HORI Fighting Commander OCTA - Tournament Grade Fightpad for PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 and PC - Officially Licensed

The media could not be loaded. I bought this controller twice (one for a backup). I waited before reviewing to break in the controller and test it. Pros: The Dpad Input. The inputs for the Dpad are extremely accuracte. Circular movements are consistent. I play tekken and Korean Back Dash, Wave Dash, Side step cancels and other movements are very consistent. It feels like it goes to neutral a bit faster than the ps5 controller (my opinion). The Six button layout feels great. Very similar to mouse clicks. L3 and R3 shoulder buttons. On this controller the L3 and R3 are the left shoulder buttons. Some six button layouts don’t have this option. Be careful though, because some fighting games like Mortal Kombat 1 do not allow you to map to L3 or R3 so the shoulder buttons will be useless in that case. Very light. Some peope may not like the fact that this controller is light. However, I prefer a lighter controller because it’s easier to hold the controller for long periods of time when playing claw style if you do not use your lap. If you are rough on your contollers this device can feel a bit fragile and may not be for you. Cons: The feel of the physical Dpad. The physical dpad feels horrible when your thumb is not directly in the concave section of the pad. I have callouses on my thumbs already from playing fighting games and it was tearing my skin on the edges. After sanding down the dpad edges and corners to my liking using 400 grit sandpaper, I sprayed a clear coat over it. Afterwards, it is literally the best dpad I’ve ever used. For people not willing to crack open the controller to do this, it is a HUGE con. No L3 R3 switch. In the Playstation 4 Version of the fighting commander you were able to hit a switch that will change your bumpers to be used for L3/R3, L1/L2 and R1/R2 etc but now you are no longer able to do that. I wish that feature was available. Summary: This is a great controller and I strongly recommend it. The feel of the dpad is a huge con for me but after sanding it down to my liking it feels great. It would be cool if Hori offered different dpad options. Great product! Read more

It's a really good controller for the price point. It's flexible, has a lot of nice features such as a headphone jack, ps5/ps4/and PC compatibility, etc. The way the buttons and triggers are laid out feels real nice and is good for modern fighting games that seem to require more buttons. The one knock is I tend to want to replace them every 9 months or so, but they get hundreds of hours of use in that time. Sometimes the Dpad can start to fail to read diagonals properly after enough time. I still like it enough to just replace it, and I'm on my 3rd one. For $50 it's hard to be too critical of that, and I think they might be working on a revised model in the future that might alleviate that concern. I'm very interested in that when it gets announced. I like it way more than the PS5 dual sense, more than the DS4, and it's got some pros and cons compared to the older Fighting Commanders they used to make (which are harder to find). The main alternative people go with is the Victrix, but that's roughly $300 more. Read more

Hori fight pads are always a good choice if you want a good six button fighter. While I'm a stick person myself, I still like to have a few fight pads just for other people or to loan at events just in case. This one is their new PS5/PS4/PC one and it's pretty good. The D-Pad is pretty nice. It's not spongy, it's not ultra right, it's a very nice feeling pad that hits diagonals easily. No issues with pulling off hadokens, DPs, supers, dashing, etc. Works on both PS4 and PS5 too. The buttons. They are nice feeling indeed, and the microswitch clicky buttons make it one of my fave pads, with the Power A Saturn copy pad just a tick better overall IMO. This has a touch pad, and it has a lockout to disable the touch pad, PS button, or even options and share which is a great feature to have. Audio 3.5mm jack is there ( only for console) and the cord is a USB A one that's ten feet long. The only thing is the plastic does feel a bit thinner than I expected. It received a scratch from another DS4 that fell onto it which again was surprising. Overall, it's a good pad and a decent one to try out. Read more

I don't quite have space for a fight stick, so this seemed like a good compromise. The buttons have a very nice mechanical click to them and the d-pad feels smooth without rocking. The default button mapping on the hardware is a bit wacky because Hori didn't map the triggers and shoulder buttons to the triggers and shoulders by default. I was able to download and use Hori Device Manager to set it up 1:1 with what you would actually expect (and the device remembers this when you plug it in other places, so that's handy). Read more