Tank Controls

[turshel]

Can someone tell me how to control the tank?
Ive been on this mission for an hour because when i move the mouse i dont aim, i cant figure out how to turn, and for some whenever i press w i go in a completely random direction.
We REALLY need a patch ASAP, and please fire anyone who approved these awful controls. Ive never had to wrestle my keyboard like this in my life to turn around.

EDIT: Had to go to my friends house and borrow a controller to beat the mission

[osip667]

Same here,stupid mission :/

[Tommyboy0077]

Fun minimum, frustration maximum, i took me a long time to get the job done. Never hope to do this ever again.

[ohsoChrisP]

There's definitely something wrong with the controls. I understand I shouldn't be able to 360 no-scope in a sherman tank, but when I have to move my mouse from left to right twenty times, just to look in a different direction, you've ♥♥♥♥♥♥ something up.

[UK Old Git]

I found that pressing forward W seemed to realign everything. But it was a real pain not knowing what direction you were facing.

Definitely something wrong with the turret and tank movement.

I just got lucky I guess lol.

[freewifi]

tank mission is really the worst one,had to redo it plenty times, just like the first QTE where you just needed to hammer "f".
why even go for ONE tank mission, and btw I think it was also very short, next time just skip these missions... like the airplane mission... go rightclick for automovement and then just shoot.. was no fun at all

[Mike_Sennachie]

Seems pretty obvious to me that the pc controls for the tanks (and the airplanes) have been designed by someone who uses a console or at least plays with a controller? then very poorly ported for mouse and keyboard? Almost unplayable and certainly takes all the fun out of it for those willing to struggle on!

[shep1216]

keep an eye on the little icon of your tank to help movement

[Sweathard]

You need to flank the tank, means shot them in the rear. than the mission is pretty easy.

[UK Old Git]

Originally posted by Sweathard:

You need to flank the tank, means shot them in the rear. than the mission is pretty easy.

Its not destroying the tanks that's the problem its the controls are completely messed up. I just finished the aircraft mission and that's the same. Seems like the developers never tried doing it with keyboard and mouse.

[🅵🆁🅴🅳🅴🆁🅸🅺]

Had no issues playing through this part of the game. Probably because I play World of Tanks daily. But it was annoying indeed when the game can't decide to use mouse or keyboard for directions.

[C1r3]

Originally posted by Sennachie:

Seems pretty obvious to me that the pc controls for the tanks (and the airplanes) have been designed by someone who uses a console or at least plays with a controller? then very poorly ported for mouse and keyboard? Almost unplayable and certainly takes all the fun out of it for those willing to struggle on!

Got to agree. I think I was doing the tank mission in reverse most of the time. The flying mission wasn't fun because the mouse controls just felt weird. Apart from that and the strange "line into hole" targetting when in animated fight sequence which spoiled the flow of the game, I thoroughly enjoyed the Campaign and storyline. Graphics awesome.

[horse thief]

plug in a controller and controlls are still ass

[Demodulated]

This is definitely a frustrating mission. Here's a summary of the controls.

• Mouselook controls the turret only.
  
• W is forward
  
• S is backward
  
• A turns the base left
  
• D turns the base right

The turrent rotates independently. It is possible to drive in one direction while the turret is aimed in a different direction.

Your tank can be damaged by attacks from any angle. Enemy tanks can only be damaged by attacks from the sides or behinds. If you attack an enemy's front the shot will harmlessly deflect.

[RedGuy Johnson]

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[Gungrave]

The main problem with the tank controls is they made the god awful decision to lock the movement of the tank with whichever direction the gun is aimed. Basically you want to move forward but the gun is aimed over the side or rear well nope the tank is going to try and back up/turn to move in the direction of the gun meaning if you want to go forward you aim the gun forward and press W...its taking 'full r*tard" and turning it up to 11.

Only reason I got that section done in one go without dying is because I noticed that crap early on and adapted to it.