

Basic movementīefore we start punching, we need to walk back and forth a little bit. Otherwise, your usual controller is fine. If you’re a player who’s already used to an arcade stick, Injustice 2 won’t present any problems, aside from having to fill out a full slate of eight buttons. However, Injustice and Mortal Kombat are built for console game pads first and foremost. As the motions and commands are meant for an arcade stick, they’re easier to execute that way. May fighting games - coming as they do from their birthplace in the Japanese arcade - are built assuming the player is using an arcade stick. The gear looks nice and feels good to use, but it doesn't actually confer any gameplay advantages. You have probably seen the expensive arcade sticks that many top fighting game players use. Unless you really want to be playing Street Fighter, we recommend leaving this off. "Alternate Control" will change special moves to require Street Fighter style "Hadoken" motions including the diagonal points on the controller.


This option effectively presses each button twice - once when you press the button and again when you release it- and if you don’t specifically know that’s happening, it can accidentally cause moves that you never intended to use. You may want to turn off "Release Check" (Negative Edge). To see these, go to "Wireless Controller Preset" in the pause menu. The game has a few control options meant to help you with pulling off the moves. Special move commands also reverse depending on which side of the screen you're facing, so start thinking about forward and back rather than left and right. If you're facing right, forward is right. These are always relative to your opponent. We're going to talk about back and forward in this guide. On the analog sticks, you’re going to be imprecise, wobbly and slower to react than your opponent. The precise controls of this game call for the digital pad. We don't recommend using the analog sticks for movement.

Injustice 2’s controls are built for an 8-button gamepad like that of the Playstation 4 or Xbox One, though the buttons are fully customizable and friendly to whatever controller you’d like to use.
