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HanOfTheNekos posted...

I disagree with this, partly because controlling in OW is easier than swimming in underwater irl.

There will always be an element of discomfort to people starting the game with controlling it - not because the controls are bad, but because we as people don't move in the sort of zero-g environment people are put in. Like, nobody has ever really explained the controls of the game being bad in a way that puts the onus on the controls - every time I see anything about it, it's either amorphous or it ignores concepts such as momentum.

Some people take a little longer to wrap their heads around zero-g 3D spatial navigation, which is totally okay, but the controls are just "left, right, back, forward, up, down, and turn with stick". That's really basic.

That also describes the Atlantica controls in KH and people famously have an issue with those! Having designated "up and down" buttons isn't intuitive when you move all other directions with a stick (but ultimately you have to put something on buttons/triggers or it becomes a problem in itself). Having forward and back relative to where you're pointing instead of where you're looking, or vice versa, is confusing if you expect the reverse. Some people would want forward on a button or trigger, like how you accelerate vehicles in racing games. Etc.

And then you're trying to master all of this while dealing with gravity, landing on a moving object, probably looking straight down instead of forward, and if you do it too fast you die.

I'm not saying the control choices are bad per se, but I do think it's a lot to throw at people all at once. And I agree that part of it is just unfamiliarity navigating in space.

As for the complaints being amorphous -- it took me about 10 tries to do the Sun Station space walk and gun to my head I could not tell you what the issue was, it just felt like my guy freaked out the instant I attempted it, regardless of what I did or didn't do control-wise. Wish I could give more specific feedback here!