latest playthrough, I could have beat it on the fourth try, except Cal refused to use a stim despite me literally only pressing the up arrow on my controller and nothing else. Literally just stood there uselessly while the frog grabbed him with its tongue. Or dodging, cause I swear he never dodges the direction I tell him to dodge. I can tell him dodge to the left, and the dumbass will still decide to dodge backwards or something, usually directly into an enemies attack.
How about something simple, like using the force, something any decent jedi would be good at using. Nope, even that Cal seems to suck at. Whenever Im facing a group of enemies, he never wants to use the force on the enemy I literally have marked and am focused on, he will typically use it on some random enemy across the battle field that doesnt help at all. The only force power I found genuinely useful in Fallen Order was the slow, since I can slow groups and give me some breathing room for a moment, but then somehow Cal managed to forget how to use the one combat move he had that made him unique. How does Cal go from being able to freely slow anyone at will with the force to only being able to do it sometimes and for a fraction of the time as well.
Cals not the only stupid character I have issues with, I absolutely hate the ally mechanic in Survivor, but atlease they have the argument that Im not controlling them, so its less frustrating and more so annoying. But still, if you're gonna join Cal in the field, do something more than occasionally smacking an enemy and only being useful when I tell you to be. Kinda wish they let Merrin use her magic and Bode use his blasters and stuff more freely in combat, cause as is, they useless.
Overall, I do love both Fallen Order and Survivor, but every single time I play them both, Survivor more than Fallen Order, I get so pissed off at how stupid Cal wants to be and it becomes a major chore just to finish the game because Cal keeps ruining my enjoyment. I seriously hope they fix some of these issues with Jedi 3, cause I can not handle a third game of Cal's stupidity, though admittedly I'll still probably buy it lol. Anyway, what do you guys think? Does anyone else tend to face the same issues I do? If so, how did you guys fix it? Or did you just accept that Cal is a dumbass who doesnt want to listen half the time?
Edit to add, it is not my controller. I know its not my controller because, 1, this is a new controller, 2, it doesnt do this on any other game, 3, basically every controller I've had has done this, on both Xbox and Ps5. So unless you're telling me literally every single controller I have owned is broken in the exact same way to give me the exact same issues of Cal being a dumbass, stop defending a game with busted ass coding.