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brewtolomus
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I don't wanna, but it's REALLY making my hands and wrists hurt.
Is this game playable with a gamepad?
Is this game playable with a gamepad?
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I know STO works with my joystick, so i would assume you could configure it to work with a gamepad, although i doubt it'd have enough buttons
Star Trek Online, Now with out the Trek....
Actually, a joystick would be preferable.
Who make decent ones these days? The last time I had one, it was awesome, for the 6 weeks that it actually worked.
"Hah! You are doomed! You're only armed with that pathetic excuse for a musical instrument!!!" *the Savage Beast moments before Lonnehart the Bard used music to soothe him... then beat him to death with his Fat Lute*
I'm using a steelseries merc stealth keyboard, it has a built in gaming pad that groups the controls in a really nice place. An mmo mouse is good if you can remember what all the buttons do, the Nostromo n52 is good, The Razor Orb Weaver looks really good.
Rebinding keys to better locations and creating macro key combos would probably be the best approach, also get some of those gelfoam wrist supports.
Can I borrow your stuff?
Myself, I'm thinking about a flight stick. You have buttons on that, and then you can rebind whatever else you need to it's easier on your hands.
But then, I suck at game pads, so maybe I'm biased against them.
Maybe you already know about this, but I find you can just ditch having individual weapons in the hotbar. Just have abilities there, and use the space bar to fire phasers and control + space to fire torpedoes.
You could also use voice command macros.
It's my left hand mostly, the WASD steering thingy that is really causing the pain...gotta turn hard to port a lot, apparently.
Pretty severe pain along the left pinky finger and down to the wrist. I love this game, but I won't keep playing like this. The carpal tunnel wrist brace helps but it only relieves the symptoms, doesn't do anything to address the cause... gotta get a better keyboard and mouse I reckon.
Arrow keys or flight stick should help.
and? so what? and there fore.. what?
if the keyb position or your less then ergonomic position is a problem, adjust it otherwise playing other mmos will be the same deal.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
I use a Logitech trackman trackball mouse. Yes, I'm one of those weird people who prefers trackballs to traditional mice or touchpads. I use a combination of the mouse and keyboard in space, with most of the mouse commands used to pan the camera.
On ground I have everything bound on the left side of the keyboard so that I can participate in ground combat and do everything with my left hand alone. With the WSAD keys as the center, everything you can do on the ground I have bound nearby so only a few keystrokes without needing to reach (I use Shift and Control liberally with my ground keybinds), and the mouse exists solely for precise targeting (when I need it), and for panning the camera.
It also helps to have macros. For instance my shields automatically redistribute to all facings whenever my weapons go off.
used arrow keys once, and then tried wsad one day, wsad is actually a lot easier to used with a keyb/mouse setup. it also gives greater freedom for most of the keys on the left side as well.
Been around since Dec 2010 on STO and bought LTS in Apr 2013 for STO.
They're already working on it, allegedly. They're trying to hack Stephen Hawking's brain before the final muscle in his body stops functioning (he communicates entirely by a single cheek muscle now), which would result in him going into 'locked-in' syndrome. Fully conscious and aware but unable to communicate in any fashion.
He's the most prolific of the project, but they're working on adapting this to a number of uses (coma patients, etc.).