I think the only RTS I've tried on console was Red Alert on PS1.

Never again for me.

But hey they already play FPS games seriously on consoles so why not RTS while at it? Before you even notice the SC2 pro scene will be playing on consoles instead of PC's.

shockershuddershiversshutters

Erzz

Canada184 Posts

October 18 2011 23:13 GMT

#22

Might be cool to have two different mouse states. Say you use the left stick to move your army, then start to move the left stick, it saves the mouse's position, then the mouse appears in the bottom right so you can press the hotkeys. Then when you move the left stick again, it loads where the mouse was.

Then you can put control groups or common hotkeys (such as Forcefield and Fungal) on the other buttons.

ZeroCartin

Costa Rica2390 Posts

October 18 2011 23:15 GMT

#23

His control actuially is pretty damn awesome. The way he moves his mouse and selcts buidlings seems pretty nice to me! How do you hotkey? Whats your controls for this?

Jayjay54

Germany2296 Posts

October 18 2011 23:21 GMT

#24

On October 19 2011 08:15 ZeroCartin wrote:
His control actuially is pretty damn awesome. The way he moves his mouse and selcts buidlings seems pretty nice to me! How do you hotkey? Whats your controls for this?

guess the d-pad would be the choice to hotkey. u got 8 directions. should be working ok. bind sth to hotekey could be trigger+dpad direction

MechKing

United States3004 Posts

October 18 2011 23:26 GMT

#25

w..why?

metharon

Sweden71 Posts

October 18 2011 23:27 GMT

#26

The title reminded me of http://www.warcraftmovies.com/movieview.php?id=167991

Carush

United States356 Posts

October 18 2011 23:28 GMT

#27

starcraft 64....................
*pukes*

Outsited

United States189 Posts

October 18 2011 23:35 GMT

#28

oops my english sucks i ment to say shudders.P

Kal_rA

United States2925 Posts

October 18 2011 23:38 GMT

#29

I'm actually impressed at his speed and accuracy... Still mouse+keyboard > controller (this is true for FPS too imo haha)

Thrill

2599 Posts

October 18 2011 23:39 GMT

#30

This might make me a terrible person, but you should have your friend play this guy:

http://www.twitch.tv/spectralsc

neobowman

Canada3324 Posts

October 18 2011 23:43 GMT

#31

You can macro alright with it but when it comes to micro, building placement and reaction time, there's really no way to use a controller competitively.

But it's cool that your friend's doing this.

ZAiNs

United Kingdom6525 Posts

October 18 2011 23:48 GMT

#32

You're friend should play vs. Qxc on an arcade stick.

Champi

1422 Posts

October 18 2011 23:50 GMT

#33

i took a peek without very high hopes, but i was deffinitely slightly impressed. it wasnt nearly as disgustingly bad as i thought it would be, and he seemed to be able to do some of the things i thought might be impossible to do with an xbox controller (like saved camera locations [maybe didnt pay enough attention to see if that was what he was actually doing])

i still think it would never be as good as a mouse and keyboard, and i dont think u could compete at a high level with it. but i think for casual gamers or just for a bit of fun or relaxing team games. it can suffice.

Xenocryst

United States521 Posts

October 18 2011 23:50 GMT

#34

umimaginable

Imalengrat

Australia365 Posts

October 19 2011 00:00 GMT

#35

I don't think it could ever work at a high level, but none the less this is awesome!!

AquaBadger

United States16 Posts

October 19 2011 00:04 GMT

#36

Ive tried this for lulz, macro isn't as bad as you think, but i felt very limited as there are simply not enough buttons, as i play zerg and needed a way to backspace inject with queens and needed an extra button to select larva requiring more keys for production then toss. i don't see good forcefields, bling/ling wars or any micro working. I felt completely crippled, stuck to very limited production due to the lack of keys. Note on the d pad, only has 4 buttons. To help reuse buttons I used grid, but there simply are not enough buttons after adding in backspace, control, shift, and 3 control groups, which basically constrained me to having only one hokey for an army.

Conquerer67

United States605 Posts

October 19 2011 00:07 GMT

#37

Ok... weird. I can't imagine him getting above plat with that, but it's a nice novelty.

I mean, did anyone ever play Supreme Commander 2 on the 360? No? That's because it sucked balls. But I imagine that making it like that is how you would make it playable, but it could never be gosu status like that.

+ Show Spoiler +

svefnleysi

Iceland623 Posts

October 19 2011 00:09 GMT

#38

Trying to use an xbox controller for SC2 would break my brain.

Boblhead

United States2577 Posts

October 19 2011 00:18 GMT

#39

Have you played the original sc for n64? You couldn't micro good at all....This would look good for the casualest of casual gamers, that are in like bronze.

Metalreflux

United States165 Posts

October 19 2011 00:24 GMT

#40

On October 19 2011 09:18 Boblhead wrote:
Have you played the original sc for n64? You couldn't micro good at all....This would look good for the casualest of casual gamers, that are in like bronze.

that seems like a gross over-assumption.