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Caliostro · January 24, 2011

BroTranquilty said:

guess what? i picked a better arguement.

http://uberent.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=6615

so, nobody thinks that the controller makes it easier to do things for certain classes with, hu.

anyhow, i will also sign a new competitior up, one that will tear the others to shreds like i do pubs.

?this?

this for movement and tasks like skills and purchases, while using mouse for aiming. best of both worlds. that is all. /thread
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Maybe I'm not following but, ergonomics aside, how is that different from the plain old keyboard?

BroTranquilty · January 24, 2011

it compressess the buttons and even adds a joypad, all in your hand.

better than going over an entire keyboard looking for buttons scattered about.

and tbh, you could use the gamepad for moving, and use the mouse to quick-sight, while still using the gamepad to play.

i.e. you play like a robot from the 60s with a keyboard most of the time, these are just suggested fixes if you like fluid movements.

Mail · January 24, 2011

Scathis' own words confirm that the mouse and keyboard are far better than the controller in any shooter.

Now, ask any gamer who has played a shooter on both the PC and a console and they will tell you that mouse and keyboard is infinitely better than a console controller. PC players long for a game that they can play on a PC versus people playing on a console just for the pwnage of console newbie meat. We accept this as a universal truth. But why? Why is a mouse and keyboard so much better than a controller? Heres my theory and analysis.
It all comes down to how each input mechanism affects your ability to turn. On a console, the angle in which a player can turn is a function of both time and displacement of the thumb stick. No matter how far players want to turn, they have to pay a time cost. Even at the highest controller sensitivity, there is a time cost to be paid. On a PC the angle of turn is a direct mapping of how far you move the mouse. The time cost is variable and the better players get that time cost to approach zero.
Now, on consoles we use an array of aim helping mechanisms all in an attempt to help with this time cost. View acceleration allows that time cost to not be linear from distance the thumb stick is moved. Its an attempt to guess that if players jam their thumb stick to one side and hold it they want to spin quickly, but if they slam it to one side and release they want to make a fast minor adjustment. So at the beginning of the time cost the rate of turn is slower and it speeds up exponentially, to a cap, as time goes by.
View friction slows down the players turn speed when an enemy passes in front of their cursor. This makes it so they can shortcut that time cost by allowing players to turn up the sensitivity, thus lowering the time cost, but make it so that the turn rate slows down when you have an enemy in their sights. Hopefully, this makes it easier to get a target in the crosshairs.
View adhesion, which will cause the players cursor to adhere to enemies passing in front of the player, is an attempt at taking the time cost away. This mechanic tries to match the players turn rate to a target moving in front of the player. Thus trying to remove the time cost for moving targets that should be easily hit.
Aim attraction is the last console helping mechanism. This is a system that takes a shot you make, sees if its going to be close to a target, and adjust that shot ever so slightly so that it hits. This doesnt directly affect the time cost but does give some perceived precision to shooting on a console.
Now, all these systems sound like cheating but they all revolve around the same concept; make the time to aim as small as possible. None of these systems are needed on the PC because that time can get to be nearly zero by sheer player skill.
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You'll have none of these tools using a controller on the PC, and will have an experience that is inferior to playing it on the console with a controller or playing it on the PC with the keyboard and mouse. I've never had a problem reaching buttons on the keyboard, but then I tend to rebind my keys. The only one that's perhaps out of reach is the switch class button, which I don't think I've used yet. I have precise movement, and play perfectly well as assassin without a joystick and gamepad. For the PC version of the game, keyboard and mouse is superior, because that is what is designed for.

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