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Ubisoft recommends gamepad for Assassin's Creed 3 PC
by Steve Watts, Mar 28, 2012 12:30pm PDTAssassin's Creed 3 has earned some goodwill, even after the sour taste left by the series' annual semi-sequels. PC players might be sad, though, to learn that Ubisoft isn't optimizing the experience for mouse and keyboard controls.
"We're definitely supporting PC, we love PC, but I think it'll be PC with a controller," creative director Alex Hutchinson told GameSpy. "I don't see us investing hugely in a mouse and keyboard setup. I think if you want to play on PC and you want to play Assassin's Creed, you have a controller."
The sentiment doesn't sound too different from the effort put into PC versions of previous Assassin's Creed games. They've let you play with M/KB, but weren't quite designed for it. AC3 looks to be a similar experience, so don't hold out hope that this will be the game that nails the PC control set-up.
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Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson says that the company isn't going out of its way to optimize mouse and keyboard controls for the game.
Assassin's Creed 3 creative director Alex Hutchinson says that the company isn't going out of its way to optimize mouse and keyboard controls for the game. : Shacknews
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The game does not benefit from the precise camera control a mouse offers on your right hand, unlike something like Mass Effect where you're constantly shooting. It is however extremely restricted on the left hand using WASD - four keys limiting you to four directions, versus 360 degrees of movement on an analogue stick.
This comes into play constantly in AC, whether it's running across the city needing fine adjustments to your movement to make use of the hundreds of little architecural features to navigate buildings, or mid combat switching between multiple targets surrounding you.
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