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Hello guys,

I find driving the vehicle pretty difficult.
Wouldnt it be better, if the vehicles would be driving like this:

Instead of using the well known W A S D keys, It only should use W S (forward and backwards) and left and right should be done by following the mouse on the screen.
That would be super easy

I would like mouse follow as a mode (i.e. hold down some key to have it mouse follow) but bear in mind that the mouse is also used for aiming weapons and dropping items and such so it wouldn't make a good default behaviour, consider these two examples:

• Driving while laying down down powerpoles (you don't want to drop the power pole directly in front because you'll run into it!)
• Driving while shooting biters pursuing you (you don't want to turn towards the pursuing biters for obvious reasons)

Only if mouse steering was an option you had to select in the settings.

I hate the thought of having to use a mouse to steer.

zytukin wrote:Only if mouse steering was an option you had to select in the settings.

I hate the thought of having to use a mouse to steer.

Has to second this. Even if I disregard the uses of the cursor while driving, the current controls felt spot on for me - I was a perfect driver the second I first tried a vehicle.

The car/tank is an important weapon which needs to be controlled independent from the characters weapons.
And yes, this is already suggested several times. A compromise might look as switching between two types of control. But that must be explained to the player, cause otherwise they would complain, why there are two kinds of control.