What are the mouse/keyboard controls like?

[Strummer]

Just soliciting opinions. Thanks in anticipation.

[Doc Clarke]

I didn't think the game had M + KB options.
I normally will only play M + KB and am a bit of a M + KB fanboy - but I'm not sure how mouse would work in a game like this. You need two analogue controllers, one for footwork/positioning - the other for the shot itself. Digital for either wouldn't work. I guess you could do a control method with 2 mice? Or a mouse and a trackpad?

I plugged by 360 controller in (now 10 years old and with a wire) and that works really well. Worth asking or experimenting though, I'd love to know if it was possible but as you need two independent analogue inputs both with graded 360 degree movement I'm struggling to think of anything better than a dual analogue joypad.

I played all the old EA and codemasters games back in the day that did sometimes allow KB input, and (just IMO) this game is much better for getting rid of that style of play. It was too easy and too unrealistic. Just "press the button at the right time" - like a flash minigame. I enjoy the controls of DB games much more. Now if only the physics of fielding and bowling could be improved and the meta game smoothed it would be a 5 star game. As it is it's 3 and a half stars from me.

[Strummer]

Thanks for your thoughtful reply. I am facing ugly control input conflicts using my new Xbox controller with the PC. I have a lot of gaming input devices (wheel/pedals, HOTAS for flight sims) so I am used to dealing with this but this time I cannot trace the source of the uncommanded inputs; they crop up not in the game but in a couple of the menus. I am on the verge of abandoning DBC17 because I've tried swithcing off all the possible sources of unwanted inputs in Device Manager but still I am getting game-breaking input problems in those two menu screens (stadium selection in casual match and date advance in Career).

[Doc Clarke]

Oh - I feel you. Driver clash almost for certain. I use my PS4 and my Xbox 360 controller on my PC and I have to remember to use unique USB ports for them. While it should be fine to stick the controller in any port, If I put one in a port where the other was (the other doesn't need to be plufgged in to mess this up) then I get jittery movement, the cursor whizzing to the top left or top right of the screen and flashing and button plresses even when the device is just sat on my desk. It might be that, but even if it is I don't have a good answer for you.

[Strummer]

Thanks, Doc. I fixed it, but the right trigger, completely functional in Windows and for most of its purposes in the game, stubbornly refuses to put extra pace on the ball when bowling. I'm finding the game a bit of a chore compared to '14.