Keyboard/Mouse settings whilst gaming

[Standby]

So i was just round a friends house and he fires up Crysis to show me what i've been missing these last 2 years, only to be ripped apart by flying aliens due to him not informing me of his personal set-up which wildly differs from the usual W=Forward/R=reload etc.

Now me personally, i've always stuck with what in my experience has been the 'basic' controls for a PC FPS, W,A,S,D to move, mouse to look around and shoot, however i was just wondering if anyone here sticks with that or has there own custom set-up for when they play?

 

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I stick with default on keyboard, but bind some things (cast, zoom, switch weapons) to my mouse.

 

[iggyus]

Always default. Usually the dev controls are the best so I dont want to mess them up

 

[Nargleblarg]

I always just use WASD and the usual.

 

[CmdrGoob]

I use RFDG now for everything. I find with WSAD your pinky can really only reach shift, tab or the useless capslock comfortably and crtl is basically too uncomfortable for me.

With RFDG you can reach Z, X, A, S, Q and W all with your pinky without ever taking a finger off of the movement keys, which is great for games like Crysis or Mass Effect where you have many hotkeys you want to be able to use while moving.

It's just better.

 

[Nutcase]

I use RFDG now for everything. I find with WSAD your pinky can really only reach shift, tab or the useless capslock comfortably and crtl is basically too uncomfortable for me.

Suggestion: remap your capslock to control. I do that with all my computers.

With RFDG you can reach Z, X, A, S, Q and W all with your pinky without ever taking a finger off of the movement keys, which is great for games like Crysis or Mass Effect where you have many hotkeys you want to be able to use while moving.

Crysis doesn't use more keys than fit around WASD.

Back when I played WoW, every button around WASD or reachable with thumb was mapped not one, but three times: plain, with shift and with ctrl. That can't be done unless shift and control are right under your pinky. It adds up to more practical inputs than with ESDF or RDFG.

Almost all keyboards suffer from key jamming. That's another reason to use WASD; the modifier keys don't jam.

 

[YuheJi]

I started out playing Valve FPSes (before that, I was an RTS junkie). So I typically set Ctrl to crouch, and Z to prone. E or F typically becomes the "use" key. G becomes grenades. Space is jump. Sprint is either Alt or Shift (I prefer Shift).

 

[BolognaBaloney]

F is always jump, other than that, nothing else matters.

 

[JasonKaotic]

for me:
WASD to move, space to jump, mouse to move the camera around obv, click something to activate it, other mouse button to attack stuff, esc to bring up the menu

 

[megalomania]

I play on a z-board so the WASD is always the same for the, the peripheral keys tend to change quite a lot for me depending on what game I am playing, eg Bioshock is wildly different from L4D. I also have 5 mouse buttons which helps!

 

[haruvister]

I know someone who still uses cursor keys when playing an FPS. He looks so dumb all squashed up one end of the keyboard, bless him.

 

[The_ModeRazor]

WASD for movement, F9 for firing gun, numpad 2-4-6-8 for aiming, print screen for grenade.