Somewhat new to pc gaming, so bare with me. Bought control ultimate edition during a sale after seeing it had controller support. Every other game I've played, the controller just works as long as it's plugged in, but I cant get it to work on control. Its a PS4 Controller. Thanks!

The game requires an XInput compatible controller and unfortunately DualShock4 is not.
I suggest you to install DS4Windows or a similar tool (wrapper) in order to make your DS4 controller compatible with Xinput and therefore with the game itself.

I confirm that I play with a D-input controller, and it works very well.
The problem is that this game has a lot of random bugs (from what I understood on the net) and, I think, that the problem is also that Playstation controllers don't work natively on PC.