personally I prefer ESDF... the F key has a nib to show "home row" so can be found easily by touch. Also lets me bind QAZ to functions that I can press with my little finger while still moving. I'd usually bind one of the side mouse buttons to toggle crouch. Mousewheel up/down to change weapons.

Still use wasd today. And I had the pleasure to play against him years ago. He kicked my ass bad.

QFT.

a = reload on my keyboard.

For a long time, I slid the keyboard to the left and used my left hand on the 10-key because I found it a lot easier to center on--I found that it was too easy for my hand to drift on the alpha keys. Eventually though, games got complicated enough that I ran out of keys within easy reach of the 10-key and had to re-learn with WASD.

I never played against Thresh but Quake 1/2 TF/CTF/Death Match and Half-Life 1 TF/CTF/Death Match are among the best gaming years I've had during my teens.

I really miss those early glory days of FPS.

I use wsad

Desire to use a 3 or 4 peddle USB foot switch for movement

An old EQ tale:

I was invisible and running through the Karanas one day when I noticed a young gnome near the gypsy camp. He was fighting a lion and though it looked like he would win the battle, being a fellow gnome, I decided to help the guy out.

I targeted the lion, clicked on my mesmerize spell, then started to type: "I'm mesmerizing the lion for you." I got as far as: "I'm " when I remembered that I had replaced my mesmerize spell with an Area of Effect mesmerize spell... and that I was standing next to an NPC enchantress. Gulp.

My movement keys are mapped to "w a s d" so I frantically stabbed at my keyboard, trying to MOVE and interrupt the spell.

I forgot that I was in typing mode.

The gypsy enchantress didn't like my attempt to mezz her so she promptly charmed me [IE Mind control] and made me go after the gnome I had been trying to save. I watched in horror as my peace-loving character, knife flailing like a crazed sushi chef, chased the little guy down and stabbed him to death.

I found my victim later and apologized profusely... I even gave him a nice weapon and a piece of armor. He was great about it, and laughed when I told him what happened.

He said he didn't know WHAT was going on. One minute he was fighting a lion, the next minute a strange gnome appeared out of NOWHERE, announced: "I'm wwwaaaddd", then sliced him up like Freddy Krueger.

*discard

I peed myself laughing. "I'm wwwaaaddd" LOL!

wtb druid or wiz port

God I hated the Plains of Karana, especially North.

"Train to zone!"

"Camp check!"

"KEI plz?"

"Donating for rez at zone."

"WTB SSoY, paying 44k."

A Ranger walks into a bar. LOADING... PLEASE WAIT.

I have a very hard time believing thresh invented/mainstreamed WASD.

First, well before quake there were games that required mouselook, probably most notably descent and xwing type games. (Joysticks were expensive, uncommon peripherals for the most part). I clearly remember playing both of those games with a keyboard / mouse setup like today, and that feels like it was around 2 years prior to quake's release.

Second, as a diehard quake junkie who practically camped outside the store to get my hands on the game, from the very beginning there were many sites dedicated to qtest (the beta), and the very first thing those pages trafficked were cfg files from all the people arguing which control method was best. (then came skins, maps, quakeworld, mods, machinima, etc). I would say WASD was pretty well established well before Thresh won his ferrari- I dont have any statistical data or anything, and I think its cool that carmack included his .cfg file in later releases, but I highly doubt he was the first to use it / that people used it because they wanted to imitate him.

Nice! Tell us more about it.

As for default keys, I change S to X. I never like the middle S key for down.

Man, I remember others and I played Q2's FreezeTag mod (met Doolittle in person), Q2's CTF, Action Quake2 (AQ2), etc. at my college's LAN parties (why did they start on my last day of college? haha).