Keyboard or controller?

[Cowboy]

Hey guys,

As a left handed player, I struggle, at times, rebinding keys successfully. I've played just under three hours so far using keyboard and mouse, but I wanted to ask the question how those who use controllers are finding the game.

Cheers.

[kanezback4]

Controller for sure

[Vatrox]

controller for this type of games

[Cowboy]

Thanks guys! I get so fed up trying and testing various key bindings.

[Gisborne]

It's soo bad on keyboard, roll on ALT parry on Q, you're never fast enough at least on expert to parry when needed, rolling feels awkward, shift and left click for heavy... entire thing is a mess, my controller ran out of battery so while charging to tried and rebound keys even and mouse and its still dan awful, only bonus is the fast aim look around with right click...

[Geometer]

Originally posted by Gisborne:

It's soo bad on keyboard, roll on ALT parry on Q, you're never fast enough at least on expert to parry when needed, rolling feels awkward, shift and left click for heavy... entire thing is a mess, my controller ran out of battery so while charging to tried and rebound keys even and mouse and its still dan awful, only bonus is the fast aim look around with right click...

I have two buttons on the side of my mouse near my thumb. Dodge and Parry get mapped to these in every melee game. Without these I would probably switch to controller as well.

[Etny2k]

keyboard for every pc game.

[B-Runner]

i'd never play any game without controller (i'm not a FPS pro who needs alien-reflexes).
these games are made to be played on a controller - do it - be immersed and forget about pushing your mouse around the table and holding W and all that BS....

[KoolDavid]

I tried both. Controller for sure!

[Gisborne]

I wish they had Gyro aim though on controller, thay is next level on Pc gaming. Using gyro in Mhw and Horizon zero dawn made aiming almost as good as mouse.

[Letterit]

I quote that console players are ultra dominant, myself I tried learn use gamepads too late and never achieved it very well, modern gamepads made the suffering less painful, but control a stick with thumb or so many buttons is still making me bad when using a gamepad.

With K+M rebind is mandatory, for any single game in fact, but it's here and mostly full with one exception but no big deal, the problem is more too many commands, but unlike Valhalla and like Odyssey, the game allows bind a same key on multiple commands, but it's up to player to find cases that could work fine, and alas it's different with Naoe and Yasuke.

I would say that like all Ubisoft games I played the work on Mouse+Keyboard is overall very good. But also specifically for Shadows, it seems auto lock and auto aim options done for gamepads (which say a lot on what is gamepad play, sigh), are perhaps very similar with M+K unlike in other Ubi games I played, bizarre but can be helpfull for the specific combats of Shadows... That I still failed achieve enjoy.

[Resalius...]

I tried both and for me its 100% K&M
Same for GoT, Horizon and other games

[RedCelt]

Never owned a console. Never played with a controller (except driving games)

Kinda the point of playing on PC is using KM

Controllers only became a thing on PC with the migration of console players.
Controllers were always seen (and are) vastly inferior to using K M

[longjohn119]

Originally posted by Cowboy:

Hey guys,

As a left handed player, I struggle, at times, rebinding keys successfully. I've played just under three hours so far using keyboard and mouse, but I wanted to ask the question how those who use controllers are finding the game.

Cheers.

I prefer a controller in AC games, the movement is so much better especially with a horse but even on foot you have dynamic control of your speed that you just can't get with a 1 bit digital control found with a keyboard.

Here is a couple of example from Odyssey and Origins (I haven't recorded any Shadows gameplay yet). It's hard to pull this off on a keyboard

https://youtu.be/ZxfZ5ciAPfA

https://youtu.be/JWbDMmF3hSw

[Letterit]

The problem with gamepad in AC RPGs is melee, which is quite better and deeper without lock and without aim assist, so much better with M+K.

That is until ACS that changed the melee combats design bases/spirit to make it more console like. If you never tried and learn use such melee combat without lock nor auto aim then you have no clue.

EDIT:
Another potential problem of gamepads would be shooting, which is rather different too without lock nor auto aim, but I can't say I learned enjoy it with K+M in any AC RPG.

[stax]

Originally posted by Gisborne:

It's soo bad on keyboard, roll on ALT parry on Q, you're never fast enough at least on expert to parry when needed, rolling feels awkward, ...

I have roll on mouse wheel (click) and parry on right mouse button. Thus two most important keys always have a finger resting on them. It's just a matter of configuring the controls to your liking.