Is Don't Starve better with a controller?

[buttslushy]

What do you guys think?

[Unodus]

Nop
8am8oo ta8let, all the way

[Johamburger]

I don't think so, in my opinion mouse and keyboard feels better.

[buttslushy]

Originally posted by Exodus:

Nop
8am8oo ta8let, all the way

Why not?

[Mr.Bubbles]

I have no problem admitting when a controller is better for a game. Controllers NEVER fit for shooters with me. This game however, feels perfect with a controller. I use a wired 360 controller. You no longer have to repeatedly click to chop trees and whatnot.. Feels very nice. Allows you to sit back and relax as you play. I say you should try it for sure.

[ant]

Originally posted by ☠BONEHEAD☠:

I have no problem admitting when a controller is better for a game. Controllers NEVER fit for shooters with me. This game however, feels perfect with a controller. I use a wired 360 controller. You no longer have to repeatedly click to chop trees and whatnot.. Feels very nice. Allows you to sit back and relax as you play. I say you should try it for sure.

You could just hold space when you are cutting a tree. In my opinion mouse and keyboard makes the game feel more natural.

[J20Hawkz]

Personally Don't Starve feels better using a mouse and keyboard. Don't forget it was made for the pc with mouse/keyboard in mind. Saying that Klei have done an awesome job of implementing controller support.

By watching youtube vids and seeing PS4 gameplay, it looks as though using a controller is pretty fluid. Agreed some games just 'feel good' with a mouse/keyboard and some just 'feel good' with a controller. Don't Starve feels good with either.

[UNBREAKABLE]

I personally like being able to click anywhere I want on the screen rather than being stuck to a grid and moving a thumb stick repeatably until I get the cursor where I want.

[The Squirrel]

I much prefer using a controller. I tend to play Don't Starve for long stretches of time so being able to lay back and get comfortable is a big deal to me. The controls for the X360 pad are very well done and very fluid. I didn't have to look anything up all controls were clearly displayed. So I would go with controller, but as with most games its whatever you feel comfortable with. FPS = KB/M TPS = Controller.

[buttslushy]

I'll try the controller right now.

[Zeropoint101]

I played for I think close to 100 hrs without ever trying a controller(mainly because I don't have a 360 controller and I could never get mine to work right until recently.) I think there are benefits to both.. I actually sometimes switch back and forth mid-game for certain reasons.

For crafting structures and building your base, it's waaaay easier to place things where you want them with mouse/keyboard. Distance combat(boomerang, darts, wants, etc.) is easier with m/k because the attack ability doesnt even show up with a controller until you're a lot closer where are you can shoot quite a distance when attacking with m/k. This makes it better if you need to kite afterwards, and easier to catch the boomerang(personally, I constantly hit myself when throwing it too close). That being said, with m/k you sometimes end up unintentionally doing another action while hitting space to catch the boomerang, which can be a pain, which doesnt happen with the controller from my experience.

They seem to have the controller set up to where you have to be facing the general direction of the thing you want to take action on, while with the m/k, I can stand in a group of trees, for example, and just hold space for a couple of minutes and will chop and grab everything in a circle around me. With the controller I have to aim for almost every tree and item I want to grab.

The biggest reason I've gone to using the controller though is it's personally much easier for me in melee combat. The way you autorun at what you're attacking works at a much smaller distance with the controller and in general I have a much easier time dodging in and out where I was epic failing all the time with the m/k in combat.

[Zeropoint101]

Oh, one other thing, which I kinda wish the devs would notice.. there's no way to murder a stack of butterflies with a controller. I do this because you get the same amount of "naughtiness" for a stack of 20 as you do for 1, so it's a nice way to get a big pile of healing butterflies without raising your naughtiness much. But it's not possible with a controller at all so I have to switch back and forth.

[tblakebraddy]

Yeah, I haven't played with a controller, but I really dig the mouse / keyboard approach. The game really hasn't clicked for my friends who DLed it via PS4, and I would venture to guess the controller had something to do with it. I love the WASD approach.

[DoctorWillCU]

This game is awesome with keyboard or controller. I like both.

[Kaptuz]

How about attacking butterflies only with your bare hands?
It is much easier with the controller than with the mouse and keyboard.

Or am I doing something wrong?

[PhantomDgen]

Originally posted by Kaptuz:

How about attacking butterflies only with your bare hands?
It is much easier with the controller than with the mouse and keyboard.

Or am I doing something wrong?

Did you just necro an 6 year old thread?

Well, you could use force + F to atack the nearest entity, including butterflies, in practice, its the same as the controller... but you gotta press 2 buttons, i think its somenthing pretty personal about if you prefer controller over keyboard, but i feel like keyboard and mouse its way more intuitive