


Attempting to play on the same 4-way gate as TGM without taking on some other sort of alternate key binding is accepting a limitation on the movement techniques available to you. ) or you need to map a drop key to the buttons. On joystick, it's either a weird joystick fidget (e.g., left, up-left, left, up-left, left. On keyboard, this is a simple operation: keep the left/right direction held, tap hard drop for each piece. Also, unlike TGM, these games allow diagonal drop, which in practice allows you to carry DAS between consecutive pieces moving in the same direction. Playing without entry delay means you can't buffer anything, so you're just constantly hammering out inputs.
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Playing without low/zero gravity means you get no stack interaction, which means that your movement hand input palette often varies more than 20G ARS (where you can manipulate the stack to limit input complexity significantly - you can just DAS left/right to a notch and then manual lock a lot of the time). Are there any training exercises I could use which could help my effeciency? Maybe a specific key setup that would be easier for me to adapt to? Or is the advantage from playing well with a keyboard so small anyway, that I might as well just forget about it, and hook up a stick to my PC?Ĭlick to expand.No, it's essentially true that keyboard is better for the kinds of games that you play on computer.

While the obvious route here is just "keep playing and eventually I will get it", I'm curious if anyone else here had the same struggle? I feel like most people came from keyboards and adapted to joysticks, not the other way around. While I'm not exactly the fastest Tetris player out there to begin with, I can obviously handle a much faster game, and it feels really infuriating when what's holding you back is not the speed at which the pieces appear, but your own struggle with the controls. I tried a 40L sprint on TetrisFriends just to "benchmark", and I couldn't even get below 2 minutes, which is ridiculous. It's really difficult to explain, but the keyboard just feels like a huge handicap to me, and I feel like grandpa trying to write his first e-mail with no idea where each letter is located. My problem is that not only am I not used to playing high speed Tetris with a keyboard, I'm really not used to playing any video games with a keyboard at all, and controlling the pieces just doesn't feel intuitive in any way. The general concensus is that keyboard is a faster and more effecient way of playing, so I should learn it, right? And while I've previously tried playing Cultris with a joystick setup, to make it more familiar to me, I feel that it would be better for me to not limit myself. Namely, I've been interested in getting into some of the Tetris games that actually have an active VS-"community", whether it would be Cultris or TetrisFriends or whatever the kids play these days. So the other day I tried playing Tetris with a keyboard for the first time since "seriously" picking up TGM.
