Instead you’re constantly tabbing between menus, a feature basically designed for gamepad triggers. Designed strictly for PC the Fallout 4 Pip-Boy features could have probably been crammed into one or two screens. Everything’s massive and split off into bite-sized sections. Look at the size of it and you can tell it’s been designed for someone who’s sat about 80 feet away, gawping at television screen. Lastly there’s the design of the UI and the Pip-Boy. It would certainly have been nice to use the scroll wheel to change weapons, but that feature is conspicuous by its absence. When I’m constantly switching them out this is a bit of a headache.

With M&KB I’ve got to try and remember where they’re assigned on the top row from 1-0. This means I can have a big pile of weapons sorted into melee, ranged, explosive, etc. So tap left twice to get the second weapon, for example. On a gamepad you can have three weapons assigned to each direction on the gamepad, like you can see when you assign them a favourite slot in your Pip-Boy. There are some oddities to the control layout though which it feels strange Bethesda overlooked. Get VATS on the go however and there’s no discernable difference. Assuming the limitation is that Bethesda didnt add dualshock controller support to Fallout 76 for Windows, the emulating an xbox controller should fix it. You can pop off more accurate shots and aim much quicker. Im not sure but it may be able to recognize your controller and have it emulate an xbox controller. First things first, aiming is a damn sight easier on PC obviously. To put it to the test I abandoned ship and had a go with a mouse and keyboard.

Which is a little bit strange for a massive RPG like this which made its name on PC. From the poor mouse support to the strange FOV and a UI geared to a controller, everything screamed console - and console controls - focused. My first impression when playing Fallout 4 was that this was a game built for gamepad control from the ground up, however. I didn’t even contemplate using a mouse & keyboard for Fallout 4, but logically you’d expect the PC-enamoured folks at Bethesda to make this the best setup. There’s nowhere decent for me to set up a desk, so comfy couch gaming it is.

In truth, it’s how I do the vast majority of my gaming these days. To which Felix was pretty incredulous I was using a controller at all, particularly for a PC-focused series like Fallout. I had a chat with Felix this morning about Fallout 4, which has already occupied a huge chunk of my life, and I said aiming was sometimes a bit difficult with the gamepad.

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