Any mods to revamp controls?

[Ugly Bob]

Even with the controls changed its so unresponsive and not remotely intuitive. The game's age really shows. It still seems fun and like it has the potential to be a cool rpg, but with the standard control schemes being so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ retarded it makes me want to bash my skull against a brick wall. Anything I can do to get a better and more responsive control layout? Like picking up items seems to be almost ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ impossible. Seriously, did mice not exist when this game was made? Because my mouse is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless and I am not big on these dumb archaic keyboard controls. If it helps I am also running linux mint and playing it through proton. Anyone have any similar experiences or able to help?

[Darth Revan]

of course mice did exist, the game was made to be able to be played solely with the keyboard regardles.

[Ugly Bob]

Originally posted by Legatus Lucanus:

of course mice did exist, the game was made to be able to be played solely with the keyboard regardles.

Well thanks, I guess I'll just hope 2 and 3 work better. Hardly worth refunding since I only spend $4 on all 3 of them :P

[ShinraV]

make the action button your left mouse click, so left mouse click +forward is action. Left mouse click + w,a,s,d is for battle and you can walk with w and change direction with mouse. Dont really understand why people are so keen to using keyboard only.

[Darth Revan]

Originally posted by ShinraVeteran:

make the action button your left mouse click, so left mouse click +forward is action. Left mouse click + w,a,s,d is for battle and you can walk with w and change direction with mouse. Dont really understand why people are so keen to using keyboard only.

i am not in fact, i alway played the game with mouse and keyboard and never had a proble with it, i just stated what the developers had in mind.

Originally posted by Vlad the Inhaler:

Originally posted by Legatus Lucanus:

of course mice did exist, the game was made to be able to be played solely with the keyboard regardles.

Well thanks, I guess I'll just hope 2 and 3 work better. Hardly worth refunding since I only spend $4 on all 3 of them :P

gothic 2 is more like gothic 1 but with improved controls, gothic 3 is the game which is like modern games when it comes to the controls. :)

but anyway gothic 1 and gothic 2 are more then just worth the experience in my personal opinion.

[[AK] GaroK]

I don't get why some people have so much problmems with the controls. It's old, but once you adapt it's easy.
Only thing you really have to adapt is that you have to hold ctrl/M1 + W in order to do most of the things. Very simple.

I can also reccommend rebinding Q and E to sidestep, and A&D to rotating.

[Kronovan]

Originally posted by ShinraVeteran:

make the action button your left mouse click, so left mouse click +forward is action...

Do you mean use your mouse software to map L-Click to the same key as the Action command? I ask, because when I access 'Settings' > 'Keyboard' and attempt to map 'Action' to a mouse click, it won't recognize it. The remapping function won't exit until I press a key.

[Edit] Nevermind, I mapped the [L-CTRL] to my Logi MX518's L-button using its applet and all is good. I agree that once you have that configuration the game is quite easy to control. Strafing is a bit weird with a funny animation though, but it did bring back memories of how games used to control back in the day. ;) I actually had more difficulty with the controls in Gothic 2, but that's likely more to me not having tweaked the camera just right yet.

Loving all the fan-made patches & DirectX 11 support; these games look way better than when I last played them. :)