Keyboard and mouse = unplayable

[SuboptimizedUtopia]

I can't craft anything. Even navigating the menu is a pain in the ass.

[thegodsend]

try using a Vive controler. i gave up to use the keyboard and mouse. The VR side of this is clearly still in alpha. I gave up on VR in this game besides going in to go "ooooooo, aaaaaaaah. preeeetyyyyyy"

[Dragonic]

Enable Gaze cursor... works great now.

[VR Naut]

Same here. Bought the game today. I'm on the Vive too. The store page said it supports both gamepad and keyboard/mouse as input. I prefer keyboard/mouse over a gamepad and I had no reason to expect no being able to use them.

First I simply had no visible mouse cursor in VR. Had to hex edit the settings file to enable "gaze cursor," as instructed in the VR help section here. Even with the gaze cursor, the game is simply unplayable. Menus appear way too low, almost impossible to read much less navigate. My body appears way too low as well, it's like I'm looking down at it.

Had my expectations up considering how many rave reviews this game has got but the VR version seems far from ready to be released. If this was still in early access that would be somewhat understandable, but this is simply nowhere near playable in VR using a keyboard and mouse. It should work out of the box, even for keyboard and mouse users. We should not have to fiddle around with it so much to get it playable.

I see many people complaining about these issues, begging for a visible mouse cursor, but no response from the devs. Not even an acknowledgement of the issue on the official troubleshooting guide.

[SuboptimizedUtopia]

I finally bought an xbox controller and it works great! The inventory is WAYYY too close but apart from that I have no more complaints.

[VR Naut]

I really dislike playing VR games with a controller. If a store page of a game says that keyboard and mouse input is supported, I have a reasonable expectation for it to work well and out of the box. All input methods mentioned as supported should be just as optimized for VR. The fact that I had to hex edit a game settings file just to be able to actually use the main menu to start the game with the kb/mouse is abysmal.

[SuboptimizedUtopia]

Originally posted by VR Naut:

All input methods mentioned as supported should be just as optimized for VR. The fact that I had to hex edit a game settings file just to be able to actually use the main menu to start the game with the kb/mouse is abysmal.

lol, I agree there should be better KB/M support but its really not that bad playing with a controller. I just wish I had better hardware so I can turn the settings to max.

[Bacon Overlord®]

Yeah.. uh.. why would a PC gamer be forced to go and buy a gamepad?!

This is nuts. The whole reason I kept this game was to use it in VR. Now I have the pro and there's no freaking way I'm going to play console kiddie and buy a console gamepad for my PC, lol. They need to fix this...

[Tero]

I'm also a keyboard/mouse player. I loved playing the game on a standard desktop so it was one of the first games I fired up in VR. I really wish they would fix keyboard/mouse in the game. I can't even navigate menus....have to wildly swing the mouse around just to see if it highlights anything because there isn't even a cursor.

[almostpilot]

Originally posted by Tero:

I'm also a keyboard/mouse player. I loved playing the game on a standard desktop so it was one of the first games I fired up in VR. I really wish they would fix keyboard/mouse in the game. I can't even navigate menus....have to wildly swing the mouse around just to see if it highlights anything because there isn't even a cursor.

Same here. The worst is that I bought a xbox one controller and even with it, I have the same problem to select any option. Damn the support of that game in VR.

[The Fish Puncher]

Tried it out for the first time today and I have to say VR for this game isn't really playable or feasible at all in current state, I mean it's a great game with mouse and keyboard and non-vr, worth the price, but the VR should be noted as more of an alpha state, it isn't really playable at all imo.

[Midas]

I find keyboard+Mouse fine. You have to enable the setting for using vision as the cursor, and you want to max out the UI scaling bar so it looks nice, but once I did all that, I found it very intuitive and functional. The only thing that's missing is I can't find any way to release the cursor so I can change the name of beacons, but that's basically the only problem.

[aleph99]

Originally posted by Midas:

I find keyboard+Mouse fine. You have to enable the setting for using vision as the cursor, and you want to max out the UI scaling bar so it looks nice, but once I did all that, I found it very intuitive and functional. The only thing that's missing is I can't find any way to release the cursor so I can change the name of beacons, but that's basically the only problem.

I can't even start the game with mouse+keyboard and I don't see any cursor. Please, how can I enable these settings?

[Whitecrow]

Originally posted by Midas:

I find keyboard+Mouse fine. You have to enable the setting for using vision as the cursor, and you want to max out the UI scaling bar so it looks nice, but once I did all that, I found it very intuitive and functional. The only thing that's missing is I can't find any way to release the cursor so I can change the name of beacons, but that's basically the only problem.

How do I enable the setting for vision as cursor - I can't select anything (including options) in the main menu...?

[almostpilot]

VR support in this game is meh

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Originally posted by Dragonic:

Enable Gaze cursor... works great now.

how do you do this.