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Post by Hepnerd on Jan 28, 2014 11:29:45 GMT -6
By macro, I don't mean any form of cheating. This inclused rapid fire, etc. With my deathadder (and recently added blackwidow) I need to find some good macros to play star citizen, BF4, etc. with. www.gamefaqs.com/boards/960869-/60583652 This article is amazing. The spot-shoot is really cool. I am also in love with the flashlight idea. What would you guys reccomend? I have like 6-8 keys to work with. |
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Post by Soulseeker on Jan 28, 2014 12:13:30 GMT -6
Well first thing's first, the macro buttons on the keyboard should just be ignored for any fast paced competitive game such as an FPS, since they are a pain to try and reach and usually require you to take a finger off a key such as sprint, crouch or prone. The only thing I use the macro keys on the blackwidow is as a hotkey to open chrome. I occasionally use them in mech warrior for stuff like alpha striking and toggling chain fire on stuff, but you usually have plenty of time to do stuff like that since it's a slow paced game. When it comes to FPS's, which basically covers all the examples you listed, I would leave the keyboard alone and focus on the mouse. I currently have my mouse (which is a deathadder as well by the way) set up with thumb button 5 (the front one) set to switch to secondary and mouse button 4 (the back one) set to switch to primary. I find the thumb button farther to the front of the mouse is easiest to reach and since secondary weapons are usually for panic situations it makes the most sense to put it there since I don't have to move my fingers away from any other important key. Note that some games may not let you bind the keys straight to the thumb button. You might have to instead bind the thumb button to a key you don't use in games such as [, o or p instead. I then usually bind any other equipment to either scroll wheel click and scroll wheel forward and bind scroll wheel backward to grenade. I was able to set up a macro where I could get a single button to toggle between primary/secondary, but it only worked in PS2 so I basically don't use it anymore.
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Post by Caesar on Jan 28, 2014 19:55:57 GMT -6
Well when you get right down to it you are asking us to tell you what our personal preferences are to bind buttons that we have on our different devices, but that is the wrong question to ask cause each person has different habits formed by their equipment, style, hand shape, finger length, and most of all the games the formed their habits on initially. So with that in mind don't listen to any ones ideas on key bindings and just go with what you have always used. Re map what you use the most the closet to your fingers so that time between button push in minimized and that's all there is to it. Also get your own default, meaning you need to decide what game you play most and what layouts it uses and the lay out your most used to. Then make that your default and try to make the key layout in all of that style of games the same as that so that you don't have to take time to relearn a different layout when you change games. Hope that helps good luck.
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