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# Controller Support (reWASD)

### The short answer

Two products handle a controller on their own:

* **Armani** (Black Ops 6, Black Ops 7 and Warzone) has native controller aim support on PC. Plug a pad in and it works, with no extra software.
* **Hydra FULL for Apex Legends** lists **Controller key support** among its Misc features. How far that goes is not documented, so if controller aim is the reason you are buying it, [ask support](https://arcticcheats.wtf/support) to confirm what it covers before you order rather than assuming it matches Armani.

Every other cheat, including Frost, Frost Pro, Frost LITE, the other Hydra builds, Arcane, Inferno, Sol, Rift and Krush, is mouse and keyboard only for aim. ESP, radar and the rest of the visuals draw normally with a controller plugged in, so you can absolutely play on a pad and still see everything. The aimbot is the part that will not follow, because it aims by moving your mouse, and the game has to be listening to a mouse for that movement to land.

[reWASD](https://www.rewasd.com/) closes that gap. It is a gamepad mapper that converts your controller into keyboard and mouse input at the Windows level, so the game and the cheat both see a mouse and keyboard while you keep playing on a pad.

{% hint style="warning" %}
Two things worth knowing before you set this up.

**You lose the game's native aim assist.** Once the game thinks you are on mouse and keyboard, it stops applying controller aim assist, because as far as it knows there is no controller. The cheat's aimbot is what replaces it.

**reWASD is third-party software you are choosing to run.** It is a mainstream, widely used remapper, but we do not make it and we cannot promise any third-party tool is invisible to an anti-cheat. Weigh it the same way you weigh anything else you run alongside a cheat, and read [How to use aimbot safely](https://docs.arcticcheats.wtf/stay-undetected/introduction/how-to-use-aimbot-safely) before you turn the aim key on.
{% endhint %}

If you own **Armani**, stop here. You do not need any of this. Plug the controller in and use the product's own controller aim options. If you own **Hydra FULL for Apex Legends**, check its own controller option first, and come back to this guide only if it does not do what you need.

### What you need

* A Windows PC. Our products are PC only, and no product of ours works on PS4, PS5, Xbox or any other console.
* A supported controller. reWASD covers 100+ gamepads, including Xbox One, 360, Elite 1 and 2, Series S and X, DualSense, DualShock 4 and 3, Switch Pro, Joy-Con, GameCube, Steam Controller, Stadia, NVIDIA SHIELD, Logitech pads and the Azeron keypad. The full list is on [Supported devices](https://help.rewasd.com/how-to-remap/supported-devices.html).
* reWASD itself, from [rewasd.com](https://www.rewasd.com/). There is a Basic edition and a full Advanced edition, with a 7 day trial. The three features this guide leans on, Mute, Advanced Stick settings and Advanced Mouse settings, are Advanced Edition features, and they are all available to you during the trial so you can test the whole setup before paying for anything.

### Step 1: Install reWASD

1. Download reWASD from [rewasd.com](https://www.rewasd.com/) and run the installer.
2. Accept the End User License Agreement, then either press **Agree and Install** or open **Configure setup options…** if you want to change the install path.
3. When Windows asks, trust the **Disc Soft** driver. reWASD will not work without its driver installed.
4. Choose **Restart your PC** at the end. This is not optional. reWASD's own installation notes say you will not be able to use it until you reboot.

Full detail is on the reWASD [Installation](https://help.rewasd.com/installation-notes/installation.html) page.

### Step 2: Turn the right stick into your mouse

This is the mapping that makes an aimbot usable, because it is what puts real mouse movement into the game.

1. Connect the controller and open reWASD. Your pad appears in the device list at the top.
2. Click the **right stick** in the layout.
3. Open the mapping dropdown. To cut the list down to mouse options only, unclick the keyboard, controller and commands icons next to the reWASD mapping.
4. Assign **Mouse move**.
5. Press **Apply**.

Now tune it, because a stick mapped to a mouse feels wrong out of the box. Two panels matter:

**Advanced Stick settings** ([docs](https://help.rewasd.com/basic-functions/advanced-stick-settings.html)) give you **Stick Zones** (Deadzone, Low, Medium and High), **Stick Response** with six curves (Default, Delay, Aggressive, Instant, Smooth and Custom), **Rotation**, **Invert Y and X Axis**, **Swap Sticks**, and **Use 8 Digital Directions**.

