I was watching the IGN overview on “No Rest For The Wicked” and they say that they abandoned the point-and-click system in favor of WASD because it was not precise enough.

I don’t mind it, either way is fine. However I love the League of Legends type of movement, it’s a factor that makes me still play the game.

(DotA has even better and precise movement mechanics but they are less fun I think)

It’s hard to master yeah, with the unlocked camera and all but I feel like you can be very precise and do exactly what you want: it is very satisfying.

What do you think? Do you know other games that use this point-and-click movement?

  • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    5·
    9 months ago

    ESDF movement has (boo, WASD uses the wrong keys)

    This is the first time I’ve ever heard of this. What’s wrong with WASD?

    • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      It underutilizes the pinky, and it’s not the home keys.

      ESDF still lets you reach tab, caps lock, shift, ctrl and alt, but opens it up so your pinky can also use Q, A and Z. With WASD your pinky can only really hit the “big keys”. Everything else can just get shifted over by one. Plus, if you’re a touch typist your fingers are already good at finding the home keys so your ring finger is already used to being on “S”. That means if you have to stretch to hit a special key, it’s easier to get back to the right keys. Plus many keyboards have a nub on F and J so you can find them / verify you’re on the right keys by touch.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          So, you’re unable to type with it? This kind of movement is no different from typing where you have to use the occasional word like “quick”, “active” or “zygote”.

          • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            8 months ago

            I don’t actually use it for z! Haha

            Also, I feel like needing to hold ctrl or shift is a fairly common requirement in games. I think it’d be too uncomfortable to do that from one column further away

    • all-knight-party@kbin.run
      3·
      9 months ago

      The OP hasn’t responded, but I’ll hazard a guess that moving the movement keys one set to the right gives you more access to easily reachable keys to the left of the movement set that you can bind things to.