you cant use your mouse to fire weapons?

[Evan Rath]

just got back into x4 and noticed that you cant map fire weapons to the mouse buttons...

i must have been able to do that before or i would have refunded because not being able to map fire to mouse keys is absolutely ridiculous

am i missing something or has egosoft lost their minds?

[Zordiark Darkeater]

You can map to extra keys on the mouse sides or by default the fire button is the Middle button on mouse.

You can't map Fire on left or right click for whatever stupid reason lol

[Evan Rath]

dear god... this is a sin against gaming

[Zordiark Darkeater]

Originally posted by Evan Rath:

dear god... this is a sin against gaming

Yeah i have no freaking idea why they did this it feels horrible...

[Evan Rath]

I was about to buy all the expansion DLCs but since i cant use the mouse to shoot like EVERY OTHER GAME I am not giving this ridiculous company money.

[Evan Rath]

easy fix - i made an AHK script that is just:

LButton::p

you can replace "p" with whatever key you set "fire primary weapon" to in-game

make sure you endtask it in task manager when you are out of the game

egosoft you there? hello? lol

[Donauwelle]

Well. You use LMB for navigating menus. On Worldmap or in Cockpit.
Now with shooting on your LMB im pretty sure your going to shoot everytime you klick LMB.
In any other screen unless paused, dont you?

[Zordiark Darkeater]

Originally posted by Donauwelle:

Well. You use LMB for navigating menus. On Worldmap or in Cockpit.
Now with shooting on your LMB im pretty sure your going to shoot everytime you klick LMB.
In any other screen unless paused, dont you?

Games fixed that like 20+ years ago by dissabling manual shooting while you have a menu open....

Imagen if in any game where you can shoot something anything and you would shoot everytime when you click arround in your backpack to move stuff or clicking on talents/skills/abilities to put points in them or anything similar.

[Evan Rath]

just use arrow keys and enter for menus

[LeftPaw]

It's awkward I know, and something we are not use to but you can fire by pressing both mouse buttons at the same time. I got over the problem by buying a hotas. Never looked back.

[Gibbo]

You can use your mouse buttons to fire. But you will have to keep one pressed down and then press the other. Not great I know and I'm not saying it is lol. It does come in handy when I'm sipping a cup of tea and suddenly get attacked.

I've just got used to using the space bar now.

[Maffin]

Originally posted by Evan Rath:

easy fix - i made an AHK script that is just:

LButton::p

you can replace "p" with whatever key you set "fire primary weapon" to in-game

make sure you endtask it in task manager when you are out of the game

egosoft you there? hello? lol

That's a nice fix!

When I first started, I almost quit because of this. Like you said, it's a sin against gaming.

However, you can map fire weapon to the right mouse button, but you need to change the context menue to double click.

You get used to it pretty fast, because you need the left mouse button often to lock targets.

And speaking of remapping: Change these pinky breaking commands for Travel, Scan and Longrange to 1, 2, 3. It's probably the most used button so why would anyone have them on a ctrl+[x] button?
Same goes for strafing. With fire on the RMB your spacebar is free to map it to strafe upwards, V or C to strafe down. It's okay. Operation Flashpoint had these there as well, if I remember correctly :)

[grouchpotatodjb]

you can fire with rmb, I do, just remap some keys, iirc I swapped spacebar and rmb functions

[Evan Rath]

yep there is a menu option to use rmb then i use logitech to swap rmb and lmb - another way to do it - egosoft could just wrote one line of code so we dont have to do this

[Wraith]

It is that necessary to do all that just to fire with lmb lol

Those side mouse button aren’t that hard to reach with your thumb if you have them

[noviastar]

Here is a fun idea. Grab a 3d connexion space mouse pro. fly your ship like the Pilot of the Rossi in the expanse. leaves the mouse free to gun away.