The following also applies to Metal Gear Solid Five: The Phantom Pain, for almost all aspects, a few variations announced but do not affect my opinion on how the controls perform.

Metal Gear Solid 5: Ground Zeros released on PC on the 18th Dec 2014, 9 months after the console releases. We already know the game is brusque only very solid, however equally this is a panel series, how has it been brought over to the mouse and keyboard?

Ok, I'll tell you what I know!

Are the Mouse and Keyboard Controls Any Adept?

Overall the game has been brilliantly ported over to the PC...

In true Metallic Gear Solid style the game starts out with a decent length cutscene, then when you get given control you become told hold F to bring up binoculars, later you realise property F with your gun out allows y'all to aim downwards the sights. The good news carries on, there is a walk push, a sprint push button and crouch/prone button, so pretty standard really.

Basic Controls

• Concord F - Allows you to go into first person, with no weapons drawn this will bring out your binoculars.
• Hold Left Ctrl - Walk pace, allows yous to motility slowly.
• C - Press C allows you to crouch, if crouched you stand. Concur C Allows you to prone, if decumbent yous stand up.
• Mouse - Left Mouse Button (LMB) fires and Right Mouse Button (RMB) aims, zip abnormal there.
• Q - Allows you to phone call for help on the radio.
• Left-click (unarmed) - Initiates CQC, and holding allows yous to grab opponent.
• Due east - Climb, get in vehicle.
• WASD - Standard movement and vehicle control (Westward accelerate, S break reverse).
• Space - With no weapon fatigued you dive to the footing in the direction you are moving.
• Tab - Printing to bring up iDroid system, which is an all in one map, mission objectives and tapes playing device.
• i - Selects main weapon, hold to modify.
  
• two - Selects secondary weapon, hold to modify.
  
• 3 - Selects grenade type, agree to pick blazon.
• 4 - Switches to dark vision.

When the Controls are Fiddly

One thing which is worth noting is that the mouse does not piece of work for the menus, not an issue as arrow keys or WASD keys work just fine.

The controls get fiddly when dealing with grappling or using the games inventory organisation.

Grappling:

To initiate a grapple yous concur LMB, when near an enemy, with no weapon drawn. You now accept a choice of what to practise, interrogate, knockout or kill.

• Interrogate - Yous press Q to initiate the interrogation, at present you have to utilize the arrow keys to select the question to inquire. But be sure not to let get of Q otherwise y'all will let go of the prisoner. When yous have finished yous questioning you let become of Q and chop-chop hold LMB once more to go back to the initial options.
  
• Knockout - Simply tap the LMB, information technology's slightly counter intuitive to permit of the button, but not difficult to pull of.
• Kill - Simply printing E to kill and done.

What you volition see while grappling.

Inventory:

You can do several things with the inventory, but every PC gamer knows how to switch weapons, then I am going to talk about modification of those weapons.

Holding down the key for a gun, which would be 1 or two, allows you lot to do two basic modifications - remove/add light or remove/add suppressor. These use X and Y, I can imagine on a controller this inventory system working very well, simply on keyboard it's a bit of a pain to start with.

The Inventory Gun modification screen.

iDroid

Using the iDroid is easy when you lot get your head wrapped around information technology.

I constitute just experimenting with buttons, and looking at the screen allows you lot to work out what to practice. It falls downwards with the system for irresolute pages, which apply keys one and 3.

When you want to call for a helicopter, or become into Walkman menu you need to alter the folio. I found that using WASD,Infinite, and Escape (to become back) to be the most constructive manner to navigate through the iDroid.

This is the iDroid's map.

Conclusion

You cannot remap the controls, in Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain you tin. There are a few presets for controllers, there is simply ane for mouse and keyboard (in Metal Gear Solid Five: Ground Zeroes).Also the loading screen tips testify the controller bindings, non keyboard ones which is a strange oversight.

Overall the game has been brilliantly ported over to the PC, and not but with controls, but performance and optimisation besides. With a few minor inconveniences, which with learning the game you get fluent with the controls.