keyboard settings

[Sabarai]

z, left arrow = left
x, right arrow = right
downarrow = brake/turbo
numpad ins = glance back
y = talk
prnt screen = screen shot

[ishAdmin]

mind control left for left turn

mind control right for right turn

turn my head left for glance left

turn my head right for a glance right

hold back a pee for brake

ok, arrows for turning, 123 for glancing

[Tank Program]

nice one...
myself, i can't really remember my whole layout...
left 1, left arrow
right 3, right arrow
brake 2, down arrow

and then there's a bunch of camera stuff, full screen, screen shot... i can't remember that all really

[Chaves]

Hi all, I registered myself today here in the forum, I I am starting to play, therefore I am half bad in this game but to the few I go learning. I game thus, only looking at for front, cameras I nor use, goes my commands here and later it comes a question on tips of as I I can play
left arrow = left
right arrow = right
down arrow = break
s = chat
F1 to the F12 = Automatic chat the question it is the following one, it is important to play looking at all the sides and to não.fazer as I so looking at for front? If vocês they could give to tips I I thank much OBS to me: I am Brazilian and I do not say the English very but I am learning still the English, if some word to fall wrong is there for cause of this and ja I ask for excuses for any error of English

Greatz

[dlh]

left turn: a,s,z
right turn: d,f,x
brake: v

glance keys: arrows
change camera view(I have disabled all views except incam and custom cam): 1 on the keypad

chat: del key

[Yaza Yamagotchi]

Sidewinder Gamepad:

Joypad (left=left, right=right)

button a: brake
button b: glance back
button c: change camera

button x: turn left
button y:turn right

button r: glance right
button l: glance left

[Tank Program]

welcome chaves

[philippeqc]

Hi all, I registered myself today here in the forum, I I am starting to play, therefore I am half bad in this game but to the few I go learning.

Welcome to the forum! It is always a pleasure of seeing newcomers from far and distant lands. And do not worry, many of us are not native english speaking.


As for my key mapping, I like to spread it so my hands are relaxed on the keyboard.

You will see I use many keys for the same action. Very little of this is for double binding. Most of it is to avoid diying because my hand slipped a bit. And I've grouped all the action related to a side (right or left) under the same hand.

Left hand:
turn left: z x c
Left glance: Left shift, < (on my keyboard, there is a key between the shift and the z. )
Brake: Left Alt, Space

Right hand:
turn right: , . -
glance right: Right shift
glance back: Right Alt

Chat: i o p (I died a few too many time because I touched the 's', that is why its moved so far away.

-ph

[iceman]

my new settings

az : left
sx : right
v : brake/turbo
caps-lock : brake/turbo lock

left : look left
right : look right
down : look back

enter : chat
` : con command

/ : auto 180 / -180 cheat toggle
* : auto brake cheat toggle

[n54]

here are the keys i use the most:

z = turn left
x = turn right

arrow up = look behind directly
arrow left = look left directly
arrow right = look right directly

these five first have a finger resting on each

| = console line
s = chat line

[hybrid]

<--- left
---> right
q glance left
w glance right
s chat
j jump [ not works, but i try to use ]
down arrow back look

[Chaves]

my new settings

az : left
sx : right
v : brake/turbo
caps-lock : brake/turbo lock

left : look left
right : look right
down : look back

enter : chat
` : con command

/ : auto 180 / -180 cheat toggle
* : auto brake cheat toggle

Wow!!, not wise person who gave to make one 180° automatic, Iceman as you made this? I walked reading that 180° has one bug q leaves an opened space, but do not know. I am training very to make excellent 180° but only that mine 180° leaves very distant, so I obtain to make 180° perfect turned for protection wall I I obtain there to make hehehehehhe, if somebody to know more techniques postem I there to give one looked at.

Thanks

[Anumeric]

left = left arrow, z
right = right arrow, x
glance left = left shift
glance right = right shift
glance back = back arrow

[Lucifer]

Wow!!, not wise person who gave to make one 180° automatic, Iceman as you made this? I walked reading that 180° has one bug q leaves an opened space, but do not know. I am training very to make excellent 180° but only that mine 180° leaves very distant, so I obtain to make 180° perfect turned for protection wall I I obtain there to make hehehehehhe, if somebody to know more techniques postem I there to give one looked at.

Thanks

Ok, people usually present doublebinding as "Press both buttons at the same time", but you don't actually do that unless you're in the open. You will leave as much space as you are going in speed for the time associated with the server's minimum time between keypresses. So when you're going slower, you will make a sharper turn then when you are going faster. Makes sense, right?

When you're on a wall and you want to do a 180, you use rubber to your benefit. If you press both keys at the same time, you will die. Instead, you press them in sequence, but very quickly. The first press puts you going at the wall upon which you're turning. You want to touch the wall to the point where you're surviving solely on rubber. Then you press the second key which turns you once more so that your 180 is complete and you're grinding the wall. It's important to keep in mind that while double-binding facilitates this maneuver, there are numerous players who *don't* doublebind that can still effectively and consistently execute this maneuver. Double-binding really is just a preference in play, and there's nothing you can do with it that you can't otherwise do. (OTOH, not double-binding causes a different style of thinking when planning your tactics, a more general and generally-speaking superior tactical style, so I highly recommend you *not* doublebind until you have started to win rounds and matches against more experienced players)

You also have to be aware of the bounce. When you bounce, you will still turn around, but you end up in some seemingly random place (but a place that makes sense if z-man shows up and explains it), and there will be a *break* in your wall. This is a useful way to build really tight slingshots, but is otherwise useless. This can also happen if you make a really tight adjust on a wall, like to seal someone in, or to try to kill someone who beats your grind. Frequently you wind up leaving a break in your wall, putting you in an inferior tactical position to where you were. (This is the tactical reason adjusting isn't a good idea, and it is a special case) Now, you can do osme judo with your position and use it to your tactical advantage, but that's generally something you'll pick up at higher levels of skill, and it's entirely possible the bounce phenomenon will be gone by the time you reach it. (I think it's fixed now in 0.2.7.1, with a BUG setting to re-enable it, but I haven't re-enabled it on Hell)

The only way I've seen people do a really sharp 180 at high speeds is when they use a gamepad or something like that. The normal keyboard has too much latency, I think, or just isn't expressive enough.

[Z-Man]

Good explanation, Lucifer.

There's no particular reason for the end position of bouncing. It was a bug, I guess caused by simulation backwards in time plus some unknown condition. I'm afraid there's no BUG_ setting to reenable it; I tried to implement it, but failed miserably because I still don't know what this unknown condition actually is .

And on 0.2.7.1 servers, it actually is perfectly possible to press the two keys bound to a turn at once, you'll only get into real trouble when the CYCLE_DELAY is set to 0.