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buddha1369
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I have been unable to target teammates by selecting their icon. It makes it increadibly hard to heal/support someone when you cant easily find out where they are.
Edit: If I select an enemy then select their target it works, but not from the team list.
Edit: If I select an enemy then select their target it works, but not from the team list.
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Wish I had one of those awesome gaming mouses with the buttons on the mouse and everything. . .would make team support a little easier.
Anyone remember when try removed heal through target?
Ya know, when you had an enemy selected and you could heal whoever they were shooting without having to select them? That was awesome until they took it away.
Being able to click your teammates icons enhanced team play too much, and this game obviously isn't about that so of course it had to be removed/made more complicated.
Do you even Science Bro?
This will force healers to graduate to use actual keys to target team mates. Foot pedals work great for it
@rudiefix Feds: Rudiefix / Thron / Opa
@rudiefix KDFs: Lill / Xifeidur / Dehr / Ugly
@rudiefix Roms (KDF alligned): Chicita
Competent healing requires far more finesse than simple spam heals on team mate buttons.
At the same time, you want to be able to quickly send out heals without compromising your other ship functions. Playing a healer in STO can be as brain dead or involving as you want to make it. Automation doesn't work as well as it does for offensive roles though.
Nothing beats a TRIBBLE load of buttons set up in an ergonomic fashion, and a few extra buttons here and there add up. A keyboard with extra keys will help, assuming they are easily accessible, as will a mouse with a lot of extra buttons. My personal favorite addition is foot pedals as you get more triggers and, most importantly, the ability to activate more things at the same time. I'm currently using the fragpedal quad, but I'm upgrading to the vastly superior stinky footboard. I have four pedals on preorder and they'll hopefully start sending out shipments early next month. A single stinky footboard has the same number of triggers as two fragpedals, and instead of moving your entire foot between those triggers you simply lean it in the appropriate direction -- shaving precious hundreds of milliseconds off activation time! The is so durable that it will survive being run over by a car!
Right now I use the fragpedals to switch between team mates, but once the stinky footboards come in I'll have sixteen functions bound to my feet:
-Far left footboard balances shields in a specific direction.
-Middle left footboard switches between team mates.
-Middle right footboard activates heals.
-Far right footboard activates self survival skiils.
Basically, the middle two footboards will be for healing, while the outer footboards will be for self survivability. I will never need to stop maneuvering or manipulating the camera while performing complex tasks, not even for a moment. Really looking forward to it!
nice! i ll wait until Tama or DW release the mac compatible version....how stable are these pedals of yours jorf? Does it handle BD style kicking or is it all about "clickin" by shifting weight?
oh yeah click healing is slow, some binding is good practice, although i'd like to click my target's target sometimes.
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
Actually, Its not only random heal spam. Because I have ordered my heals from the left to the right, I can partially steer the heals I want to send. So I have always extend shields as first, then heals which have short cooldown, like doffed science team. The heals like TSS and HE I have on the right side, coming last in order. Sure, it is a compromise, but having multiple key's for team mates specific heals, will make things also complicated. And will actually slow down my reaction time. Especially with science team as one of the first heals, I buy time to build up the other (resist) heals.
@rudiefix Feds: Rudiefix / Thron / Opa
@rudiefix KDFs: Lill / Xifeidur / Dehr / Ugly
@rudiefix Roms (KDF alligned): Chicita
Oh I also have the boffs that allow the resists to stack on other players. And with the new trait for medical vanguard and NHM you give the MV to everyone around you.
I actually own an Iron Cobra Flexi Glide... decent pedal. While it would be technically possible to convert midi notes from my TD-20 into keystrokes I can't see it being as efficient as the stinky
I hate DW pedals. They're probably great for metal, or maybe it's just that my specific physiology doesn't mesh well with them, but it feels like they just sap the finesse out of you. I've used a lot of DW pedals, and hated every last one of them.
One of these days, perhaps fairly soon, I will buy an axis pedal.
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Most good healers are obsessed with things TRIBBLE up their activation times, and some even refuse to run shield distribution on spacebar because they think that screws with their heals activating.
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LOOOOOL axis are fun, played em a couple of times. Can't stand cobras, never got used to them. DW on the other are great, allthough i feel the went a bit over board with updating the pedals during the last couple of years. Give me a 10y old 9000 any day. I prefer heel up, i have the suspicion the Cobras are more for heel down players, independent of music though.
Thats right, can't even agree with you on BD pedals
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
Either way I'm jealous because I can barely keep a headset working now that my kids use the computer too. I know you said it can survive getting run over by a car but did they douse it in juice and drop it into the HVAC ducts?
