Path of Exile 2 is getting WASD support for moving your character

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BaumisMagicalWorld wrote:

I'm still not sure how I feel about this one. I hated this type of movement in Guild Wars 2, and I hated it in other games as well. I much prefer mouse click movement combined with a stop command. Far more accurate. Why they wouldn't do that is disappointing to me. Since the gameplay appears to be inherently slower, I can see no real benefit over regular mouse controls aside from less clicking; you can already kite Hillock stupidly easy, this would be no different, except now your character keeps moving instead of stopping to attack.

I'm pretty sure you can use either of the two options unless they've changed it again.

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Pashid wrote:

I'm pretty sure you can use either of the two options unless they've changed it again.

Yeah, but there still is no stop command, is there? In other games it's the S key.

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

https://twitter.com/Zizaran/status/1730303992037515637/photo/1

You can use your keyboard to control character movement instead of only mouse clicks. So you can finally strafe & attack and retreat & attack without going nuts with the mouse!

We were asking for that since poe1's closed beta and never got it but of course it is part of poe2. It's feels like keeping poe1 down to make poe2 look better!

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666lol666 wrote:

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Nicholas_Steel wrote:

https://twitter.com/Zizaran/status/1730303992037515637/photo/1

You can use your keyboard to control character movement instead of only mouse clicks. So you can finally strafe & attack and retreat & attack without going nuts with the mouse!

We were asking for that since poe1's closed beta and never got it but of course it is part of poe2. It's feels like keeping poe1 down to make poe2 look better!

Alternatively, it could just be that click-to-move is traditional for ARPGs, and also that redesigning their entire game to add WASD was a gigantic pain the ass. Jonathan and Mark have talked about how much of PoE2 needed to be completely redesigned to accommodate WASD, so I'm guessing it's that one. And no, they probably won't be completely redesigning PoE1 to add WASD at this point, since that would essentially defeat the purpose of keeping PoE1 alive as a separate game.

They can remove move-click, WSAD is the only way.

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Dxt44 wrote:

They can remove move-click, WSAD is the only way.

No thanks.

If WASD is the only choice for movement, I'm out.

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ChanBalam wrote:

If WASD is the only choice for movement, I'm out.

same. i'm far too used to the mouse

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Lyutsifer665 wrote:

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ChanBalam wrote:

If WASD is the only choice for movement, I'm out.

same. i'm far too used to the mouse

Click-to-move will still be an option. You'll just have more options.

I'm not a huge fan of WASD, either, but I also had to tap out of this league earlier than I wanted because my mousing hand was hurting. So I'm going to give WASD a proper try, see how it goes, and then decide. If WASD is good enough, and allows my aging hands to play PoE2 more, then I'll use it; if not, then I won't. I'm also planning on giving the gamepad controls a good workout, now that GGG have given so much thought to them; if they work well enough, then I'll use them, and if they don't, then I won't.

And that's how I'd advise anyone to approach WASD. Unless, of course, you've already decided that you're not going to give PoE2 a chance in general. That's fine, if it's how you feel, but you really can just feel that way without needing to use the existence of a WASD option as your excuse.

The all the conservatives out there saying they are too used to mouse and not gonna try WASD:

Mercenary/Ranger/Huntress will feel so much superior with WASD its not even funny...