How are the M&K controls on Darksiders 2?

[Eifersucht18]

Hi All! Just saw Darksiders 2 pop up on a Daily Steam Sale and had a M&K related question

I read through a few reviews on the main GameHub and a lot of reviewers have commented that the PC port is poor and M&K controls are awkward at best, and almost unplayable otherwise.

Specifically, they complain about:
- Inability to rebind keys / awkward placement
- No Next Item / Last Item setup
- Too high mouse sensitivity in aiming mode and no way to change it
- Awkward camera etc etc

So, completely undecided. Looks to be a decent pickup but if its unplayable or frustratingly so, why bother?

Comments? Cheers Lads!

[Nobodies]

Originally posted by Eifersucht18:

Originally posted by Nobodies:

No one forcing you to buy this game or not its still your decision and if you only have patience searching for the older threads most of your questions are already been answered. so stop spamming all the threads, thank you.

Dont click on the threads if you dont like to read legitimate questions.

Jog on buddy :)

Legitimate questions? You already make your own thread for your questions but you're still not content and keep spamming and hijacking others threads.

[Eifersucht18]

Originally posted by Nobodies:

Legitimate questions? You already make your own thread for your questions but you're still not content and keep spamming and hijacking others threads.

I can tell I am dealing with an A level student here :)

Ok,..Lets recap, and slowly this time. If you bothered to read the OP, you would realize that when Darksiders 2 popped up on a Daily Steam Sale earlier this week, I was considering the purchase but got little to no responses in this thread.

I then searched through earlier threads going back to 2013 and bumped one in particular called "What a poor console port" because I felt that it contained good considered discussion from fellow gamers with points both "For" and "Against". Since the sale was active, the topic relevant and more people seemed involved in that one, I posted my thoughts there.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion. Yours has been noted. Now, jog on Buddy. :)

[Eifersucht18]

Originally posted by SynTaX:

i just beat the first game on pc with keyboard and mouse with no problem, took me 15 hours, this game i have played 4 hours so far and seems exactly as easy to play with keyboard and mouse as the first one, so very playable.

Back on Point :)

Cheers, thanks for the feedback @Syntax. I ended up passing on this one and as the sale is currently over will revisit the topic when it goes on again.

Just to be clear, some of the feedback has been inconsistent - Some folks say M&K keys are rebindable / others (including the video link posted earlier) say it is not. Which is it? Also how were the boss battles in DS2 so far?

A big concern for M&K players is not being able to progress through a game, getting stuck at Bosses because of awkward controls (Dodging / Combos etc). Thanks much in advance!

[Eifersucht18]

Originally posted by MAzing87:

Ok I just found this one vid, and this troubles me a bit. Player tried to change his keybindings, but there's no option to change it. If this is true, then I guess I'll miss out on what looks to be a very good looking game. And that sucks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyua7No0F8Q

Here is the feedback + link I referenced above

[okofire]

You can now change controls. So dont look at outdated 2012 videos.

[Chickenhead]

Originally posted by Eifersucht18:

Originally posted by SynTaX:

i just beat the first game on pc with keyboard and mouse with no problem, took me 15 hours, this game i have played 4 hours so far and seems exactly as easy to play with keyboard and mouse as the first one, so very playable.

Back on Point :)

Cheers, thanks for the feedback @Syntax. I ended up passing on this one and as the sale is currently over will revisit the topic when it goes on again.

Just to be clear, some of the feedback has been inconsistent - Some folks say M&K keys are rebindable / others (including the video link posted earlier) say it is not. Which is it? Also how were the boss battles in DS2 so far?

A big concern for M&K players is not being able to progress through a game, getting stuck at Bosses because of awkward controls (Dodging / Combos etc). Thanks much in advance!

they are bindable, in the menu there is literaly an option called key bindings. the boss battles are the same so far, the only thing i dont like about the second one is the frequency of finishers (pressing e on a stunned enemy to execute them), it barely happens and i like finesse.

[Eifersucht18]

Originally posted by SynTaX:

they are bindable, in the menu there is literaly an option called key bindings. the boss battles are the same so far, the only thing i dont like about the second one is the frequency of finishers (pressing e on a stunned enemy to execute them), it barely happens and i like finesse.

Thats great to hear, thanks very much for confirming. So with rebindable K&M controls, and several folks who have completed the game with, I think I will have reconsider DS2.

Just one final issue of note - any gamebreaking bugs you have encountered? Once again the feedback is inconsistent - and given the K&M feedback, its hard to tell if these were older issues since patched, or still ongoing.

From what ive read about to date:
- Save Game bug requiring a manual fix to allow save games
- Shift-Tab / 'Steam Overlay' Game Freeze bug
- frame skipping, texture tearing (might just be user hardware issues)
- lack of anti aliasing, vsync or any meaningful tuning settings etc

[Chickenhead]

Originally posted by Eifersucht18:

Originally posted by SynTaX:

they are bindable, in the menu there is literaly an option called key bindings. the boss battles are the same so far, the only thing i dont like about the second one is the frequency of finishers (pressing e on a stunned enemy to execute them), it barely happens and i like finesse.

Thats great to hear, thanks very much for confirming. So with rebindable K&M controls, and several folks who have completed the game with, I think I will have reconsider DS2.

Just one final issue of note - any gamebreaking bugs you have encountered? Once again the feedback is inconsistent - and given the K&M feedback, its hard to tell if these were older issues since patched, or still ongoing.

From what ive read about to date:
- Save Game bug requiring a manual fix to allow save games
- Shift-Tab / 'Steam Overlay' Game Freeze bug
- frame skipping, texture tearing (might just be user hardware issues)
- lack of anti aliasing, vsync or any meaningful tuning settings etc

i have had no problems so far via save game bugs

shift tab works fine, i do it all the time to check achievemnts i just was awarded

frame rate is fine if you have shadow quality to low med, high/ultra drops FPS for me majorly there is vsync if you have tearing, texture tearing i havnt noticed at all, but its an old game so expect some

there is a setting for AA, i have my AA maxed out and its fine, just shadows that dont seem optimised.

my specs are

i7 @ 2.40

8gb ddr5 ram

2x gt650m

[Eifersucht18]

@Syntax, Great to hear! I'll plan to revisit this during the next sale. Thanks much mate for the speedy and detailed responses, very much appreciated!

[Nobodies]

The save issues only happen when you're playing Demon Lord Belial and Abyssal Forge DLC because of the save file size..

http://steamcommunity.com/app/50650/discussions/0/864957182754382846/

[Eifersucht18]

Bumping this thread as DS2 is back on sale - and topic is still relevant

Thanks et. al for the responses - going to pick this up this time around, and give it a whirl

[Chickenhead]

I played completely through the campaign and all dlcs, zero problems.

[markoh00]

Just playing this game on mouse and keyboard. The keybinding setting is bad but usuable (read my thread about that). Other then this I had no problems so far (playing for abot 20 hours until know).