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keybinds do you use them?

rikersdadrikersdad Member Posts: 74 Arc User
edited June 2015 in Controls and User Interface
Since I started playing I used the slow mouse interfacing instead of memorizing the keybinds.

do you use full keybinds, a hybrid of the two or just use the click interface?

what else did you make hidden on your interface?

just looking for ideas to clean up the interface.
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  • litchy74litchy74 Member Posts: 417 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    The easiest is from hillberts guide, just goggle it. The bind basically makes tray 7 of your hot bar a bind, so anything you put in that bar is bound to space, it's limited but very usefull if you are just getting into key binding.
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  • thisslerthissler Member Posts: 2,055 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    rikersdad wrote: »
    Since I started playing I used the slow mouse interfacing instead of memorizing the keybinds.

    do you use full keybinds, a hybrid of the two or just use the click interface?

    what else did you make hidden on your interface?

    just looking for ideas to clean up the interface.

    Here, this is about moving one step beyond key binds to actual macros. Blog Post.

    It isn't automation. At the end of that post there's a link to a tool you can download. That tool will make creating the bind files you need simple.

    It also has built in links to explain itself.

    I didn't bother hiding anything on my interface as I'm comfy with it. But if you had a stellar memory you could absolutely hide all of it, and just put stuff on keys.
  • yreodredyreodred Member Posts: 3,527 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    Some years ago i read this thread and made 4 different keybinds myself.
    For ex. one for Standard attack, another one for secondary attack (mostly without FAW), and 2 for various heals, resistances or special stuff. Not such a big deal imo.

    I don't hide any BOFF power, i like to see some feedback if the according power got actually activated in the powers bar. (using the 3 power bar, i never got why some ppl use the one with BOFF faces)
    So aside from standard stuff like EptW/EptS/AtS/TT/attack patterns which runs 24/7 and other things, i tend to activate heals and special stuff individually according to situation.

    On the other hand i could very much live without the cartoonish FX we got tormented with for years now. :mad:
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  • timelords1701timelords1701 Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    heres a keybind program specifically made for STO http://www.ifes.us/STOKeyBind/ also on that page it has specific "how to use" information that should help anyone who has never used keybinds before for this game..:cool:
  • lindalefflindaleff Member Posts: 3,734 Arc User
    edited June 2015
    The only key change I made was making left Ctrl be the Walk button.
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