Playing without a Mouse and SuperJump Keybinds

02-03-2005 12:21 PM

A Mime's Guide to Playing without a Mouse and Super Jump Keybinds
By Sorrow the Mime (protector)

Why would you want to play without a mouse?
Better, more precise control. Twitch reflex gaming instead of moving the mousecursor all the way to an icon. Easier use of inspirations. Faster chat timing, you've already got your hands on the keyboard. There are plenty of reasons.

Downfalls: Your sacrificing M for map and all those other I bring up window keys. If your adept at keybinds you can easily bind those to shift+keys later on but I won't bother with that.

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The Binds
First off, note, you don't have to manually configure any of these. I have a link to a zip file at the bottom of this that will when unzipped to c:/coh/ will need you only to type /bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt and walla its configured.

Second, we're gonna replace your standard movement keys. Theyre all gonna shift 1 down, since you don't need X for down since we're using superjump not fly. If you have superjump and fly... well... I hope your good at keybinds

Explanation of what everything will do: Warning, this is complex, its much better if you just get use to doing this.

Q is simple. Its a toggle enemy, just like tab. I just don't like having to reach all the way across.

W is complex. It's what I call "Quick travel mode." Hold it down, and superjump cuts on, you start running, you start jumping. Press space with W held down and you stop jumping, like if you want to run across a rooftop. Let go of space and you start jumping again. Anytime your just running, Sprint is on. Let go of W, and it all cuts off, and Combat Jumping cuts on.

E is target enemy nearest. A simple command that has been unbinded for unknown reasons, and is good to have around.

R is "I wanna get to my target, NOW!" Follow mode is activated, sprint is cut on, let go to stop following and sprinting. One downfall of this is unfortunately, I can't get jump to work while R is held down. Something to do with /follow I believe. Maybe a bind expert will help me out.

T is reset. Sometimes, you just need to clear all bind states. It also cuts on combat jumping, and off superjump and sprint.

Shift+W is "Long Travel Mode." It's similar to just W but you don't have to hold anything down. This is useful for typing. You start running and jumping, press down spacebar to stop jumping, press it again to start jumping, press forward or back or shift+w again to exit out of this mode. Very useful for when you want to jump, and chat at the same time.

Shift+S cuts on superjump or combat jumping. Sometimes we just need that finer bit of control hand control gives us.

A+D are Turn left and right, respectively
S+X are forward and backward.
Z+C is strafe left and right.

And thats it for movement and binds, hopefully something useful. Near the bottom of the page is the contents of the keybinds, so you can edit or check them on your own.

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To play without a keyboard.
Load the bind file, directions at bottom. Then go into options, controls, and change...

power executes slots 1=10 into h-; (on the keyboard, its a straight line) and n-/

inspirations slots 1-5 into y-p.

Alt_powertray slots 1-10 to shift+h-shift+; and shift+n-shift+/

Now you've got keyboardless playing!
Simply let the first three fingers of your left hand rest on a-d, using the binds that are just above when neccesary, and the four fingers of your right hand rest on h-L, activating powers slot one- 4 with just a press of a button corresponding to the tray or reach one over with your pinkey to ; to hit power five, and shift one row down to get powers 6-10. Press shift and the corresponding button, and you get alt-tray powers! I recomend pressing the right alt button once to stickey up the alt power tray for quick reference. This keyboard setup does have a slight learning curve, but is fun, faster, and keeps you busy. It's also imho more intuitive once you get use to it.

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The bind contents...
main.txt
[ QUOTE ]
s "+forward"
x "+backward"
a "+turnleft"
d "+turnright"
z "+left"
c "+right"
q "target_enemy_near"
e "toggle_enemy"
r "+down$$-down$$follow$$powexec_toggleoff Super Jump$$powexec_toggleon Sprint$$bind_load_file c:/coh/4.txt"
lshift+w "++up$$++autorun$$powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$powexec_toggleon Super Jump$$bind_load_file c:/coh/5.txt"
lshift+s "powexec_name Combat Jumping$$powexec_name Super Jump"
space "+up"
lshift+t "bind_load_file c:/coh/reset.txt"
t "powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$-up$$-forward$$-autorun$$powexec_toggleon Combat Jumping$$bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"
w "powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$powexec_toggleon Super Jump$$+forward$$+up$$bind_load_file c:/coh/2.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]

