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Add toggle to have "Legacy Console" movement on Bedrock

Ever since people switched over from Legacy Console to Bedrock during the Better Together Update, many console players have complained that the movement "feels weird." The reason being is that "digital directional movement" or better known as 8 direction movement — which prevents players from drifting in a full circle — is absent. Bedrock utilizes 360 direction movement instead which can make building using controllers rather difficult for many players, including myself. Many console games also utilize 8 direction movement which can pose a problem when trying to "get used" to the Bedrock controls. A toggle switching between the 2 different movements would help cater to people who are used to the controls for Legacy Console and Bedrock.

 

Here is a picture explanation of digital directional movement:


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    I thought I was the only one ':/

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    You are not the only one. I came here to discuss the same.

    It’s not even an issue of “getting used to” the Bedrock control scheme, it’s that the older Nintendo Switch edition “felt better”.

    Control can be a subjective thing in video games, but generally we all agree when a developer nails it, and controls “feel good”. I can tell you that the controls for the Bedrock version of Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch are a significant step in the wrong direction, and would ask that the current Minecraft developers play the old Nintendo Switch version (which was outsourced by the way) for a day or two, then come back to their own version, and it will be quite clear how clunky Bedrock actually is.

    I’m sure they where so concerned about getting it working at all, that these concerns where left by the wayside. (Remember the better-together update was quite late on Switch). However, now that it’s been functional for some time, we need to speak up. It’s the only way we’ll get this corrected.

    Thanks for your consideration team.

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    I didn’t notice a difference

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    I am assuming 8 direction movement is not on the mobile version as with touch controls you just use an on screen d-pad and swipe anywhere on the screen to look. Because I found this post whilst searching things to try and figure out why playing with controller on xbox bedrock feels awful but it's perfectly fine on mobile (with the same controller).

    Edit: basically I am assuming that however the movement works on mobile is always same of regardless of the type of input device and that the mobile movement (system?) is better than the one for bedrock on xbox (and potentially other platforms) but it seems rather odd that they wouldn't just make them all the same

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    I play on ps4 and the controls for survival are the same but when flying around in creative they are terrible. I especially hate it when I fly down and hit the ground and it puts me in crouch. Who thought that was a good idea? There is an old saying that works really well for this situation, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Well it was not broken, it was perfectly fine and yet they thought they needed to "fix" it. All they did was make flying controls worse.