**Advanced Mouse settings** ([docs](https://help.rewasd.com/basic-functions/advanced-mouse-settings.html)) give you separate **Sensitivity** for X and Y, a **Response Curve** graph, **Smoothing**, a **Noise Filter**, axis inversion, and the **High Zone** settings used for fast-turn combos.

Our practical starting points:

* Raise sensitivity until a full sweep of the stick turns you roughly 180 degrees in game. Anything slower and you will fight the aimbot when it snaps.
* Keep **Smoothing** low. It makes hand aim look nicer, but it also lags behind the aimbot's corrections and can make the aim feel like it is sliding.
* Set the **Deadzone** just past where your stick drifts at rest, and no further. A large deadzone eats the small movements the aimbot is trying to make on top of your own.
* If your crosshair creeps when you are not touching the stick, raise the **Noise Filter** before you raise the deadzone.

### Step 3: Map movement and the rest of the buttons

Nothing here is cheat-specific, it is just a normal keyboard and mouse layout on a pad:

* **Left stick** to `W`, `A`, `S`, `D`. Turn on **Use 8 Digital Directions** so diagonals work properly.
* **Right trigger** to **Left mouse button** for fire, **left trigger** to **Right mouse button** for aim.
* Face buttons, bumpers and the D-pad to whatever the game uses for jump, crouch, reload, interact, weapon swap and so on.
* Ran out of buttons? Use [Shift mode](https://help.rewasd.com/basic-functions/shift-mode.html). One button held or toggled gives you a whole extra layer of mappings, and reWASD supports up to 10 layers on top of the Main one.

### Step 4: Bind your cheat's hotkeys

Your product's menu key and aim key are just keyboard keys, so they map like anything else.

1. Open your product's page under [Select Your Game](https://docs.arcticcheats.wtf/product-guides/select-your-game) and find its menu key and aim key. They differ per product, so use the guide for the build you actually bought.
2. In reWASD, pick a spare control. A Shift layer is the tidy place for these, so you are not giving up a gameplay button.
3. Assign the menu key to it, for example an `Insert` or `F1` mapping on **Shift + Up on the D-pad**.
4. Do the same for the aim key. Many people put it on **left trigger** alongside right mouse button so aiming down sights and the aimbot activate together, or on a paddle if the controller has them.

{% hint style="info" %}
Menus are far easier to drive if you leave one stick or the D-pad free to move the actual Windows cursor, because most cheat menus are clicked, not navigated. A Shift layer that swaps the right stick to slow, precise mouse movement works well for this.
{% endhint %}

### Step 5: Mute the controller

This is the step people skip, and it is the one that decides whether any of this works.

Most competitive shooters watch which device you last used and switch mode accordingly. The moment the game receives native gamepad input it flips to controller mode, changes its button prompts, and starts treating your stick as the aim input. In that state the mouse movement your aimbot generates does nothing. reWASD's own documentation calls these input-switching games and names Destiny 2 and For Honor as examples, and every modern shooter behaves the same way.

The fix is to stop the game seeing the pad at all:

1. Select the controller in reWASD.
2. Press **Mute**. Muting suppresses the device's native input completely, so the game only ever receives the keyboard and mouse output of your mappings. For a shooter you want the whole controller muted, not individual buttons.
3. Press **Apply**.

Details are on the reWASD [Mute](https://help.rewasd.com/mapping-features/unmaps.html) page. Mute was called Unmap before reWASD 6.1, so older guides and videos may use the old name.

{% hint style="danger" %}
Do not add a **Virtual controller** to this config. A virtual gamepad puts the game straight back into controller mode and undoes the entire setup. reWASD states plainly that Virtual and Native mapping types do not go well together, and for our purposes you want neither. Same goes for **Steam Input**: in Steam, open the game's properties and turn controller support off, or Steam will present a virtual pad to the game regardless of what reWASD is doing.
{% endhint %}

### Step 6: Apply it, and make it apply itself

1. Use the **Apply to Slot** dropdown to put the config in a slot, then press **Apply**.
2. Turn on the background agent in **Preferences → Tray Agent**. [Autodetect](https://help.rewasd.com/basic-functions/autodetect.html) does not work without it.
3. Click the **Radar** icon at the lower left, or right-click the profile and choose **Edit**.
4. Choose **Add .exe file** and point it at the game, or **Add active process** if the game is already running. If the game ships several executables, add them all.
5. Save. The Radar icon lights up and tells you which slot will be used.

