Hori Wired Controller Fighting Commander OCTA 6-button Pad - Xbox Series X/S - Xbox One - PC (Xbox Series X//)

This is a great fight pad. The dpad feels amazing. Buttons are mechanical so you get touch and sound feedback on your inputs. I can't really tell much about the analog stick as I wasn't using it enough to be honest. Build quality is really good, no cracking.Price could be lower though as this is wired controller with no rumble etc.

One of the best controllers I've used for fighting games. Micro switch face buttons (6 buttons on the right of the controller) feel satisfying and very responsive. Also works on a PS4 with a Brooks Xbox One to PS4 adapter should you need it. My only gripe is the limited remap functionality available in the Hori device manager software, hopefully the functionality of that will be expanded with an update.

I preordered this controller and didn't manage to use it for more than a month that the right shoulder button just blown out by itself, it's a common issue.I asked for a replacement to Hori itself, and after making me wait for 2 months for it and saying that the new shipment would have a newly improved product addressing this issue, I discovered that this was a lie.The second controller got damaged the same way and in the same spot.The problem of the controller is the terrible design choice it has, I opened both of them and I noticed both of them don't have a noticeable difference.While the original Fighting Commander had it's d-pad issues (Hori can't really make complete functional hardware it seems), it still feels better than this one. I suggest you to avoid it, who said otherwise still didn't experience the issue, they will, it's a matter of time.I have years of experience in gaming and in fighting games specifically and this problem never occurred to me, considering I'm very delicate on buttons, and it never happened twice in a short span on two controllers.

EDIT 2: As of August 2022, the issue described below has been resolved. The controller software will successfully recover from an interrupted or failed update.EDIT: I've bumped this up 3 stars, since I was able to resolve the problem on my own.NOTE: For anyone experiencing a problem with the controller appearing as a USB drive with 2 files (hori2077.inn, hori2077.out) what you need to do is first MANUALLY update the firmware using the second Download button provided on the Hori site: https://hori.co.uk/fighting-commander-octa-for-xbox-series-x-s-pc-firmware-update-notification/ (see How to Install the New Firmware Manually).After completing this, re-connect the controller normally and open the USB drive that the controller appears as. Delete the hori2077.inn and hori2077.out files and safely eject the USB drive. Plug it back in and it should be functioning as a controller again. If the Hori software did this for me it'd easily be 4 or 5 stars due to the quality of the hardware.INITIAL REVIEW:The gamepad itself is a great piece of hardware. The only complaints are that the bumpers use soft membrane buttons instead of the same clicky switches the face buttons use.However, the quality of the hardware is irrelevant, since the Hori Device Manager will quite happily brick the device during a firmware update if you so much as look at it the wrong way. Now you have a controller shaped USB drive and no advice from Hori on how to fix it. The software they ship is utterly useless and doesn't provide any options without a Hori controller plugged in, which it seems to fail at, since it can't recognize the USB drive belongs to the controller. Running a firmware update manually "succeeds", but the controller stays in USB drive mode anyway.If looking for a controller with 6 face buttons the Razer pad is probably a better option. The people working on this controller shouldn't be allowed anywhere near embedded systems.

First and foremost, I just want to say that this controller disappointed me. For £40 I was expecting a pretty decent little controller for fighting games, but sadly this is not the case.The look, the clicky face buttons, the nice snappy shoulder buttons, the analog stick even, all nice. I'm not sure how good the analog stick would be to play for an FPS game for example but for a fighting game, it's actually decent! The 8 octagonal directions that lock the analog stick in place are really clever, similar to a Gamecube controller.Now for the bad parts:- This controller is incredibly light to hold, which you might consider to be a good thing but I would be very cautious about the durability, especially if you have a strong grip. It feels cheap.- The six button layout is not very well designed in my opinion. If you had to press A and then the RB face button, the distance your thumb has to travel is quite far. So unless you play with a piano grip, this might be a negative for you.- The app that comes with this controller doesn't really do much that steam can do instead, and the d-pad configuration is not at all a good "fix" for any issues you have.Now, a separate section for the d-pad. Oh boy... the d-pad. For me, as a fighting game player, this is the make or break.- This d-pad is INCREDIBLY stiff, and very small. If you place your thumb on the center it likely barely contains the bottom of your knuckle joint, and is not at all comfortable. Doing any kind of motion input with this thing is a nightmare. I had to push this thing down with my thumb more than any other d-pad I've used, I can imagine within a week I'd be nursing a very calloused thumb.- Mis-inputs. Oh boy. I spent about an hour or two testing this thing out, in depth, and forward/back jumping in a 2D fighting game was probably 50% reliable, at best, being generous. This d-pad just does not want to ever input up-forward. Due to how stiff it is, you have to press very hard in the direction you want. The problem is, the d-pad is absolutely tiny, so any tiny little minor adjustment your thumb makes is now a new input. This thing was doing 5-6 inputs just from me tapping up forward. And before you think "wait, I heard about some firmware fix for this", I updated to the latest firmware, it changed nothing.- The controller has an app that "adjusts d-pad sensitivity". What this really means is, you can increase the deadzone on the dpad in 8 directions. This is not at all a fix for doing mis-inputs, all this does is make your other inputs even less reliable. Trying to do a forward jump in Street Fighter and you keep either stepping forward or neutral jump? Well let's just reduce your ability to do those things. Did it improve your ability to forward jump? Not really. Did it force you to press even harder on the d-pad to move forward or jump? Yes. Just not helpful at all.Overall, I really really wanted to like this controller, I thought that this was going to be the controller I use for years as my go-to fighting game controller, but alas, I returned it within a few hours.