Hello everyone.

To keep you informed on this subject, KB&M support is coming. We currently plan to release it in the next major beta patch (build).

Hopefully you've sorted it so HEAVY's cant swing a mini-gun around like an pistol

Since a short time after the release of Quake 3, I haven't played many PC-based shooters. I played a few before moving to primarily being a console gamer, but not many, and not often.

I have friends who routinely play PC games and are AWESOME at them.

My console of choice is a PS3.

Before getting Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for myself on PS3, I went to a friend's house and played the game on PC. He let me play it using KB+M, and a 360 gamepad. Using console style controls, I was keeping up with competitive PC gamers better than my friend could when using KB+M, and he had more familiarity with his control scheme (I'm used to PS3 controller, not 360) as well as more experience in the game. Why? Because I'm good with console aiming.

If it's done WELL, KB+M isn't an unfair advantage. It's an alternative option.

Hello everyone.

To keep you informed on this subject, KB&M support is coming. We currently plan to release it in the next major beta patch (build).

An unbalanced KBM system is going to force people to buy non-standard accessories to be competitive.

i wonder how they will balance kb/m support and dualshock.

I would hate for kb/m to be the only competitive way to play this game. Like others have said, the skill ceiling on kb/m is much higher and that can cause quite the disparity between players.

Maybe I just like playing the devil's advocate here but did CCP ever say that we'd have M/KB in-game? I see tons of benefits of integrating M/KB for fitting, chatting, using the market and skilling up.

It just seems like they said "Mouse and Keyboard Support" and everyone started speculating and raving and ranting, while CCP stayed very quiet. Granted they said "I wonder why we did that" but that's not a firm basis in my opinion.

Sure most likely we'll see M/KB in combat, and maybe I missed a devblog, twitter, e-mail or some other source saying that we'd have it. But I haven't seen it yet, so I'm putting it out there that it's possible it won't be exactly what we expect.

Also consider that there is most likely going to be a commander role, which hasn't been established as either a DUST task or an EVE task. Maybe the reason M/KB isn't out yet is because the role of commander could be BOTH a Dust player OR an EVE player? And the M/KB would be for those roles.

Hello everyone.

To keep you informed on this subject, KB&M support is coming. We currently plan to release it in the next major beta patch (build).

Sure most likely we'll see M/KB in combat, and maybe I missed a devblog, twitter, e-mail or some other source saying that we'd have it. But I haven't seen it yet, so I'm putting it out there that it's possible it won't be exactly what we expect.

I hate you, you will ruin this game for anyone that controllers.

draw a perfect circle with a mouse in game ccp , then do it with a pad. feel the difference. plz just try it
ps3 community just want it ballanced with a pad, as you can see ^

Hello everyone.

To keep you informed on this subject, KB&M support is coming. We currently plan to release it in the next major beta patch (build).

Your so called aim assist has been noted as a bug by CCP in #IRC.
So get it in to your head already people; there is no aim assist in this game.

Your wrong he stated that the aim assist is bugged. So the problem is that we don't want aim assist but must have it because KB/M support is coming. If it's not balanced a game that I've been following since 2010 will fail.

If KB/M screws up the one FPS that I had hope for I quit FPS gaming I refuse to play COD and DICE/EA are greedy bastards.

Newsflash, Third Person Shooters are great to play with a joypad.

With First Person Shooters, on the other hand, the advantage is hugely on the M&K side.

Just curious if anyone had answered my question from before:

What game had good controller implementation and good KBM implementation and created a massive rift in the community?

The way people talk about this, it seems as though there was a terrific example of clear and overwhelming dominance of KBM in an actual game. I'm actually thinking good controller players and good KBM players would probably pretty much even out. Some people are more comfortable with one, other people with another. Let's just see how it turns out in the beta before we start throwing out all these ultimatums.

a dev said in this very thread that we'd have kb/m.

Bigger newsflash: The control schemes are only minimally different and it's more about the specific game mechanics than the perspective from which gameplay is viewed. DUST plays more like War for Cybertron and Space Marine than Call of Duty and Battlefield.

EDIT: Swap "Space Marine" for "Syndicate" and I've had similar results, except that Syndicate doesn't have PvP combat, so it's less relevant. I was still able to outscore experienced KB+M players while using a gamepad and layout that are both slightly different from my usual.