Fire Button - Mouse or Keyboard?

[Psyche911]

Curious who uses a mouse button and who uses a keyboard button for fire. If keyboard, which button?

[Guest]

Assuming just about everyone uses a mouse to aim...keyboard wouldn't make sense, your response time would be slower.

[kretz]

the real question is who uses mouse2 to jump

[Psyche911]

Assuming just about everyone uses a mouse to aim...keyboard wouldn't make sense, your response time would be slower.

Read the question again, noob.
Fire button.

Show me where my first post says aim.

[Guest]

Try re-reading my post and comprehending it before you post please.

If you use your mouse to aim (as in free look), pressing a button on the keyboard wouldn't make sense because your response time would be slower than if you just presssed a button on the mouse.

Especially if you're a twitch aimer, which a lot of people seem to be now.

, noob.

[Psyche911]

I don't see why it would be slower once you're used to it. And that way your aim doesn't move at all when you hit fire.

I know people do it, just wondering who and how many.

[Guest]

your eyes automatically detect movement, assuming you've been playing an FPS for more than 5 mins, your aim with the mouse also picks up on it simultaneously.
When you see something cross your reticle, you instinctively shoot, just as you aimed when you detected movement.

It's far easier to do both of these commands in one swift movement with one hand. (Especially if you're more of the twitch player).

While using the other hand on the keyboard for movements and bindings.

Now I guess you could make the argument that you could still use the keyboard to fire and the mouse for bindings since a lot of new mice have many buttons that are easily customized...but I'm assuming just about everyone here started playing FPS on a two or three button mouse.

Also, it doesn't seem like pressing the mouse button would really affect your aim, unless you're really pounding on the button or something.

[Grudge]

the real question is who uses mouse2 to jump

exactly, I was very surprised that many people actually do that

[busetibi]

mouse here

[o'dium]

I use keypad enter for fire, mouse1 as forward, esc as jump and G as run. I have always run off too. Its a pain in the ass to do some jumps, but you get the hang of it.

[Oeloe]

I use the reset button for fire. :icon32:

[^misantropia^]

I use the reset button for fire. :icon32:

*tada boom*

mouse1 for +attack and mouse2 for +moveup here, btw.

[sumatra]

mouse1 for +attack and mouse2 for +moveup here, btw.[/quote]

what else....

[Survivor]

mouse1 +attack mouse2 screenshotjpeg

[PARALYZER_]

Mouse1 = fire

[kleeks]

aye got used to mouse one for attack, mouse 2 for move up

I seem to get a better flow to my straffing using the rh mousebuuton for jumping (although tbh I'm pretty sure its almost always been liek this, so thats no surprise). My index finger is always hovering over my LH mousebutton, so that just makes sense for shooting (the Left hand itself is taken up with movement/weapon binds)

edit : LoL as expected, there doesn;t seem to be many that use the keyboard

[jester!]

mouse1 fire, mouse 2 crouch, space for jump.

I would be very surprised if > 2% use keyboard for fire.

[Oeloe]

I guess i could get used to mouse2 for jump if i wanted to (not to space as jump though), but i got used to using my left pinky finger for that. RDFG for movement, Z for jump and shift for crouch works perfectly for me. Plenty of room for weapon binds (RL and GL bound to mwheelup/down). Pummy = mouse3.

[Cynips]

but I'm assuming just about everyone here started playing FPS on a two or three button mouse.

Actually I started as a keyboard gamer on a mac, so I didn't even use the one mouse button there was.

When I started using mouse I kept fire on space as it was in the Marathon series. Only later years did I switch to the regular WASD with fire on the mouse.

[Scourge]

Mouse 1 fire, mouse 2 forward, space jump. I never used a mouse for FPS until Q3.

[Bdw3]

rofl @ 32 votes and zero for keayboard :icon14:

Mouse1 = Fire
Mouse2 = Jump - wuts wrong with that? :E
Mouse3(wheel press) = Screen shot
Mouse4(rear thumb) = Rocket Launcher
Mouse5(forward thumb) = Lighting Gun (in Q4, never seemed to work in Q3 )
ESDF for movement
Shift is walk
Space is Zoom
v is crouch.

[seza]

your eyes automatically detect movement, assuming you've been playing an FPS for more than 5 mins, your aim with the mouse also picks up on it simultaneously.
When you see something cross your reticle, you instinctively shoot, just as you aimed when you detected movement.

It's far easier to do both of these commands in one swift movement with one hand. (Especially if you're more of the twitch player).

While using the other hand on the keyboard for movements and bindings.

Now I guess you could make the argument that you could still use the keyboard to fire and the mouse for bindings since a lot of new mice have many buttons that are easily customized...but I'm assuming just about everyone here started playing FPS on a two or three button mouse.

Also, it doesn't seem like pressing the mouse button would really affect your aim, unless you're really pounding on the button or something.

any scientific data and/or surveys to back up your claims? yeah...thought not

i use:

mouse1=forward
mouse2=backwards
z=strafe left
c=strafe right
x=fire
spacebar=jump
a,s,d,f,g,v,q,w,e,r,etc for everything else.

i've only met one other person that remotely has a setup like this. it's good to be different

[PuPPeT]

mouse1 - fire
mouse2 - jump

[Zimbo]

mouse1 - fire
mouse2 - jump

[Sevensins]

I've always used ctrl (left) as my fire button.