I have a home theatre setup, with the ps3 on the receiver. My wife users it alot as well, so I can't just take it and put it on a small TV or monitor just to play dust with a mouse(not that I would even if I could, I like surround). Playing with a keyboard and mouse from my couch is pretty crap - i've tried. It's not a matter of buying a 'cheap combo' (because Yea, like real gamers would use cheap mice? Hah..). It's more about ergonomics and enjoyment. I'm not going to go out of my way to get a kb/m just to compete. It's a ps3, not a PC - and it's controller is a DS3, not kb/m. If I wanted kb/m, I'd go play my PC.

May seem far fetched but we made it to the moon. (Yes we did tinfoil wearers, get over it)

No one has yet to make a game using KB&M and controller work to the satisfaction of both groups of users.

And once again I'm perfectly willing to concede that KB&M is the far superior control method and yes it is used in competitive gaming. I used a controller in the Eve/Dust tourney at Fanfest however and still came second.

But the vast majority of console FPS players use the controllers. No amount of saying how crap they are is going to change that simple fact. By compromising CCP have a gimped control and aiming system that penalises the majority of their customers.

This is a console game - I could be just as d!ckish and demand that CCP drop kbm support - "You idiots learn to use a controller or go back to flying your spaceships"

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As a console gamer, I do not feel allowing KB/M support on a console game is fair at all.

PS3 does not come with a gaming KB/M setup it comes with a DS3 controller.

Movement mechanics are totally different when comparing the different setups.

KB/M users, when strafing can literally stop on a dime and go the other direction without a change in speed because they can simply go from moving right > left instantly.

DS3 users must move the analog stick from far right > center > far left. This means that to shift directions we are forced to gradually slow our speed by moving back to center then gradually increase our speed to move in another direction.

These two examples are describing the differences in strafing abilities across the input methods. The effect is compounded further when you consider the KB/M users can perform instant turns at 90 degree intervals, while the DS3 takes more than twice as long to turn the same amount. Therefore even if the DS3 user has a better reaction time, it is negated in DUST 514 by his/her use of the default PS3 control input method.

This is only marginally mitigated by the fact that DS3 users have a 360 degree field of view where KB/M users as I understand do not. Given the previously stated advantages in strafing abilities combined with the faster turning abilities of KB/M users, this so called "advantage" of the DS3 is completely nullified.

In aiming the KB/M user's movement advantages work against the DS3 user's aiming mechanics which are nearly identical to the DS3 user's movement mechanics in that we must go from left > center > right to adjust our aim.

This essentially makes the DS3 users track a faster, more nimble KB/M enemy which moves completely unpredictably with slower controls, while the KB/M users enjoy tracking the slower, more predictable DS3 enemy with a more responsive, more accurate tracking input method.

In a tracking FPS like DUST 514, this creates a clear and undeniable and disparity granting advantage to KB/M users. This is completely unacceptable in a console FPS whose default input method is DS3 controller.

This is a console. Stop being a kb/m *** and use a controller. I hope they never listen to kb/m compaints. In fact, I hope they make it worse.