Strafe

[Admins]

I am wondering if the strafing should be made easier. Right now you need to press the Shift key to strafe, but somehow I am pressing that key 90% of the time. May be it should also strafe when you keep S or D pressed, while rapid continuous fire ?

[Zurkiba]

Steal Era's strafe system. I think Chrisz did a good job in that one.

[Admins]

Originally Posted by Zurkiba

Steal Era's strafe system. I think Chrisz did a good job in that one.

How is that working ?

[Nappa]

You could always log on and find out >_> (I don't play Era so I can't tell you)

[Spark910]

Originally Posted by Stefan

How is that working ?

I think you hold SHIFT while online.

[Moonite]

Originally Posted by Stefan

How is that working ?

if u watch this way ->
and u press 1
he will watch the hole time this was ->

then u press 1 again and the strafe is over

[Admins]

Ah with the key you are enabling/disabling strafe, instead of holding the strafe key pressed ?

[Zurkiba]

Originally Posted by Stefan

Ah with the key you are enabling/disabling strafe, instead of holding the strafe key pressed ?

Yes, when you press a button (like shift) it locks it in strafe mode and you dont turn until you hit strafe again.

[Evil_Trunks]

Originally Posted by Zurkiba

Steal Era's strafe system. I think Chrisz did a good job in that one.

you can hardly call using such a simple idea "stealing"

[Spark910]

Originally Posted by Evil_Trunks

you can hardly call using such a simple idea "stealing"

He means don't do any scripting yourself and just take Eras and voila, one Strafe system ready to strafe! Of course it would need to be edited quite a bit I assume, to fit in with Zone. But yeah, he was suggesting stealing the script - not the idea.

[osrs]

I think your idea is better, Stefan. It would be easier to control, I think so.

[Arkan1k]

You could just use the "0/Ins" on the numpad.
As simple as moving your pinky finger across and holding it down.
I also like Kai's idea of locking onto a particular player. Then by pressing left or right you circle the selected player and by pressing up or down you move further away or closer to the selected player.
That would work very nice.
But then I guess it comes to the fact of firing. You would need to change the shoot to shoot towards the selected player instead of just shooting in the direction you are facing (playerdir).

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by Arkan1k

I also like Kai's idea of locking onto a particular player. Then by pressing left or right you circle the selected player and by pressing up or down you move further away or closer to the selected player

That is not what I meant. I am not necessarily advocating any alteration to how the movement keys work.

[Arkan1k]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

That is not what I meant. I am not necessarily advocating any alteration to how the movement keys work.

Yes I know, but I was. I could sense you saying this as soon as I clicked on submit.

[LordZen]

I like kaimetsu's mouse strafe idea. It at least makes sense to add that as a way to strafe in addition to the other ways considering you can already use the mouse to move and fire (I think).

[Admins]

Originally Posted by LordZen

I like kaimetsu's mouse strafe idea. It at least makes sense to add that as a way to strafe in addition to the other ways considering you can already use the mouse to move and fire (I think).

But is anyone using the mouse movement right now ? Problem is that even if people use the mouse movement while fighting, the left mouse and right mouse key are already used (for movment and firing).

[LordZen]

Well I use the mouse to move because alot of times its alot easier for me to run with it..

[LordZen]

Make left click for walking, and holding right click to strafe. I tried firing with the mouse in-game and it didnt work (I may have done it wrong tho), and plus you can use S/D to fire with your left hand while at the same time using the right hand for moving and strafing.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by LordZen

Make left click for walking, and holding right click to strafe

Ew, no.

WSAD controls movement. Only WSAD. W makes you go up, A makes you go left, etc.

Left mouse button tells the character to shoot toward the mouse pointer. While it is depressed, he will also be facing that direction.
Holding the right mouse button makes the character look toward the mouse pointer, but not fire. Also does other assorted stuff like pressing buttons or selecting players (for homing weapons, etc).

Keys near WSAD (Q, E, Shift, Space, etc) let the player do stuff like selecting weapons, reloading or sprinting (double-pressing the direction key is too clumsy).

[LordZen]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

Ew, no.

WSAD controls movement. Only WSAD. W makes you go up, A makes you go left, etc.

?

You do know that you can use the mouse to walk/run right now, right? I was just saying use the extra button to strafe.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by LordZen

You do know that you can use the mouse to walk/run right now, right?

Yes. And I don't think it's as good a system as it could be. It should be replaced, not developed.

[LordZen]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

Yes. And I don't think it's as good a system as it could be. It should be replaced, not developed.

Oh alright. Well, I prefer using the mouse so I would rather it was not removed.


Heck...Stefan why dont you make control setting options in-game so everybody can be pleased at once?

[Crono]

How about you make Zone3D so we dont have to worry about this ?

I kid, but it would be pretty cool. I like Kai's idea.