UT3 to get keyboard/mouse support for PS3

[Queasy]

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Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein has confirmed on the official forums that Unreal Tournament 3 for the PlayStation 3 will support keyboard and mouse.

"[Designer Steve Polge] is confident we are doing it in a way that will be balanced without feeling "gimped" for either side," he said. Rein also added that there will be options to "allow people to choose whether or not they want to allow mixed controller vs. keyboard/mouse games or not." In our recent interview with Rein, he was still unsure if this feature would be implemented.

Will the battle for the best first-person shooter controls -- gamepad or keyboard and mouse -- now be fought locally? Is this further evidence that Epic will implement the PS3 and PC cross-platform multiplayer? Our fingers are crossed.

Will be interesting to see if they ever come out with statistic on how many people use kb/m and how many use the controllers.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

And the sun shone upon the PS3 owners! I will be using kb/m and will be glad I spent $600 on a PS3 instead of a friggin video card. BTW, my Deck Toxic keyboard will look so sweet hanging out of my PS3!!!!! Thx Queasy, great news.

 

[randay]

all we need is support for mods which im pretty sure it will have... awesome.

 

[Dacalo]

Originally posted by: randay
all we need is support for mods which im pretty sure it will have... awesome.

Mods are confirmed, it will share all PC mods and vice versa.

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

Maybe the Resistance sequel will have KB/M too. 🙂

 

[EvilComputer92]

Any news on whether MS will be offering this feature?

 

[bucwylde23]

Originally posted by: EvilComputer92
Any news on whether MS will be offering this feature?

I'd love to finally be able to kick the KB/Mouse fanboys asses in some FPS's 😀

 

[purbeast0]

kb/m should stick to the PC side of gaming. all this is going to do is make an uneven playing field on consoles.

i hope MS never supports kb/m in their SDK.

 

[EvilComputer92]

I agree. Kb/M has an substantial advantage over a standard control in terms of precision. It would be better if they dont integrate the two platforms because I think it will lead to the death of the controller for consoles. Shadowrun attempted to do this but it only led to console players getting autoaim.

 

[luv2liv]

i hope i can use my Belkin Nostromo N50!!! awesome game pad!!!

 

[biff 24 2000]

have you guys seen this ? it looks pretty good but i wonder how good it would compare to a real mouse and keyboard like in UT3.