I play with controller, personally. To me, with this game in particular, it feels really immersive! I imagine the pilots have a dual flight stick setup, and that their controls are actually quite similar to our own. Plus I love the vibration for the same reason, everything just feels perfect.

Gameplay-wise, I personally feel more comfortable with the movement on the left stick than with WASD. And with with the way aiming works, it’s extremely rare for the right stick to ever be a limiting factor. The mech pretty much knows what I want to shoot lol.

That all being said, I have toyed around with the mouse and keyboard controls, and they’re really good too! In particular I like how you have easy access to both movement and aiming at the same time, whereas on controller you have to take your thumb off the right stick (or do a claw grip) to access ascend and quick boost.

I don’t think you can really go too wrong here, as long as you’re comfortable with your setup. Both feel really good

I actually switch between the two.

I really don’t like how I have to take my finger off the left stick to heal on controller, while fights that require dodging left and right in a row are trickier to me on keyboard.

With a controller, I sometimes feel limited in how I need to press multiple buttons, while on keyboard, I can do pianist moves to press buttons in all kinds of ways. I’m used to doing that from titan gameplay in TF2, and it feels kinda cool.

The camera control with a mouse is also much, much better. I was confused why the ability to “quick turn” was an ability upgrade, until I realised its for controller. Really hectic multi-target fights I find are just easier to handle with the mouse, rather than a stick.

But when I need to really focus on movement against a single target, like in the boss fights, I’ll pick up the controller and use that.