Console Gamer Tries Battlefield 1 on PC and Feels the WASD Pain!

The making of this video was a brutal trial-by-fire. Although the overwhelming majority of my recent gaming action has been on consoles (Atari2600, NES, PS2, PS3, and PS4), I have many years of PC based gaming under my ever-widening belt.

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Much of my historical gameplay experience has included the use of the seemingly ubiquitous WASD based keyboard control paradigm. Alas, none of that experience helped me today when I tried to play the early release "Free Trial" of Battlefield1 that has been made available through Origin Access.

To say the least, it was a slaughter and I was the sacrificial animal. All my gaming experience was rendered useless and I was reduced to less-than-noob status on the Battlefield. I simply could not move fast enough with the keyboard and mouse controls. This interface is not sufficiently intuitive to me at this point and movement required too much thought. Too be an effective player, movement has to be second nature. A moment's thought needs to translate into immediate muscle movement.

Many people say, and I do believe, that over time and with much practice, the WASD/Mouse movement system will not only become intuitive, it will be a faster and more precise interface. It will certainly be worth the effort to pursue perfection on this route but there is clearly a long road ahead of me.

The epic beat-down which was laid upon me today was captured in all of its sticky glory and is linked below for all the world to see. If you are like me and have been playing console games almost exclusively for many years, you might know the pain that put this gamer's ego back on the ground today.

Worry not! For I will overcome this infusion of humility and return to fight another battle. The BF1 war is not over! We will fight them on the beaches. We will fight them on the streets. We will fight them with growing confidence and growing strength in the air! We will never surrender!

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This video was captured on an AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core Processor based PC equipped with the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 GPU. The graphics card has built-in desktop capture and share tools. Audio was captured using a Blue Yeti microphone. The final video was edited and rendered using Sony Movie Studio 13 Platinum.

So far my experience with playing the Battlefield 1 Early Trial has been truly great.

Looking forward to seeing you on the Battlefield!

Stay Skookum!
Pilchuck
of Skookum Valley Gaming

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See more BF1 Beta action in these short videos!
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https://youtu.be/pW2YbcFFhps