Hey, thanks a bunch for the quick reply. I will probably have a few more questions, but for now , with the player ‘keyboard control’ that works just fine. All i had to do for turning in place was a add “game controller left x” in the move right axis mapping in project settings input. works basically out of the box 
I was struggling to figure out where the aiming by mouse was happening/how it was happening. Now i just have to figure out how to