Controller

TACT can be used with an optional handheld controller: a stick and four buttons. It works alongside the touchscreen, so you can use either at any time. When the controller is connected, a gamepad icon shows at the top of the screen.

Moving around

• A highlight (a ring round a control) shows what's selected.
• Stick: moves the highlight to the next control in that direction. The page scrolls to keep it in view.
• Stick click: presses the highlighted control.
• Lists (Settings): up/down go through the rows in order; left/right adjust the row's slider, number or switch.
• Numbers (game time, lives...): up/down change the value; left/right move to the next control. The start countdown on READY is the other way round: left/right change it, up/down move on.
• Choices (number of teams, the bomb type): the highlight starts on last time's choice; confirm takes the highlighted one and moves on.

The buttons

Each button has a job. The defaults:

Button	Job	What it does
Right	CONFIRM	Presses the highlighted control (on a number: goes on, like NEXT)
Bottom	BACK	Back, or cancel
Top	HOME	Straight back to the main menu, where the home button shows
Left	EXTRA	A screen's extra action, if it has one (for example, the current tab in Settings)

A small dot in a button's colour marks the control that button presses (back, home, extra).

Setting them up

Controllers come with different colour buttons. In Settings → CONTROLLER, tap a button on the picture (or highlight it and confirm) to set its job (CONFIRM, BACK, HOME, EXTRA or NONE) and its colour, to match yours.

Teams follow the button colours

Team colours are the colours of your buttons, so each team has its own button. In team modes, the TEAM COLOURS step picks which colours play; every team mode remembers the choice. In multiplayer, the host's colours are used on every device.

In games

• Stick click: opens the RESUME / ABORT pop-up. In the pop-up, only the stick click works, so a stray button press can't end the game.
• In TEAM DEATHMATCH and KING OF THE HILL, the stick moves between UNDO and ✕ instead, and the stick click presses the highlighted one.

Mode	The buttons
DETONATION	Any button: hold to arm or disarm
DOMINATION	Each team's button captures for that team
KING OF THE HILL	Each team's button scores for that team
PASSCODE	Stick: move between the digits and change them; CONFIRM enters the code
SEQUENCE	Stick: enters the arrows; any button confirms an arming
TEAM DEATHMATCH	Each team's button records a respawn for that team
UNDERWORLD COMMANDOS	Each minigame says how: the stick steers, turns or slides; any button throws switches