My ASD keys are really worn, you can't see the letter on them anymore. However the W is still fine - does that mean I don't move forward a lot?? :/

What are yours like?

Play a lot of demoman?

Mine are the same.

Play a lot of demoman?

Or sniper?

I tend to buy a new keyboard long before that happens

My ASD keys are fine... but I'm a lefty :)

Its probably got more to do with the fact that you generally hold down forwards but tap left/right in higher frequency depending on the game.

where are the asd key?

lefties dont use wasd? arrows are for kids. Learn to use your right hand, its a lot of fun.

Only nubs play WASD.

YGHJ 4 life! The s*** is right in the center of the keys!

Who decided WASD was the standard anyway? Back when I used to play Quake every player had a different system.

It may be how your finger lands on the W key. Your other fingers may rub on the actual letter of the key and wear it off, whilst pushing W you may actually press just below the letter.

because it's easier to get a newb to press 1 to switch to melee weapon than 5. You might get more keys from yghj but wasd has tab caps s*** crt which are all large easily pressed keys.

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It may be how your finger lands on the W key. Your other fingers may rub on the actual letter of the key and wear it off, whilst pushing W you may actually press just below the letter.

Exactly. I just tried out how i use WASD and it's just like that.

Yup I think you're right Tollaz0r, the bottom of the W is a little rubbed, and now looking at how I place my fingers, my W finger doesn't cover the W letter.

But yeah a lot of tf2 characters don't move forward a lot, except when respawing, in which case I often run by twirling around a lot to avoid spies.

Right mouse-button forward = win.

Who walks forward? Should be strafing everywhere, especially strafe jumping.

Arrow keys FTW!

When you play an arcade cabinate the joystick is left and the buttons right. So people who play with the mouse right-handed are wrong.

I have a razer Arctosa, black lettering on black keys.
Can't see s*** ever.

It's funny watching other people try to use it :P

Learn to type properly nube.

cause those arcade cabinets are certainly customisable

YGHJ 4 life!

So how you reach Shift, Ctrl, Alt? or do you have your own retarded setup for that?

i thought this thread was going to be about a special keyboard for kids struggling with autism spectrum disorder

why do you need to reach those keys in game?

So how you reach Shift, Ctrl, Alt? or do you have your own retarded setup for that?

C for crouch, K reload, M use/activate, F for flashlight, U/I for whatever is needed (drop weapon in certain games, last disguise for TF2 etc.).

Right mouse-button forward = win.

Ewwww.

I used to have jump bound to mouse2 for TFC bunnyhopping.

I miss being able to exploit to the point where you could bunnyhop into base past multiple SG's, an entire team, capture the flag and get out in under 3 seconds.

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why do you need to reach those keys in game?

Because they're bigger than your average key, making it easier to press and harder to miss.

Dunno, that's just me.

Heh, so are mine! Funny thing is I don't play a lot of games on this keyboard, and I don't use WASD anyway. My O key is a bit chipped and my L key is almost gone. Interesting.

so no one uses RDFG? i mean you can reach the phat keys and have a bunch of others available without having to change the numbers for GUNS!

also lol

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yghj is the normal alternative to wasd.

Technically yghj gives you a larger number of quickly available keys.

yghj is the normal alternative to wasd.

Technically yghj gives you a larger number of quickly available keys.

Changing preferences now...

Right mouse-button forward = win.

i agree but im sure youll disagree when i use backpedal is left mouse button.

i use left pinky (equivellent to shift) as fire. i have a buff pinky finger.
also use Zboard which is very pretty.

Keys are fine, although the wrist rest at the bottom of the G15 has worn away quite a bit.

esdf or yghj for the win. wasd is for retards

i agree but im sure youll disagree when i use backpedal is left mouse button.

i use left pinky (equivellent to shift) as fire. i have a buff pinky finger.
also use Zboard which is very pretty.

that is quite retarded

I use default, so I don't have to f*** around with controls when I play a game on another computer. I don't know how many keys you people need to play, but I don't get into a cold sweat when I'm faced with WASD.

Yeah I learned to play with defaults because I used to play in lan cafes.

The only thing I change now is I swap jump with alternate fire (space + mouse2). Because I don't use alternate fire enough.

f*** midda you're hardcore.

f*** midda you're hardcore.

Haha, made me lol. Currently I'm with you Midda, I use default. Only key I can remember changing recently was the VOIP key in TF2 to make it like L4D default ('C') because it kept confusing me.

i remember when i went to the very first quake lans at term's timbermart lans & the majority of players used the numeric keypad & were used to taking up 2 people widths with thier keyboard to the left of thier monitor & thier mouse to the right. pretty soon with limited seating & lotsa players everyone was forced to use less space with thier keyboards & started using the wasd combo. i continued to use the numeric keypad & changed hands for the mouse & keyboard :P~ the advantage of ambidexterity :D (even though i was still pretty crap at quake).

It's easier to conform that go about reinventing the wheel. Thank f*** the main keys for DOW2 are the same as COH.

my first keyboard went one better, not only were the buttons worn off, but I'd actually worn the plastic down on the left side where my fingers moved across to tab/shift/cntrl. The keys were originally concave but ended up almost flat. (only wasd)

f*** midda you're hardcore.

Cheers mate. I already knew, but it's nice to hear it every now and then.

Though I haven't been entirely honest with you all. I do change the voice button to one of my side mouse buttons.

i was hardcore number pad for years (q2 taught me the way)

but got tired of trying to map all the keys i needed, so ive learned to conform and just wasd s*** up all over the place;

I use two mice.

Maybe guys with frail little girl bodies can cope with the closeness of YGHJ to the mouse. I, with my man shoulders, need the wide spread of WASD + mouse.

WSAD ftw

r reload, right click = zoom (hold down to keep zoomed, f*** your noob toggle s***).. lets me quick snipe in cod4

mouse 4 = auto run

nuff said

im a lefty but still use wasd
just sorta tilt the keyboard a bit and away i go

maybe thats why i suck so bad at tf2 :(

TFGH here.

then my mouse broke, so i had to go mouse3 +moveup and right alt for fire. ( for quake live, tf2 mouse3 is fire and space is jump)

ps. why the f*** are G5s still so expensive.

girl shoulders. he has a point.

I never get a chance to wear my keys down.. RAGE destroyer of keyboards... its amazing how far a wireless mouse can fly.. but yeah WASD normally default settings from old days of lan cafes.

I don't need letters on my keys to type. Touch typing ftw.

My O key is a bit chipped and my L key is almost gone. Interesting.

Probably from all the LOL'ing you do amirite???

I used A for +mlook, W & E for left and right, Right mouse button for forward and left for the ass-raping. How the hell did that work?