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IN the event that this was remotely necessary,
Drop the functions for all D-pad buttons; Up becomes a toggle button, Left becomes a toggle, and right becomes a toggle, as does down. You would have no need for more butttons then.
Up directional: Toggle between All guns, front, and rear.
Left directional: Toggle Between R and T slots
Right directional: Toggles gun ammo lockers (A and B lockers)
Down directional: Firing modes
Simple, effective, and easy. As for the cv controls, it would take some new code (and therefore bugs) to implement the idea that i just pulled out of my rear, but it would work.
The start button would be changed to bring up the menu that the select button currently does, and you would reserve the select button for the control switch. Basically, it changes your control map from the normal ship to the plane controls and disables any of the ship functions from working until you press again to switch back, and with new coding you would no longer be required to drag a box around the squad you wanted (unless selecting more than one). Instead you just click once, like you would in many RTS's.
Under that system, the left and right sticks would still have their original functions (see proposed change to the original below) and left clicking your squad would select it. Then,
Up d-pad: Raise altiitude
Down d-pad: Lower altitude
Square: Press once, and the next left stick push will initiate manual dive-bombing with the place the cursor was at being the target.
Circle: Drop bombs (both auto and manual, TB and DB)
Right stick: moves squads, and when over an enemy ship initiates auto-bombing
Left stick: Selects squads
Last reccomendation: Make it so that the stick used for clicking is not the same as the one for moving the cursor. Its much harder to move and click the same stick at the same time. Ex: Moving left stick moves cursor, pushing right stick in would be a right click, pushing left would be left click (left clicks are IMO less common.).
Hope this helped you out, the buttons i suggested could be changed especially in the D-pad area on the first one.
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