How are the keyboard mouse controls?

[Silly Sausage]

Im thinking of getting this but i refuse to use a controller. How are the controls on keyboard and mouse? are they floaty with crappy mousesmoothing?

[Cutlass Jack]

Its exactly the same as Fallout 4. That is to say it works great. Some of the menu design clearly had the controller in mind, but perfectly usable with keyboard or direct mouse clicking.

I'd never consider playing this game with a controller.

[Serath]

Really the only thing the controller is useful for in this game is fine tuning object placement in build mode, or the rotation speed. (Trigger buttons)

Though, there is something in the .ini you can type to set it to a certain speed, but Fallout 4 had an extra "slow down" button you could press if I remember correctly. This was removed for this game......because reasons.

[Darkrayne]

Some keyboard controls are bonkers tbh. You have to open the map and then press z to get to the game menu. There's no way to change it, or any other menu navigation keybinds.

This can cause some issues depending on how you like to play e.g. I usually use F for the inventory in most games but once you open the inventory with F, F then changes to a menu navigation keybind.. so you can't press F again to close the inventory.

'Playing' is generally fine with keyboard but using the UI with keyboard when building or crafting takes some getting used to but you do get used to it.

Mouse is fine.

[Carlos Spicywiener]

Almost the only game I use a controller 4

[Serath]

Oh yeah, one huge tip in build mode the game never tells you about: use SHIFT+ W or S to scroll down the build list without having to use the direction keys.

[pike]

controls are good . the mapping restrictions are bad, the menus are horrible, but in game when they work they work fine , except for the forced mapping and the stupid menus, there will be much scrolling in your future , when you dont have time for scrolling