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[Ocean Dweller]

I'm told my keybinds for FPS games are black magic

WASD - movement
left alt - jump
Q - sprint
E - crouch
F- interact
Spacebar - melee

 

[R6Rider]

Entirely depends on the game, but they don't seem that weird to me.

 

[German Shocks]

Spacebar for melee??

 

[Liopleurodon]

As long as you avoid using the left analog stick for movement, and right analog stick to control camera, you will be fine.

 

[kevboard]

mine are

WASD - Move
Shift - Sprint
F - interact
Mouse 4 - Jump
Mouse 5 - Melee
Space - Crouch

 

[KyoZz]

left alt - jump

Mouse 4 - Jump
Space - Crouch

 

[kevboard]

if you use space for crouch you have a very easily reachable key that you can hold with your thumb while having the rest of your hand free to use WASD, maybe Q and E to lean, and Shift of course should you need it.

jump on Mouse 4 because your thumb is always there and free to do stuff.

basically mine are optimised for comfortability and keeping your most important fingers free.
space for couch is the most comfortable bind if you use hold to crouch like I do.

I first came up with that bind while playing Insurgency, back when it was a Source Mod. I could hold Space, and lean and move with the rest of my fingers without any strain.
and in games like Insurgency, where you have a prone key, my Mouse 5 will be Prone not Melee, again due to comfortability

 

[Topher]

WASD - movement

I thought that was what the arrow keys were for

Spoiler

 

[FoxMcChief]

lol

M&K?

Nerd.

 

[falconhoof]

Pretty sure I finished everything up till completing Quake with the keybinds of:

Cursors Up/Down: Forward/backward
Cursors Left/Right: Turn
Space: Interact
Ctrl: Fire
Shift: Run

Later on in Quake I tried out this fancy idea of using the mouse to control the camera and switching left and right cursor from turn to strafe. Felt pretty good.

 

[kevboard]

I thought that was what the arrow keys were for

Spoiler

the way I played Vice City back in the day is that I always swapped to the arrow keys while diving... no Idea why I did that but it just felt natural to do lol.
so WASD on foot, and the moment I went into a car or bike, hand off the mouse, onto the arrow keys...
it just feels wrong steering a car with WASD and with my left hand on a keyboard. like I also play Trackmania with my right hand on the arrow keys.

kinda weird... no idea why but it feels just so much more intuitive.
helicopter in Vice City tho was WASD and NUM Pad, no arrow keys

 

[Topher]

the way I played Vice City back in the day is that I always swapped to the arrow keys while diving... no Idea why I did that but it just felt natural to do lol.
so WASD on foot, and the moment I went into a car or bike, hand off the mouse, onto the arrow keys...
it just feels wrong steering a car with WASD and with my left hand on a keyboard. like I also play Trackmania with my right hand on the arrow keys.

kinda weird... no idea why but it feels just so much more intuitive.
helicopter in Vice City tho was WASD and NUM Pad, no arrow keys

I used arrow keys playing doom for the longest time and then I read an article in PC Gamer magazine about this game named Thresh. He won an Id tournament where the prize was John Carmack's Ferrari. He immediately became a big name in the PC gaming world. Even got his own column in PC gamer. Reading that column is when I discovered WASD. Before that, I didn't even know keys could be remapped. lol

Dennis Fong - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[kevboard]

I used arrow keys playing doom for the longest time and then I read an article in PC Gamer magazine about this game named Thresh. He won an Id tournament where the prize was John Carmack's Ferrari. He immediately became a big name in the PC gaming world. Even got his own column in PC gamer. Reading that column is when I discovered WASD. Before that, I didn't even know keys could be remapped. lol

Dennis Fong - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

the early 3D FPS days were wild.
you'd see people aim with a flight stick n shit in tournaments.

 

[Topher]

the early 3D FPS days were wild.
you'd see people aim with a flight stick n shit in tournaments.

 

[kevboard]

oh yeah, before Thresh popularised WASD + Mouse by winning that tournament, it was the wild west. some aimed on mouse with arrow keys to move, some use the num pad. and some used arrow keys and a flight stick lol.

and I think the flight stick setting used by many gave you direct camera movement instead of the relative movement modern stick aiming does. basically the stick movement was essentially handled like moving a mouse, you had to reset your hand position and stuff to continue turning. in a sense it was an early form of Gyro aim, just that the controller you aim with was connected to a base

 

[Guilty_AI]

WASD - movement
Q - sprint
E - crouch

how do you strafe to left and right when running and crouching respectively?

 

[Laptop1991]

I use the arrow keys, ins, control and right shift, so no, your choice isn't weird just different.

 

[kevboard]

how do you strafe to left and right when running and crouching respectively?

better question is... what if the game has a leaning feature... and Q and E are taken up...

 

[lakitu1982]

the way I played Vice City back in the day is that I always swapped to the arrow keys while diving... no Idea why I did that but it just felt natural to do lol.
so WASD on foot, and the moment I went into a car or bike, hand off the mouse, onto the arrow keys...
it just feels wrong steering a car with WASD and with my left hand on a keyboard. like I also play Trackmania with my right hand on the arrow keys.

kinda weird... no idea why but it feels just so much more intuitive.
helicopter in Vice City tho was WASD and NUM Pad, no arrow keys

I'm exactly the same.

 

[Guilty_AI]

the way I played Vice City back in the day is that I always swapped to the arrow keys while diving... no Idea why I did that but it just felt natural to do lol.
so WASD on foot, and the moment I went into a car or bike, hand off the mouse, onto the arrow keys...
it just feels wrong steering a car with WASD and with my left hand on a keyboard. like I also play Trackmania with my right hand on the arrow keys.

kinda weird... no idea why but it feels just so much more intuitive.
helicopter in Vice City tho was WASD and NUM Pad, no arrow keys

Same, any driving game i also use the arrow keys. I guess right hand is just better at precision pressing

 

[StreetsofBeige]

When I played PC games more in the 90s I always tried to use arrow keys of I could map it. Always hated WASD as it's slanted, while arrow keys are always a perfect T-shape.

And for pure keyboard games, arrow keys to move and left hand buttons or space bar to jump or shoot.

 

[Barakov]

I'm told my keybinds for FPS games are black magic

WASD - movement
left alt - jump
Q - sprint
E - crouch
F- interact
Spacebar - melee

Unusual but not out of the ordinary.

 

[Guilty_AI]

I thought that was what the arrow keys were for

Spoiler

First time i played a fps on pc, i'd use the arrow keys on my left hand and the mouse on my right. The left/right keys also turned like the mouse, no strafing.

 

[falconhoof]

I just went back to see what Raven were recommending in one of their early FPS titles: CyClones

The manual shows just how far from standard things were at the time, with multiple control offerings and a conclusion to go an experiment for yourself.

 

[cinnamonandgravy]

WASD is more efficient but arrow keys on a fullsize keyboard is more comfy (right ctrl jump, num 0 crouch, etc)

when WASD was hot new shit my friend was so excited the "R" key was for reload