Rant: Game interface design
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I'm putting my hand where your listing controls, and I'm not seeing how that's gonna work :P Might just be the difference in keyboards though. I guess I'm one of those SDF blockheads Swiss was talking about, because I like something more like this:

Mouse: mlook
Wheel: whatever game supports
LMB: fire
RMB: walk forward
D: sidestep left
F: sidestep right
SPACE: jump
S: backpedal
A: weapon toggle
C: crouch
1-8: weapon select
Q: reverse weapon toggle

Any macros, game specific functions, etc. would then revolve around the F key: ERTGVWX
If I could macro a grapple hook on G, I usually did.

Ctrl is the absolute last key I ever want to use in a game, especially now that most keyboards have that Windows key right beside it.
Shift is acceptable, but it's just another key. I'd rather have it be something I don't use very often, and rest my pinky on A. I spend enough of my life typing that this is where my left hand *wants* to be :)
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Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-24-2003, 04:26 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Obi2Kenobi - 05-24-2003, 04:35 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Count Duckula - 05-24-2003, 04:37 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Nystul - 05-24-2003, 05:17 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by channel1 - 05-24-2003, 05:42 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Whiggles - 05-24-2003, 06:04 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kevin - 05-24-2003, 06:12 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Xiuhcoatl - 05-24-2003, 08:24 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-24-2003, 11:33 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 12:03 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-25-2003, 12:06 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by WarBlade - 05-25-2003, 12:15 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Isolde - 05-25-2003, 01:56 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kevin - 05-25-2003, 02:26 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 05:08 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 05:11 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by WarBlade - 05-25-2003, 05:51 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by ithil - 05-25-2003, 05:55 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Vandiablo - 05-25-2003, 05:57 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Whiggles - 05-25-2003, 10:18 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by monkeycid - 05-25-2003, 02:27 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-25-2003, 05:33 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kasreyn - 05-25-2003, 06:08 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-25-2003, 06:11 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-25-2003, 06:23 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Copadope - 05-25-2003, 11:38 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by loonygloss - 05-26-2003, 12:02 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-26-2003, 02:54 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Copadope - 05-26-2003, 05:23 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Xiuhcoatl - 05-26-2003, 07:47 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kevin - 05-26-2003, 02:18 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Walkiry - 05-26-2003, 03:57 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-26-2003, 04:37 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by goldfish - 05-26-2003, 04:41 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by SwissMercenary - 05-26-2003, 07:04 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by --Pete - 05-26-2003, 07:36 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Selby - 05-26-2003, 07:38 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Kasreyn - 05-26-2003, 11:38 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Nystul - 05-27-2003, 04:19 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by yangman - 05-27-2003, 05:44 AM
Rant: Game interface design - by Occhidiangela - 05-27-2003, 04:06 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by Archon_Wing - 05-27-2003, 06:55 PM
Rant: Game interface design - by kandrathe - 05-27-2003, 07:42 PM

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