Ultimate Fantasy 14’s Scholar class is a healer for the sensible cookies, wielding a guide and a fairy to supply the large shields and injury mitigations. However what if you happen to may swap out your normal keyboard or controller and play with an precise guide for the total immersive expertise?
Properly, that is precisely what self-proclaimed “controller bender” SuperLouis64 has achieved. He is well-versed in constructing controllers particularly for Ultimate Fantasy 14 jobs at this level, having beforehand turned boxing gloves into Monk weapons (opens in new tab) and enjoying card-wielding Astrologian with a whole-ass Yu-Gi-Oh deck (opens in new tab). This time, he is turned a guide and cartoonishly jumbo pencil right into a real-life Scholar weapon and it is fairly dang cool (thanks, GamesRadar (opens in new tab)).
There are a couple of caveats proper off the bat—there weren’t sufficient buttons to suit every little thing on, that means broader position spells like Swiftcast (important for shortly rezzing gamers) had been off the desk. SuperLouis was additionally restricted by the one analog stick on his huge cartoon pencil, that means he was unable to maneuver his character both left or proper, and could not transfer the digicam up or down.
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It meant he often needed to go and provides his mouse a little bit wiggle to cease staring on the flooring, however for probably the most half the guide seems to be fully useful. With sensors within the high and backside a part of the guide, a couple of seconds of scribbling would set off sure inputs and permit SuperLouis to forged his spells. He took the guide for a spin in a couple of NPC dungeons earlier than diving right into a barely panicked trial with actual gamers.
I at all times get pleasure from seeing the best way SuperLouis can flip something and every little thing right into a controller, even when it would not work completely or hinders the general gameplay. It is tremendous enjoyable to see what could be achieved with a little bit little bit of programming. Whereas I could not see myself efficiently raiding with certainly one of these peripherals, I might love to present an informal dungeon with my friends a attempt on this means.
