RDR2 is clearly a console port, and a bad one. My impression is that there has been zero focus on polish for players using keyboard and mouse. The movement controls are sluggish and imprecise, and your character often gets stuck around objects. The keymap isn't really intuitive, and there are a lot of bound keys that seem to follow no clear concept. Rather, it almost looks like gamepad buttons were translated to random keys on the keyboard. Sometimes, the prompts don't even match what is displayed on screen: "hold Escape"; well, actually, you need to hold F... . Inventory management is horrible, too. While you do have a mouse cursor to navigate menus, clicking on a consumable doesn't select it, but uses it up immediately. Not sure how nobody noticed that in QA testing. The map can be zoomed out with the mouse wheel, but zoom speed is incredibly slow, requiring crazy mouse wheel spinning to give you an overview; again, nobody noticed that? Then there's the myriad of crash issues people are reporting in the launcher and during game start and gameplay. It seems owners of AMD processors are especially affected. Surely someone tested the game on a Ryzen system? I'm lucky I didn't encounter a single crash in all the hours spent playing and benchmarking, but given the amount of drama online, it seems I'm the exception, not the norm.
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