It has been a decent amount between me being active on this board and playing darktide, as xbox and I imagine PlayStation are really just not fun to play at all, crashing and just general instability make this game really hard to play and enjoy anything like auric +, just wanted see how many console players are here and their thoughts on this
play on what you like, i’d recommend playing on pc but it’s just a bit difficult with the ridiculous prices today.
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A few of my oldest gaming buddies are still on console and even though we have crossplay they don’t really play that much. Their main issues are the terrible binds and lack of rebinds in addition to those audio and crashing problems you mention. Trying to zip around and butt slide on a controller is just terrible, there’s this entire barrier to fluid movement before mods and better hardware come in.
So we crossplay Space Marine 2…
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Not a console player (sorry) but I played VT2 on controller on PC so naturally it was my go-to on DT until i actually played it for any length of time…
This is a huge barrier, i just found it deeply unpleasant to replicate optimal (or as near as i get lol) movement on controller. Combined with lack of deep keybind customisation (need that helldivers 2 treatment) and there’s just no silver lining.
And of course, as a PC player i am still salty that horde sizes got watered down to acommodate xbox specs!
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I play on xbox and my game hardly ever crashes.
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tell me about it, shortly after release and testing the beta on my then rtx2080 I went and had a rig custom build with only darktide in mind.
granted at a certain price range (4500€) I didn’t want to push it with an i9 for 1k more.
bothers me to this day since I had to turn down ragdoll physics as about the only thing in the graphics settings.
on comes the breadbox and suddenly a ferrari is speed-capped on the comparable capacity of a honda civic 
either release the game at full capacity or not at all for ill-fit hardware 
but retro-castrating game features so lesser hardware gets it to run at all…. textures, resolution, lighting, sure.
make it look like an n64 port for all I care, I won’t touch a console with a tenpole.
hands off though of me horde-lobster or I be goin’
on yee.
these be mine and you shall have none of it 
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I disagree but I also know most people have game journalist levels of skill when it comes to using a controller.
and you can beat Doom with a rat hooked up to a hellish cyborg device feeding it sugar water for playing well, its just not ideal. like clicking sticks to do things that are actions you do multiple times a minute, you’re basically making a hardware sacrifice to play this game by accelerating the death of your controller. and no rebinds is whack, but here you are defending that. I’ve seen like 20 threads on redderp about rebinds, I’m sure someone would appreciate it more than just the ones feeling bothered enough to post online about it.
No I’m not in fact: Give us a different variant of the "Alternative 1" layout - #2 by Durandal94
I just don’t think movement is something that suffers from using a controller aim on the other hand…
Having special attack on right thumbstick do suck.
and sprint, which no controller has another bind setup for and where the bulk of movement economy is concerned in this game. its not well set up for it. but I guess we need to argue for the sake of it so sure. the worse control scheme for these types of games isn’t truly horrible for movement, but its still really bad.
Doesn’t bother me it’s standard I’m used to it but custom keybinds should be a thing
It just comes down to practise, I would play worse with keyboard and mouse because I’m not used to it.
Nah I have said all I have to say and I do agree that there should be custom keybinds for controller and I would also add kb&m support for ps5 and separate deadzone sliders for the sticks.
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I play on PC with a controller so I have a bit of a different perspective, but my #1 main complaint is that there are no custom keybinds on controller. MOST of the default setup works, but there are certain awkward bindings that are super annoying, such as me being unable to effectively use zealot knives due to the awkward placement of the grenade button on gamepad.
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I use preset 3 for that it puts the blitz on rb/r1 but unlike preset 2 it forces you to have dodge on the same button as jump which isn’t ideal.
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I faintly remember turok and the like back in the day and the moment we switched from keyboard only to mouse&keyboard you could literally hear the soundtrack of space odyssey and me tossing a bone into the air 
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I’m just way more comfortable on gamepad. M+K is genuinely uncomfortable for me to use for extended lengths of time, plus I’m just too used to gamepad to switch lol
What Difficulties u play on?
well the game is better with the edge controller on ps. i disabled right stick push in, then made it the back paddle button. having blitz and special activation as the back paddles makes it significantly easier.
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Mainly heresy difficulty.