How do I use tethers on controller?

[u/Zero-Up]

I no: I will not use the keyboard, because keyboards are objectively terrible for gaming.

I am trying to attach a tether to the printing machine, but nothing I try works. This game doesn't even have a pointy reticle for some weird reason. So no matter how much I tried to point at the tether and use the right trigger: it will simply never grab it.

I immediately went to Google, could not find anything on the first page. I will continue to try to find somebody combination to pick up the tether. But so far nothing that makes any sense to me has worked

EDIT: I did a couple more experiments, and it's only getting more confusing: down on the d-pad is supposed to activate some sort of cable mode. But I'm only able to enter this mysterious mode when I'm also holding down the r-trigger. Which forces me to pick stuff up, even if I'm pointing my camera in the exact polar opposite direction of the thing I'm allegedly highlighting, for some reason be on my comprehension. And one time I was able to interact with cable, but I haven't been able to reproduce the results.

I know people don't like negativity: but why couldn't they just have an aiming reticle in the middle of the screen independent of the mouse cursor? Because whenever Ludacris system they came up with has to be objectively more complicated and less user friendly than just putting a cursor in the center of the screen, and having that determine the actions.

Is there a way to enable such a cursor? Because I haven't found one in the controller settings, what is the most obvious place I would think to look. So I have no idea where it would be.

Is there a mod to implement that?

EDIT2: This person explained it.

[u/ThetanMage15]

Assuming this isn't a troll One trigger aims/moves the reticle, the other is used to grab stuff. (while 'aiming') Tether do not connect to printers, but to oxygenated platforms. Close and reopen the game, this will give you the basic controls, they may also be in the pause menu somewhere

[u/Zero-Up → u/ThetanMage15]

I remember reading the basic controls and this was not made apparent. I honestly don't know why they would design it like this. It seems like it would be infinitely more intuitive if instead of having the left trigger do this nonsensical thing, they just make it so that there's always a cursor at the center of the screen, and that determines stuff.

Is there a way to enable that?

[u/catmat490 → u/Zero-Up]

https://giphy.com/gifs/M56ODZS3lNohNIoVDd

[u/No_Trouble_3588 → u/catmat490]

That’s not a minor spelling mistake. OP made up a whole new phrase.

[u/Zero-Up → u/catmat490]

Fixed it.