Overview
The Initial doesn’t support controller fully and causing problems. This guide offers a solution step by step
Introduction
As you know this game doesn’t fully support controllers. So you will experience these problems:
- You are two buttons short to play: The game doesn’t recognize your controller’s LT and RT buttons. (Serious problem)
- You will suffer ”The keys are in conflict please reset” error which stucks you inside the ”Key Settings” menu. (When you try to adjust buttons because of LT and RT)
- You will receive ”The keys are in conflict please reset” error in game as non-stop spam during your play. (If you manage to get out of the controller menu after adjusting)
So in this guide I will show you how to bypass these problems step by step:
Step 1
- Don’t configure your controller through the main menu or you will stuck at the ”Key Settings” menu after adjusting a button. (You have to restore default keys to be able to go out)
- To configure your controller go to one of the two ”traning mode” via ”training menu”
- Press ”start” button with your controller to open another menu and choose ”Settings” then choose ”Key Settings”
Step 2
- Firstly to be able to configure a button you need to press ”enter” via keyboard
- Now move your ”Unique Skill” (default on LT button) to LS button (which means pressing middle of your Left Stick (Yes the sticks are also buttons if you don’t know. See the picture below)
Step 3
Note: L1=LB and R1=RB: L1,R1 are PS buttons and LB,RB are Xbox buttons
Note 2: The game uses L1,R1 in ”Key Settings” menu and LB,RB in ”Check and buy skills” menu
- Move your Charge Skill (default on RT button) to R1
(Yes, you also have ”block” skill on R1 by default. But don’t worry these two won’t affect each other) - This button will act as block in fights and act as charge only if your X button is on hold for a few second (You need to buy charge skill (Hold X+R1) from the ”Check and buy skills” menu)
- Now your controller configuration looks like this:
Step 4
- Feel free to swap skills on A,B,X and Y buttons between them according to your play style.
It won’t cause a problem.
Attention: If you move any other skills to your A,B,X or Y buttons you will receive ”The keys are in conflict please reset” error message as a nonstop spam during the game. So don’t do touch them. (Listed as problem 3)
Step 5
- Now close the settings menu by pressing ”start” button.
- Ignore ”The keys are in conflict please reset” error message. It will only appear once.
Note: You really need to press the buttons very fast to do the combo moves.
That is another reason this game is not conroller-friendly
Optional: Challenge Mode/Special Pattern Configuration
In this mode you are able to play with two different characters with different skills.
So you need to configurate buttons for each character again.
- While in Special Pattern mode press ”start” to configurate
Ryuzaki:
- Whirlwind/Block skill is set on R1 (Because of our main story configuration)
But they will stuck: Whirlwind won’t work. - Move Whirlwind skill to L1 (Ryuzaki doesn’t have sprint skill so L1 has no default skill)
Ruri:
- Uses same skills and configuration you use for the main story.
Kyuya:
- Tornado Decimates/Block skill is set on R1 (Because of our main story configuration)
But they will stuck: Tornado Decimates won’t work - Move Tornado Decimates to RS (Camera Reset Button)
They will stuck too. But there is no other option because Kyuya has ”Teleport to attack” skill default on L1 button - So every time you use Tornado skill your camera will reset
But don’t worry Special Pattern mode is easy; Enemies will wait a few seconds to attack.
Note: Don’t forget to reverse the changes when you go back to play with Ruri
Bonus: How To Get Free DLC Soundtrack
- Go to the link below and download it: [link]
- After downloading, find this folder through: …SteamsteamappscommonThe Initial
- You will see ”The Initial OST” folder
- Open it and enjoy the awesome music (7 mp3 files)
- Complete Soundtrack is below if you want to try before downloading it: