Do y'all prefer KeyboardMouse or Controller?

[Doctor Mantis Toboggan]

i normally prefer games like this with a controller but its kinda hard to aim lol

[Ocean2293]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Kelson:

Does anyone know if you can use the Azeron Cyborg with this game? Love mouse precision but hate WASD so I generally play all of my games with an Xbox controller.

You can. The Azeron is just a fancy keyboard anyway. Anything a keyboard works on, it will. The only issues you have with it is the same ones you have with analog keyboards that sometimes don't support analog inputs alongside kb/m. There are still controls tooltips issues even if they do. That's not to say this game has all of those issues though.

[Bobby]

Only 60 years old (33 yrs on PC) play with XBox PC gamepad and i can seriously easily rip a new one in Everspace 2. Years of SA in Milsims ;)

[MajesticIX]

I played the original with keyboard/mouse...I was told controller was the way to go in ES2. Nope, felt like I was flying drunk. Heck half the time I just use my keyboard and trackpad on my Mac. I can't target anything (no middle mouse button) and switching guns is a bit of a pain but that's my version of nightmare :P

[Eagle0110]

This game is fundamentally a shooting game, NOT a flight sim, so K+M is always more efficient.

But of course, efficiency is not the only thing gaming is about :P

Hey why don't you try playing it with a touchpad for a challenge? Some people are skilled enough to do it well xD

[Cercetas]

Defo KB/M. Had quite an easy time, may have to take some time to get into the finer controls like strafing/ rolling/ boost, etc. but once you got them down, its a cake walk. Also preferred KB/M for precise aiming infight.
Did also all the races, once I got the KB/M basics down in platinum with ease in a Banshee.

[1amfr3e]

I use my mouse and keyboard plus my stream deck pedal. Mouse is set to 4250 dpi and the pedal for the boosting and secondary weapons.

[Last Jackdaw]

Works fine on controller.

[Grey Enigma]

Controller, but with context; I played through Everspace 1 entirely on mouse & keyboard a few years ago, but shortly before Everspace 2 came out I got all the achievements in Everspace 1 whilst using a controller partly to "train up" my controller skills for the sequel.

I certainly don't have issues with using a controller, but it takes a lot of practice to get the same kind of performance with a controller, so I am not surprised at how many people prefer mouse & keyboard..

[Zielgan]

Only about 6 hours in, but I’m playing with hotas and inertia dampeners off. It controls so much better than I thought it would since I expected this playstyle to be more or less an afterthought. Feels very similar to flying decoupled in Star Citizen. I imagine I’ll never get close to what’s possible with 3rd person M&KB, but that’s what difficulty options are for.

[Abood]

I use both, depending if I was beaten up after work/study or not.

and just as you said, I also play games like this with controller but for this one I also suffer bad aim, I have a joystick but still didnt try it because M&KB are much better in everything already when it comes to fighting and moving around.

[Schuetze_Klaus]

Hey, im interested in the game. Is a joystick supported and if so is it good?!

[lynchie72]

The Joystick and mouse seem to sometimes interfere with each other in the game setting menus. In that I can't scroll down using the mouse sometimes in the menus. Something (presumably the joystick) is overriding the mouse input.

Also:

Ideally I want to use the Joystick and Keyboard when flying.
And the Mouse and Keyboard when navigating both the ship and game menus.
And I would like the tooltips for the menus and controls to correspond to the Keyboard keys and not the Joystick buttons.

In the tutorial the prompts for the controls correspond to the keyboard keys but the onscreen tooltips/hints for the controls and menu buttons all correspond to the Joystick buttons.

I've messed around with the control setup but I can't find where to configure this to how I'd like it. Any advice appreciated.

Edit - Never mind - figured it out. Just unbind the required Joystick buttons in custom controls and it reverts to the Keyboard tooltips.

[Zielgan]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Schuetze_Klaus:

Hey, im interested in the game. Is a joystick supported and if so is it good?!

It’s both supported and pretty good. The only issue I’ve run into is that there isn’t a way to bind just forward-only thrust to a throttle axis. There is a binding for forward thrust, but it can only be bound to buttons. The only option for an axis is binding both forward and reverse to it. I got used to it pretty quick though.

[jidong216]

only poors game with k&M

[Nicotine]

Using a controller, is it possible to have pitch and roll both on left stick? Like ace combat-style controls? Thinking of picking this up on the sale, thanks everyone!