This problem will only affect the minority of players like me who have been playing Southpaw since COD4.

COD4, WAW, MW2, and Black Ops all had options to set thumbsticks as Southpaw (the inverse of default). In doing this the movement and aim are switched from left and right to right and left sticks respectively. However the thumbstick 'buttons' (sprint and crouch) have always remained the same. The only exception to this was in the very early days of COD4 when the thumbstick buttons were also switched -This error was soon spotted by infinity ward and the error rectified with a patch. Now in MW3 they have stuffed up the same scheme in the same way as the early days of COD4 by switching the thumbstick buttons when using southpaw.

For Southpaws sake hopefully this too will be patched.



If your an old school COD gamer who has been playing southpaw over the past 4 iterations of call of duty make some noise.

Hopefully they'll be working on a patch for it, thats just shit

thats actually ******ed...

I applaud them for adding in NOM4D + Tactical. That im in love with!

it will surely be patched in the near future

Grizz ain't going to be happy.

I too am affected by this problem making it impossible play properly.please please please infinity ward sort the problem asap for us southpaws

me too blops. Im straight not playing till it gets fixed.

Someone copy/paste op in official forums: http://www.callofduty.com/community/mw3/forums

...and tell bowling or something: http://twitter.com/#!/fourzerotwo

Nothing gets done till people make noise.

YES! Please make an uproar regarding the southpaw controls... Way too many people are upset about this but don't necessarily know how to get anything done.. I tweeted to the COD employee as well regarding it. such a ridiculous and unnecessary thing to do.. It's day two and i still can't get used to the controls... no wonder when you've been playing it southpaw for the past four games.

I'm in the same boat as you. I'm so used to playing the same way all these years, BUT with the hold breath on the other thumbstick perhaps now I'll be able to use sniper rifles effectively.

Ok, I tried sniping and I still suck at it so YES, please change back to the original control scheme!!!!

... After hearing more Southpaw user complaints it is clear that no matter what button scheme you use, when using southpaw sticks the thumbstick 'click' buttons switch -when they should stay the same and have stayed the same in every previous COD.

I cant post in the official MW3 callofduty forms as they are broken. If you have an account get over there and raise some hell. let http://twitter.com/#!/MichaelCondrey know as well.

...Im sure they will fix. Just need to let them know we are not happy.

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I'm also very frustrated with this. Often find myself trying to crouch to dodge enemy fire and end up getting smoked as I'm left standing. I really don't understand why they haven't implemented a solution where a user can assign buttons at will.