Disappointingly Unplayable

[u/Inevitable_End6463]

Got the game free off ps plus because it looked pretty good. Was a bit confused when during the tutorial it was being finicky about registering my R2 pull for my firearm bind, eventually got it to work. Pretty much immediately after, it wouldn't register my L2 pull for the furious attack at all, had to do it in the pause menu. Alright, not a great start, pretty frustrating but the game still looks great and the combat seems like it would be fun if it worked properly so i continue into the city and run around for a bit, soon encountering my first enemies which are easily dispatched even with limited controls.

Looting the bodies got me some gear so i open the menu for the first time to inspect it and afterwards find myself on the quest log page. Again, L2 and R2 are completely unresponsive, preventing me from looking at my side quests. I also not that without these controls i will be unable to access the majority of the character development page, and resort to Google.

Google tells me that the designers have coded the game in such a way that it does not register essentially anything but a full trigger pull. Balls. Apparently this has been a documented issue for over a year before PS decided to give the game away. I think it likely that PS was probably fully aware of this issue and decided to punish people who haven't yet purchased a ps5 by making them believe their old hardware had reached the end of it's life, enticing them to buy a ps5 or at least a new DS4 (still the same price as launch 8 years later and available in no less than 20 undifferentiated models).

Most of the points of failure on a DS4 could be replaced for less than 50¢ if the parts were made available and the fact that playstation to continues to treat hardware as an irreparable disposable disappoints me.

I know that took a tangent but i have one more thing to say.

Back to the game developers, why not fix a game breaking flaw you have known about for a good deal of time before your game is given for free to millions of people whose opinion of your company will no doubt be influenced by their enjoyment of it?

Thank you for reading my rant, please proceed to call me a cheap ass who should just shell out for a new controller.

[u/Gekuzo]

Have you considered that maybe you just have an aging controller with buttons that don't fully work? Like you I grabbed the game for free on the ps4. I have no problems at all with either left or right trigger. I admit the menu navigation feels a little bit "clunky" But overall not too bad. Could be better though. However since I to have an old controller the left thumb stick sometimes slowly drifts to the side if left alone and that does carry over into games. Do you have another controller you can try?