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IllegalPaladin on 23 October 2008
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Grey Acumen said:

 

5) honestly, the quality of the video sucked. Furthermore, I think it's retarded to just instantly switch weapons anyway, I'm not using this as an argument against your hotkeys, I'm just saying that I perfer games where changing weapons actually requires some time involved, since, y'know you'd have to put one weapon away and take teh other weapon out in order to use it, rather than having them instantly dematerialize and rematerialize in your hand. Actually my real argument to yoru hotkeys issue is that there are analog controls that allow your fingers to rest on 9 buttons, which would still allow you plenty of hotkeys while getting rid of teh WASD setup.
Also, your turn for reading comprehension: I said that with the PS2 contorller alone,you can reach the dpad just as fast by rolling the thumb as you can shifting your fingers from WASD, provided you've put in as much practice. I dunno where you got teh idea that I was saying hotkeys are far better on the keyboard than what can be done on a controller designed around analog, unless you were running on the 10ms vs 20 ms comment, and even then, I was saying 20ms for TWO button presses on the Dpad in order to give more hotkey options.

 

 

 

Welcome to the FPS world where a majority of games are going to be kind of like this.

I was going to try and say something else, but this is discussion has become very redundant so there's no real point.

What I will say though that with the keyboard, you learn how to move your hand around the keys to do what you need to do. W-S-A-D doesn't have to be middle, ring, and index finger exclusive and you can shift your fingers over if you need to.

Keyboards aren't super complicated here, you just have to get over the first impression of seeing a 'wall' of keys.