I was an on and off PC gamer in the late 90's up through about 2015, my favorites were FPS like Doom, Quake, Unreal, Max Payne, Borderlands and a crap ton of CSGO. Haven't played any games in the last 5 years partly due to my aging gaming rig, just never made the leap to a new rig and now it's $2k for something like I'd want.
So I'm considering just getting a new Xbox or PS5 so I can at least play some of the big titles I missed like Doom Eternal and kill some time over the winter. My worry is I haven't played really any console FPS's except Goldeneye back in the day on my N64. I'm concerned I won't be able to adapt to double joysticks for movement.
So for those of you that went from KB/mouse to a console controller how bad was it adapting?
I played PC FPS from like 20 years old until about 4 years ago, and I'm 46 now. Goldeneye was the last FPS I played as well on a console, in my teen years. That was it.
So twenty plus years of gaming not using a controller And then my now ex fiancee who I met was a console gamer. So I bought a PS4Pro and I couldn't get used to the console sticks and didn't have the time to invest in re-training all my muscles at 42 years old but I wanted to play with her. So I got a XIM Apex. We played some stuff together, and in the meantime I met some other cool gamers on PS4 and we became gaming buddies. So now I am just mostly a console gamer as we still play together, plus a $500 console is much cheaper than a 2K graphics card, which by the time we broke up, crypto had made cards a rip off. I supposed one could try to get used to the sticks but it could take quite a bit of practice depending on the indivdual.
The XIM translates the controller movements for a mouse and keyboard and works very well in most games, though not all. Some games are limited due to a slow turn speed (Halo) which just means you can't do flick movements like you can in BF or COD, so you have to play a bit different - when you want to do a 180 you have to sweep the mouse across the pad much slower than you would in those other games. Other games just have really shitty coding, such as I think one of the newer Rainbow Six, so the aim just feels wonky with the XIM. The forums are very active and the owner and employees respond regularly and tweak the software to adjust to game updates and patches that may affect the aiming mechanics. For now the XIM Apex works great with the PS4 but not the PS5 - that is a work in progress and some say inevitable but it will require another 3rd party solution. It works well with the new Xboxes though, which is where I use mine. I can vouch for working well with the PS4 as well.
The XIM is not in stock and will not be anytime soon due to the supply chain issues. They may come out with a batch next year at some point. But you can find them on the used or secondary market, just for much higher than MSRP. Not sure what is worth it to you, but you definitely can really enjoy FPS with a mouse and keyboard using that device with a lot of FPS games. They have a thread with a list of the supported games on the forums.
Each game that comes out needs a software translator that they create for that game. It takes about 1-2 weeks after a game's release for the XIM guys to release a translator for it. It downloads to the XIM app on your phone and from there goes onto the XIM where you tweak the settings to your liking. It's a pretty seamless process and quite easy to do. The whole system is user friendly if you have any tech savviness at all.
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