june gloom on 30/6/2010 at 17:07
Quote Posted by lost_soul
Wow. This sounds almost as annoying as those developers who disable/hide access to the in-game console by default. Completely pointless and just an annoyance.
I would agree with you, except...
Quote Posted by sparhawk
Ever since I started to play FPS games (back in the good old days of DOOM 1) I was using the mouse buttons for forward/backward and the CTRL key for firing, and I'm not going to change that. :p
sparhawk on 30/6/2010 at 17:58
Quote Posted by Wormrat
How do you strafe? I could get behind "all motion controlled by the mouse" if it weren't for this. Strafe button? No thanks.
My strafe keys are y/x (zx on an english keyboard). With this I can easily strafe and shoot. :)
Quote Posted by dethtoll
I would agree with you, except...
Why? Whats so bad, about having a good setup and wanting to keep it? It's not as if I ask for something new. The developers allow you to remap almost all the other keys as well, so why would they insist on some particular keybindings anyway?
june gloom on 30/6/2010 at 18:04
Because everyone in the world has stopped using such a ridiculous, broken setup. I shudder to think how you'd do in a multiplayer game.
Animals that don't adapt die out. Even I quit using keyboard-only when I got Half-Life.
Koki on 30/6/2010 at 18:21
Didn't we have this thread like a week ago?
ZylonBane on 30/6/2010 at 19:02
Quote Posted by sparhawk
Whats so bad, about having a
good setup and wanting to keep it?
That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.
Renzatic on 30/6/2010 at 19:48
Hey, don't make fun of our tank driving brethren and their control schemes. If one button for forward and one for back won wars back in the day, then by gawd it's good enough for Doom or any other FPS.
sparhawk on 30/6/2010 at 20:21
Quote Posted by dethtoll
Because
everyone in the world has stopped using such a ridiculous, broken setup. I shudder to think how you'd do in a multiplayer game.
You would be surprised. I played Quake 3 and various other online shooters and was pretty good at it. I fail to see why one setup would be so superior over another, as long as the player is used to it and can handle it well. :cool:
I don't play so much online anymore though, so I can't say about newer games, but I don't think that I would die so easily if I had some bit of training again.
catbarf on 30/6/2010 at 20:53
Yes you would. Oh yes, you would die, horribly, swiftly, and repeatedly. Things have changed in the eleven (!) years since Quake 3 came out.
Renzatic on 30/6/2010 at 20:59
Actually, I'd say that if he could play Quake 3 well with that setup, he could play any modern FPS about as well. Even now, 11 years on, there isn't a deathmatch game as fast paced and frantic as Q3.
Koki on 1/7/2010 at 05:04
Quote Posted by sparhawk
I fail to see why one setup would be so superior over another, as long as the player is used to it and can handle it well. :cool:
Ergonomics.
