After trying to play again, I got suggestions for shiftbacktick about how to remap stuff. I will share them in the end of this comment.
What I can say I’ve detected:
- The mouse locking bug is still happening;
- The controls are a steep learning curve for me. One ends up thinking what’s the difference between a game for blind gamers and an audiogame. Is there a difference? How easy is it for a veteran sighted ‘gamer’ to nail the controls in here? It seems that controls are mapped to some kind of audiogame standard, which puts me at the door. More on this:
- The keys aren’t actually []. They are based on location of the key, so for me they were + and “´” (not exactly because there is no main letter assigner to this key if you just press it once, but it’s this key). This brings me to wonder about barriers to proficient touch typers who have keyboards in languages other than the standard English keyboard. For me those were + and ´; maybe in french they could be ~ and «, who knows. This means that the manual isn’t adapted to everyone’s keyboards and anyone starting this for the first time may feel frustrated with the controls.
- Once again I would suggest the use of Tab and Shift+Tab for tabbing between menu sections. That is, after all, their name and main purpose, as well as the keys you would use when navigating the web and tabbing between interactive elements. It looks like tabbing isn’t assigned to anything at the moment, so I would use them.
- Because the keys weren’t intuitive for me, I had a very weird experience when I felt I was stuck at remapping “Move Up”. I tried moving with all the arrows and even doing backspace and tabbing to leave. But turns out I only needed to press escape. I do wonder if I didn’t think of that because I couldn’t see where I was stuck at, or because I was at a loss about the controls. Maybe both. I do, after all, rely on vision. And if I’m a bit confused and lost, I may not know what I’m stuck at, to be able to infer how to exit.
- I was trying to remap the gamepad according to shiftbacktick’s suggestions, but I screwed up again. I pressed a wrong button and then another wrong one when trying to get back to the remapping and ended up at a completely different part of the menu. I will admit by this point I got a bit frustrated again and exited the game again. I mean, it’s my second time.
I am not enjoying how hard it’s being for me to grasp this. It is what it is - I’m not a pro in audiogames, and perhaps it’s time to learn the standards are different in every genre and with different demographics - but alas, I will relay my entry-level noob impressions to you in the hopes of a brighter future.
Suggestions of controls from shiftbacktick: Move:
- Move forward, left stick up
- Move backward, left stick down
- Move left, left stick left
- Move right, left stick right
Turn
- Turn left, right stick left
- Turn right, right stick right
- Aim up, right stick up
- Aim down, right stick down
Interactions:
- Examine, A button
- Interact, B button
- Toggle radar, Y button
- Radar next target, right bumper
- Radar previous target, left bumper
Others:
- Aim, left trigger
- Fire, right trigger