MMO Character controller that works with Malbers Animal Controller?

I've got Malbers Animal Controller. It's so far my favorite asset. You can do a lot with it and it's very versatile. Except when it comes to movement.

Out of the box, the movement is not bad. It's actually perfect. But I'm trying to recreate MMORPG movement as I have the intention to make a small RPG with hotbar abilities and tab targetting. So I want my character be able to step to the side (left/right with A and D respectively). In Malbers Animal Controller, your character rotates with A and D.

At the moment there's no way to make this work in the controller out of the box. So I'm wondering if anybody here has had experience with this controller, adding this type of functionality to it through an override script or just a different character controller that functions well with Malbers asset?

I've tried writing a script that basically auto triggers the built in strafe function when in combat. But it didn't quite work as intended.