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Check out this video explaining the origins of WASD. Something many of you might remember. It was great to see TRIBES get some recognition after the usual suspects, Quake/Half-Life/DOOM etc.


Why gamers use WASD to move - YouTube

I don't post or lurk anymore. I know this forum as evolved into social and political commentary, but I'll always have fond memories of playing Tribes. Until the next...
 
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social and political comment reeeeeeee
 
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That guy shouldn't be doing VO
 
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**** ur cockblock coombz
 
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I'll leave the next one for you

don't drop the ball
 
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You tell em Coombzy!
 
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ESDF
 
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Yep, I was around back then playing all those games. Thresh not only invented WASD but how to dominate a map by knowing when the best weapons were going to spawn and getting them. Like him or not, he was a monster and made it look easy.

Those were the days when ping was a big deal. Thresh had a T1. There was a Quake MP game where the best players were there to take him down. He was behind up until the last second when he pulled ahead as time ran out.
 
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ESDF
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ESDF is never gonna happen, stop trying to make it happen
 
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or ppl who use those half-keyboard game pads

like suck a dick already
 
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It could be a matter of age. Most of you guys started playing PC FPS when you were kids and had those tiny little hands and had yet to learn to actually type. For older folks like me who learned to touch type on a Selectric back in the 70s the home keys are a thing and shifting over to WASD feels unnatural so if it can be remapped we often do it. [shakes cane]
 
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Wolf 3D was arrow keys and spacebar but most had evolved to using mouse with Doom.

first 2.5D z-axis game that I recall was ROTT and the first 3D z-axis game was Terminator Future Shock by Bethesda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q02DlXojDf8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNMdboshmb4

Quake I came out a year later in 1996
 
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It could be a matter of age. Most of you guys started playing PC FPS when you were kids and had those tiny little hands and had yet to learn to actually type. For older folks like me who learned to touch type on a Selectric back in the 70s the home keys are a thing and shifting over to WASD feels unnatural so if it can be remapped we often do it. [shakes cane]
so... you use asdf or some ****?
 
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Trives: vagrances
 
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ESDF
I used to smash people in good ole tribes with arrow keys. I had just the perfect number of keys I needed. Arrow keys would also let me quickly tweak the position of my keyboard by just grappling the keys. Fat-fingering was effectively zero chance. It was superior for Tribes.

However, once I moved onto other games, I needed far more keybinds. This meant swapping to WASD for the first time. It took me all of a week or two to realize how ****ing stupid WASD is and moved to ESDF.

It's so clear that ESDF is superior in every single way to WASD, it's astounding that games still default to WASD.
 
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I remember making myself learn to use the mouse instead of total keyboard controls... man it was tough!!!
 
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so... you use asdf or some ****?
ESDF, keep up.
 
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WASD or bust
 
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