Improved gamepad analog controls (v1.31.3.1)

A new update has been released for BlastZone 2! (v1.31.3.1) This one focuses on a few gamepad improvements. Analog stick controls have been improved, allowing for continuous 360 degree movement angling. This improves movement precision and eliminates the old “snapping” directions. Previously, the analog stick would prioritize moving up, down, left, and right with only a small area of analog angling at each of the diagonals. Also, the dead-zone at the middle of the analog movement area has been shrunk, allowing for finer movements at a small scale and a greater degree of speed range in each direction.

This update also improves gamepad deinitialization when closing the game. This has the potential of fixing edge case bugs for some gamepads on some systems.

Here are the full release notes for v1.31.3.1:

• Improved analog movement with a gamepad thumbstick
  -It is now easier to move slightly up/down while moving left/right and vice-versa while angling the thumbstick direction
  --Now uses continuous 360 degree angling instead of "snapping" to up, down, left, and right, with smaller analog angling zones between them
  -Reduced the thumbstick dead-zone from 20% to 10% to allow for more precise movement
  
• Improved gamepad deinitialization on shutdown
  
• Reduced the number of averaged frame times from 10 to 8
  -Helps reduce game speed reaction time when the rendering workload quickly changes
  -Maintains enough averaged frames to smooth out frame hitches well
  

As usual, to make sure you have the latest update, launch the game and check the lower left corner of the title screen for “v1.31.3.1” or above. Enjoy!