It's too easy to fuck up your aim right before throwing the ball

[robro]

Instead of throwing only when the trigger is almost all the way released, the threshold should be much closer to the charging Z-value. This will hopefully reduce the likelihood of a player letting go of the right stick and fucking up their aim before throwing.

It should probably be set dynamically, based on how far the player pulls the trigger while charging. So if you pull it 100% and then release it would throw at around 80% (random value pulled out of my ass), but if you only pull the trigger 50% and release the threshold would be 30%.

You may want to do something completely different than that but that is the general idea.

[robro]

Two other solutions:

1: Switch the actions of LT and RT so throwing and aiming are controlled by different hands. This goes against the RT = primary action, LT = secondary action paradigm most gamers are used to, but it would be easy to implement.

2: (suggested by Derek Yu) Have the right thumb stick control aiming AND charging. So when the player pushes the stick in a direction the reticle appears and begins to fill up. They would then just press RT to throw immediately in that direction. If the player let go of the right stick their character would go back to the neutral ball-in-both-hands state and their charge would reset. This should eliminate the problem completely as well as make the mechanics of using both triggers consistent with each other.

[robro]

Another option is to devise some kind of "best guess" algorithm that can detect when the player has let go of the stick and keeps aiming in the general direction that the player was aiming prior to that.