M+K or Controller?

[cHIMichurri]

Is this one of those games where you pretty much need a controller or is still playable with mouse and keyboard?

[Appetite4Deduction]

I play with a mouse and keyboard. Actually, I think it works out much better when you have mouse aiming, even though targeting does not need to be exact when using the arm.

BUT...the part where mouse and keyboard falter is during the obligatory QTE sequences. The sequences are shown on the screen as controller buttons only--which means you'll probably fail them over and over because you don't recognize the keyboard mappings to the buttons the game "thinks" you will know perfectly.

Not really a fault of the keyboard controls, of course. Hang that squarely around the necks of the designers.

[Bruno LeaL]

You can play it with both keyboard and mouse. You can change your own controls the way it fits you better. You will love the game´s playability ;)

[bujablaster]

Good to hear it is playable on K+M, played this jewel back in 80's on school-friend's C64 and new reboot looks very promising :). Thanks guys!

[Bruno LeaL]

This is WAY better Sir ;)

[Wakane]

It says "Partial Controller Support". Anybody can provide more info? Why partial? Is it actually playable with xbox360 controller?

[Spizy Chicken]

Originally posted by Appetite4Deduction:

I play with a mouse and keyboard. Actually, I think it works out much better when you have mouse aiming, even though targeting does not need to be exact when using the arm.

BUT...the part where mouse and keyboard falter is during the obligatory QTE sequences. The sequences are shown on the screen as controller buttons only--which means you'll probably fail them over and over because you don't recognize the keyboard mappings to the buttons the game "thinks" you will know perfectly.

Not really a fault of the keyboard controls, of course. Hang that squarely around the necks of the designers.

Maybe you can help a total NOOB (ME)
I'm trying to play with M+K but the game just keeps saying PRESS B, when I press the B on the keyboard it doesn't work. So I checked the control setup and it says press F but when I press F in the game it enters the options menu. I can't find anyplace to change the setup options to work with just M+K.

The area I am talking about is in the tutorial at the relay thing. I attach but can't hack it. Just keeps going to options menu.

[Spizy Chicken]

Originally posted by bruninho.leal96:

You can play it with both keyboard and mouse. You can change your own controls the way it fits you better. You will love the game´s playability ;)

I try to change the controls, but it keeps entering options menu when I'm trying to hack the Relay in the tutorial . No idea why? Any videos on setting this up for M+K? Couldn't find any on YT.

[sebastian]

Originally posted by Spizy Chicken:

I'm trying to play with M+K but the game just keeps saying PRESS B, when I press the B on the keyboard it doesn't work. So I checked the control setup and it says press F but when I press F in the game it enters the options menu.

Check carefully - is it actually the options menu of the game or does it have a list of tutorials like "Rip" and "Death from Above" plus an "Exit Tutorials" button?  If it's the latter, then you have actually hacked the relay and are now seeing its content.

The game designers made the stupid decision to let the game's own menu system look exactly like the in-game "hacking" UI, instead of having a clear demarcation between the gameplay visual and the "meta" menu.  Worse, they are needlessly muddling up the tutorial by first letting you go through a sequential set of tuts that appear to be some kind of flashback to Spencer's original training, only to suddenly switch to a non-sequential set of "virtual" tuts within the flashback, which you have to complete in order to finish the last "real" (flashback) training.  Apparently this made sense to someone; probably the same person who thought it was a great idea that you recognize the deadly radioactive zones by the way you instantly die, with barely a chance to react or get out, and have to restart from the last save point, 30 minutes earlier.