Controller or Keyboard?

[Mehlord]

Grabbed this on sale and was curious what would be the more comfortable control scheme to experience the trilogy for the first time with?

[barzai]

Well, it was originally designed for consoles, so I'd say that's what it's likely to be optimized for. I personally prefer controllers though, so I'm hardly an objective judge.

[RJX3029]

Played it using a controller in my recliner would say it was pretty comfortable yeah

[N7_Shadow]

I'm a straight PC player, so it's always been mouse and keyboard for me.

[RedVaria]

I cant actually get it to work on controller. Idk what im doing wrong lol

[Coffee Addict]

the one you prefer the most for me thats controller

[skelly555]

Originally posted by RedVaria:

I cant actually get it to work on controller. Idk what im doing wrong lol

Same. And I can't figure out the keyboard commands. I went to talk to the commander and I started shooting. I can't get out of shooting mode.

[skelly555]

Originally posted by RJX3029:

Played it using a controller in my recliner would say it was pretty comfortable yeah :lunar2019piginablanket:

How do you get a ps4 controller to work with the first mass effect?

[di eshor ribly]

Originally posted by skelly555:

Originally posted by RJX3029:

Played it using a controller in my recliner would say it was pretty comfortable yeah

How do you get a ps4 controller to work with the first mass effect?

I dunno about ps4 controllers, I bought an xbox 360 controller from Walmart several years ago. Plug it into a USB port and it's good to go, if the ps4 controller doesn't have a USB cable there are adaptors you can get.

More on topic, I've got... something like 180 hours on ME1, 300 hours on ME 2, and about 20-30 hours on MELE (got it on sale for ME3 to complete my trilogy). I've spent my time on 1+2 with mouse and keyboard, I've been using my 360 controller for MELE. They're both serviceable, in the end it's more up to your personal preference. For me the controller is definitely more comfortable, but I land more accurate shots with mouse+KB, your mileage may vary.

[barzai]

Originally posted by di eshor ribly:

Originally posted by skelly555:

How do you get a ps4 controller to work with the first mass effect?

I dunno about ps4 controllers, I bought an xbox 360 controller from Walmart several years ago. Plug it into a USB port and it's good to go, if the ps4 controller doesn't have a USB cable there are adaptors you can get.

More on topic, I've got... something like 180 hours on ME1, 300 hours on ME 2, and about 20-30 hours on MELE (got it on sale for ME3 to complete my trilogy). I've spent my time on 1+2 with mouse and keyboard, I've been using my 360 controller for MELE. They're both serviceable, in the end it's more up to your personal preference. For me the controller is definitely more comfortable, but I land more accurate shots with mouse+KB, your mileage may vary.

I've never used a PS controller but I have read that they don't play well with Bioware games, possibly owing to the fact that many Bioware games started life as Xbox exclusives. In fact it's possible to activate the controller support in the PC versions of original trilogy ME1 and ME2 since the code is still there, and there's mods to do that which I used before MELE came out with organic controller support.

But I've read that it's possible to convince MELE you're using an Xbox controller by a judicious application of Steam settings. That's about all I know about it but if you search the forum for PS controller threads they should help you out.

[AnonymousWizard]

Both work. Keyboard+mouse is probably slightly better, particularly if you don't like pausing to switch weapons or choose powers, but likely wants rebinding to be optimal. Notably Quickbar slots 6-8 are of limited use if you're keeping your hand over WASD, but there's enough free keys that you can make a better layout if you want.

Personally these days I use a controller, which is fine out of the box, but that's mostly because I don't have a decent mouse.