Nothing beats a dedicated shooting controller though, if you have enough range time in
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Me in an endless loop of swiping my mouse across the mousepad while engaged in a dogfight in Star Wars: X-Wing:
I stopped gaming as an adult, and grew up too poor to ever have a gaming device that uses a keyboard. So as an old person that got back into gaming a tiny little bit, using a keyboard actually is so terrible I would rather just not game if that was the only option.
But also, the types of games I would play aren't the types of games that would work well with a keyboard. Not to yuck anybody's yum, but most of the stuff that works better with keyboards, is just a yuck for me.
Bro what? You can literally take almost any controller and it probably works in a PC. If it's Xbox, even very old, it works extremely well. You don't need a console, or any special hardware to use a controller. You didn't even need a good PC.
Are consoles cheaper than PC? I'm not that old but PC and laptops, the former mostly, were more common and I learned to play using the keyboard, although after using the steam deck for a while the controller is much superior and fun
Are consoles cheaper than PC?
today, mostly, but in the past they used to be much cheaper than pc's. in the 90s a new 486 with a graphics card and hdd could be $1500, plus display. a SNES was $200. adjust both of those prices wildly upward for inflation.
What an incredibly bizarre take. How do you interact with computers then? Telepathically?
Wasn’t there a dude who played Call Of Duty with a flute? I cont find the video and it used to crack me up.
Gyro aim really helps with shooting on controllers :3 I can't play games without setting that up these days
I have tried so many times, I just can't get used to it.
Yeah it took me a couple of weeks and basically trying a bunch of options to get used to it.. as well as playing multiple games with pretty different mechanics so I could essentially practice for all of them. Though now I have the opposite issue where I can't get used to analog stick aim lol.. which isn't a major issue for me as I don't own any systems where I'd have to deal with it, but it does have some sort of irony about it :3
Fiiiine, I'll try again!
Played Death Stranding 2 like that and it was a godsend. I really wish more controllers than just Joycons and DualSense would have good motion sensing.
Yes, I very much agree, I was shocked how good gyro flicking with a sniper felt on Splatoon
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Perfectly explains my Cyberpunk2077 dilemma. I want to FPS with keyboard and drive with controller.
You can just do that? Even if you were speedrunning you could probably switch from KB to pad or viceversa in the time the animation completes
Maybe you could set up gyro motion controls with your controller.
This is pretty much why I went full netrunner with a side of tech sniper. No need for twitch reaction when the game is effectively slow motion in combat.
Honestly doesn't matter the build, by mid game you're gonna be tough enough to handle some aiming imperfection. Late game you're practically a God.
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Keyboard doesn't suck that much for driving but it's way worse for precision movement for platformers and top-down action games. And obviously "twin stick shooters".
Solution is those MMO joystick controllers that have a bunch of buttons and a joystick for your thumb. I've always wanted one but I know from my Steam controller experience that setting it up for each game individually is a total pain.
The problem with keyboard driving in most setups is that the turning is either on or off. So you can’t make smooth movement. You have to do that tapping shit to keep the car straight. Also the accelerator is either 0 or 100.
On control with analog and trigger have different levels of sensitivity allowing for granular controls.
I know that now a days there are some keyboard switches that have this, but it’s far from the standard.
You're absolutely right.
Meanwhile, TrackMania pros:
Yeah I played the hell out of games like Need For Speed Hot Pursuit and Porsche Unleashed on keyboard, and I don't miss the tapping. Analog sticks aren't perfect but they're so much better than on/off keys IMO.
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Which is best for submarines?
Logitech F310.
Oceangate fucked up and used the 710. Very possible the wireless signal got messed up and it sent the signal to implode instead of surface. The 310 is wired and wouldn't have that problem.
The implosion happened because someone entered the Konami code that made the sub about 50 times more heavy
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True, though you can get used to either. And if you aren't playing competitively, your comfort is the only thing that really matters
Analog keyboards give you the best of both worlds theoretically.
Is there such a thing available commercially?
Hall Effect keyboards are available.
Both suck for driving. Get a wheel.
The wheel is downright dogshit at shooting, though.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and assume that they’re complaining bc a lot of games have both.
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