Mouse and keyboard poll

[AggrorJorn]

I would like to know how people use their keyboard and mouse. Please fill in the poll. If you have a different answer, please make a reply.

[Roland]

I like the WASD keys and thumb on Space for shooting.

That also gives right hand free for using mouse to look around.

Left click for pick things or jump. At least thats how I planned my game.

[Rick]

WASD for sure, mouse to look around, and left mouse button for shooting always

[AndyGFX]

A lot of years only WASD + mouse, last few years only JOYPAD on X360, and i like it too.

[Mumbles]

No inverted mouse, and controls most people could not use.

 

The first I played that did not use the arrow keys was Tribes 2. Which uses ESDF (A is for zoom). To this day, I will often rebind WASD to ESDF in every game I play.

 

E-Forward

S-Left

D-Backward

F-Right

A-Sometimes Zoom - sometimes "action" - sometimes not used at all

Q-Usually "action"

W-Lean left (for games that have leaning)

R-Lean right - or Reload for games that do not have a leaning ability

G-Grenade (For games like Call Of Duty, where you do not select it from the inventory, and then LMB to fire it)

H-Hide current item

V-Melee (Similar to grenade)

L-Light

C-Toggle crouch

X-Toggle run

Z-Zoom out (For games where it is not the same key as zoom in)

T-Chat

Y-Teamchat

O-Objectives (if it's not done via the esc menu)

P-Pause (if it can be paused)

Space-Usually jump (But "action" in Splinter Cell games)

L Ctrl-Usually hold crouch (as in release to stand back up again)

L Shift-Usually hold run

Tab-Scores

Alt-Team orders menu, or pre-recorded voice chat

Mouse wheel-usually cycle weapons

LMB-Fire

RMB-Varies by game

MMB-Usually reload

 

 

Notable exceptions:

cod4: RMB for scope, A to steady it (or toggle sprint)

Mafia: L for reload, and movement with the arrow keys

Quake 3: W for use item, not Q or A. Initially a mistake but later became intentional

Splinter Cell: A for co-op action (would be Q but this is already bound for switch hands, and back-to-wall. By Chaos Theory, there was no way I could rebind that key, in my mind, that's where it had to be)

Unreal Tournament series: Q for translocator, A entirely unused

 

Obviously, in my project, I would make WASD the default.

 

Edit: Damn, I've done it again. Got the last post in a poll. So now "I" keep bumping it...

[Pixel Perfect]

could you be a little more specific Mumbles

[VicToMeyeZR]

I have to use inverted mouse for FPS games. I started games with flight simulators, and for some reason now, I can't use standard mouse now...

 

 

WASD is always the way to go, of course I use a G13 game pad, but its mostly set up like a WASD.

[wailingmonkey]

I never adopted WASD (and HATE having no ability to customize it if that's the default) and

I usually ended up 1st-3rd place in the old quake2 CTF days...

 

I use:

 

z = move left (strafe)

x = move right (strafe)

c = crouch

v = backwards

space = jump

shift(left) = use item

 

If there's a bunch of additional functionality needed, I'll assign keys to 'b, f, g, r' (and I'll

put 'a' and 's' as lean-left, lean-right if they're available)

 

[Rick]

Am I missing something or does wailingmonkey never move forward?

[VeTaL]

WASD + mouse

[Raul]

Am I missing something or does wailingmonkey never move forward?

 

Maybe it's a strategy. While retreating he's killing all enemys.

[wailingmonkey]

(chuckle) ... I use my mouse's right mouse button for forward motion and left mouse button fer killin'

[DaDonik]

I know someone who strafes with left and right mouse button and shoots with W

[DerRidda]

I'm an arrow key user, makes you never accidentally alt-tab or hit the Windows (meta) key but because so many games have become absolutely awful with rebindable keys, especially console ports, I have to use WASD a lot.

So I almost use WASD as much as arrow keys these days, maybe even more because of how horrible key binding has become.

Even in CS:Go if you did bind movement to arrow keys you couldn't strafe anymore as soon as a yes/no vote popped up because that was hard coded to change between the options. Don't know if they ever fixed that.

[Vulcan]

Some observations I have seen when other people play on their computer is that righties use WASD and lefties use arrows, so therefor one should implement both as standard for a game. Lefties often have the mouse on the left.

Also noted that people that are using inverted mouse envision that the characters head (camera) has a stick w/handle back on the head and the mouse is like a hand on that stick (sorry not good at explaining this). And that people using non-inverted mouse are envisioning that the head is on a pole-stick and that the mouse is like the eye of that character. Again this illustrates why options and more options are good

[Thirsty Panther]

I would like to know how people use their keyboard and mouse. Please fill in the poll. If you have a different answer, please make a reply.

 

Why do you want to know?

 

Another tutorial?

[AggrorJorn]

This thread is 4 years old.

[DerRidda]

I don't know why I necro'd it, it just appeared at the top. Are polls => pinned?

[AggrorJorn]

Topics appear on the top when a new reply has been given or when someone voted on the poll. No big deal really. I am removing the poll though.

 

[Thirsty Panther]

This thread is 4 years old.

 

Wow. Didn't even notice. Just saw it as DR did and thought you were working on something.

 

Probably didn't help that I've had a few beers after the mighty Penrith Panthers beat the Sydney Roosters in the NRL qualifying Final by a point.

[gamecreator]

Topics appear on the top when a new reply has been given or when someone voted on the poll.

Which is funny because I'm pretty sure my vote topic didn't get pushed to the top after a vote. I wonder why not but I prefer it that way.