Will the mouse ever be free? (please devs answer)

[Michel Baie]

The beta look awesome but the mouse-locked controls are really throwing me off.
Having the cursor always at the center of the screen, making everything scrolling when you move it... and then teleporting the cursor and locking it horizontally in the build menu... feels inconfortable at best.
It's floating too much (constant panning + blocking X-axis make me feels somewhat nauseous) and the ennemy progression is hard to follow when you want to build somewhere else on the map.

So, won't play again until the controls have an alternative to become more like an RTS - Free mouse, scrolling when you're at the borders of the screen, no more menu-locking.

Will it ever be a thing?
If it will, I'll gladly wait 'till the release.
If not, for any reason you might have, well, no hard feelings... but 25€ is a bit pricey for a game I won't touch.

[Kaboom]

Hey Hibachi! Thanks for your feedback. The mouse being locked in the window is something that's been brought up a few times amongst our community. I have it noted in our shared feedback document with the team :)

[NoMoreClaymores]

Another vote for the "free mouse" The fixed mouse seems so strange and annoyed me so much in DG1 and now the DG2 beta.

[lotuspulse]

it doesn't bother me personally but I also can't think of a reason why having it free could hurt the game

[Michel Baie]

Ok, thank you.
Hope you'll come with a more free control scheme then.

[Rilf Danielson]

I would like the option to switch between free and locked, I kinda like the locked mouse and see no reason to change.

[MaebeKnot]

I'm so use to the locked mouse that I don't think twice about it. Though I'm pretty sure I had issues with in when I first started playing DG. I think it would be nice to have the option though for those that would like it. Options are a good thing.

[Odai]

i have no problem with it, it makes the game controlls more easy imo. But a options menu with mouse speed sure would be nice ^^

[Rax Savvage]

an option to freely switch between them would be nice but to be honest im rather fond of the locked mouse for TD's

[The Fury]

The Control Interface is definatly designed for console controllers not the PC using KB/M or if your lucky, touch screen!

Devs need to change it or add an option to turn off the kiddy controller mode for the PC version.

Personally I do not like it, it feels akin to smashing my face into my keyboard to play BF4.

[ode2dave]

I think I might have had a problem adjusting to the locked mouse in the early days of DG1, but I quickly overcame that and found that I can move around the map so much faster with a locked mouse. Sometimes, you just have to adapt. I'm so used to it now from DG1, Devs please don't remove the locked mouse!

[Orange Joe]

Originally posted by The Fury:

The Control Interface is definatly designed for console controllers not the PC using KB/M or if your lucky, touch screen!

Devs need to change it or add an option to turn off the kiddy controller mode for the PC version.

Personally I do not like it, it feels akin to smashing my face into my keyboard to play BF4.

Sorry, havent really seen much of an answer now, considering picking this up as I do enjoy me a decent tower defense game. I have a touch screen laptop/tablet. So you are saying there are touch controls? And they work well?

[ParGellen]

At first I absolutely LOATHED the mouse being locked to the center of the screen. However, after a couple of hours of play I have gotten used to it and now I really like it. I can understand completely that some people still hate it though. The map can already be scrolled around with WASD keys so I can't see how unlocking the mouse would be a bad thing for those that do not like it. Come on devs, this should really be a togglable option.

[Glodar]

I really wanted to play this game but I just can't play it without free mouse movement and edge pan from how WC3 and SC2 and Dota works...

Long time WC3 and Dota player, played tons of custom Tower Defense games in WC3, Edge Pan movement is crucial for people like me in this type of games.

It is literally love game or hate game if mouse is free or locked.

I will follow news about this game and really hope that you will add this, since it shouldn't be hard, like game from 2002 WC3 have Edge Pan and free mouse, one of best TD games were in WC3.

Also no one suggesting removing of locked mouse, I just need option in options to switch from locked to Edge Pan free mouse.

[Glodar]

BUMP, please ADD EDGE PAN movement.

[ShadowAngel]

I don't see a problem, it was the same in the first game and ist works perfectly fine.
All other games have free mouse movement, there you usually have to use another set of keys to control the camera. DG makes it easier with controlling both things at the same time.

I really don't understand what the problem is, other than people not being able to adapt to a different system?!