Anyone else use an Xbox Controller on the PC?

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Originally Posted by angryglock

I can use either mouse/keyboard or controller but this game, being mainly a console game, works better for me with a controller. Borderlands 1&2 are the same way.

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I agree 100% :)

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Originally Posted by plebeian27

This. My brother thinks I'm crazy and just gimping myself by not switching over to K&M but if it works it works!

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Yeah a lot of people don't realize that a thumstick is better than the keyboard. They get hung up ok the fact that the mouse is better than thumstick. But if you aim by moving your player your better off with a controller.

They keyboard only has one speed and 8 ways you can move while an analog stick you can move at any angle and you can choose to move slow; also you only use one finger instead of 3.

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Originally Posted by twitch reflex

Yeah a lot of people don't realize that a thumstick is better than the keyboard. They get hung up ok the fact that the mouse is better than thumstick. But if you aim by moving your player your better off with a controller.

They keyboard only has one speed and 8 ways you can move while an analog stick you can move at any angle and you can choose to move slow; also you only use one finger instead of 3.

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I can only move eight ways with a KnM? Nonsense.

As for aiming while moving, I'm pretty sure everyone has been doing that since the fps genre began. And if you're trying to convince me that a mouse would give me less accurate and fast movement of my reticule in a shooter compared to a thumbstick, you will fail. Horribly. ;)

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Originally Posted by Daergar

I can only move eight ways with a KnM? Nonsense.

As for aiming while moving, I'm pretty sure everyone has been doing that since the fps genre began. And if you're trying to convince me that a mouse would give me less accurate and fast movement of my reticule in a shooter compared to a thumbstick, you will fail. Horribly. ;)

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You must have not read correctly I said you can only move 8 ways with just the keyboard. I also said that the mouse is better than the thumstick but not the keyboard. If your aiming by moving your character only it is better to use a controller.

Edit: Having the ability to move in more directions and different speeds also helps to dodge fire and make you less predictable. Aiming is only half the fight.

I've been using a keyboard/mouse in shooters for 20 years and this game benefits quite a bit from a 360 controller. In fact, I use one for 80% of my gameplay. That said, I have not tried using controller+mouse... I will have to try this. =D

For PvE it doesn't matter much, but for PvP if you put a good kb/m user against a good controller user the kb/m player would win every time.