Gaming keyboard tips?

So I got a new computer recently, but the keys were really really loud so I decided to get a new one. At the shop I saw this was on offer and looked good so I got it

Very satisfied so far, but was wondering if anyone had any tips/tricks in regards to the macro buttons for City of. I don't want to make afk fighting macros or whatever (which I don't even think is possible, from my experience with the ingame macros) but I'd like some feedback from others who have similar keyboards. Just stuff like how you use the extra "macro" keys on the side (G1 through 18) can they be bound like normal keys or what?

Basically just tips and tricks on how to make the most of this shiny new keyboard.

Thanks in advance people

Awesome, thanks for the links. Trying out the third method in Duck Loranges guide, got it to work briefly then I broke it somehow. Hrm. But should be nice once I've got it set up.

As for macro'd attack chains and logoff prevention, yeahhhhh not going there. I'm not sure how strictly the rules on that are enforced, I'm just not interested in doing it to begin with, heh.

The stuff Snowglobe linked to has some good information. I started out slow with my G15 v.1, basically just setting a few often used key combinations in, like my G6 key is set to shift+s. So on any character that has any stealth power, I bind that power to shift+s and know I can just hit G6 to toggle it.

I recently started using the M2 and M3 sections of the G keys, to set up healing, rez, and shields for my various buffers and healers. So any of my support alts with healing powers have these binds:

Code:

H "powexecname Heal Other"
lshift+h "powexecname Absorb Pain"
lctrl+h "powexecname Healing Aura"
lalt+h "powexecname Resurrect"
p "targetcustomnext teammate dead"
shift+p "targetcustomnext friend notteammate defeated"
lctrl+p "targetcustomnext friend notteammate alive"
NUMPAD1 "teamselect 1"
NUMPAD2 "teamselect 2"
NUMPAD3 "teamselect 3"
NUMPAD4 "teamselect 4"
NUMPAD5 "teamselect 5"
NUMPAD6 "teamselect 6"
NUMPAD7 "teamselect 7"
NUMPAD8 "teamselect 8"
NUMPAD9 "powexecname Healing Aura"
SHIFT+NUMPAD9 "say Group heal near me!"

Then G1 has a macro that causes it is hit the numpad1, then h. G2 is set to select numpad2, then h, etc. G9 is set up to heal non-team members, so it uses lctrl+p, then h. G10-17 are set up for resurrection, so they use the appropriate numpad then lalt+h, with G18 for rezzing non-teammates in things like Mother Ship or zombie raids.

Setting up the forcefields is basically the same, unless you have a MM with FF and use your numpad for controlling the pets. I do, but none of them are FF, so I avoided that conflict.

Using these binds:

Code:

h "powexecname Speed Boost"
lalt+h "powexecname Increase Density"
p "targetcustomnext friend notteammate alive"
shift+p "targetcustomnext friend notteammate alive"

I can use the G keys on the M2 setting for my kinetics when they are buffing, G1-G9 doing Speed Boost and G10-G18 doing Increase Density.

When my alts are not teaming, I stay on the M1 setting, which also has the various non-team heals, rezzes and shields, to I can help out or buff passerby's when needed.

So I figured out what was going wrong beforehand, I was using lshift+rshift+q for G1 and the game was just recognizing q as input so it would turn my character. So I switched to numpad keys as I never use those. Still having problems though :s

What I'm trying to do is have my buffs bound to G1 and G2 using the third method. So, setting the key combo for the button (say G1) to be lshift+rshift+numpad1, then binding lshift+rshift+numpad1 to a given buff (like Fire Shield) It worked fine, hitting G1 would hit Fire shield. The problems started with a second power. With G2 set to lshift+rshift+numpad2 and Plasma Shield bound to lshift+rshift+numpad2 it would somehow overwrite the last bindings, so hitting G1 -or- G2 would activate Plasma Shield. When I rebound Fire Shield, it overwrote the Plasma Shield one so then G1 or G2 would activate Fire Shield.

I've doublechecked that the G1 and G2 keys are using the right combos. Ideas?

edit: probably helpful to say what I'm going for. I've got a bunch of Corruptors and currently have all buffs bound to g and h. What I'd like is to redo their binds so the buffs are on G1 through G3 (G1 Fire Shield, G2 Plasma Shield, G3 Thaw etc). I'll get into more complex stuff later on (once I know a little more than absolutely nothing about what I'm doing >.>)

Sorry, I should have mentioned (and I actually posted this in Kenja's thread), that trying to get CoH/CoV to recognize lshift, rshift, lcontrol (lctrl), rcontrol (rctrl), lalt, or ralt will be doomed to failure.

You can only get the game to recognize any of those 6 keys by themselves, not with another key.

As far as I know you can only use shift+key, control+key (or ctrl+key), or alt+key.

This is not the keyboard's fault, it is how the game was made.

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Ahh right. I was messing around with it and my theory was that the game would only recognize the first 2 inputs, both from the G key and the bind.

Like I had Fire Shield bound to lshift rshift numpad 1, with Plasma Shield bound to lshift rshift numpad 2, but since they overwrote each other I guessed the game was only reading lshift and rshift.

Your explanation makes more sense though. So if the game doesn't differentiate between lshift rshift etc, could I make my nonsense key combo something like ctrl alt numpad1? Well, I'll give it a go and report back

Thanks a lot for the help, Snowglobe.

edit: so setting the G keys to ctrl+numpad1, numpad 2, etc worked. So I've not got a pretty basic set up but it'll do for now. Until I get the itch worse and want to do more intricate stuff

Thanks again everyone

Not sure if it's a lack of settings, or just really making sure people can't do botting, whether with macros, a bunch of drinky birds at the keys, whatever.

Two thi g I use they keys for :

A global channel send macro - with an itsy bitsy delay after the "/"because it would catch the other keys otherwise.

A /dialougeyes (or whatever the command is) maco which is nice for htting yes without chasing the onscreen buttons with the mous - used for accepting emergency evacs and such.