Apex Legends: Respawn respond to controversy over using keyboard on console Respawn\/UnsplashApex Legends console players about opponents who use keyboard and mouse, through use of an adapter device, instead of controllers. While using a keyboard and mouse in place of a controller isn\u2019t supported on console, that hasn\u2019t stopped some Apex Legends players, including some as high profile as KingRichard, from finding a way around. The most common, a XIM adapter that deceives the console into believing a controller is being used, has allowed players to get a step up \u2013 using their keyboard and mouse skills for better movement and aim. However, those fans who actually use a controller aren\u2019t happy and have finally had their concerns heard by Respawn. 600During their July 19 check-in on the Apex Legends subreddit, Resawn noted a recap of news from the previous week \u2013 as well as a small address on the on-going keyboard and mouse issue on consoles. \u201cOur stance on this? The short answer is: we don\u2019t condone it,\u201d started the dev team before revealing a small insight into what they\u2019re doing. \u201cWe are investigating ways to detect if players are doing it that we\u2019re testing internally. That\u2019s all we have to say on it for now but we\u2019ll revisit this and talk about progress with detection and how we\u2019ll address players that are using it in the near future.\u201d Of course, it didn\u2019t take long for fans to get involved and start commenting on the weekly check-in. A number of players zeroed in on the keyboard and mouse issue \u2013 questioning just how Respawn would be able to detect players who bypass normal detection. \u201cReally happy to hear a statement about km users on console, but I\u2019m really not sure how they can deal with xim users?\u201d queried abnsss. Another, Cynnthetic, added: \u201cThank you so, so, much for taking a stance on Keyboard and Mouse use on console! It\u2019s a cancer that needs exorcised.\u201d However, others questioned how they will be able to fully get rid of keyboard and mouse users considering other developers have tried and failed \u2013 with one offering up an idea of potentially separate lobbies. \u201cIt is physically impossible to prevent people from using things such as the XIM,\u201d started VNG_Wkey. \u201cOthers devs have tried and failed as the hardware just gets updated the next day and they can continue on using it. The best route would be supporting m\/kb on consoles (both of which already have native support for such) and matchmaking players using m\/kb into lobbies together.\u201d It remains to be seen as to what Respawn\u2019s actual solution is and as to when it will be implemented in-game with an update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apex Legends: Respawn respond to controversy over using keyboard on console Respawn\/UnsplashApex Legends console players about opponents who use keyboard and mouse, through use of an adapter device, instead of controllers. While using a keyboard and mouse in place of a controller isn\u2019t supported on console, that hasn\u2019t stopped some Apex Legends players, including some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}