The way this sorts is you hold down W to 'drive' the character, its like the walk forward button ur always expecting it to be in a wasd setup. set your skill keys to wasdf, then put force move (the little feet skill icon) on W. If you are fairly hardwired into wasd type control methods u can do what i do, which is i think the closest ur gonna get it to 'feeling right'. its a complete rework of the way the game plays which results in needing different skill balances, monster balances etc, which i believe they have done on the controlled based platforms the game is available on.

this means ground targeted skills have to be reworked to fire at a set distance, rather than where the mouse is. the thing there is that you dont have a separate cursor to target locations with as freely as a mouse can, so you have to do directional fire with the other stick. the devs are aware of that, they have console versions of the game you would probably be better off playing. theres too few directions possible and too many other keys that need pressed.Ī twin stick joypad setup is great for this sort of thing. Wasd is shit in a game like this, diablo doesnt have it either, basically none of the iso arpgs do. I'll probably get that emulator just to do a run, but this game is on such shaky ground with server ques and disconnects, I might just give up. Its time to expand your market, you can either adapt to the times or be forgotten like Alpha Protocol.

In short, anyone defending mouse movement in 2021, would probably be celebrating their 50th birthday soon. The layer one mechanics of this game are so bad, that you can barely afford to keep servers running. I played this to level 2 and started looking for controller emulators, but stopped after I realized that Diablo 3 was still a thing. The launch of the new season was so bad that I had many friends refusing to play, stating that the devs are so terrible that they would rather play Realms Of Arkania, and actually downloaded it! Turning a blind eye to potential customer requests in favor of the few people in the current community is a poor business strategy, and they're leave a lot of money on the table that could have went toward the sequel. To argue that inclusion of WASD movement would hurt game value in any way is ignorant.Īnyone saying that mouse movement is better or more necessary is ignorant.ĭevs have intentionally made this game difficult/annoying to play.

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