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Originally Posted by Mobhack
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Originally Posted by Charles22
Thank you DRG, it's good to know that it was the first time mentioned. Somehow or other, I run this game almost completely from the keyboard, even battlefield scrolling. Using scrolling off the mouse just doens't work too well to my satisfaction, and the zoom doesn't work at all from there, which are probably the two most common things I would use a mouse for. I am also unaware of any other commands offhand that I can use a mouse for, since the game was especially made, it seems to me, to have been keyboard-driven in the first place (can't fire guns with a mouse etc.).
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Simply mouse over the potential target - see the cursor change to cross hairs? - left click to fire. I've been doing that since SP1.
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Upon further review, you are right, but I am using both hands at the same time. It's quite simple to move or turn the facing of a unit with the mouse, while hitting fire with the left hand. Say, does this game still have units retain their previous targets from the prior half-turn? IOW, when the opponent has it's turn, and your unit in question fires, then when it's your turn again it will or will not have that same target? I'm under the impression that some SP's have kept that target, while I'm thinking current winSPWW2 does not. You like to try to repeat targets if possible, for at least those SP games where that worked (build accuracy).
I think another reason I ignore a good many of the mouse-driven menu is not only because I find it clumsy but because I've had damage to my wrist over so long that I'm looking for ways to ease the mouse pain, plus of course wanting to utilize both hands if possible. With more modern gameplay, I scarcely use keyboard commands at all. It often boils down to how easy it is to reach a frequent commnd. It seems easier to me to hit Y and then H, as opposed to mousing way up to the top right, then hitting the correct icon (the Y one) and then scrolling down to click the H selection. I also would rather hit F with my left hand and see if the last target fired at is the one I want, then I might hit F again to try a few more possibilities, and then perhaps unzoom a bit hitting the minus key. I just never would think of moving the mouse to a target I might desire (saving the mouse mostly for facing and movement) partially because I have no idea which target the unit last fired at.
The opposite of that is a more modern game I've played quite a lot of in the past months, Sins of a Solar Empire. I don't think there's a single keyboard command I use and that may be partly because unlike SP, the keyboard shortcut isn't labeled on the icons.
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