SC2Mapster

oh, I don't mean for the right thumb to be able to hit spacebar-shooting. Sorry, i must have been confusing by being too wordy. let me lay it out concisely.

• right thumb is for right arrow for grenade
• left thumb is spacebar for jump.
• shoot key is 5.
• (4 & 6 are switch)
• WASD

First, by all means, do try it out and see how it feels to u. notice how your right hand falls very naturally over the 4,5,6, and right arrow keys. no reaching, no straining.

Benefits:

• left hand isn't doing all the work, while the right hand is just floating idle. In other words, "the load of frequently pressed buttons is distributed" by having shooting on the right hand.
• it feels very symmetrical, since the keys are on the same row on the keyboard.
• No finger has to "double up" and control two keys. 1 key, 1 finger:

pick what u think will match what most ppl will find comfortable. glad i could give some good ideas u consider considerable.

i'll try playing with spacebar as shooting and uparrow as jumping and see how that feels. i'm really used to spacebar as jumping (especially when wasd is movement with the left hand) and separating one hand purely for movement and the other purely for firing control.

one thing i see is that the fire key is pretty much held down most of the time. But so is WASD; it too is being pressed 24/7 as well. if both of these are assigned to one hand, the right hand is very idle, when it can be used to "distribute the load" so to speak.

another reason i like 456 is that it's even with ASD (i.e. they're on the same horizontal level), so it feels really nice and symmetrical with the left hand. (try it =] )

and 456 also lets you use the right thumb independently of the other fingers, whereas having your 3 fingers on the arrow keys means the middle finger is pulled apart to govern two different functions (not that jumping and throwing a grenade at the same time is super frequent, but u get the principle)

oh, and i think u use jump, and switch weapons much more frequently than the grenade. this means your right hand is over the left, up, and right arrow keys. it's much more natural to have your fingers on 3 horizontal keys, it feels much less strained, much more natural, i find.

im basically repeating myself for the most part, just adding inserting a bit of other points. your call. as you may have guessed, the reasoning behind my setup is very much ergonomics driven, more so than matching the traditionally used buttons according to their labels. (right arrow as grenade without using the other arrow keys? unheard of. not using the up arrow key as jump? what nonsense)

great map... u editors never cease to amaze me... xp. so excited ur gonna change the zoom!!! <3 swoons.

@ArcadeRenegade In arcade games.. there wasn't delay like on this.. ik thats not your fault its sc2/editor or w/e but i'm just saying its more of a pain to take them out on here than an arcade game.

is it just me or is it laggier than the version prior to release?

custom keybinds is awesome. maybe a display would be good to add when u have extra time.

agree with changing default keybinds. no reason to play the game with only one hand. i like to have all movement for one hand, and all shooting-related to the other

• wasd for normal wasd
• spacebar for jump
• 5 (numpad) = shooting
• 6 (numpad) = changing weapons forwards
• 4 (numpad) = changing weapons backwards*
• right arrow key = grenade

• there also needs to be a button for cycling weapons backwards, not just in one direction. (every time u get another weapon, the number of times you have to spam the cycle button changes.)

this setup allows you to hold down the fire button (5), and easily cycle weapons forwards(6) or backwards(4) without having to stop shooting, or twist your hand awkwardly. 7 as the grenade button is easily to reach, but it's not right on your hand to that you don't waste one accidentally. it also does not require you stop shooting. the alternative right arrow key as the grenade is pressed with your right thumb. 7 and 4 compete for the index finger, so when you're throwing grenade, u can't cycle backwards. having grenade as thumb allows you to press anything at once no resctrions.

thanks for the hard work!

also, i find the position you are at, as you are moving forward is way close to the enemies that show up. it's always a big surprise, and a reaction game. if the left side is 0 and the right side is 100, the present position of the marine as the screen is scrolling is about 60. can the marine's position be around 40 instead? or at least dead center 50.

more zooming out is another method too.

I find it very difficult to shoot flying objects.. i wish you could shoot where ever your mouse was pointing :(

I found a bug on the train part where I died while was jumping to get of the train part that was getting shot and i ended up under the train