Poll: Poll: WASD or arrow keys? Invert mouse?

[Liampope]

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UPDATE...

Realising what a freak I obviously was using arrows + inverted mouse, I figured I must be missing a trick. I have now fully converted to WASD . Wow - so much more comfortable. All those extra keys to play with (especially with my X6 with the numpad moved to the left), Q and E, space bar for the thumb - awesome. And aaah - that's why weapon choice is always the numbers! What was I thinking - I dunno!

Aint no way I'm ever un-inverting my mouse though. That's just wrong.



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Hi there,

Just out of curiosity, and for a bit of fun and discussion, I wondered how other people control their games. Mainly FPS games I suppose I'm talking about. It's meant to be lighthearted, so any mocking is purely tongue-in-cheek.

Anyway, myself I switched to mouse from full keyboard at Doom. Was totally wierd at first but soon got used to it and never looked back - mouse control was great even though Doom had no up/down looking. Enjoyed whooping my keyboard-aiming mates with ease - some of them stubbornly stuck with keys even into full 3D games with up/down looking! Obviously I chose arrow keys - I'm sure it must have been default on doom? And even more obviously I chose invert mouse - stands to reason, right? I mean if you play a flight sim (x-wing/tie fighter at that time personally) with a joystick (or fly a real plane for that matter) you pull towards you to go up. So it's only natural to mirror this in your FPS and choose invert mouse, right? I'm sure everyone made the same choices. I can't remember but back then was that normal/default for the mouse?

The thing is I've had friends over recently (mostly younger than me, often asian friends of my malaysian wife) who look at me like I'm some kind of alien, and a particularly retarded alien at that, for not using WASD and 'normal' mouse. Either that or a look of such shock and contempt that youd think I'd just pi**ed on them .

So I thought a poll/discussion would be interesting to see what others use. Or rather confirm that I'm not wierd at all, and 99.9% of people use arrows and invert mouse just like me because that's the right and proper way . These WASD-up-side-down-mouse friends must be the wierd ones, right? Or maybe it's a youth thing, or an asian thing, still very niche and cult of course?

Even more disturbingly, I've heard of some people actually using mouse buttons to move backwards and forwards That's just crazy, yeah? Rumours, doesn't really happen...

So over to you

 

[Liampope]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! I'm not normal

Must say I'm pretty surprised - not so much about WASD, but all these people with their mice up-side-down! How is it even possible?? And the people who partially realise the error of their ways and switch between the two for FPS or flight - wow! I have to admit it hasn't passed me by all these years that the option I choose is called 'inverted' and is never default, but I just figured it's like a lot of things that are setup incorrectly 'out of the box' . My experience of 'normal' mouse is exactly as jamesblade. In fact after jumping on L4D recently after a 'friend' had been playing, I just thought my mouse wasn't working properly and started getting frustrated with that and the damn game. Took me a while to twig it was just non-inverted. Horrible experience never to be repeated I hope.

There's one reason and one reason only I might actually give WASD a try - and that's having my currently unused thumb on the nice big spacebar. That I, concede, could be fairly useful. And aaaaaaaaah - so that's why weapon choice is always on the numbers - now I see . But it's just so crowded there and that diagonal offset of the W - uuurghhh. Still i really might try WASD.

In fact I think an empathy day would be a valuable thing for us all. Experience what your fellow gamers are going through. We could have a whole CS server where everybody agrees to use the mouse opposite to what they're used to, and different keys. Would be like a sort of special needs CS server

 

[Liampope]

I prefer the good old BBC micro combination of up/down on the right hand and left/right on the left hand.

Lol - almost included that as a poll option . Had to switch to that every time a C64 joystick broke, which was about every week if I recall, or after about 5 minutes of Daley Thompson's Decathalon. . Still use ZXMKL on emulators.

 

[Liampope]

Unbelievable - so there are more self-confessed freaks than people who do it like me - the right way. Sigh. Cue lamenting about the state of society, world not what it used to be etc etc...

 

[Liampope]

S,D,F (E is usually duck/down/prone etc)and forwards on mouse2.
Been like that for 10yr+ now since quake1.
Irrc it was duke3d defualts and i just stuck with it

That's the sickest thing I've ever read. Please present yourself to your nearest mental health institution. A printout of your post will ensure admittance. If they were the default Duke3D controls, it must have been some sort of in joke.

 

[Liampope]

MODS - can you fix the results so I'm not in the minority wierdo group, please?

 

[Liampope]

OP updated