TLDR: The current design of the Right Stick controls of the Legacy controller setting in D2 has a very specific, unique issue: Looking Up or Down is extremely impaired while Strafing to the Left or the Right.
This issue is not present on the Left Stick, and hopefully it will be clearly explained to you below. This problem is strictly limited to the Right Stick controls in games where Bungie created the assets used for the controller layouts, so all of the Destiny and Halo games --- but nowhere else.
Evidence
In this graphic, https://imgur.com/a/5MiZ9PG created by EternalDahaka and edited by me, you may plainly see the enormous difference between the Left and Right sticks on Legacy controls. Thanks to EternalDahaka for doing the work to show how and why the Legacy controls are messed up in Destiny and Halo games. You can see his full video here on this topic: https://youtu.be/fvK1XMSVvcI. If you want to know how your controls work in a particular game, he's probably got a video demonstrating it, so check him out on YouTube.
Now that you've seen the graphic, or EternalDahaka's video, you'll understand what I mean when I say the green shaded regions of the Right Stick need to be enlarged, similar to the Left Stick's far larger green regions. As it is currently designed, there's only a sliver of stick movement (the green regions) on the Right Stick where Look and Strafe commands can be performed at the same time, while the Left Stick has tons of stick area where Strafe and Look can be performed at the same time. All of the blue region of the Right Stick represents only Strafe commands, Look commands cannot be performed in the blue regions at all.
Here's a 1:24 video clip demonstrating this problem in practice, in comparison with 2 other shooters. https://youtu.be/zUlclnNKP80. You can clearly see how Up and Down stick movement **does not** result in Up or Down camera movement in Destiny, while strafing. And, in the non-Destiny games, you can see that Up/Down stick movements **do** result in Up/Down camera movements - this is how it works in all other games and i retain full control of Look inputs while Strafing. Best viewed in Fullscreen Mode on a cellphone.
Last Word
Finally I just want to say that I've struggled with this problem for many years in Destiny, and I would so very much like to be rid of it once and for all. It's been within the past few months since December 2021 that I've been able to finally located precisely why this issue has been occuring. For the longest time, I thought this was an issue caused by the stick deadzones, because there's such a huge part of the Right Stick where Look Up and Down doesn't function at all. But thanks to playing Halo Infinite, with it's multiple deadzone settings that I could totally disable, and EternalDahaka work, was I able to precisely nail down the cause of this. So Bungie if you're reading this, I am a big fan of yours. I came over from the N64 to the Xbox to play Halo: Combat Evolved and I've been a big fan of your games ever since. Please do me and the others who still use Legacy a big solid and fix this for us so we retain full control over Look commands even while Strafing. This is a unique issue not present in other games.
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