what is the hand thing and what will it become?

[DG]

in the keybinding screen i can see "Fire / Use Main hand" "Aim / Use Off Hand" but i don't really understand how it works besides fire and aim.
i checked this out before actual play, so i was wondering if i can hold the off hand button and then move the mouse to do stuff like hand gesture, pick up things or open a door bit by bit... you know, like some browsers you can hold the right-click and draw a specific line kinda trick, sh!t, even tap a teammate's shoulder and then breach, bang, dead. awesome. then in the actual gameplay it does nothing rather than aim, and the open door thing was actually using mouse wheel by default which also binded to switch stance, making it awkward seeing myself high - low ready like crazy during breach... the use of attachments was mid mouse button by default, seems no room for off hand. the main hand also does nothing but fire a weapon or ready a grenade and i'm wondering what else could it be.
so i have noticed dev haven't done with it yet, but at this point i'm super curious about what will it be like in the future.

[[ACPL] Jon]

I belive it refers to the way you throw a grenade.

[JohnJ]

There will be features that allow you to use the hand that doesn't have a weapon in it to do other things, while still holding that weapon. We are also experimenting with the ability to switch hands for your weapon. So you can chose to have it as a right or left shoulder engage position.

[[ACPL] Jon]

Originally posted by JohnJ:

So you can chose to have it as a right or left shoulder engage position.

Marvellous. My lefty buddies will rejoice.

As for the other feature it sounds good, but shouldn't it be a different bind? Like, separate from aim\fire, unless You mean gadget switching and so on (unless you're planning another interaction menu?) - I assumed you meant stuff like grabbing things (intel) and so on.

[JohnJ]

Yeah, I meant for things like grabbing intel, opening doors or hand sugnals.

[hotmatrixx]

that's cool.
you should be able to set in your profile whether lefty or righty, and be able to swap via a key in-game, but that swap comes with a 'penalty' to you aim/spread if shooting with your off hand?

I've actually practiced extensively with my offhand in writing, shooting (bullets) and shooting (billiards). I'm quite deft in both. IRL.

you should see what happens when I get serious and swap to my right. people realise they just got trolled and are about to git rixt.

anyway. add that to *suggestions.

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by hotmatrixx:

that's cool.
you should be able to set in your profile whether lefty or righty, and be able to swap via a key in-game, but that swap comes with a 'penalty' to you aim/spread if shooting with your off hand?

I've actually practiced extensively with my offhand in writing, shooting (bullets) and shooting (billiards). I'm quite deft in both. IRL.

you should see what happens when I get serious and swap to my right. people realise they just got trolled and are about to git rixt.

anyway. add that to *suggestions.

In my line of work I may have to write something with my left hand as well as my right as well as upside down and backwards. It can be a bit of a challenge sometimes.