My very first 1st person shooter was Wolfenstein 3·D. The original one with what would be viewed today as truly crappy digitized graphics. At the time it was cutting edge.

It was the early 1990's. Go figure.

The point is, the controls the game had as defaults have pretty much shaped my control setting for every 1st person shooter since. I reconfigure them to that same basic setup, with a slight variation given that Wolfenstein originally didn't have a concept of up & down.

When playing Unreal Tournament, I barely use the mouse unless I'm sniping, all of my controls are in the keyboard:

Ctrl = fire
Spacebar = alt fire
Alt = Walk
A = Jump
Z = Crouch
Page Up = Look up
Page Down = Look down
Home = Center view
Q = Throw weapon
W = Throw relic

I use the same controls in every Unreal game. Had to litterlly cut & paste them into Unreal 2 as some of those moves didn't exist in the game initially.

Question:
Do you use the controls for ut99 that the game has set for defaults or do you customize them a certain way that's easier for you?

I've tried using the mouse for more but it majorly screws me up. I play much worse, I'm more of a close quarters fighter anyway...

Most of the time I use Keller's setup, except I have 6 weapons on my mouse.

scroll up-sniper/shock
middle mouse -lasergun/rockets
scroll down- flak/machine gun

I will have to give Ray's keyboard idea a try.

I use arrows to move, ctrl to jump, mouse to look around, aim, fire and switch weapons. Yeah, I have to have a mouse. I have never played UT on a console either.

StivBators wrote on Jan 21^st, 2012 at 1:44am:


if you made the keypad's 1,2,3, and 5 your "arrow" buttons, think of all the other buttons you would have within reach for other stuff!

Aliases[25]=(Command="adminlogin allianteam|pause|set input Pause unpauseserver",Alias=pauseserver)
Aliases[26]=(Command="pause|adminlogout|set input Pause pauseserver",Alias=unpauseserver)
Aliases[27]=(Command="getweapon ImpactHammer|Button bFire|Fire|OnRelease Jump",Alias=Hjump)

LeftMouse=Fire
RightMouse=AltFire
MiddleMouse=getweapon Grappling|GetWeapon BotPack.Translocator|HOOKOFFHANDFIRE
Shift=walking
Ctrl=JumpRel|DoubleJump|Jump
Equals=Mutate EavyAssaultPlus|Say I swich team
Comma=Nextteam|Say I swich team
Minus=ShrinkHUD
Period=ThrowWeapon
Slash=NextWeapon
Backslash=ChangeHud
f=FeignDeath | teamsay {-FLAG PASS-}
i=mutate bdbmapvote votemenu
NumPad0=duck
NumPad1=teamsay LOWER - LEFT
NumPad2=teamsay \/ LOW \/
NumPad3=teamsay LOWER - RIGHT
NumPad4=teamsay << LEFT <<
NumPad5=teamsay --MIDDLE--
NumPad6=teamsay >> RIGHT >>
NumPad7=teamsay HIGHER - LEFT
NumPad8=teamsay /\ HIGH /\
NumPad9=teamsay HIGHER - RIGHT
MouseWheelDown=PrevWeapon
MouseWheelUp=SwitchToBestWeapon
UnknownDF=ShowEmoticonMenu
Unknown5D=DoubleJump|JumpRel|Hjump

medor wrote on Jan 21^st, 2012 at 9:04pm:

There should be a "modify" button to the top right of the post.

medor wrote on Jan 21^st, 2012 at 9:00pm:

What do these do?

Helen wrote on Jan 21^st, 2012 at 6:18am:

Think I will slide everything over to WASD area, feels a little cramped for me at 1,2,3,5.

I'm too stupid to memorize and try to use more than about 8 buttons in a game. New games with all of their options make my head spin.

5 - 6 butons in left hand and a mouse with 2 buttons in right hand feels perfect.

Did my edit button disappear? Was it ever here?