RO 2 certainly has a lot of improvements over the original game, and I'm thoroughly enjoying it thus far, but probably the most problamatic thing for me is the fact that tank turrets can only be controlled with the mouse. I am an avid RO 1 and DH tanker, and the turret control puts me off a bit.
Now, I understand that the mouse control has a few advantages:
What I propose is simple: Reintroduce the option to control the turret via keyboard command. You can keep WASD as movement command, which is fine, but there's two other common "directional" button locations on your average keyboard: The arrow keys, and the Numpad. I imagine it would be a simple thing to allow us to disable mouse control for turret movement, and rebind the controls to either of those key groups. And of course as always rebinding would allow people to customize thier controls.
My only worry is that the tanks in ROHOS have been developed in such a way as this is impossible or very difficult to implement. If this is the case, it would be very much appriciated if the devs could comment on it. That way we can "bite the bullet" as it were and just get used to mouse-tanking. I know the RO tanking community would like to know.
So, is this a possibility, or are we stuck?
Now, I understand that the mouse control has a few advantages:
- More intutitive for new players
- Marginally more realistic in that it allows for easier turret movement over the horizontal and vertical simultaniously.
- Simplified controls
- Frees up WASD for tank movement command in the commander's role.
- MUCH more prone to unwanted movements
- Hard to make fine adjustments
- Doesn't feel as "tankey" (admittedly, this is simply personal taste)
What I propose is simple: Reintroduce the option to control the turret via keyboard command. You can keep WASD as movement command, which is fine, but there's two other common "directional" button locations on your average keyboard: The arrow keys, and the Numpad. I imagine it would be a simple thing to allow us to disable mouse control for turret movement, and rebind the controls to either of those key groups. And of course as always rebinding would allow people to customize thier controls.
My only worry is that the tanks in ROHOS have been developed in such a way as this is impossible or very difficult to implement. If this is the case, it would be very much appriciated if the devs could comment on it. That way we can "bite the bullet" as it were and just get used to mouse-tanking. I know the RO tanking community would like to know.
So, is this a possibility, or are we stuck?
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