WASD Alternitives?

[dsheinem]

Out of curiosity, why do you dislike WASD? Is it that you have your hand cramped up? Because you don't have to use WASD. You can use a crazier control scheme, like I do.

Right click - forward
S, G - Strafe
D, F - Back
Everything else is arrayed around the SDFG that my fingers rest on.

every time you post your bizzaro schemes I seriously doubt your humanity.

[AmishSamurai]

If you really don't want to use WASD, you can plug a 360 controller into your computer.

[fuctfuct]

Doesn't work with all games though... well you can get it to work kinda. Tried with Mass Effect.. kinda sorta worked.

[MrPopo]

Out of curiosity, why do you dislike WASD? Is it that you have your hand cramped up? Because you don't have to use WASD. You can use a crazier control scheme, like I do.

Right click - forward
S, G - Strafe
D, F - Back
Everything else is arrayed around the SDFG that my fingers rest on.

every time you post your bizzaro schemes I seriously doubt your humanity.

Really? It's my control scheme and not my posts in political threads?

[isiolia]

Out of curiosity, why do you dislike WASD? Is it that you have your hand cramped up? Because you don't have to use WASD. You can use a crazier control scheme, like I do.

Right click - forward
S, G - Strafe
D, F - Back
Everything else is arrayed around the SDFG that my fingers rest on.

Years ago, when I finally realized that keyboard only wasn't cutting it for my fps play (I went to college, played multiplayer, and sucked....horribly) I tried a few iterations of custom controls. Had forward on a mouse button and all.

Eventually I tried WASD and stuck with it. There's a reason people settled on it as the standard, I think. I mean, to each their own, but it's struck me as the default config that gamers settled on and developers incorporated as a result.

Much like an arcade stick over a pad, it might just take some acclimation. It was odd at first to me too...but it didn't take long for my game to improve dramatically, and now I can sit down with default controls on a lot of games with no issue. It's not just FPS games that use WSAD...it's almost anything as it puts a lot of keys under/around your fingers.

[Not_a_sockpuppet]

WASD was not chosen by chance!

1)Your index can move very fast up and down but not from side to side, forcing a pyramid formation to avoid using a pinky.

2) WASD is the 4 key combination further away from the mouse for right handed people. This makes it the most confortable.

3) WASD allows you to dedicate a button to space, shift and control confortably. Those are bigger keys than letters and thus quite fit for jumping and crouching.

4) WASD has a lot of buttons close so you can keep full control on your movement while changing weapons or turning on your flashlight.

I can't really think of something really better than WASD for a FPS.