The controls are horrible, it's not intuitive like it was before and using them for their purpose to simple get from point 'a' to point 'b', across water, quickly, is not enjoyable. I really wish the controls would be reverted back to the previous version. Especially it is an issue when you're spending time playing on a PvP heavy server. There is enough problems to worry about and an addition to that I don't need is getting killed because of lousy boat controls.
I fail to understand what problem was being solved by, or improvement sought by the implementation of new boat controls. The new controls are an ill-conceived detriment to travel by rivers, with no compensating advantage to any other aspect of using boats.
Only having to use the forward button and the mouse is bad enough, but the fact that you cant turn left or right without going forward is just complete crap ! What would be nice is a button in the options that toggles using the mouse or the arrow keys (perhaps even both at the same time aswell)
You cannot turn easily at all- you need to be going at a speed to turn, and that's hard to do while trying to maneuver through thin areas such as lakes or a dock. When turning at the high speeds, you cant look at where you are going- u look sideways to change the direction of the boat.
I like the new boat controls. Granted, it has a bit of a learning curve, but I prefer this than the old way which made you act like a 100-tonne tank in the water. If they could just tighten it a bit, that would be great in my opinion.
I would have to say the I like the old controls better as I could turn and maneuver much better but now I can only turn when I look in that direction while moving. It's kind of annoying when I have to back up my boat or even break it because I cant turn.
I love how "it's realistic" is always used to justify crap design.
Sure, spending 2 hours to make a stone pick is annoying as hell, as well as tripping over for stupid reasons when running, being unable to retreat when you're injured, and unavoidably dying from diseases you're too primitive to cure, but it makes the game realistic, so it's okay the the game is literally unplayable.
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It is always funny when people that are against any form of change and unwilling to learn new things always classify everything anyone else say as crap or crap design.
It's new, learn to play with it. It's not unplayable, it's just different.
It's a step backwards from the previous controls. They removed the ability to both brake and look around while in the boat. In addition the removal of A + D for precision turning make it extremely difficult to navigate a narrow river or a swamp littered with lilypads. Which, if boats weren't so ridiculously fragile, wouldn't be as large of an issue. But they literally only took things away in regards to boats, they added nothing.
It is always funny when people that are against any form of change and unwilling to learn new things always classify everything anyone else say as crap or crap design.
It's new, learn to play with it. It's not unplayable, it's just different.
What I don't get is that you can use mouse controls on the boat but not the horse... The boat made sense but with the horse it kinda sucks because the only way you can look in a certain direction is by turning the whole horse to its side. If anything the boat controls should be reverted and the horse controls should be able to use the WASD to move while being able to look around. I REALLY hope they fix this. So for now, I'd rather just use the Archimede's Ship Mod.
Yeah, the boat controls suck. plus I keep crashing my boat into nothing, and sometimes when I get out of my boat, I pop up 10 blocks further away from my boat, then when I try to get back in it, it wont let me, I have to get off my game then get back on, then my boat pops up at a different area, but its enterable.
The new boat controls are horrible; now whenever I try to enjoy the view while sailing, the boat immediately goes off crashing straight into that direction.
Made boats unable to change the direction you're facing when they turn around: good.
Disabled arrow controls: bad.
These are two separate changes, and only one of them needs to be fixed. People are saying they'd rather have boats the way they were before, apparently not realizing that the old boats were flawed, too.
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They might want to take a feature from driving vehicles and aircraft in FPS gaming. It's called "Free Look".
Hit the key, and you look left or right, but your view springs back to forward unless you hold the key down, which will hold where you look, but has no effect on your vehicles operation.
Agreed, rivers became basically impassable. Need rafts for the rivers anyway! Long pole it up river.
Brakes won't help. I want to be able to look around with the mouse while I'm controlling the boat with my keyboard.
Lashing your head to the tiller is ridiculous. Since when is that realistic? I miss land to the side all the time now because it's a pain just to look.
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I fail to understand what problem was being solved by, or improvement sought by the implementation of new boat controls. The new controls are an ill-conceived detriment to travel by rivers, with no compensating advantage to any other aspect of using boats.
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You cannot turn easily at all- you need to be going at a speed to turn, and that's hard to do while trying to maneuver through thin areas such as lakes or a dock. When turning at the high speeds, you cant look at where you are going- u look sideways to change the direction of the boat.
Mojang please change this.
I love how "it's realistic" is always used to justify crap design.
Sure, spending 2 hours to make a stone pick is annoying as hell, as well as tripping over for stupid reasons when running, being unable to retreat when you're injured, and unavoidably dying from diseases you're too primitive to cure, but it makes the game realistic, so it's okay the the game is literally unplayable.
It's a step backwards from the previous controls. They removed the ability to both brake and look around while in the boat. In addition the removal of A + D for precision turning make it extremely difficult to navigate a narrow river or a swamp littered with lilypads. Which, if boats weren't so ridiculously fragile, wouldn't be as large of an issue. But they literally only took things away in regards to boats, they added nothing.
LOL This guy...
I wish they'd revert the controls too.
Disabled arrow controls: bad.
These are two separate changes, and only one of them needs to be fixed. People are saying they'd rather have boats the way they were before, apparently not realizing that the old boats were flawed, too.
Hit the key, and you look left or right, but your view springs back to forward unless you hold the key down, which will hold where you look, but has no effect on your vehicles operation.
Agreed, rivers became basically impassable. Need rafts for the rivers anyway! Long pole it up river.
Not rowboats.
And since minecraft boats do not even have oars but are powered magically the realism argument does not apply.
Lashing your head to the tiller is ridiculous. Since when is that realistic? I miss land to the side all the time now because it's a pain just to look.
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