Keyboards have had the advantage of 100s of possible inputs unavailable on controllers. But keyboards have the disadvantage of requiring non-gaming gods to look down at their keyboard to press keys that are far away from their hands' normal resting positions.
A patent released a few months ago showing the DS5 might be able to remember gestures and the PS5 might display a TouchPad interface on screen so you can draw these gestures without looking away from the screen. This tells me the DS4 couldn't remember gestures before and we can finally get all of the inputs we couldn't before on a controller and it's still all in a controller sized form factor. Of course, you wouldn't map something crucial to moment to moment gameplay to the touchpad like attack functions, but entering various menus, giving various commands to a squad or an army, etc. is all possible.
Some people may prefer the immediate response you can get from WASD movement or how programmable and customizable keyboards are with macros, or whatever, but you can't deny that proper use of a touchpad brings controllers close to keyboards. Keyboards will always have the advantage of being spammable too as gestures have to be drawn, but there's buttons for the spammy inputs, gestures for all of the minor functions. Give us gyro aiming with flickstick in every game and it's a wrap. The DS5 could dethrone or sit next to M&K as the best ways to play various games.
Edit: Thread turned into a shitshow. I was being facetious about it being better than keyboard but I shouldn't have poked that hornets nest.
This is the best gamepad setup for ARMA 3. Almost every button has multiple inputs and combining different buttons together is how you access various other inputs. I'd rather not have to remember what all of these different combinations of buttons do and I'm certain having them be mapped as gestures would be a much better solution.
A patent released a few months ago showing the DS5 might be able to remember gestures and the PS5 might display a TouchPad interface on screen so you can draw these gestures without looking away from the screen. This tells me the DS4 couldn't remember gestures before and we can finally get all of the inputs we couldn't before on a controller and it's still all in a controller sized form factor. Of course, you wouldn't map something crucial to moment to moment gameplay to the touchpad like attack functions, but entering various menus, giving various commands to a squad or an army, etc. is all possible.
Some people may prefer the immediate response you can get from WASD movement or how programmable and customizable keyboards are with macros, or whatever, but you can't deny that proper use of a touchpad brings controllers close to keyboards. Keyboards will always have the advantage of being spammable too as gestures have to be drawn, but there's buttons for the spammy inputs, gestures for all of the minor functions. Give us gyro aiming with flickstick in every game and it's a wrap. The DS5 could dethrone or sit next to M&K as the best ways to play various games.
Edit: Thread turned into a shitshow. I was being facetious about it being better than keyboard but I shouldn't have poked that hornets nest.
This is the best gamepad setup for ARMA 3. Almost every button has multiple inputs and combining different buttons together is how you access various other inputs. I'd rather not have to remember what all of these different combinations of buttons do and I'm certain having them be mapped as gestures would be a much better solution.
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