This game would be a lot more fun to play if it enabled players to always control their characters akin to a top-down shooter, with one stick (or WASD) controlling the character movement, and another stick (or the mouse) controlling the direction where our character is looking.
Right now this only kinda works while you are locked into a target but it’s still a miserably experience if you’re using Mouse & Keyboard. Also, since the game already has animations for the character walking backwards or strafing while we are locked to a target, I don’t imagine that adding full support for twin-stick controls would be a big issue.