From then on the config applies itself whenever the game is in focus, and removes itself when you switch away.

### Check that it worked

Launch the game before you launch anything else, and look for these:

* **Button prompts show keyboard and mouse keys**, not controller glyphs. If you still see controller glyphs, the pad is not fully muted and the aimbot will not work.
* **Aim assist is gone.** That sounds like a problem, but it is the confirmation you want. It means the game has accepted you as a mouse and keyboard player.
* **The mouse cursor moves** with the stick you mapped, on the desktop as well as in menus.

Once all three are true, start your loader and run the product exactly as its own guide describes. Nothing about the cheat's setup changes because of reWASD.

### Troubleshooting

#### ESP works but the aimbot does nothing.

That is the classic symptom of an unmuted controller. The game is in controller mode, so it is ignoring the mouse movement the aimbot generates. Go back to Step 5 and mute the whole controller, then confirm the in-game button prompts have switched to keyboard and mouse.

#### The aimbot works, then stops the moment I touch a stick.

Something is still delivering native gamepad input. Check that you have not added a Virtual controller to the config, and turn off Steam Input for the game in Steam's properties.

#### My crosshair drifts on its own.

Raise the **Noise Filter** in Advanced Mouse settings, then widen the **Deadzone** slightly in Advanced Stick settings if it persists. Stick drift on a worn pad will also do this and no software setting fully hides it.

#### The aim feels floaty or sluggish when the aimbot pulls.

Lower **Smoothing**, then try a faster **Stick Response** curve such as Instant or Aggressive, and raise **Sensitivity** until a full stick sweep is about a 180 degree turn.

#### The mappings stop working after I reboot.

The reWASD background agent has to be running for a config to apply on its own. Enable it in **Preferences → Tray Agent**, then reapply the config once by hand.

#### My mappings do nothing in this one game.

Open **Preferences → Input Devices** and check **Emulate Mouse mappings on behalf of**. Leaving it on reWASD's own Virtual Input Device is the most reliable option, but a small number of games only accept input from a real device, in which case pick your physical mouse there instead.

#### Can I use this on a console?

No. Our products are PC only, and reWASD's mappings run on Windows. Plugging a console pad into your PC is fine, playing on the console itself is not.

#### Do I need reWASD for Armani or for Hydra FULL on Apex?

Not for Armani. It supports controller aim natively on PC, so you can play on a pad with no remapping at all.

Hydra FULL for Apex Legends lists a controller option of its own, so try that first. We cannot tell you from the product page alone whether it goes as far as Armani does, so [ask support](https://arcticcheats.wtf/support) if that detail decides your purchase.

#### Will this get me banned?

Running an aimbot carries risk whether you drive it with a mouse or a pad, and reWASD does not change that in either direction. What it also does not do is make you safer, so do not treat it as a workaround. Read [How to use aimbot safely](https://docs.arcticcheats.wtf/stay-undetected/introduction/how-to-use-aimbot-safely) and [How to use ESP safely](https://docs.arcticcheats.wtf/stay-undetected/introduction/how-to-use-esp-safely), and if you want a judgement call on your own account, [talk to support](https://arcticcheats.wtf/support) and a person will pick it up.

***

Further reading from reWASD: their [help guide](https://help.rewasd.com/), the walkthrough on [using a controller as a mouse](https://www.rewasd.com/blog/post/how-to-use-controller-as-mouse-and-control-pc-with-xbox-controller), the shared config [community](https://www.rewasd.com/community), and the [forum](https://forum.rewasd.com/) if you get stuck on reWASD itself rather than on our product.

Stuck on the cheat side of this? [Talk to support](https://arcticcheats.wtf/support) and a human will pick it up.