Fine-tune your pro pad
Get competitive by customising your new controller
STEP 1 MAKE SURE YOUR PAD’S IN TIP-TOP SHAPE
You’re among friends. Admit it. You’ve felt the urge. And take it from your trustworthy pal the Doc – there’s no feeling like ripping apart something perfectly healthy. Your brand-new, officially-licensed Razer Raiju pro pad, you say? Well, that wasn’t what I meant. You say “tomato”, I say “career-endangering felony.”
To get the most out of your £ 149.99 peripheral, you should customise it to fit what your mum calls your, er, “unique” playstyle. Aww. First, get the thing working. Pulling the plug isn’t an option, for once: you’ll need to connect pad to console via the USB cable. Pros don’t let pros suffer input lag in competitive matches.
Hear a faint audio hiss through your headset? Not to worry – it’s easily fixed. Head to Razer’s site, download the firmware, hook up the controller to your PC, run the updater and click “OK”. Sorted.
STEP 2 CALLOUSLY DISMEMBER YOUR SHINY NEW TOY
Now for the fun bit – openpad surgery! Kind of. Okay, not really, but let me dream. This is the only way I’m able to elicit anything approximating feelings from my – admittedly unbelievably ripped – husk of a body.
Inside your carry case, there’s a small screwdriver made for removing and replacing the extra triggers on the underside of the controller: engage in a bit of lefty-loosey, righty-tighty twiddling with the screw in the centre of each chrometastic doodad. Need to melee without clicking in your thumbstick and throwing off aim? Put ’em on! Accidentally hitting them with your ring fingers? Take ’em off! The triggers, not the fingers. That’s my job.
Two topside sliders will adjust trigger travel. A shorter travel means fast, complete presses (yay, shooters!); longer makes feathering easy (yay, driving!).
STEP 3 REMAP YOUR CONTROLS TO DESIRED BUTTONS
Now that you’ve bolted on the requisite parts of your beautiful Frankenstein’s monster, it’s time to make them dance. And guess what? Reconditioning this thing isn’t anywhere near as tricky as brainwashing a human being. (You wouldn’t believe the amount of kit that takes.)
Two simple tools on your Raiju let you remap your controls – the leftmost pair of shortcut buttons on the bar at the bottom of your controller. To rejig your presets, hold down the far-left button (with the arrow and the dot). While doing so, depress the button you’d like to reassign, then tap the button you’d like to transfer the function to. Voilà! Transplant complete. Shame about the lack of blood. Rather boring. The other shortcut – the recycling bin-esque symbol right next door – allows you to switch between your custom profiles on the fly.