keyboard or controller?

[Texus]

Until now I honestly didn't imaged it playing on the keyboard and mouse, but then again there are some games that work well enough like this I believe.

Could you even properly play it on the keyboard?

[Therin Skarn]

IMO I prefer controller....it's way ,more convenient

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[SadPlatty©]

Yeah - controller is more convenient with regards to using skills and just having a slightly easier time playing.

Though - I actually play both ways as, if you re-map the controls slightly it is also relatively simplistic on the KB as well. Like - I mapped my two skill buttons to my mouse's side "forward" and "back" buttons, so everything combat besides grabbing enemies can be done with just the mouse. "F" though is grab and sometimes you might accidentally press "D" instead until you get used to it. I also changed the Inventory button from "I" to "Tab" as it makes so much more sense.

Also - may just be me; but when connecting/disconnecting (if it dies) a controller mid-gameplay is a PitA as it freezes the game for like 3 min (but it does always come-back/has not crashed doing so). So I gotta give them some credit on the port being not paper fragile

[Texus]

Okay thank you both so far and @Therin I will think about it, probably try it a little bit out myself first. Soo trough friends you can add peons and stuff, good to know.


Hhhhmmm I'm just a bit reculant to try out my new controller, it's my second one and a new model. I'm always a bit to careful with it at first.

Soooo I still have the old one, where the A button has a problem, any action I could simply change to A, that I don't need to often?
That's all I can think of for now.

[Therin Skarn]

Originally posted by Texus:

Okay thank you both so far and @Therin I will think about it, probably try it a little bit out myself first. Soo trough friends you can add peons and stuff, good to know.


Hhhhmmm I'm just a bit reculant to try out my new controller, it's my second one and a new model. I'm always a bit to careful with it at first.

Soooo I still have the old one, where the A button has a problem, any action I could simply change to A, that I don't need to often?
That's all I can think of for now.

A button is your jump/dodge roll and I use an old rock candy 360 controller with the rb and a buttons messed up but never have any problems so you should be ok

[Q_taro]

Keyboard/mouse allows you to assign shortcut numbers to Greenwarish, mushrooms, and lanterns, making battles much smoother. On the controller, you have to open the item menu one by one.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

keyboard and mouse.... because a lot of highly mobile ennemies are designed to attack when they get your camera's dead angles (wolves for example)...it's easier to keep track of them with the camera using a mouse.
Also aiming with a bow or manually aiming spells is easier with a mouse fps style.
Then macros.... never had to hold a button to activate a skill, on my 12 buttons mouse every skill is a simple click, even shaking off from a grab or re-lighting my lantern on after a drench.

[Texus]

I can't use my mousewheel other than pressing it, will that be a problem?
Thank you, but that sounds like more gimmicky stuff than I would like on a mouse, so I have something between ergonomic and gaming.

[Teratus]

Controller for me, feels better for some games.
DD is one of them imo.

[SadPlatty©]

Originally posted by Texus:

I can't use my mousewheel other than pressing it, will that be a problem?

Problem, no; pain in the butt, maybe. Anything you would scroll through with the wheel has a bar on the side of the menu or map or whatever, and so it is just clicking and dragging that as needed, or just navigating down through the menu.

Menus with a huge amount of selections though (just black cat courier when duplicating really) can be a bit of a chore to go through via S/"Down" (but ironically none more than using the controller in these menus).

[Texus]

Okay, I would just need to get it trough the 2h testing time first. It does look rough as far as I remember, but something about the battles always appeared interessting in a way, the sequel is a good enough reason to test this out.
I kinda liked some designs, but in the end it probably someone starts with a ton of bugs and a lot of angry players.

[Stalker Fairy]

Originally posted by Texus:

Could you even properly play it on the keyboard?

Playing with KB+M here. My char started as a Mage -> Strider -> Mystic Knight -> Fighter -> Sorceror -> Mystic Knight.
It's very viable.
Expect to spam the 'I' key alot though(inventory management is tedious as hell)