KB+M players, how's the controls for you ?

[Shortez]

So far controls feel worse than in DS3. Somewhat janky and without sense like in order to equip a weapon two handed I have to stop moving and press three buttons when I remember it was just a single button toggle in DS3.

[Mantab Souls]

I dont think we need to stop moving to switch holding hand weapon. What do you mean by press 3 button? Its E+ rmb/lmb depending on which side you want to two hand.

[Mantab Souls]

The only problem for me is i cant find how to change open menu default "esc" and also can't find how to change pouch key bind as well. Those button defaults feel too far for me to reach

[gungadin22000]

They're kinda awkward.

See, I want to play like I do in Nioh: LMB quick attack, RMB strong attack, E is block. But the key setup doesn't actually permit you to do this, and you also cannot use the mouse wheel to scroll between targeted enemies.

Hopefully this will be changed, but coming from the fluidity of Nioh 2 to ER is like going from a Ferrari to a 1070ies Trabant.

[Shortez]

Originally posted by Mantab Souls:

I dont think we need to stop moving to switch holding hand weapon. What do you mean by press 3 button? Its E+ rmb/lmb depending on which side you want to two hand.

my bad replayed the tutorial and yeah need to press only two buttons which isn't that bad.

[Amene]

Originally posted by Shortez:

So far controls feel worse than in DS3. Somewhat janky and without sense like in order to equip a weapon two handed I have to stop moving and press three buttons when I remember it was just a single button toggle in DS3.

I managed to get the ♥♥♥♥ into working state, with some clever workarounds and stuff ....

The support is borderline garbage though, which makes one think wtf they are thinking considering it's the 5th (6th if counting scarlet) game already ...

1) hardcoded 'G' key
2) Impossible to rebind menu/map traversal/action keys
3) Missing obvious direct shortcuts (for 1h / 2h swaps)
4) Unusable F1-12 keys, caps lock, all special character keys (inc. the ones on keypad)
5) 'camera reset' sharing target lock/unlock key
6) forced camera auto adjusting during movement
7) Hardcoded target swapping set to mouse "nudges", again ...
8) Only one key per action
9) hardcoded map/menu keys - if they overlap with those rebound in game, the respective actions will be executed both in game and in menu/map
10) a map that has to be used with hardcoded wasd and nearby keys - while being completely unusable with a mouse

[Danyel]

My boy is preferring kb+mouse over controller.

[ＸＣａｎＧ]

For me it bugged and I can't play, I write details in a review: https://steamcommunity.com/id/XCanG/recommended/1245620

[Shortez]

Originally posted by Danyel:

My boy is preferring kb+mouse over controller.

Yes, all my life I played games on kb+m. Tried playing some games with controller and it just feels wrong and clunky.

[Mantab Souls]

Originally posted by Shortez:

Originally posted by Danyel:

My boy is preferring kb+mouse over controller.

Yes, all my life I played games on kb+m. Tried playing some games with controller and it just feels wrong and clunky.

Yeah right analog to control camera is clunky compared to the swift of mouse

[Mantab Souls]

I think elden ring also need to make option for dedicated spell/item button. It's always a problem for me when making wizard character with lots of spell attuned to pick the exact spell i needed because i need to scroll all over them. The same thing for item slots like estus

[Sir Lucient]

Any Dark souls 3 Veteran knows that KB+M was for masters. There are built in limitations to how you can control your character with the Controller that make certain things impossible to do. Try getting pin point accurate free aim throws with fire-bombs or throwing knifes as one example. There are many others.

Elden ring with KB+M is perfectly fine so far, once you rebind the controls to mirror Dark souls it's exactly the same except for the addition of a jump, and needing to press E+shift or E+mouse click to two hand a weapon. And while that is stupid, it's not game breaking and with a little practice i'm already doing it with ease.

The Stupid part here is that they didn't include a Keybind for it. That is unfathomable stupidity on the part of FROMM.

[swaggman]

1/10

[Oob]

Its wonky as hell, but better than DS2 m/kb controls. Played DS3 on PS4 and liked the ps4 controller much better for these style of games. Nioh 2 and The Surge 2 did a great job with m/kb controls compared to Elden Ring.

Its still playable with M/KB but even as someone who hates using a controller, this would be more fun with a controller than m/kb IMO.

[😎Astran😾]

20 minutes of kb+m gameplay resulted in refund request.

[-VG- Napster]

Originally posted by Mantab Souls:

The only problem for me is i cant find how to change open menu default "esc" and also can't find how to change pouch key bind as well. Those button defaults feel too far for me to reach

replace the arrow keys in the options menu with the keys for the pouch you want
i personaly use it this way as default left,right is shift+mousewheel
i just bound up/down arrow to Y,X and so far iam ok with it.