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For the few who are used to playing games with keyboards, they will dominate this game.

For the rest of the people, who have spent years in fast-paced FPS games (that strongly use the mouse), the controls will be troublesome and prevent gamer-joy.

Afterall, it may be challenging for the first few times (and possibly fun), but who wants to be the small-fry who gets pwned ALL the time.

So here is my suggestion for alternate controls, for a game where you need to adjust aim rapidly, if you expect hundreds of players in each world:

Mouse = navigation

Mouse right-click/spacebar = shoot

Maybe there should be a constant-speed similar to agar, but if you are keeping the acceleration feature, perhaps you should add braking also, which gives:

a = accelerate

s = brake

d = shield

3 buttons + mouse; seems a lot simpler to me IMO.

I would like to keep playing this, but with these controls, I'd much rather play agar.io, which is simple/easy/fun.




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