How to play DBFZ on PC?

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I just got this game a few days ago and im having a really hard time finding out the controls, can someone give me a guide?

[DorkSparce]

Ya, you use a controller.

Problem solved.

[IKnowWhatudid]

I use my laptop keyboard arrows

left-x/square/light

up- y/triangle/medium

down-a/x/special

right-b/o heavy

Right shift-super dash/RT

1-supers/ Rt

3 -LB .-LT

[MidnaFeetEnjoyer]

Nonsense. Absolutely viable on keyboard. You only need to worry about keyboard ghosting, which is when cheap keyboards can't have certain buttons pressed at the same time. For example for me, while pressing and holding down and left, pressing space won't work. Otherwise no problem.

Originally posted by demonknight:

You're better off rebinding the keyboard settings yourself. Some peeps gave examples, here's mine, as well as how to change them easily.
A - light
S - medium
D - heavy
W - special
Q - dragonrush
E - ki charge
R - superdash
F - vanish
X - spark
Shift - assist 1
Space - assist 2
and arrow keys for movement, this is very comfortable for me.
To change things, you have to do "Button mapping" first to bind the keys that you are going to use, and then go to "Button Settings" and decide which of those buttons does what. So I did button mapping ^ V < > A S D W X Tab Q E LeftShift Space R F in that order, and then in Button Settings set X Y B A LT RT LB LS RB RS DoubleWindow in that order. You can go many ways with this obviously. The big con for this is that you simply lack keys to allocate the last three buttons for recodings in training mode, if you want to use a single key for vanish, superdash etc. You'd have to sacrifice some of the single buttons for L+M, H+S etc or something or maybe I just don't know how to do it right, but this is enough to play the game to it's fullest. GL

[Jimmy Rustler]

Originally posted by demonknight:

Nonsense. Absolutely viable on keyboard...

Viable and recommended aren't exactly the same thing. Just spend the $30 on amazon for a PowerA xbox controller and you will have a great time. Or struggle with a keyboard and get dunked on while you destroy your keyboard you need for everything else, your choice.

[Arik]

Keyboard, controller, doesn't matter, just use whatever is comfortable for you.

[MidnaFeetEnjoyer]

Originally posted by XTAKK:

Originally posted by demonknight:

Nonsense. Absolutely viable on keyboard...

Viable and recommended aren't exactly the same thing. Just spend the $30 on amazon for a PowerA xbox controller and you will have a great time. Or struggle with a keyboard and get dunked on while you destroy your keyboard you need for everything else, your choice.

You have no idea what you're talking about, I absolutely recommend using a keyboard instead of a controller. Whatever you start or already have experience with, you're going to have better success in progress. Keyboard is even better because you're totally free to put it instead of holding it and you can use multiple fingers for multiple inputs where you could only use one for multiple inputs on a controller, which is kind of an outdated control design imo.

I don't know a lot of fighting games, perhaps there some with stupidly hard to execute moves that are designed around a specific controller, I can't really imagine that being the case really. But as someone who looks down on controllers, I'd even say it doesn't matter if you use a controller instead of a keyboard, not the other way around, because DBFZ is very execution friendly imo. The only thing that's somewhat hard is timing, but whatever you're using is going to be irrelevant for that. Even then, you mostly only need very specific timing for flexy things like loops, rejumpes and character specific complex combo's, which aren't that complex in the first place. So to say you're going to destroy your keyboard with dbfz is really cringe, sorry :D

Maybe if you were playing with very weird settings (mine work fine as an example, many people also gave theirs in previous posts), or from a laptop that isn't very gamer designed, then you'd have a point. I've seen some horrible laptop keyboards...

[Snake]

Originally posted by XTAKK:

Originally posted by demonknight:

Nonsense. Absolutely viable on keyboard...

Viable and recommended aren't exactly the same thing. Just spend the $30 on amazon for a PowerA xbox controller and you will have a great time. Or struggle with a keyboard and get dunked on while you destroy your keyboard you need for everything else, your choice.

DId you know keyboard has the best clean input for fighterz? Unless your keyboard is cheap with ghosting issues.

[.50Æ Ghost]

power a are good, although I have gone through two of them and have a third one, and fixed the previous two a couple times, always same thing; left analog stick ever so subtly sticks to moving backwards without pressing on it; I fixed it a couple times both times with detox-it, (but only temporarily) but I don't recommend you do that; My friend told me he called Power A when his controller started to malfunction and he said they were really nice and sent him another one right away, so that is what I recommend you do if and when the stick starts to, stick, lol.

[Jimmy Rustler]

Originally posted by nobody:

Originally posted by XTAKK:

Viable and recommended aren't exactly the same thing. Just spend the $30 on amazon for a PowerA xbox controller and you will have a great time.

Are they any good? Been tempted to buy one, but they've got a few dozen bad reviews on Amazon.

i have tried a dozen different controllers in that price range and power a is my go to choice anymore. Long lasting and can take a decent amount of punishment (if you give in to your mash potato desire). Out of all the controllers in its price range the power a is the only one i have had that is responsive, plug and play, and has no deadzone issues. I don't bother trying new ones anymore if that tells you anything.

Why do I have so much experience with dozens of different controllers? Lack of rollback netcode has cost me a few controllers ;)