Vanilla Controls

[TTV.Redalertnoobie]

So i picked up this game for $9 because i found it fun on The Xbox years ago, i start and the first thing i notice is the controls are Horrible, H for heal? that is too far from movment keys to be effective, Q for Sprint?? What!? Even T for Flash light, In what gaming world would this make sense in. I don't want to even get started on the alien controls.

The Control edit is also annoying when you have to set it twice or the key will still be bound to what it was for before.

What does this community think of the controls?

[Thorp]

i've never played a computer game where the default controls were worth keeping. As long as the game lets me keybind I don't care what the default settings are. Sometimes I wonder if the defaults are a dev joke.

[WOLF]

Originally posted by redalertnoobie:

So i picked up this game for $9 because i found it fun on The Xbox years ago, i start and the first thing i notice is the controls are Horrible, H for heal? that is too far from movment keys to be effective, Q for Sprint?? What!? Even T for Flash light, In what gaming world would this make sense in. I don't want to even get started on the alien controls.

The Control edit is also annoying when you have to set it twice or the key will still be bound to what it was for before.

What does this community think of the controls?

you can use xbox controler

[TTV.Redalertnoobie]

I would rather not, use one, i like my Keyboard and mouse much better then my Controller, it was just odd as the vanilla controls were just so counter intuitive to gameplay, in how many games is Q sprint, i rebinded all of my controls which i never normally need to do just to play a game.

My new controls are Q is heal, Z i flare, F is Flashlight, Shift is Sprint, i cannot remember what i rebinded to the other races.

[BROOD-SkorpioN]

I don't understand the criticism. The ability to rebind keys is put into games SPECIFICALLY to allow players to change key configurations to suit their playstyles.

I'd understand the rage if the option was absent (as I've seen in so many modern FPS games, for whatever reason), but you can set the keys to whatever you like. I honestly don't see a problem with that.

As for the use of the keys, I think the Marine was the only configuration I changed back when I played. I usually use the default key configurations in games I play (In AvP Classic I use the arrow keys to move around instead of wasd) so I don't consider myself a good advisor on key setups.

[WOLF]

Key comands is not problem to me, I only change the run key only on the marines play mode ,other is fine to me but generaly if not like change it
Not see any problem with that?!

[TTV.Redalertnoobie]

It wasn't that much of a problem it was more or less that these were very strange controls for a FPS, Parkorish game.

[PCConsoleGamer]

Originally posted by redalertnoobie:

So i picked up this game for $9 because i found it fun on The Xbox years ago, i start and the first thing i notice is the controls are Horrible, H for heal? that is too far from movment keys to be effective, Q for Sprint?? What!? Even T for Flash light, In what gaming world would this make sense in. I don't want to even get started on the alien controls.

The Control edit is also annoying when you have to set it twice or the key will still be bound to what it was for before.

What does this community think of the controls?

You could try and map the keys like they we're mapped in Aliens Vs Predator 2, that was released in 2001. For Instance:


w=walk
s=backwards
a=strafe right
d=strafe left
c=crouch
left mouse button=fire
Alt Fire=right mouse button
Shoulder lamp=g
Reload=r
Hacking device=h
Welding torch=t
Knife=Button 1
Pistol=Button 2
Shotgun=Button 3
Pulse Rifle=Button 4
Grenade Launcher=Button 5
FlameThrower=Button 6
Smart Gun=Button 7
Rocket Launcher=Button 8
Mini Gun=Button 9
Sniper Rifle=Button 0
Last Button=Button x

Hope this helps.