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valdarious
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I saw a post that was similar to this but I did not want to necro a thread that is around 8 months old.
I am mostly curious if anyone else uses a more extreme control scheme like myself.
I come from a long trail of FPS games. I was heavily into Quake back in 96 and for around 4 years following. I have moved to and from many others through the years.
I like things within my fingers grasp and I take the action approach moreso than others it seems. It donned on me when I played games like EQ and WoW back in the day and talked about control schemes with some friends at work. I am not a clicking person in MMO's. The only thing I use my mouse for is specifically to click on objects if they can not be Tab targeted and to control the camera movements. As such I have to go in and re-bind a couple keys for any new character I create.
This is my run down.
WASD is default for all my movements per normal.
Q is powerslot 1 (ring finger reachable)
E is powerslot 2 (pointing finger)
3 is powerslot 3 (middle finger)
R is powerslot 4 (pointing finger)
F is powerslot 5 (pointing finger)
X is powerslot 6 (middle finger)
C is powerslot 7 (pointing finger)
I rebind autorun to Z (ring finger)
Target nearest or "talk to" button to Mouse5 from the default Z key.
1st Travel power is Mouse4. (thumb) This makes it easy to teleport away from things very quickly.
This control setup gives me access to all my powers with just the touch of my fingers around the WASD instead of clicking them with the mouse or moving my hand off of the WASD setup.
If I need to use the special slots I use the default Ctrl #'s
I was thinking of changing my targeting to something similar to something I saw on a youtube video where his target was picked where ever his reticule was pointing too but I decided against it as there are times I am specifically targeting something and moving the camera around or turning my character around while fighting and it would just confuse things.
So does anyone else like more advanced setups like this?
I am mostly curious if anyone else uses a more extreme control scheme like myself.
I come from a long trail of FPS games. I was heavily into Quake back in 96 and for around 4 years following. I have moved to and from many others through the years.
I like things within my fingers grasp and I take the action approach moreso than others it seems. It donned on me when I played games like EQ and WoW back in the day and talked about control schemes with some friends at work. I am not a clicking person in MMO's. The only thing I use my mouse for is specifically to click on objects if they can not be Tab targeted and to control the camera movements. As such I have to go in and re-bind a couple keys for any new character I create.
This is my run down.
WASD is default for all my movements per normal.
Q is powerslot 1 (ring finger reachable)
E is powerslot 2 (pointing finger)
3 is powerslot 3 (middle finger)
R is powerslot 4 (pointing finger)
F is powerslot 5 (pointing finger)
X is powerslot 6 (middle finger)
C is powerslot 7 (pointing finger)
I rebind autorun to Z (ring finger)
Target nearest or "talk to" button to Mouse5 from the default Z key.
1st Travel power is Mouse4. (thumb) This makes it easy to teleport away from things very quickly.
This control setup gives me access to all my powers with just the touch of my fingers around the WASD instead of clicking them with the mouse or moving my hand off of the WASD setup.
If I need to use the special slots I use the default Ctrl #'s
I was thinking of changing my targeting to something similar to something I saw on a youtube video where his target was picked where ever his reticule was pointing too but I decided against it as there are times I am specifically targeting something and moving the camera around or turning my character around while fighting and it would just confuse things.
So does anyone else like more advanced setups like this?
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Veteran from 2009 recently returned to the fray.
Veteran from 2009 recently returned to the fray.
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I also use "Mouse Scroll Up' for my lunge forward and 'Mouse Scroll Down' for my lunge away! It is super easy and convenient as I barely have to move my finger to get in and out of combat (great in PVP situations) plus it is super addicting as I am literally rolling my mouse wheel where I want to go ^_^. I also use the middle mouse button for an active offense.
That is about it for my combat binds!