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Frustrating Gaming Phenomena: Sometimes My Cursor Gets Lost in PVP Battles and Otherwise
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Cawlin
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Registered: 2005-2-22 07:58:42
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Frustrating Gaming Phenomena: Sometimes My Cursor Gets Lost in PVP Battles and Otherwise
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AzureTyger posted:
Its actually more important to never remove your hand from the input device than it is to use the KB for everything. Driving with a mouse allows much better character control and situational awareness than driving with a KB. The best practice is to load the left side of the KB with the most used functions and then put a bar on the right side of the screen for extras you can mouse click on, rather than trying to reach to the right with your left hand or moving your hand from a mouse. This is as a right handed person, of course.
I usually won't go further right on the KB than numeric 8 or so, but I'll map all kinds of stuff to 1-8,CTL 1-8 etc as well as the lower left hand alpha keys.
This is almost exactly my setup except for that bar on the right that you use, I use the 9,0,-,= buttons for those minimally used skills and ctrl, alt, shift, modifiers for all other skills. Driving and turning with the mouse is absolutely the way to go in WoW at least. I am left handed, but learned to use the mouse with my right hand, which is probably why I don't do so well with it for precision clicking.
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Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
Posts: 1,258
Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
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I can get a new Mouse. I can use the one I just bought at my office. However, there is much great advice here. I mean why did I buy a high end desk top system if I have to turn crap off
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eodoll
Posts: 1,028
Registered: 2002-2-14 12:35:42
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Ive had that problem before. It wouldbe nice if they offered a key to move your cursor to a predictable spot.
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Mastara
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Registered: 2004-12-29 22:52:21
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That sucks :/ shouldnt happen really
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Scarne
Title: Capo di Scientifico
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Registered: 2001-7-23 15:24:34
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Some games let you change the in-game cursor to something more noticeable. Not sure is SWTOR has that feature (yet). 
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Modeeb
Title: A Ghost In The Machine
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Registered: 2002-4-19 10:48:36
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This type of thread is full of practical gaming wisdom. You dont get this stuff unless you are a gaming student. I believe we have many gaming professors on this board. There should be a new major in college, Gaming.
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I'll probably never be better than an average mmo player in large part because I don't do a lot of key binding stuff. I use mouse/left hand + keyboard/right hand and bind everything I can to the key pad. This works fantastically in rpgs and fps games, but not so much in the more complicated mmos, especially the pvp parts.
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Yukishiro1
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Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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cabbyman posted:
Using the wasd keys to move (forward, strafe left, backward, strafe right) and using the mouse buttons to run, turn camera, and select targets was a game changing realization for me. Your 5 most important spells sit on the numbers 1,2,3,4,5 and are immediately available to you without having to stop running. If you have more mouse buttons you can assign instas to them as well to fire as you're running.
The A and D keys shouldn't turn left and right, they should strafe left and right. Turn with your mouse (hold down right click and turn). Left click and hold pans the camera but doesn't change direction or run. Thumb button on mouse turns auto-run off and on.
This should be in the tutorial for any MMO ever.
Although Q E R T F G is easier than 1 2 3 4 5.
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