Whoever designed Drake controls....

[Nihil]

....what the hell were you thinking dude? This control is terrible. Especially if you are doing side missions forced to mount a drake and kill orks in a narrow cave where you have the Orks up on the top but no way to ascend or descend.

Holy crap worst job ever

[SwampDragon]

Originally posted by Nihil:

no way to ascend or descend

I use a controller, not sure what you use, but there is on screen prompts for ascend and descend while aiming. Otherwise one stick controls pitch and one controls direction of flame attack. You do actually have full degree of movement, although it is awkward.

[Nihil]

Yeah but doesn't work if you are in a narrow place. Normally it would be "E" for ascend and "C" for descent. But in this case it was a challenge mission in a cave area where there was a lot of walkways reaching across the cave above each other like a web. And because of these the drake was always pushed downwards. The buttons "E" for ascent simply didn't do anything. But it is also stupid that it works only if you are aiming. Why? Very bad design if you ask me.

[Jimmy Rustler]

Idk never had an issue with it, but also a controller user.

[blademan619]

Originally posted by Nihil:

Yeah but doesn't work if you are in a narrow place. Normally it would be "E" for ascend and "C" for descent. But in this case it was a challenge mission in a cave area where there was a lot of walkways reaching across the cave above each other like a web. And because of these the drake was always pushed downwards. The buttons "E" for ascent simply didn't do anything. But it is also stupid that it works only if you are aiming. Why? Very bad design if you ask me.

Those are meant for when you are aiming, it lets your strafe so you can dodge some of the attacks instead of being stationary...The actual controls to go up or down is W/S...so if you want to go up, stop aiming and hold S to ascend, then aim again to start attacking...likewise hold W to descend when not aiming

[Izlude]

Originally posted by Nihil:

....what the hell were you thinking dude? This control is terrible. Especially if you are doing side missions forced to mount a drake and kill orks in a narrow cave where you have the Orks up on the top but no way to ascend or descend.

Holy crap worst job ever

I like this game but the controls period are abysmally bad for controller and keyboard/mouse.
the soft targeting system makes the bad controls far worse to deal with. should have given us a hardlock with a cycle through targets system (like every other game does) if they are gonna use target locking at all.

[Fingeris]

"E" for ascend and "C" for descent works only if you hold RMB (hover mode)

Otherwise you use "W" and "S" (strafe mode)

[The Empress]

simple answer
pc haters they just provide the bare minimum
such ancient dinosaures do still exist here and there
luckily players outsmart them and workaround

[PsychaChi]

The drake mission in the cave is near impossible on PC and in general. The drake's health is FAR TOO LOW.

I even tried cheating my HP to just get it done but it still dies in 3-4 arrows.

[cswiger]

The Archers of Morgoth mission where you fly on Carnan is easy if you jump off and use arrows to clear all of the archers nearby. Then get back on Carnan and find some more.

If you want to stay on Carnan, learn to strafe while using the drake breath attack.

[Nihil]

Originally posted by PsychaChi:

The drake mission in the cave is near impossible on PC and in general. The drake's health is FAR TOO LOW.


I even tried cheating my HP to just get it done but it still dies in 3-4 arrows.

Originally posted by cswiger:

The Archers of Morgoth mission where you fly on Carnan is easy if you jump off and use arrows to clear all of the archers nearby. Then get back on Carnan and find some more.

If you want to stay on Carnan, learn to strafe while using the drake breath attack.

I'm playing on medium so i had no issue with the hp. The issue was the bonus objective that it was impossible to get high enough and kill the Orks in time. So i had to stay at the bottom and wait for them to run down. :D

I will try to jump off. And kill them that way. But i'm afraid it wont work. There are often other similar objectives while mounted ona Graug or Caragor to kill Uruks. And as soon you jump off, the objective tracer stops and tells you to jump back

[blademan619]

Originally posted by PsychaChi:

The drake mission in the cave is near impossible on PC and in general. The drake's health is FAR TOO LOW.

I even tried cheating my HP to just get it done but it still dies in 3-4 arrows.

There is a skill under the drake skills, called Scales of Iron; "Your drake takes less damage from attacks." It makes it very easy for these missions on a drake