Terrible Controls

[janpan]

Is it just me or is the controls impossible. It took me an hour to do a heart transplant.

[Arale//Zero]

Somebody didn't get the joke!

The controls are really hard to use intentionally. This allows for stupid scenarios like holding a bonesaw upside-down and kind of mashing your back hand into the ribcage.

You'll get used to them in time. Just don't worry too much about doing things "correctly".

[janpan]

I know, I get the whole point of the game, but all jokes aside, I stopped playing because my hands were aching from the pain.

[morbosfist]

You could always remap to something more comfortable, but the main point stands that it is supposedly to be intentionally awkward.

[RobC04]

I really suck because I can't manage to pick stuff up off of the table.

[janpan]

I think it would still have had the same effect if the made it easier to grab objects. For instance, the surgeons hands are a little thick and sometimes it takes me ten minutes to grab a lung. Just can't always get my fingers into the right spot.

[Kuehnau]

Originally posted by Janpan:

Is it just me or is the controls impossible. It took me an hour to do a heart transplant.

I couldn't even fully play the game because of how the keyboard mapping is laid out. For whatever reason, the game (or my PC) won't allow me to close all the fingers at the same time. Talk about a waste of time.

[Mokubai]

There really needs to be some kind of brief tutorial thing to get you at least familiar with the rather "interesting" controls and some of the tools.

I only found out that the green syringe was to stop the bleeding from a youtube video, I assumed it was just some hallucinogenic to make things more interesting up to that point. I still have no idea what the blue syringe is...

[Elm]

Originally posted by Mokubai:

...I still have no idea what the blue syringe is...

The blue syringe stops the bleeding, the green one makes the bleeding worse (and has funky side-effects if Nigel 'accidently' uses it *cough*).

The controls aren't impossible, and can be quite easily mastered with a bit of practice. Although 'mastered' doesn't mean you won't poke Bob in the eye with the drill occasionally, but that's the fun of it. :p

[Auto84]

i dhont like ic seems stupid no normal control(

[Silencer]

Once you get the hang of it, the controls aren't too terrible. your never gonna have real precision in this game but at least its playable - lot of fun too!

[Dan]

Yeah, you get used in some time. As soon as you figure out where to cut and the proper tool for each scenario you're going to get A++ in no time.

[janpan]

Originally posted by Daniel Costa:

Yeah, you get used in some time. As soon as you figure out where to cut and the proper tool for each scenario you're going to get A++ in no time.

Yes I agree with you. The controls and picking up objects will always be terrible, but if you know what to cut and where to cute, it goes faster. My strategy is that if it takes too long, I'm cutting the wrong thing.

[Sobo]

http://www.kongregate.com/games/BossaStudios/surgeon-simulator-2013 Here you can play this "sim" for free, with the same terrible controls.

[Sharknado]

Are you serious? The point of the game is in awkward controls, really now? Here is a better guess, the developers couldn't code a better game and decided to try releasing it just for the hell of it. The reasons for populartiy of this game are unknown to me.

[telamiina]

Yes, horrible controls. Not a game for everyone.