keyboard or controller?

[Nightdoom98]

Gave in and finally got this despite owning the original 3 on steam and should i use a controller or keyboard?

[Anthony]

For tank controls I prefer keyboard (it only really comes down to having four individual keys for movement rather than the unified D-Pad/Joystick, although you'll have to look around using the look button like in the original, whereas controller allows you to use the right stick as well).
For modern controls I don't feel like it matters, but most people would probably say keyboard is best due to how quickly you can move the camera (even though a lot of people might say controller is better for tank as well...).
Personally I've been using modern+controller for my last few playthroughs for things like getting all pickups and it's just fine (as in, I don't feel like there's anything I can't do with a controller vs M+K). Just gotta accept that the game will play differently than with tank controls and it has some gimmicks of its own that you can usually unintuitively work around.

That being said, Lara puts down her weapons if you open the inventory while aiming which is especially annoying with the M16 and shotgun, and I don't know if she does that with M+K since the escape key opens it as soon as you press it like in the original, while with a controller it opens up when you let go of the button (to allow for shortcuts, such as Inventory+A/B/X/Y/LB/RB/RT or something like that

[Nightdoom98]

Originally posted by Anthony:

For tank controls I prefer keyboard (it only really comes down to having four individual keys for movement rather than the unified D-Pad/Joystick, although you'll have to look around using the look button like in the original, whereas controller allows you to use the right stick as well).
For modern controls I don't feel like it matters, but most people would probably say keyboard is best due to how quickly you can move the camera (even though a lot of people might say controller is better for tank as well...).
Personally I've been using modern+controller for my last few playthroughs for things like getting all pickups and it's just fine (as in, I don't feel like there's anything I can't do with a controller vs M+K). Just gotta accept that the game will play differently than with tank controls and it has some gimmicks of its own that you can usually unintuitively work around.

That being said, Lara puts down her weapons if you open the inventory while aiming which is especially annoying with the M16 and shotgun, and I don't know if she does that with M+K since the escape key opens it as soon as you press it like in the original, while with a controller it opens up when you let go of the button (to allow for shortcuts, such as Inventory+A/B/X/Y/LB/RB/RT or something like that

I was going to use tank controls since i'm use to them from the classic resident evil games.
but doesn't keyboard give you shortcuts with 1-9 with everything?

[Anthony]

Originally posted by nightdoom98:

Originally posted by Anthony:

For tank controls I prefer keyboard (it only really comes down to having four individual keys for movement rather than the unified D-Pad/Joystick, although you'll have to look around using the look button like in the original, whereas controller allows you to use the right stick as well).
For modern controls I don't feel like it matters, but most people would probably say keyboard is best due to how quickly you can move the camera (even though a lot of people might say controller is better for tank as well...).
Personally I've been using modern+controller for my last few playthroughs for things like getting all pickups and it's just fine (as in, I don't feel like there's anything I can't do with a controller vs M+K). Just gotta accept that the game will play differently than with tank controls and it has some gimmicks of its own that you can usually unintuitively work around.

That being said, Lara puts down her weapons if you open the inventory while aiming which is especially annoying with the M16 and shotgun, and I don't know if she does that with M+K since the escape key opens it as soon as you press it like in the original, while with a controller it opens up when you let go of the button (to allow for shortcuts, such as Inventory+A/B/X/Y/LB/RB/RT or something like that

I was going to use tank controls since i'm use to them from the classic resident evil games.
but doesn't keyboard give you shortcuts with 1-9 with everything?

Exactly (9 and 0 being large and small medipacks, and TR1 now having them as well), which is probably why Esc still works the same, but controllers now also have shortcuts of their own (except for the rocket launcher and medipacks from what I remember), and it requires holding down the select/back/whateverthenewxboxbuttoniscalled + a face button or some of the bumpers/triggers

[dml!]

Yeah I'd recommend the keyboard for tank controls as accessing the shortcuts is easier and there are more of them - being able to access every weapon, medipack and quick access to passport saving / loading is nice to have. It's also possible to roll using both forward and backward movement keys at the same time, something you can't do on most controllers (though the dedicated roll button is probably easy enough to access on a controller so it won't make much difference).

Originally posted by Anthony:

Originally posted by nightdoom98:

I was going to use tank controls since i'm use to them from the classic resident evil games.
but doesn't keyboard give you shortcuts with 1-9 with everything?

Exactly (9 and 0 being large and small medipacks, and TR1 now having them as well), which is probably why Esc still works the same, but controllers now also have shortcuts of their own (except for the rocket launcher and medipacks from what I remember), and it requires holding down the select/back/whateverthenewxboxbuttoniscalled + a face button or some of the bumpers/triggers

It's kind of interesting that they kept consistency by including the grenade launcher on the same shortcut for controllers, yet they left the original arrangement for keyboard whereby the grenade launcher is 7 on TR2 but 8 on TR3 (rather than swapping it with the rocket launcher to keep consistency).