Chazore said:
Majority of RTS games use K+M for the reasons he stated. With consoles youget either the very old style of clicking a button and dragging a mouse cursor (which in those days of old C&C was slow as hell and innacurate to boot) or the command wheel which C&C went with:
The downside to the wheel was that you had to click to pull up the menu and then go through the wheel list itself, toggle the stick to the building and then click again to select it, then use the stick to guide a place to set it down and click again. All in that time I can click a single key to bring up the structures tab and then another key for that building and single left click to place it down, that alone shaved time fof for me. Look at how Starcraft 1-2 play as well. Those just wouldn't gel well with the gamepad setup at all, not with the micro management and decent level APM needed for the competitive matches. If RT games truly worked extremely well on gamepads and consoles, then you'd be seeing all of them leaping over from the past decade, but that hasn't happened because they don't work well with consoles let alone the crowd. Also Red Alert 3 had unit limitations, same with other RTS titles, on PC there wasn't for Red Alert 3 since PC could handle more units at a given time than the 360/PS3 as well as visuals.
The reality is that K+M is objectively better than the gamepad when it comes to RTS games, just like with FPS. Just like how the racing wheel is more accurate than the gamepad when it comes to racing games or a gamepad for platformers. |
agreed still takes about half an afternoon to put in place K/M classic RTS control scheme heck they just have to recycle what has been done for ages on AoE... It being targeted for console will have zero influence on a PC version... Just like call of duty works on PC and console with different control input method... The hard work will be to make it work for console not PC....
