Anybody else addicted to Right Mouse Button = Forward?

[Maetryx]

I'm finally trying to break the habit. Too many games map the "target" function or "aim" or some other logical-hard-to-replace function to the right mouse button. So I've typically used ASD for left-back-right but my right mouse button for forward.

I did that in Tribes, GTA, COD, MOH, RTCW, etc. etc. etc. But in San Andreas, the much more logical "target enemy" (I think) is supposed to be there. Since it isn't, I have to do the "shocker" on my keyboard to compensate (holding CAPS-LOCK with my pinkie and pounding the F key with my pointer finger and trying not to relinquish my death grip on my mouse with my other hand.

Anyway, I find more and more that games are mapping all of the keys with a lot of forethought and logic, and when I change that mapping it tends to disrupt the rest of that logic.

[edit:]Aw screw it. I went back to RMB=Forward. I'll never change! Never![/edit]

 

[Alienwho]

Oh my goodness. Right click for forward? How do you survive? Just use W man! It makes so much sense!

Anyway, this is coming from a guy that used to play Unreal Tournament without a mouse. I'm talking full fledge keyboard, and I was REALLY good at it. Especially with the shock rifle, aiming was cake. The rockets however are a different story.

 

[thecrecarc]

right click forward? crazy... and i though inverted aiming was bad...


i always use W

 

[AwesomeJay]

right click to move forward is like putting ketchup on eggs.. just wrong man just wrong

 

[Mutilator]

I've always used right mouse for fwd and thumb button for backwards. A and S are strafe left and right.
I don't see how everyone does the whole awsd crap.

Now if you go back to my very very early QuakeWorld days then I use to use keyboard only so it was the arrow keys for movement, page up & down for look up & down, etc. So using the mouse in any way is better than that. Rocket Arena is what made me change... just couldn't compete with the mousing LPBs anymore.

 

[raystorm]

I used to use the middle scroll wheel on my mouse for forward movement years ago (pressing down the scroll wheel not moving it up and down! ) and used "," and "/" for left and right strafing. Since then I wised up and used the good ol' WASD setup like every normal pc gamer.

 

[Ephemeral]

I've always used RMB for forward.

My keys are probably the most absurd thing anyone's ever heard of.

s - strafe left
x - strafe right
z - backwards
LALT - jump
LCTRL - crouch

 

[MX2]

W...Forward
S...Backward
A, D...Left, Right
C...Crouch

Left Mouse...Primary Fire
Right Mouse...Melee or Secondary Fire (sometimes grenade)
Middle Mouse...Zoom
Lower Thumb Mouse...Quick Save
Upper Thumb Mouse...Flashlight(if applicable), otherwise whatever I can map to it that I need.

 

[cirrhosis]

My GF uses right mouse for Forward. I use W myself and personally can't get the hang of right mouse for movement. A few people from my clan have been using right mouse as well from the days of Red Faction.

 

[Trevelyan]

I knew someone who used right click for moving forward. He's a huge drug addict now. I wouldn't recommend it.

 

[Modeps]

Invert Aiming, WASD.

 

[StevenYoo]

Originally posted by: Trevelyan
I knew someone who used right click for moving forward. He's a huge drug addict now. I wouldn't recommend it.

yeah i knew a guy that used RMB too.

his face got eaten by radioactive bees.

go figure.

 

[Maetryx]

I would wager that folks using the RMB for forward are 30+ years old. As I recall, the original Castle Wolfenstein 3D started the trend. Tribes brought us the WASD (*and* retail online only action games *and* vehicles with other players in them...)

 

[royaldank]

I use the right mouse button for forward. Can't stand using W for moving forward.

 

[Modeps]

I'm 28 and played FPSes since Wolfenstein 3D. Originally we used the arrow keys + alt for strafing. It was tough when you were granted the ability to look up and down, but we did it with pgup and pgdwn in Duke3D. then when Quake hit, we couldnt do it anymore and had to switch to a mouse and keyboard... first mouse + arrows, then finally to mouse + WASD.

 

[Jschmuck2]

WOW! And here I thought I was the only one!

Ever since the original UT I've used RMB for going forward. In fact, I've kind of made up my own control scheme since then, it looks like this:

Forward: RMB
Backward: Thumb Button
Strafe Left: ALT
Strafe Right: Control
Duck: Shift
Jump: Forward Slash
Reload: Period
Prone: Comma
Sprint: Enter

A little...different, I know. But using those controls, you can keep your left hand situated on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard at all times. Try it, maybe you'll like it.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: Modeps
Invert Aiming, WASD.

:thumbsup:

 

[MX2]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
WOW! And here I thought I was the only one!

Ever since the original UT I've used RMB for going forward. In fact, I've kind of made up my own control scheme since then, it looks like this:

Forward: RMB
Backward: Thumb Button
Strafe Left: ALT
Strafe Right: Control
Duck: Shift
Jump: Forward Slash
Reload: Period
Prone: Comma
Sprint: Enter

A little...different, I know. But using those controls, you can keep your left hand situated on the bottom right hand side of the keyboard at all times. Try it, maybe you'll like it.

Holy cow...that feels all discombobulated

Of course, to each his own and I am glad it works for ya

 

[Concillian]

I got started by using:
LMB = Fire
RMB = backward
Middle MB = forward

The invention of the scroll wheel really put a damper on my FPS play. It took quite a while to become used to using ESDF instead of having forwards and backwards on the mouse.

 

[meltdown75]

plain jane for me. i usually adapt to the controls provided by the game if they differ too greatly from Half-Life style.

 

[Ike0069]

Am I the only one that uses the arrow keys for movement? I never did like WASD. Since ther is nothing over the top of the arrow keys (at least on a standard keyboard), it's easier for me to always find the correct keys without having to actually look at the keyboard.
Then I just use Enter, Shift, Ctrl, and Num Pad 0/1 for things like jump, crouch, enter, etc.

 

[slightlyhuman]

i used to play with right click backward, left click forward inverted.

i play wasd now. and yes i was just as good using my old cfg.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc
right click forward? crazy... and i though inverted aiming was bad...


i always use W

 

[beach2nd]

I use the arrow keys since I use my left hand to operate the mouse.

 

[lxskllr]

Wierdos, I thought everybody knew that right mouse was for jump.