2.txt
[ QUOTE ]
w "+down$$-forward$$-up$$powexec_name Combat Jumping$$bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"
space "+down$$-up$$powexec_toggleon Sprint$$powexec_toggleoff Super Jump$$bind_load_file c:/coh/3.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]
3.txt
[ QUOTE ]
space "-down$$++up$$powexec_name Sprint$$powexec_name Super Jump$$bind_load_file c:/coh/2.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]
4.txt
[ QUOTE ]
r "-down$$powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$follow$$bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]
5.txt
[ QUOTE ]
space "-up$$powexec_name Sprint$$powexec_name Super Jump$$bind_load_file c:/coh/6.txt"
lshift+w"-up$$-forward$$powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$powexec_name Combat Jumping$$bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"
s "-up$$-forward$$+forward$$powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$powexec_name Combat Jumping$$bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"
x "-up$$-forward$$+backward$$powexec_toggleoff Sprint$$powexec_name Combat Jumping$$bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]
6.txt
[ QUOTE ]
space "++up$$powexec_name Sprint$$powexec_name Super Jump$$bind_load_file c:/coh/5.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]

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How to download and load the movement binds (the powerexecutes and inspiration slots I'm making you do by going to options, controls, and manually entering them. It takes less than a minute. Plus, people may just want the movement binds and use the mouse, since the movement binds only take the leftmost side of the keyboard)

click this the binds

Save to c:/coh/binds.zip

Extract to c:/coh/

go in game

press enter and type "/bind_load_file c:/coh/main.txt"
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Inspiration and How I learned to do this.
A guide to /bind 1.1 on the guide forum. (horridly outdated)
Teleport Bind for Laggers on the guide forum.
Speed on Demand Binds (various)
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If you found any of this useful, and/or use my binds and have a character on protector with too much influence/feel generous, please send a little my way to Sorrow the Mime
I'm SOOO POOOR And part of the reason Im sending this out to the community is for the recognition (gimme some stars!) and hopefully influence.
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Any concerns, corrections, bugs, or any comments at all, are more than welcome. Just be nice, constructive criticism please

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Grotus · 02-03-2005 12:35 PM

[ QUOTE ]
R is "I wanna get to my target, NOW!" Follow mode is activated, sprint is cut on, let go to stop following and sprinting. One downfall of this is unfortunately, I can't get jump to work while R is held down. Something to do with /follow I believe. Maybe a bind expert will help me out.

main.txt
[ QUOTE ]

r "+down$$follow$$powexec_toggleoff Super Jump$$powexec_toggleon Sprint$$bind_load_file c:/coh/4.txt"

[/ QUOTE ]

[/ QUOTE ]

The reason you can't jump with r held down is because of the +down at the beginning of that bind. Replace it with +down$$-down, and you might be able to jump again.

DKellis · 02-03-2005 12:43 PM

[ QUOTE ]
To play without a keyboard.

[/ QUOTE ]

Say what?

Current main:
Schrodinger's Gun, Dual Pistols/Mental Blaster, Virtue

Avatar: Becky Miyamoto from Pani Poni Dash. Roulette roulette~

02-03-2005 04:06 PM

HAHA Damien. Fixed that typo right about... now. As for your post Grotus, thankyou... updating the code right now. I thought about having spacebar while r is pushed down activating superjump and jump- get there even faster. In practice I found it a little impractical, taking you even longer to get there as you wait to come down. But its as according to what the masses want, what'dya think? Other than that, happy keybinding, going around the forums and putting posts in appropiate places about this, hopefully get alot more in on this fun!

Current main:
Schrodinger's Gun, Dual Pistols/Mental Blaster, Virtue

Avatar: Becky Miyamoto from Pani Poni Dash. Roulette roulette~

Elite_Gamer · 02-15-2007 01:41 PM

I would like to have a forward motion super jump by just hold the lshift key i saw on e on here somewhere but cant find it now. Any suggestion

80EightyEight · 02-15-2007 01:51 PM

Just cause you are using a mouse doesnt mean you have to use the mouse for targeting and for executing powers.

I use the mouse only to change my view and to steer (holding down teh RMB). I target with tab (and shift+tab, control+tab), and use the number keys to activate my powers (also shift+number and ctl+number). Important powers I map to keys around w,s,a and d for quick access, and I map tp and tpfoe to ctl+mouseclick and alt+mouseclick.

Seems to me like my setup has the positives of what you are doing without the negatives. I would not try this in PvP. I can think of quite a few of my stalker tricks (and other tricks) that are not possible using your setup.

Elite_Gamer · 02-15-2007 01:56 PM

Understand but....a bind that lshift would toggle on and lshift would toggle off would be ideal i still use the mouse to turn im just tired off holding down space bar and i would like it once toggled off to toggle on sprint and combat jumping' Just recently started useing binds no its still a little overwhelming thats all.