PC FPS gamers: WASD vs Arrows

[bogey1]

WASD for right handers, arrows for left.

[JackWilson]

The straight up best is WASD. Nothing else gives you access to the same range of additional buttons. It's so comfortable, gives access to great buttons like space and control,alt etc, all the numbers on top, lots of letters around you.

[astroglide]

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The straight up best is WASD. Nothing else gives you access to the same range of additional buttons.

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i think ZXC is better than WASD for sub-second weapon switches. with WASD, getting to Z/X aiming, and firing while maintaining fluid motion is much more difficult for me than going up and homing back for keys using ZXC as the root position. i'm talking about absolute twitch timing, like railgun-fire-rocketlauncher. i use my right mouse button for movement as well, so S isn't even my forward. here's my essential quake 3 layout:

Z = strafe left
X = run back
C = strafe right
A = plasma
S = rocket launcher
D = railgun
E = shotgun
W = lightning gun
Q = machine gun
R = grenades
SPACE = jump
MOUSELEFT = fire
MOUSERIGHT = run forward

[TheDoubleA]

I use this. It [censored] owns. I was randomly walking thorugh some computer store and they were there for 40 bucks. Its a plug and play USB, so you can still have your keyboard as well. If I am playing a FPS, Im not typing to anyone anyways, so i guess it wouldnt really matter.

Google Wolfking if you want to check it out.

Edit: I cant spell

[g-bebe]

good grief.

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MOUSERIGHT = run forward

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to me, that sounds horrible. it's one thing to keep your movement hand on WASD consistently pressed down if you want to move while shooting, but if you want to move forward while shooting, hold down both mouse buttons? just sounds really really awkward to me.

[astroglide]

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to me, that sounds horrible. it's one thing to keep your movement hand on WASD consistently pressed down if you want to move while shooting, but if you want to move forward while shooting, hold down both mouse buttons? just sounds really really awkward to me.

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it the opposite of horrible and awkward for me. you can easily test it for yourself in any fps game with custom controls.

[goofyballer]

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but if you want to move forward while shooting, hold down both mouse buttons? just sounds really really awkward to me.

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What, is it hard to use two different fingers to hold down two mouse buttons at once? Is this not standard w/ mice?

Oh, and to add to my previous control weirdness, I also use a trackball.

[goofyballer]

The correct answer is "neither", it's all about right mouse/Z/middle mouse/X.

I started using this like 10 years ago when Quake came out and I was trying to wean myself off how I played Doom, which was keyboard arrows and no mouse. Doing all your movement (except strafing) with the mouse = pwn.

[The once and future king]

ybal ftw.

[Dire]

I like WASD because of spatial distances between the mouse and keyboard. If I want to use the arrow keys, I'd have to scoot my keyboard all the way to the left of my desk to keep my hands a comfortable distance apart.