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realisticalty
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I'm worried about my fingers starting to hurt from pressing 1 1 1 1 1 all the time. Is there any game-supported way to auto-shoot enemies?
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Option A: Use the mouse while in RPG Mode
Option B: Press B and use shooter mode
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After that, right click the powers in your tray to enable autofire. You can set it on your primary and secondary fire if you want, though with many weapons you probably don't want your secondary fire going off on its own every cooldown.
I clearly need to look through all those controls in some depth, there's a lot there.
Yes it's still in the game. Read the previous posts in the thread which tell you exactly where to find the option. I should note, if you're trying to change ground settings while in space, you have to change the 'Region' setting.
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ok that i did not know, thanks.
What is going on here? Is it the borg, you are shooting at a collective, or can it be the fact that the Omega weapon has an area of effect feature, so with a group of targets you keep firing?
Cryptic have always been very generous with customizability. They even have mouse options that few other games have, which enable you to turn your mouse into a sort of mini-game-controller.
There are many possible ways to play both Ground and Space in this game. For example, having played Neverwinter for a while, I recently switched to the similar possibilities in STO, whereas before I'd played STO in standard RMB Drag mode, using Mouse4 and Middle Wheel up/down to fire off some most-used abilities. The really cool thing that Cryptic offer in standard MMO mode, that literally no other MMO can give you, is that you can assign LEFT+RIGHT CLICK to your most-used non-autofiring ability, so that in effect, you can mouse-steer and fire with your left mouse button more or less like an fps, except you're holding down RMB MMO style. But free mouselook on a toggle (I use z) is much easier on the middle finger, once you get over the hump of getting used to toggling mouselook on and off at need. Then of course there's the shooter style, but you can't assign an autofire in shooter style, and I like autofire.
I use the middle click of my mouse to switch weapons. I use the 4th button of my mouse to use some skills, same with the 5th button. But only skills like bufs and something like that. I dont use right button and left mouse buttons to fight, the right mouse button is used to look around (as a lot of people probably will) and the left mouse just to select a target in rare circunstances or to de-select the actual one.
I NEVER use autofire on ground, because in a game like STO, is not recommended. You will want to just shot in some circunstances, and use some skills in others. You will not want to engage your enemy at the same moment you are in range. In some circunstantes, specially agains specific enemies you will wnat to approach and get closer before you use your weapons, and of course you want to control when you shot, if you use autofire you will find that sometimes you shot more than you want. This is bad, for example because if you are in a fight, and a grenade is thworn at you, if you using auto fire its probably that the timing will be wrong and you will not be able to avoid the grenade using double tap (in my case). I mean, autofire is not really something that people uses (i think), at least they should not. Its similar to using shooter mode, it is useless and it has more bad things that good ones, but its not designed for this game. Using auto fire its almost similar, its really not fited to this game.
Mouselook is activated, you move with wasd, but you also steer with the mouse. Left mouse button is standard shoot, right mouse is your special attack, middle mouse is riffle butt.
I really like it how the ground combat handles now. A wonderful upgrade. Normally I had autofire on on my first attack, but as another poster above mentioned, this is not always an advantage. So I turned it off. With mouse shooting, I do not miss the auto fire.
Using the mouse to shot is one of the worst things you will do in STO... and use mouse to steer.. bad idea (actually, is there people that uses the steer?). And i dont think too much people uses mouse to shot.. (i guess). How do yo move the camera if you use the mouse buttons to shot? or you dont move the camera at all? :eek:
Neverwinter has nothing to do with STO, and if you using that configuration you posted, its one of the worst ive ever seen in my life for playing STO lol. Seriously.
And i thought nobody used wasd to move anymore lol... i guess yo come from a video console??
Of course, everybody get used to the combination they want...
For interaction with npc's and bank, exchange, I turn mouselook off, so I can click things.
There is no need to say what is good or bad. It all comes down how one likes to play and there is a lot of room for customization. To set things up as one likes.
But there's a "middle way" between the Neverwinter mode that's available in STO, and the standard point-and-click MMO mode. You can set mouselook toggle to a key (I use N) and then you still have the advantage of autofire (which you can't use in Neverwinter mode), and you also have Tab targeting and you also have free right hand mouselook (so less RSI
All you have to get used to is using N to switch between movement and selecting things (more or less like Neverwinter too, so I'm pretty used to it, but it can be a bit confusing till you get used to it - it's the reverse of what's normal in MMOs where you steer with your middle finger pressed on RMB and release it to select things).