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what movement controls do you use?
sir dooble:
I use WASD.
What I do wonder though is what people use for their building controls.
When I first got Blockland I had it on a desktop PC and would use the NumPad for brick controls.
But I then got my own Laptop which didn't have a NumPad so I had to use the Laptop controls;
("IJKL" for directional movement, "UO" for rotation, "P;" for shifting up and down, ",." for shifting up and down by a single plate, "[" for activating light).
However, since going back to a desktop computer and having a keyboard with a NumPad, for the life of me, I just can not use the NumPad for brick use. It feels too alien and uncomfortable to have my right hand that far away. I barely use the numpad ever in and out of Blockland. I still have to use the Laptop controls for brick movement. Anyone else like this?
--- Quote from: lolz?? on November 30, 2012, 09:21:48 PM ---I use to use arrow keys when I was like 7, then I realized how much easier WASD was.
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I use to use the arrow keys for a short time when I first got Blockland, but it was tooa awkward.
At the time my left hand would knock into my right when I was building (as I was using the NumPad at the time), and I wasn't very confident with my left hand on the arrow keys, as usually it's my right hand there.
Which meant I was very slow at moving with the arrow keys if I used my left hand.
And if I used my right hand then I couldn't control my mouse (because I've got no control at all with that when using leftie), so I would have to aim my character and then walk.
Needless to say I would take forever to build stuff stuff and I was useless in things like Deathmatches.
otto-san:
i used a controller once using xpadder just to see what it'd be like in a dm
lesson learned: keyboard+mouse >>>>>>>>>> controller
shyGriff:
--- Quote from: Tokthree on November 30, 2012, 09:26:53 PM ---WASD is just the way it was always meant to be, Shy, you're gonna have to get used to it
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but i have always used arrow keys though
i've tried over and over again to start using wasd and i couldn't do anything because i kept still pressing the arrow keys or having to look down at the keyboard
also i usually have my ring finger on left, middle on up, pointer on right, and i just move my middle finger if i need to move down
if i need to crouch i move my ring finger to shift, middle going diagonally across left and up, and pointer on right
and then i have my right hand on the mouse
EDIT: i've only used a laptop for a short time and i couldn't play blockland on it because firstly it was my dad's laptop and secondly it was linux or something and i didn't understand
Uub:
I replaced jet with plant brick, using the numpad thing was tedious for me
But i have disable jump+jet and set jet to the right mouse button to use some weapons and tools
shyGriff:
oh and also i have plant brick set to control
when i first played BL i didn't know how to build, and eventually i ended up changing the plant brick key to control and then i didn't change it and ended up always using it