I'm playing offline mode and when I start the game and try to move forward, the character just starts turning right. I can only get him to turn left if I hold the controller to the left constantly. I closed the application, took out the controller to only use the keyboard and it does the same thing. This is quite aggravating. What do I do?

See if you have a joystick connected at the some time. Only have the keyboard and mouse connected at first to start troubleshooting.
Happened to me on another game when I forgot to disconnect my joystick after playing a flight sim game.