How optimized is this game for M&K?

[KFCBUCKETS9000]

And what difficulty do you guy's recommend if I want to be challenged?

[Amene]

Game is very easy, so play on hard.

As for KB/M, it's mixed bag, but perfectly playable if you spend some time adjusting keybinds.

In no particular order issues I've so far discovered:

kb/m only specific issues

- as usual lack of the most natural camera-relative attack direction on PC
- no ability to bind keys in combination; this is particularly silly, as in controller context you can handle sas / combat vision via shifted combinations with Y/X/A/B, but can't do that on PC - you literally have to waste extra 8 keys for it, not mentioning other things
- game forces you to bind every key, even if they are de-facto useless (e.g. because shifted combinations don't work or because they are useless in general)
- target switching is automatically hardcoded to whatever you bind to target lock and camera left/right (key _only_ (!))
- for menu traversal, wasd/arrows/qe/13 are hardcoded
- I have never seen more useless target lock in a game; it locks your camera but doesn't track the target (+target switching issue listed above)

kb/m and probably controller as well

- another weird thing - when your character is moving, the camera sensitivity goes down massively (this can be quite irritating in combat); sensitivity is also tied to FPS, which you can easily test with game locked to 30fps, 60fps and unlocked

[la_nague]

all what was said above.

BUT when you use the mouse, you dont need lockon, which is TERRIBLE in this game.
I have a PS5 controller and for this game i prefer the mouse, just so i dont have to lock on to enemies.


Also, for some reason a ton of enemies have a ranged attack, so mouse camera has a nother advantage as you can look around better than with a controller and you might be able to defend a bit better against the range spam.

[jack_of_tears]

I've had no problem playing it that way. I rebound dodge to my middle mouse button but that was about it.

[Bobabender]

I only had to rebind turn left and turn right to my mouse side buttons as the default was J and L key.

Also, for SAS and Combo Vision Skills, you don't need to press their modifier keys to activate even though the game tutorial tells you to (ex: ALT 1 - 4 or CTRL F1-F4), you can just press the number/function key directly.