So i've played a bit and so will post below how some of the controls are compared to DAO and DA2. Along with my feedback and suggestions.
Some good, some bad, some annoyances, some getting used to.
General
Cannot bind mouse 4 and mouse 5 buttons (the 2 thumb buttons on most mice). Thats really annoying as 99% of other games let you bind them!
Mouse wheel scrolling and double clicking work where you expect them to.
Left mouse or R are the basic attack keys. Press once for 1 attack, hold it down to continue attacking. There is no auto attack outside of the tactical cam.
Pressing attack wont move you to an enemy like previous DA games. you have to manually move to an enemy and attack (unless in tac cam), just like other action/adventure games.
A result of this means you cannot hold down left and right mouse buttons to drive your character.
Its going to take some time getting used to having jump on space instead of pause. Can rebind though.
Ability Tooltips dont show any info on them unless your in the skill tree. Really annoying when your out adventuring and want that info quickly. (detailed tooltips mod please!)
Annoyance: I dont know what is Junk loot. Theres "valuables" but they may be needed later in the game. Im a hoarder 
Animations
Having to wait for the bending animation when looting gets annoying really really fast.
It seems to me that you have to wait for an animation to finish before that action registers or you can do anything else. Example is the looting, and in combat animations have to finish before you can move again.
Looting
The V key searches for nearby loot and highlights it.
The highlight does not stay on screen for long enough, and it highlight is so subtle you easily miss items.....forcing you to spam the key.
Personally i much preferred the previous games method of holding a key down.
At the VERY LEAST the highlight needs to stay on screen a lot longer and be MUCH more visible.
Right clicking or pressing F collects loot. But you have to be standing next to the loot. It will not walk you over to the loot like previous games.
On the loot screen you have to click the take all button or single items you want.
There is no take all key like in DA2. (Spacebar loots what is selected...so if the cursor is hovering over an item it takes that....hovered over take all it takes all).
Could easily make the F key do that though, strange why they havent.
Tactical Camera
For me the tactical camera doesnt scroll out far enough. But thats just my personal opinion.
You can move the Tac cam by using WASD, holding down the mouse wheel button or holding both left and right mouse buttons down.
You can pan the Tac camera by holding shift, or holding right mouse button down.
When in tactical cam view, selecting a party member jumps the camera to them.........would LOVE it to be a toggle as i would rather it not jump.
Tac cam can get stuck on objects like boxes. Also on building roofs.
Could do with an option that disables the mouse wheel going into Tac cam mode when scrolling back. Occasionally i have accidently gone into Tac cam mode when i just want to scroll out.
Occasionally i exit Tac cam and pause mode when i pan around .......and i dont know why that happens.
UI
Would like a minimap option to lock north in place and rotate the character icon.
Annoyance of mine is Interface screens which starts text halfway up the screen so requires more scrolling to go through......like the inventory screen, attributes screen and options screen.
Crafting and upgrading are seperate screens, and require you to move to another workbench to open those screens......pointless and annoying.
Skill Trees
You can move left and right through the skill tree titles (Sword+Shield, Two handed etc) by scrolling mouse wheel, pressing A or D or by selecting them with the mouse.
You can select them by pressing Spacebar or mouse click to go to the full skill tree.
Skill trees requires you to scroll a lot by holding down a mouse button and dragging to see all available skill. Not helped by the fact that nearly half the screen is taken up by your 1-8 bar and skill info.
Could have been improved, especially for PC where we dont need everything to be large.
Can change to other party members by pressing F1-F4 or by clicking the small icons at the top right.
DA2 had a far better skill tree screen. With it showing all the trees and you could click on the one you wanted with it then showing the full tree on the screen without needing to scroll.
And there is still enough space for the skill info and the 1-8 buttons.
You could also easily select party members by clicking on their portrait on the left.
Inventory Screen
You can move up and down the inventory screen by pressing W or S, by scrolling the mouse wheel or by mouse clicking.
Can only select the filters at the top by mouse clicking them.
The text for items start about half way up the screen.......meaning there is empty space above that so you need to scroll more than you should have to.
A and D if bound to turn left and turn right, rotate your character. Cannot rotate your character by any other means.
A and D if bound to Strafe left and Right, do nothing.
Spacebar or mouse double clicking selects and equips the selected item. You can also drag the item onto your character.
By hovering the mouse pointer over an item you get a tooltip of the item and the item your wearing.
F1-F4 keys change party member or by clicking the small triangles in the top right of the screen.
In my opinion the DA2 inventory was FAR better. Less scrolling, easier to select party members, everything was slightly smaller so more fit onto the screen,
For now thats it, will keep updating with any other info, issues or suggestions i have.
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