I recently purchased AOE4 for PS5 since I recently lost my gaming laptop and I thought this would be a great alternative for me to play some AOE4 with friends. I was thrilled to see that it had keyboard and mouse support, but was disappointed with the key bindings, and the mouse input.
Firstly, I could not find a way to have the same construction hot keys that exist on PC. On PC, the hotkey sequence for creating economic buildings from a villager go as Q > Q for a house, Q > E for a lumber mill, etc. and military construction will go W > Q for barracks, W > W for archery, etc. But on PS5, this is not how the construction menus work. Selecting a villager will show you 3 different tabs, one for actions, another for economic buildings, and another for military buildings. And in order to switch the tabs on keyboard and mouse, you have to press tab, and then hit the key for the corresponding building. So instead of the typical Q > Q to build a house, it is now TAB > Q to build a house. And the game will memorize your last selected tab and save it for the next villager when you click on another villager, which can lead to confusion when building different types of buildings, because you might accidentally hit tab thinking It’ll go into economic, but it actually goes to military. This is just annoying, and I don’t see a way to turn it back into just regular PC controls. I’m already using the keyboard and mouse, just let me use the regular PC controls please.
Secondly, the mouse acceleration is atrocious on the PS5, which is not the fault of AOE4, but if there is any way that the devs could add an option for raw input, and to also be able to increase/decrease the sensitivity of the mouse on the screen that would immensely increase my enjoyment of the game.
Please add a way to revert the controls to just regular PC controls and please add a way to turn off mouse acceleration or just enable raw mouse input, or at least be able to change mouse sensitivity please. Thank you.