CommanderDonatra@Capt.Sisko: ahhh is it supposed to do that?
Norvo Tigan@dontdrunkimshoot: hell ya, maybe
I know what you mean about newer DW pedals... it's like they're so hefty and over engineered it starts to get in the way of actual playing, right?
I also suspect you're on the money as far heel up vs. heel down between the pedals. Personally, I started as a heel down player, transitioned to heel up, and ended settling somewhere in the middle -- leaning more towards heel down when I need more finesse and heel up when I need endurance. Typically, I'm a little bit more heel up on the hi-hat and a little more heel down on the bass drum. I'm not into metal in the slightest so I tend not to use the double pedal very much, but I can play ambidextrously with my hands, and somewhat with my feet. I'd have far better ambidexterity with my feet if it weren't for the hassle of switching an entire kit around -- eventually I'll just set up a secondary kit that's mirrored. I imagine that could be a cool way to teach too.
You don't do either. It works like a 4-way D-pad. Technically you can assign diagonals, though I doubt that will be accurate enough to assign to critical functions too. Simply lean your foot in the direction that you want to activate until the trigger 'clicks'. Sensitivity can be customized with replaceable springs.
I'm sure you could kick it if you wanted to though and the stinky wouldn't be any worse for wear. If it can stand up to being ran over by a car I doubt it has much to fear from overeager feet.
Sounds like a job for Kinect!
The stinky is built like a tank, I'm sure it would be fine.
Thank you ricky, i always had the feeling that there was some strange connectino between kids and STO's transwarp gates: One shot insta pops, trucks have no chance against that
As for the mirror kit (not from a lockbox) its a great way to practice, but comes with heavy chronic headaches in my experience. Something to work on for a few weeks in small doses, but I would be careful those headaches might turn nasty if one does it for too long.
I actually think this thing could be great fun. I mean i don't use a proper gaming mouse and play on my laptop most of the time usually at a standing desk. Still i m intrigued by the concept. Let us know how you like your toy when it arrives.
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
Oh, I know exactly what you mean. If you're typically right hand lead and you decide to practice left hand lead (or vice-versa, or with feet) it tends to confuse your muscle memory and TRIBBLE up your playing for awhile. Eventually your brain rewires itself in a way that it isn't tripping over itself anymore, but it can take a long time. The work on independence definitely slowed down some aspects of my progression, but will hopefully pay dividends in the long run of things. It's going to vary from person to person, but is probably best tackled early before the brain gets too hard wired into a specific pattern of playing.
Well, I already love my fragpedals and baring some sort of critical bug or production glitch the stinky footboard looks to eclipse them in every way conceivable. :cool:
Well practicing the weak hand (left for me) playing lead is one thing. Mirroring the drum set and starting to switch fork and knives, brushing your teeth with your left etc is another.
You are spot on, this is most effective when you are pre-puberty (i guess early child hood might be best, but how many early childhood drum students do we get compared to those ultra sound creating tutti pigs across the hall
It feel that it pays off in the long run, especially in the context of the more elaborate percussion set-ups of contemporary compositions. As always YMMV. But for adults a holistic approach to strengthening their weak half is nothing to be triffled with. Too much ambition can literally send you to a neuro specialist. A close friend of mine found out the hard way.
a history of sto pvp: 2010 - 2011
a history of sto pvp: 2012 - 2013
We lefties have a bit of an advantage in that we need to be more ambidextrous than yourrighties out of necessity. No leftie I know leads left hand for everything, and most move the mouse with their right hand. Of course, it's also a disadvantage in that our left hands tend to be weaker than your right hands.
Amazing what some people will go through in order to achieve victory. Force 'em to play with a regular ol' keyboard and mouse and they are out of luck.
Were you one of the kids who had a turbo gamepad for your SNES back in the day?
Nice jorf. Are your footpedals also force sensitive? In that case you reflect your always existing indecisiveness back to them pedals and decide not to heal someone after all :P
Nice footpedal spam.
I might try the no mouse thing out one night and see how it works.
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I hear footpedals are against terms of service, considered yourself warned.
so what about people who use more then monitor? does that make them bad too?
-rolls eyes-
Do you even Science Bro?
As a classically trained tubist, this is the only thing that might help me in sto
http://www.theonion.com/articles/activision-reports-sluggish-sales-for-sousaphone-h,2246/
I would hax it to work on PC, but I hear that it reads pixels and might be against terms of service.