gta 6 moved sprint to l3 and 25 years of x button abuse might finally be over
mike showsha, one of the creators invited to rockstar north, says the preview build puts sprint on l3 by default instead of making you mash x or a.
rockstar still has not published the final controller layout, and nobody has confirmed whether classic tap-to-sprint survives as an option. controls can absolutely change before november.
this sounds tiny until you remember every gta chase has spent your right thumb doing cardio while you also try to rotate the camera.
if the final game keeps it, my controller gets to die from stick drift like a modern machine instead of x button exhaustion like its ancestors.
i support this until l3 starts drifting and jason sprints into traffic by himself.
my thumb survived san andreas. i will not be lectured by ergonomics in 2026.
if x is free now please do not use it for seventeen different context actions all called interact.