Mouse Accessibility

[AustinReverie]

Can you play this with the mouse only?

[Nyerguds]

You mean, without keyboard?

I guess, technically, you can? But you'll be missing out on a lot of advanced controls, like the force-fire, force-move and guard area cursor modifiers (respectively CTRL, ALT and CTRL+ALT), the ability to add or remove units to/from an existing selection by holding SHIFT, the invaluable ability to stop units with 'S', making named groups with ctrl+numbers, and a lot more.

[DDF3]

Yes , but you will need to use the keyboard once in a while , for making groups.
That is how i play it,

And if you want to use the specific commands like Nyerguds mentioned.
Which i don't use :-)

[AustinReverie]

Apart from using hotkeys to make the game quicker, can all this be done with the mouse only?

[DDF3]

You need to use the keyboard to assign groups. CTRL+ a Number
and if you want to use the group after you have deselected it then you need to Press the number of the group again

EG: I assign Group 1 by selecting them with the mouse then press CTRL +1

then later on if i want to reselect that group i just press 1


Or you can just use the mouse to reselect them, the groups does make it a lot quicker though

[ThunderStruck115]

Technically yes, but there are a lot of keyboard actions that are very useful such as force fire, add select, remove select, and making groups.

if you have a gaming mouse, you should be able to assign some commands to the side mouse buttons.

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by DDF3:

And if you want to use the specific commands like Nyerguds mentioned.
Which i don't use :-)

You never use alt to crush infantry with tanks? :-\

[DDF3]

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

Originally posted by DDF3:

And if you want to use the specific commands like Nyerguds mentioned.
Which i don't use :-)

You never use alt to crush infantry with tanks? :-\

Haha nope i just ignore them . They usually get crushed by my big mass of tanks :-)))

Sometimes i will move the group so it can crush most of them, and i usually have a few anti infantry units with my tanks, like an APC

[DDF3]

Originally posted by sargef101:

I guess is a OK place to ask. There use to be click on one unit then hit the T key and all same would be selected. What happened?

You can select all of the same units you can see by double clicking on them

[Nyerguds]

Originally posted by DDF3:

Originally posted by Nyerguds:

You never use alt to crush infantry with tanks? :-\

Haha nope i just ignore them . They usually get crushed by my big mass of tanks :-)))

Sometimes i will move the group so it can crush most of them, and i usually have a few anti infantry units with my tanks, like an APC

Hmm. In RA, I can see that working, but in TD, you can really screw over a whole lot of tanks with some well-managed infantry.

[Cat]

Originally posted by A.Sidhu:

Apart from using hotkeys to make the game quicker, can all this be done with the mouse only?

Aside from the basics (click to give orders, scrolling map, build stuffs from the sidebar or other UI stuffs), the only thing the mouse can do is select unit of the same type (double-click), scroll map (right-click and drag) deploy unit/set primary building and zoom in and out.

It's still playable, but like others have said you miss a lot off stuffs like unit control groups, map bookmarks, quick repair or sell hotkey (useful in multiplayer), change jukebox music. Even changing to remastered graphics or skipping the intro scene requires a keyboard.