Basically they are right, but I think that 3D mice can do even better in XCOM 2.I was thinking aboout adding an "exclusive" state to the controller support propriety, but considering it's supposed to be about the state of controller support rather than the extent of it, a new propriety might be in order. I suppose everyone here thinks that since they got used to using keyboards, keyboards are good. Most of the players use keyboards, A keyboard has buttons that lie flat. Either way, it's very convenient and natural. Some use it the other way: they 'fly around' the map using that knob, like they sit in a helicopter and hover/fly/circle/rise/descend/whatever. It feels like they hold the map with their hand by an transparent knob. Some prefer to grab the knob like they've grabbed the map and twist the knob to rotate the map, pan it to scroll the map or pull it to zoom closer. That's 12 directions! Each of them can be mapped to do something in the game. You grab it with your non-dominant hand (the one not busy with the mouse) and then you can move it, pan it, tilt it, twist it. KB/M isn't a silver bullet, it's sometimes a hindrance. TL DR: Experiment freely or at least try a gamepad for couch and a 3D mouse / trackball for a desk. IDEALLY I'd use: pedals and a really precise gaze tracker with a scripting language to fine-tune it. Leave KB/M to FPS and MMORPG twitchers, I want to fly around my battlefield with comfort. Won't even try it, cause pressing dislocated keys on a literal board sucks in comparison with 3D mouse fluidity, while mouse is finickier than a trackpoint.
With 3D mouse it's so instinctive you don't even notice it. Still unbearable, even changing floors is PITA. Touchpad emulation is awful for XCOM 2 tactical interface.ġ/10: Streaming with Moonlight with absolute touch support to a Galaxy Note 3 with a stylus. Maybe not.Ġ/10: Streaming with Moonlight vanilla to a Sony Xperia Z Ultra. Maybe, maybe I'd get it right one day and it'd trump DS4. If I was an XCOM 2 programmer, I'd start with making HUD an additional mode and allow to select abilities with absolute touch. I plan to go through this, but it's so hard to fix that I don't know where to begin with. ?/10: Steam controller with customized mappings. Official way of selecting abilities is a joke that actually got me laughing. At least it's couch-friendly and LW2-okaish. Not relevant for healthy players tho, difficult to set up.ĥ/10: Steam controller with default mappings. Difficult for pixel-hunting, spent a lot of time tuning a Kalman filter to get it right.
Absolutely zero wrist strain as wrist does literally nothing, can use it for hours with no pain. I use a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with Moonlight patched for absolute input from stylus and hang my hand in the air using hand-made support. For the desk it's 10/10.ħ/10: 3D mouse, pedals and a graphics tablet. Trackball is a godsend: blazing speed, little wrist movement, precise positioning with inertia and timing, best pixel hunting (cause you can stop touching the ball and finally be 100% sure). Some also have a shitload of extra buttons, that'd be even better. Mine has only two buttons, so overwatch and reload. I've mapped 3D mouse to map panning, rotation, zooming, changing floors, changing soldiers. But if you don't care about couch gaming, it's totally, amazingly nuts. Making it wireless requires programming skills or shelling out an ungodly amount of money. Guys, guys, guys, it's AMAZING if you have a desk. BUT no LW2 support ruined this.ĩ/10: 3D mouse (6DOF), trackball, pedals. Ability selection could be improved (a dedicated touchpad in a more accessible place or a native radial menu, but nothing I can do myself).
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Pixel hunting with free aiming is flakier than other methods. Couch-friendly, very comfortable, no-brainer support, sticks on same level. Here's my rating in no particular order:ĩ/10: Dualshock 4, gamepad mode. I've accumulated some non-trivial findings.
Then, when I started having tenditis-like issues and I decided to try Long War 2 (that does not support controllers), I began to evaluate different input configurations. My general preferences: keyboards for typing, gamepads for gaming, trackpoints for pointing.įor XCOM 1 and first two campaigns of XCOM 2 I mostly used Dualshock 4 and I loved that.
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