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3 years ago
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When I try to sprint my character aims their gun. How do I fix this?

I use the left stick of my Xbox controller to move my character. My settings used to say that to sprint I needed to press the left stick. Back then everything worked perfectly fine. However, ever since the new season started whenever I tried to sprint my character would aim their weapon instead of sprinting. I checked my settings and it says that my left stick is configured to “sprint/ toggle zoom”. This is completely new and is preventing me from sprinting. Is there a way to fix this? I have provided a picture of this.

  • Hi there, @CoolDudeNike1 

    Thanks for reaching out to us. Try going in to your Xbox settings > Devices & connections > Accessories. Check if your controllers firmware is up to date. If that doesn't help, try deleting the personal saved data for Apex. Follow these steps to do this -

    • Press the Guide button and then highlight the Ap[ex Legends tile.
    • Hit the Menu button. It's the small one to the right of the Guide button with 3 horizontal lines on it.
    • Next, go to Manage game and add-ons > Saved data. Delete the file with your gamertag on it.

    There is the risk of losing offline saves and changes to settings you've made. Normally, those download from the cloud, but I can't guarantee this. Let me know what happens.

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  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
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    3 years ago

    Hi there, @CoolDudeNike1 

    Thanks for reaching out to us. Try going in to your Xbox settings > Devices & connections > Accessories. Check if your controllers firmware is up to date. If that doesn't help, try deleting the personal saved data for Apex. Follow these steps to do this -

    • Press the Guide button and then highlight the Ap[ex Legends tile.
    • Hit the Menu button. It's the small one to the right of the Guide button with 3 horizontal lines on it.
    • Next, go to Manage game and add-ons > Saved data. Delete the file with your gamertag on it.

    There is the risk of losing offline saves and changes to settings you've made. Normally, those download from the cloud, but I can't guarantee this. Let me know what happens.

  • I went to settings and updated my controller. The problem has been resolved, thank you so much!

  • @CoolDudeNike1 i had similar problem with ALWAYS RUN - when i took gun legend starts to aim right away. and when i press run(always run is on) it start to walk and aim. after re asigining the buttons and restarting pc it started act normal - but it was like month ago
  • EA_Aljo's avatar
    EA_Aljo
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    3 years ago

    @CoolDudeNike1 

    Great! Thanks for the update. If you have any other issues, please reach out again. Have fun and good luck!

  • I'm having the same issue since August 1st. All the sudden my left stick is mapped to both sprint / toggle zoom. Tried both solutions you mentioned and neither fixed the issue. Super frustrating to be zooming in while trying to sprint in the middle of fights

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    EA_Aljo
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    2 years ago

    @ImMrMeeSeeks123 

    Do you have another controller you can try? It would be good to rule out any controller issues.

  • I'm on p.c and having the same problem have tried different settings as well and nothing has worked I can't move without ads.