Game Controls Criticism

Users primarily complain about the unresponsiveness, lack of strafing, rotation issues, and non-standard movement schemes in a game's controls, often preferring traditional FPS setups like WASD strafing and mouse aiming.

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morganwilde • Jul 29, 2015 • View on HN

Is there no rotation in this game? Can't do much aiming without that.

knicholes • May 29, 2021 • View on HN

I feel like it's a little less responsive to movement than the real game.

timwaagh • Jan 10, 2020 • View on HN

this is what i meant. to me these feel like somewhat of a hack, breaking the vr promise of natural movement through a game world. but i suppose it could still be enjoyable.

zerr • Sep 17, 2015 • View on HN

Controls/movements are horrible... it makes the game unplayable. Why not Wolfenstein 3D like movements?

minusf • Apr 7, 2018 • View on HN

the controls were not easy or simple, but certainly not unusable. lean out showed up in other games, lie down as well. but it's a shame no other FPS games tried the "mouse aim without mouse look" approach.

sgt • Oct 31, 2017 • View on HN

Controls (WASD) are way too quick on my computer. I can only tap it slightly and it already moves quite a number of degrees, usually past the point I wanted it to move. Also, having the world rotate around you makes me nauseous. That being said, very clever and I am really impressed with how smooth this game is.

V__ • Feb 20, 2022 • View on HN

This is a fun little game. I find the small movements confusing, though. Maybe a fixed camera (isometric?) would work nice.

buraksarica • Jun 3, 2020 • View on HN

Nice! Is it a bit laggy to control?

p1necone • Dec 10, 2020 • View on HN

I find I'm fine with it if I'm using a controller, but it's much more noticeable when mouse aiming.

JoshCole • Aug 13, 2022 • View on HN

It must be really hard to play when you can't swipe. I suggest playing determinism; it should completely eradicate your control issues.