Keyboard and mouse on consoles

The devs delay game to add mouse and keyboard support am i rite DICE?

The delay might potentially give them an extra bit of time to add this support. I really hope they atleast acknowledge this. I can't even tell if posting feedback here ever reaches to the devs. 

Feedback about M&K support has definitely reached devs.

Not sure whether or not it will be implimented but when they say polish, I don't exactly think adding different accessability options is what they meant

Soo..will there be M&K support for consoles in the beta? 

Interesting! Thanks for the info @TTZ_Dipsy 🙂

Would be nice to see them expanding the Call of Duty approach and give us an extra level of input control. I love playing infantry and tanks with my gamepad. But for anything air-related I definitely need mouse and keyboard. So being able to switch between them during a match, woulda be amazing! Actually it is sad that I have to praise a basic usability requirement, which was standarized ~20 years ago and has worked well on PC since ages, in 2021 as an AMAZING feature on consoles 😞

Call of Duty has become an amazing experience since MW2019, especially since the lobbies being pretty balanced with MnK and gamepad players. Hope to see this heterogeneous way of crossplay in Battlefield as well. Still hoping for a server balancer spreading gamers based on skill level on different teams, since the skill gap on public servers is pretty huge in Battlefield!

oh so sad i cancel my preoder for now 🙂 

@ZjemCiKolegeWell..rip. atleast they are honest with it. I hope they consider it soon.

Also share source pls

Could Xim or Cronus be used for k&m access, or is that considered cheating?

@ElliotLH

Has there been any "official" statement about the matter that anyone knows of?

Being, i would gather, you could just use that for k&m as folks did on BFV. And if there's no official statement, i assume it's allowed, being i've never heard of anyone being banned for such.

@ElliotLH

I think you're correct, and unless EA/DICE and/or Sony and Microsoft forbid them being used (for which they have not), they're allowed.

And so anyone wanting to use these devices should feel free too, until something can be cited you cannot. So, for k&m if that's what you want to use, go for it.

I totally agree and have cancelled my pre order I think it is a DISGRACE that we cannot choose our input method like pc players can for a game we have purchased JUST LIKE THEM.

I'll just switch to COD which DOES have Mouse and keyboard support on console, works fine any excuses EA makes are because they are backward and lazy.

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@ElliotLH wrote:
@dogredI don't believe that it's been officially stated that using them is not allowed, but I may be mistaken about that.

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@ElliotLH , I quoted in the other thread on the plea for m&k to Playstation why aka Cronus is absolutely and rightfully so considered cheating by EA!

Just read the EA TOS for the gaming and you will understand why.

Just as an example:

...any interference with game mechanics as they were intended by the game designers (aka the weapon recoil) is considered cheating.

So yes absolutely, it is cheating.

Of course it is!

Otherwise why are you playing Battlefield if you think its great then to buy additional hardware/software to negate real life physics that this game is proud to mimic in its controls?

Also reason why we are many that are happy that EA have so far declined to enable m&k for the PS5 gameplay.

But its unfortunately come to the point that a large part of the BF gamer population have felt inclined to have to use such cheater hardware/software just to enable them to play a decent game because everybody else is also.

But it doesn't make it legit.

And EA and the other gaming companies do have direct ways to measure that such * is attached and used for the cheating.

Can we please agree to that cheating has to stop for the game to be worth playing.

Example EA TOS conditions:

• Use or distribute unauthorized software programs or tools (such as "auto", "macro", hack or cheat software), or use exploits, bugs or problems in an EA Service to gain unfair advantage.

So let us see now...

How about using some of those mentioned hardware/software gadgets to:

- Remove all weapon recoil 

- Make all weapons full-auto fire weapons

- Auto-spot/ping all enemies

- Auto sprint and bunny hopping

- Auto side-swiping when aiming down sight

Is that cheating?

It's certainly gaining a huge unfair advantage in my book.

Shocking if there is no consensus on that being the case.

Or we all have to buy these cheater gadgets now to play our game and that is the great new norm?

And why not tell EA then please to remove all recoil in the game.  Wouldn't that be easier then.

@NoTimeToDecide absolutely not, it will only open up for one more additional channel for the cheaters to use.

The cheaters will try to cheat, no matter what you do.  So limiting their options as much as possible is the way to go.

The cheats main revenue (and their development) is for m&k usage.  Sad but reality.

The modded controllers is another matter.

And that is where Sony also has stopped those now with integrity check on the PS5 controllers, where only approved native controllers can work.

So its up to the game designers how they want to police the allowance of use of 3rd party components within their games.