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Keybind for Lookup and Lookdown

meldrithpwmeldrithpw Member Posts: 360 Arc User
edited February 2014 in Controls and User Interface
A large part of learning any new game is getting a handle on the controls. I'm one of those guys that prefers to use the keyboard, but not the default setup. Luckily I had a bit of an advantage with STO in that I've been playing CO for years, which has a very similar keybind page to that used for ground combat in this game. Unfortunately for me, they are not Identical, meaning that I actually had to use my brain to research and test the correct cmd and syntax to keybind Look Up and Look Down--a particularly frustrating and unpleasant experience. Honestly, when I first started in STO, this frustrated me so much that after the first two hours of trying to figure it out, I would have given up on the game entirely (I strongly considered it,) if I weren't so dern stubborn.

I'd rather not see anyone else go through this hassle so, long story short, to keybind these two, the case sensitive syntax is:

/bind <key1> +lookUp

And

/bind <key2> +lookDown

Before binding any key, double check that it isn't already set to something else that you need, such as help.

I use the numpad for directional control. Because I'm right handed, this gives me slightly better maneuverability in game than the default keyboard setting for the left hand WASD controls. In CO I've always used the options page to set these keybinds, but STO doesn't have these look options listed, so in addition to figuring out the syntax for the comands, also had to figure out how to say the page up button and the page down button (which are the buttons I find easiest to use with a numpad movement configuration.) Again, this is case sensitive. The final strings which eventually worked were:

/bind Pageup +lookUp

And

/bind Pagedown +lookDown

I hope you find this information useful--it certainly ended a great deal of MY frustration.
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