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It's a shame they changed the UX so much. I love DF and was excited for the steam release, but after realizing you couldn't play keyboard only anymore, I decided not to buy and just keep playing v47.05.
Hopefully they'll add keyboard only support sometime in the future, although I know I'm in the minority and most people don't care or even prefer the new controls.
Nah, I agree 100%. I couldn't get into DF after those UI changes. Doing anything felt to awkward and slow because I had to keep switching to the mouse.
I think they are still maintaining both versions, at least for now.
They still have the free version (without the steam graphics), but it got the same UI changes, so it also needs mouse unfortunately.
I made the adjustment, but it hurt. I'm still slower at things than I used to be.
Yep. I remembering hearing they were going to try to get it back to where you could use keyboard only (though the binds would likely change), but I don't know if that's still the plan. The mouse option is great to have for users who refuse to learn keyboard (or just haven't yet), but it's so much slower, and it also limits what the macro tool can do.