Well, this has got to be the biggest 180 I've done in a while, cause I've spent the last three hours playing with a controller on PC and I enjoyed pretty much every second of it. It's night and day compared to M+KB play, which was fucking infuriating, inconsistent and borderline unfair-feeling. The twitchy, insane pace of M+KB gameplay really highlighted the terrible netcode in the worst ways possible.
Controller gameplay feels more like what I expected - slower, more methodical gameplay. It's not nearly as twitchy. Sure there's plenty of the usual CoD fuckery going on, but it's not nearly as prevalent with controllers.
As long as they don't fuck with the crossplay system (particularly by making input-based crossplay opt-in and not the default, cause nobody on consoles is gonna turn that on), this jumped back to being a very certain day one purchase for me. Glad I decided to try the game with a controller too - I had initially written it off completely thanks to the PS4 beta, but I used an Xbone controller tonight and I gotta say, while I otherwise prefer the Dualshock, the Xbone pad is much better for shooters like this. The actually consistent framerate and non-claustrophobic FOV help too, of course.
Game most likely is 100% designed around console and pad experience when it comes to gunplay etc.
Yeah, there's pretty much no doubt about that.
