01-13-2012, 05:47 PM
Slamz Wrote:Nostomo and G13 are basically the same thing. G13 is overall superior in my opinion but I did prefer the Nostomo thumb-pad over the G13 thumb-stick. I got used to it, though.
The big reason to own a keypad is the thumbstick. That gives you a lot better gaming control than any keyboard.
Typical keyboard user layout #1:
Right hand on mouse
Left hand controlling WASD or some variation and there's only so many buttons you can hit while moving unless you move your hand from your mouse or your WASD keys. e.g., you need to turn to follow your target while running backwards and hitting control-9. Easy on a numpad, hard on a keyboard.
Typical keyboard user layout #2:
Right hand on numpad
Left hand for activating abilities
Now you're a "keyboard turner" and we will all make fun of you as some rogue-type flits around backstabbing you and you can't turn fast enough to deal with him.
100% keyboarders account for probably less than 1% of gamers. I've only run across 1 GOOD FPS player (in 15 years) that was 100% keyboard like you describe in #2
#1 you are way off. FPS players use MOUSE to turn and keyboard for strafing. Forward & backwards movement keys are personal preference. Myself, like World Quake Champion Thresh, use mouse for forward movement. With multi-button or slider mice you can also use it for backwards movement. Using that kind of setup, you can effectively play most FPS with even 1 hand: turn, forward, shoot all on the mouse.
There are VERY little combinations that I cant accomplish with A & F as strafe keys, z for backwards. Intelligently laying out your hotbar goes a long way; as in putting frequenly used abilities in easy to hit spots, mainly anything middle or pointer finger can reach. I'm also able to quickly hit emergency buttons on the right side of the keyboard, something you padders cant do easily.
And to answer you Strife, nope never used a numpad for gaming, have no need for it. Left side of my keyboard gives me everything I need to play. The only macros I've ever used are aliases in Quake/Halflife/TF2 for Rocket Jumping & barrel spin, which can easily be accomplish thru config files (since 1998) and a macro maker program to grind shit in Starwars Galaxies while I was AFK. MMO's with their horrible latency, server lag & lack of multiplayer optimization do not lend themselves well to hardware macro'ing, especially true in PVP which requires absolute flexibility.
Just like mechanical fruit harvesters, sure its less work for you, but you end up with 70% of your potential instead of doing it by hand and getting 100%
[should not have shot the dolphin]