Dark Souls Prepare To Die Jump Attack/Kick

[Zac Jovanovic]

So after after making Dark Souls 2 playable with KB/M and putting some 100 hours into it I decided to revisit the mess that was DS on PC and try to make it work too.

Had some great success, got it running reasonably stable at 60 fps. Fixed the mouse, rebound all keys, etc.

But.

Can't seem to make the autohotkey macros for Jump Attack and Kick work reliably.

In DS2 I use:

Send W
Wait 20
Send Click
Wait 20
Release both

And it works reliably. But in DS the same macro has maybe 20% success rate. I tried messing with the timings but nothing seems to make it better. If I put the game back on 30 fps the Kick macro works more often but Jump Attack doesn't that I can notice.
Ironically enough macros are so unreliable that manually pressing the combination works more often, as shitty as it is.

Anyone had any luck making Jump Attack/Kick a one button press in Dark Souls PtD?

 

[Zac Jovanovic]

I did. And it is shitty.

Because it's a direct port from a control method that has to use combinations because of lack of keys, those combinations being terribly uncomfortable and read:unreliable with keyboard and mouse.

Having an essential move that works roughly half the time is about the worst way to ramp up the difficulty that I can think of.

Fixing a cock-up of inexperienced developers is not "laming it out".