Add keyboard for consoles

War Thunder lets us use MnK, I understand the mouse might make the auto aim OP (which I personally don’t use) but please give us keyboard access. I have a chatpad on my gamepad I use for War Thunder. It’s great.

Enlisted has a ridiculous amount of keys so you need to double map and even then leave many blank because the double mapping has a buggy priority system that straight up blocks stuff from working. Give use keyboard access and then we can use our chatpad.

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As I’ve said before, and I will continue to say:
Please do NOT bring Mouse and Keyboard to consoles.

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Don’t need mouse just keyboard.
And why would I switch to PC? Got hours and hours of unlocks, not to mention a couple hundred Euro’s worth of premium stuff for my console.

Why so against it? Console clearly has control issues. A keyboard would fix it. War Thunder does it too.
If this is about aim assist then remove that. Don’t use it anyways. Tried once and it was rubbish.
If mouse wasn’t added and/or mouse-aim disabled for mouse/keyboard users, would that solve your issue?

I’m not trying to level some sorta playing field with cross play in mind. Typically, despite the control bugs, I am still first or second in the server. I have no performance issues or skill issues. Even against PC players. Really doesn’t matter to me.
I’m just trying to solve the control issues that make half the controls unusable due to their buggy priority system with control mapping. Half the time stuff doesn’t work due to all the double binding. I want to use my chatpad on my gamepad like I use in War Thunder, for extra buttons. Not because I somehow feel the need to perform better against other platforms.

Is it not possible to connect to the game from a computer using the same account you use for your console? I am not trying to ask you to give up your console, I am just asking a question.

The issue is that most PC player think that console players are not as good at the game because they are only using controllers and have access to aimbot that would be op with a keyboard/mouse setup.

For me I think that this is a good thing to have console players. Sure they seem to not be as good as pc player (But who am I to judge anyway) but some pc players are also very bad anyway. At least we can have full match with console players instead of having soulless bots jumping in front of enemy machine guns.

Idk how that would even work.

No it would not.

Just because you don’t use it, doesn’t mean others don’t either.

IDK if you actually clicked on and READ what I posted before (I was trying to be courteous and NOT post the whole thing, but rather a link to it).

THIS is why its important to me that CONSOLE PLAYERS stay with CONSOLE CONTROLS.

Some controls will either need to be given up, OR you could push for more combinations of buttons to be allowed.

For example, if I’m not mistaken, you are unable to use a combination such as “LT+ (L3 or R3)”. This is something that would make sense for leaning, but cannot be mapped for some reason.

Are there specific controls that you are having trouble mapping that you think are really necessary?

For example I can’t use ammo boxes since the last update. I also can’t leave aircraft. Tanks are just fine. Not the first update controls broke for me. Haven’t kept specific track. Whatever it is, their “priority control” logic is simply faulty from the start.
Overall I have a general reluctance to setup some of the unbounded controls because whenever I do, something breaks.
Fine, no MnK (from the start said I don’t need mouse anyways, just keyboard) and ONLY console controls. My chatpad that I use is an xbox only gadget. Make that work then. Thats what I use anyways, not a full on keyboard.
I’m sorry about your friend but it doesn’t justify letting a whole branch of players behind. Besides, just having keyboards (not mouse, like I repeatedly said) won’t affect people performing much better. I’m 100% helping disabled people but not in a way that it disables abled players.

Besides the disability reasoning doesn’t hold up. I have full control over my hands and fingers and even then double binding needs for difficult angles. There’ll be other disabled people who can’t do that either. As tragic as it is, it’s not a reasonable request to make to an entire player base. Some other solutions should be made for your friend. I’m all for that. If Enlisted wants to cover extra dev cost with premium pack or something and the proceeds go to developing features/infrastructure for disabled people then I’d buy it even if I’m not really interested in the contents. Note, not asking for disabled people to buy said pack, but a pack that anyone can buy to support the cause. But influencing core gameplay and leaving things broken for an entire player base is just not the way to do it.

I also just read the other post you referenced. The person posting that had a good point. Auto enable cross play. I already have it on and your logic is they’ll find a workaround. You’re clearly not thinking straight. I’m very sorry this thing has happened to your friend and the emotional impact it clearly has on you but assuming people will hack their xbox or something for a workaround is just seeing things. Let it go man.

Unfortunately not. I’ve asked Gromvoiny, the guy that wrote the system to enable logging in on PC for War Thunder and he said for Enlisted they aren’t planning it.

I personally don’t use aim assist and couldn’t care less if they removed it. I also frequently have the highest score in the match using just a gamepad and there are plenty of PC players in those matches. I prefer semi-auto and bolt action rifles. I have zero issues with a gamepad storming a building and using a bolt action in CQB. As far as I care they force enable cross play and disable aim assist when you use either a keyboard or mouse. All I want is the controls to stop being buggy due to the infinite double binding they make us do and isn’t handled well by their own system. Extra buttons on my chatpad (i.e. keyboard) would do that.

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Yeah as a PC player I cannot disable crossplay (which I would probably don’t do anyway). Controler seems increasingly anckward to use in this game, especially since last update. I hope that the developpers solve your issue one day.

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Thanks man.
I’ve been playing with controllers since the early 90’s. They have a few more buttons since and still not enough to keep up with game development. Don’t need a mouse, don’t even want one. Just need some extra keys in this case because the developers mess up their own double binding system time after time again.

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I don’t disagree they definitely need to work on control hierarchy issues. THAT is what we should be focused on pushing before it gets into additional sources of controls.

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tbh, a large amount of double binds and “quick press/double/tripple press/long press/tap” on one key in order to fit it all in…just gimme my chatpad so I can logically bind stuff.

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