Please share your controller setup and why you chose it.
Posted: Mon Feb 29, 2016 1:03 pmIn the early days of Descent, I was all keyboard. Left hand was for movement while right hand keypad was aim and shoot. I did this for quite a while and got fairly good at it but felt it was limiting my accuracy and range of motion. I moved to joystick thinking well, it's a flight game...duh. Unfortunately I had to move some keys to left hand like forward and reverse as well as a few others and it became a game of memory and coordination and muscle flexibility which, at my age, is not consistent anymore. So I have trained myself to do this on a mouse now and I find it more precise and intuitive however I still question the efficiency of my left hand. So I would like to ask the forum to share their respective control set-ups and why they chose what they chose.
I currently use a roccat LUA mouse with this Logitech G15 keyboard setup:
Forward = D
Reverse = Spacebar
Bank left = F
Bank right = S
Slide left = A
Slide Right = G
Slide up = W
Slide Down = X or C (the claw)
Mouse is set-up for primary & secondary firing with middle button scrolling weapons/bombs and pressing mid button drops bombs.
The reason I chose the D forward/Spacebar back set-up is for comfort and intuitiveness. If you lay your hands on your keyboard with left mid finger on D and thumb on spacebar you'll see what I mean. For me its kind of a visual sphere. The outside keys A & G controlling the big movements of sliding "away" and the inner S & F controlling the tight banking "inner" movements. Doing this it feels like a rocking back and forth / side to side motion. My problem lies in finding comfortable tri-cording. For me it is ALMOST comfortable but lacks that finger memory lock that you just can't think about...you hand needs to just go there.
Besides actually flying during game I also use keyboard for talking on mumble, flares, 1-0 specific weapon/missle choice, rearview and map so the fingers they can be busy. I am hoping that myself or someone else will gleen a different perspective or find a more efficient controller setup that works without thought. There are just too many finger combinations for tri-chording with this setup and I need another perspective please.
I currently use a roccat LUA mouse with this Logitech G15 keyboard setup:
Forward = D
Reverse = Spacebar
Bank left = F
Bank right = S
Slide left = A
Slide Right = G
Slide up = W
Slide Down = X or C (the claw)
Mouse is set-up for primary & secondary firing with middle button scrolling weapons/bombs and pressing mid button drops bombs.
The reason I chose the D forward/Spacebar back set-up is for comfort and intuitiveness. If you lay your hands on your keyboard with left mid finger on D and thumb on spacebar you'll see what I mean. For me its kind of a visual sphere. The outside keys A & G controlling the big movements of sliding "away" and the inner S & F controlling the tight banking "inner" movements. Doing this it feels like a rocking back and forth / side to side motion. My problem lies in finding comfortable tri-cording. For me it is ALMOST comfortable but lacks that finger memory lock that you just can't think about...you hand needs to just go there.
Besides actually flying during game I also use keyboard for talking on mumble, flares, 1-0 specific weapon/missle choice, rearview and map so the fingers they can be busy. I am hoping that myself or someone else will gleen a different perspective or find a more efficient controller setup that works without thought. There are just too many finger combinations for tri-chording with this setup and I need another perspective please.
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