What do you mean? They announced it, it comes out in March and is up for preorder right now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/razer-turret-for-xbox-one/8qc1qmt3jc2z
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Razer: Gears Tactics coming to Xbox One, PUBG, Sea of Thieves and Gears 5 will receive mouse and keyboard support
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What do you mean? They announced it, it comes out in March and is up for preorder right now.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/razer-turret-for-xbox-one/8qc1qmt3jc2z
You'd rather they just didn't release it on console? Just don't buy it and pretend they never added KB&M support to the Xbox.
So all PSVR/Kinect games should be playable with a controller without the accessory/control method they were designed for?
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No, not at all. But Matt Booty has said in an interview that this game will be designed from the ground up for keyboard and mouse.
Interview here: (Thanks vorimenn )
Why?
Halo Wars/2 was developed controller first. Why do you think they're so limited as RTS games?
Read Blood Sweat and Pixels Halo Wars chapter to see how hard it is for developers to recreate KB + M controls with a console controller
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What makes you think you'll play against KB+M players? Gears 4 had crossplay and it only worked in coop. In competitive mode these two input methods were not on eachothers servers. And we know Fortnite isn't doing that either (right now on PS4, and with KB+M support on Xbox One)
Devs have tools to separate controller from KB/M players. They also have to enable KB/M for their game, hence the small list of supported games. This won't be an issue.
If they're releasing the game on consoles, I should 100% be able to play with a controller simply because there's been plenty of turn based strategy RPG's on consoles that let you use a controller. If Ubisoft can do it with Kingdom Battle on Switch, there's simply no excuse for Gears Tactics to not allow controller support on you know, the console.
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It's completely possible that it'll get controller support. The game is just built for keyboard and mouse. Then it's the decision to release it on Xbox One with only M+KB support or not release it at all.
I also think it's up to the developer. There are plenty of plausible excuses to do m+kb only for turn based strategy games. Even if other games have shown that it works well.
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Fortnite and Gears do it, Sea of Thieves doesn't.
We'll just have to wait and see, I guess. I'm assuming all first and third person shooters will have separate servers.
Instead of ranting, I'll just take a wait and see what they do approach. If they add controller support, great but if not, then the game gets eliminated from ly list and I move on to a different game. Very easy and simple.
Yep. Hopefully we see some KB/M only titles make their way over to Xbox One. It would be a cool addition to the store and hopefully not too much work required from devs to bring things over.
The hell does this have to be couch multiplayer?
I doubt any non-crossplay games will support this anyway
That's a wild setup. Do you use the left stick on the controller for movement and then the mouse for aiming?
Read that as Blood Sweat and Potatoes. Time to get off work, I guess. :D
On the actual subject, I'm loving this. Hope that more and more games allow people to play with what they are most comfortable!
Yeah, and I had some crazy profile on my elite I had in my left hand where like... left trigger was reload and it feels great. Only when I got that setup down did I start leveling up my Sniper class in Horde, lol. (It had to be an elite for me because I really wanted those two extra inputs from the paddles on the left hand side)
High. Within 2 years I predict most big PC games will be on a Xbox. No reason to ignore the install base that will only be growing. Imagine people streaming World of Warcraft on their phones over Xcloud. Too much potential to pass up...unless Google or Tencent inks some exclusive deals.
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Um, why? There are plenty of similar games with comfortable pad controls. There's really no point in limiting your audience to people with compatible k&m setups.
I'm pretty confused as to why PUBG is on this list. They don't have the crossplay infrastructure to put Xbox players into PC lobbies like Fortnite. I doubt they could fill many modes/regions with Xbox kb+m only. So either they're doing the right thing and leaving Xbox players together regardless of input choice, or kb+m support is going to be DOA.
Because it was previously announced as Windows only. It only now sounds like it's coming to console with this KB&M compatibility list. Sounds like the game is made for KB&M and the support on consoles means they can easily release it there.
Remember Epic is releasing all their crossplay tools so Bluehole should be able to pretty much clone Fortnite's (š) xplay setup. They just have to have PC and console be the same version or they'll just limit it to ps4 vs Xbox lobbies (both kbm).
I just realized how easy it is to use kbm on android. Having full quality games on a mobile device with kbm as an option is going to be nuts!
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Oh, okay, I didn't know about the exclusivity. I still think it's a poor decision to alienate a (probably big) part of the Xbox userbase.
I'd like controller support for sure. But I was also disappointed that it was gonna be PC only so I think it's at least good if this is enabling an easy Play Anywhere/cross-play port.
Glad to see Gears Tactics confirmed for Xbox One, not worried about lack of gamepad support as I have CronusMAX Plus and like with PC games I'll just force controller support. It'll be nice though if the devs consider adding it officially down the line for those that don't want to deal with workarounds.
Wow just saw this was finally up on the Microsoft Canada page for pre-order. I was super excited till I saw it at $350 CAD!!!! That is insane. Even with exchange rates such as they are $100 extra is insane. No way I'm buying a $400 setup for 6 games.
It would have been a completely different game, though. HW works well as a really quick and dirty entry point into RTS.