01-13-2012, 09:39 PM
Diggles Wrote:Using that kind of setup, you can effectively play most FPS with even 1 hand: turn, forward, shoot all on the mouse.
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What you are describing is fine for FPS gaming. Strafing on keyboard, turning and shooting on mouse, map "grenade" and "activate" wherever is handy and Bob's your uncle. No need for a keypad when you only have to map 3 ability buttons.
Now translate to an MMORPG where you have 30 abilities and you're fucked. How easily can YOU activate all of your abilities? Which ones are useful but you never use because you ran out of room to map them, or else you have to let go of something in order to hit the key you need? You say you put your emergency keys on the right side of your keyboard? So you have to let go of your mouse to use them? Or do you have to reach over with your thumb? omg u r noob! My thumb activates additional buttons on my mouse!
With the G13, I can be moving backwards, strafing left turning right and accessing a minimum of 22 hotkeys worth of abilities without ever having to let go of anything.
Obviously if I thought the keyboard was superior, I'd go back to it. That's how I played EQ. But EQ only had 8 hotkeys. It was WOW and the sudden need for dozens of hotkeys that made me look for another solution.
Really I consider the G13 to be borderline cheating. It probably is cheating if you factor in macros.