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The huge Project Zomboid build 42 finally gets multiplayer just in time for the holidays
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I was really excited about this game, but the controls were unnecessarily over complicated for me.
Oh, I find that surprising. I'm a pretty casual game player but don't find the controls too difficult. Maybe that's because I take a pretty minimalist approach and don't use most of them. A lot of the controls are optional and you can use the context menus by right-clicking the mouse instead.
From memory, because it's been a little while since I played, this is what I commonly use, ordered by how frequently I use it:
I think that's pretty much it.
Edit: added the mouse buttons, that I had left out from my original list, moved "C" down a couple of notches, and removed "shift" to run because I very rarely do that. We have the running zombies disabled on our games because they don't seem very lore-accurate. The regular slow zombies you can keep at bay just by walking.
I don't know if it's what the original commenter was referencing, but the combat controls - mostly not shown in your list - were extremely unintuitive last time I played it. Otherwise I enjoyed the game.
Not a comment on PZ but often "intuitiveness" and expressiveness must trade off against each other. I prefer expression.