Keyboard or Gamepad

[Diggy Graves]

Hi, I would like to know what you will be playing in SF 6. I'm new to fighting games, and I'm trying to decide what to learn to play on the keyboard or on dualshock 4. Many people say to play on what is convenient, but it's difficult on both devices. I just want to know your opinion.

[Destre]

I play most games on PC and find controllers hurt my hands after prolonged use. When I got serious about fighting games and upgraded to a fight stick, I found it difficult to adjust to a joystick. Luckily, there are several options for leverless controllers and I invested into a Mix Box (WASD cardinal inputs). There's no universal option that's correct or incorrect. You'll just have to experiment and find the aspects of different controllers that make the most sense to you.

[mjordan79]

I'll play with a racing wheel. Be sure to also use a shifter, just in case.

[viktorhallo]

what type of a controller do most of the pro players play with?

[Paul Bunyom]

Originally posted by viktorhallo:

what type of a controller do most of the pro players play with?

All kinds of pads, leverless, and sticks have won tournaments.

[Lectric]

literally whatever feels better to you

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I use controller for figthing games

[Shilly Clive]

For fighting games I like to use a fight stick. I think normal controllers are too fragile for the genre, particularly the shoulder buttons. Street Fighter has 6 attack buttons, which means you'll have to map at least two attacks to the shoulders (unless you mess around in Steam controller configuration).

I played on keyboard but it hurt my hand (which is why I started using a fight stick). There are some pros that use keyboard though, or at least there used to be before the most recent rule change.

[Paul Bunyom]

Originally posted by Shilly Clive:

For fighting games I like to use a fight stick. I think normal controllers are too fragile for the genre, particularly the shoulder buttons. Street Fighter has 6 attack buttons, which means you'll have to map at least two attacks to the shoulders (unless you mess around in Steam controller configuration).

I played on keyboard but it hurt my hand (which is why I started using a fight stick). There are some pros that use keyboard though, or at least there used to be before the most recent rule change.

Keyboard and Hitbox/leverless controllers are effectively the same, input style wise, but pros invest in the peripheral because keyboards aren't tournament legal.

[FTWister]

I have the 8BitDo arcade stick. Solid for entry level & arcade vibe.

[Shilly Clive]

Originally posted by Paul Bunyom:

Keyboard and Hitbox/leverless controllers are effectively the same, input style wise, but pros invest in the peripheral because keyboards aren't tournament legal.

I don't think that is necessarily true. In the last Capcom Cup, Kalmal09 competed using a keyboard. I only mention the rule change because some people think the new SOCD rules will exclude keyboards.

[Ersatz]

Originally posted by Shilly Clive:

I only mention the rule change because some people think the new SOCD rules will exclude keyboards.

It seems unlikely because keyboards have no SOCD filtering at all, so the game will apply it's own. There might be some subtlety there that I'm missing, but SF6 definitely does have it's own inbuilt solution.

That said, I'd never bring a Keyboard to a tournament because it seems to really slow things down.

[FTWister]

Originally posted by Ersatz:

Originally posted by Shilly Clive:

I only mention the rule change because some people think the new SOCD rules will exclude keyboards.

It seems unlikely because keyboards have no SOCD filtering at all, so the game will apply it's own. There might be some subtlety there that I'm missing, but SF6 definitely does have it's own inbuilt solution.

That said, I'd never bring a Keyboard to a tournament because it seems to really slow things down.

That is correct. having SOCD cleaning is not kosher anymore according to capcom.

[Count Elmer]

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[Paul Bunyom]

Originally posted by Shilly Clive:

Originally posted by Paul Bunyom:

Keyboard and Hitbox/leverless controllers are effectively the same, input style wise, but pros invest in the peripheral because keyboards aren't tournament legal.

I don't think that is necessarily true. In the last Capcom Cup, Kalmal09 competed using a keyboard. I only mention the rule change because some people think the new SOCD rules will exclude keyboards.

Oh. huh. I thought keyboards were banned because it opens up the possibility for macros but maybe I was mistaken.

[Mr. Christmas]

It's 2023. Time to use gaming equipment for gaming and leave the office equipment for the office.