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Comment by angersock | Hacker News Reader

Assuming that it's full of HNers...y'all are terrible at this game. Move and shoot, folks. Move and shoot. Control items.

Jeez, it's like you've never played Quake or Soldat before.

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It's very difficult with a touchpad unless one is left handed. Keys on the right, aim on the left: bad for the 90% of us. I should look for my mouse. I know I have one somewhere.

wasd also works

Very difficult with a touchpad. I couldn't hit anything! That's why I have a separate keyboard and mouse for gaming on my MBP.

wasd works

It's not only hard, it's impossible to play with my touchpad. It has some kind of anti-interference detection so that it can't be moved/clicked shortly after typing on the keyboard, "smart-check" they call it. This "feature" can't be turned off completetly! It just has a slider going from min-max where max requires almost one second delay after typing and min only prevents simultaneous motion/typing, which is what you need if you want to move+shoot simultaneously in this game. Lenovo+synaptics crap.

Most of us are using a touchpad :)

This is a big disadvantage

trackball is a bit of a problem - fun game though - f'n andy - shooting someone who isn't moving :)

I think there's a good majority of us who grew up playing RPGs or city-builders. We're unfortunately unaccustomed to the ravages of war... even when it's just war on an internet-based tank game.

I was just kicking some butt in there with the green team.

Wonderful game by the way. However, when the game finishes I get a messy overlay of texts all in one place (assuming it's the name of each member of the team)?

Tiny bug, need to fix it indeed, it shows last player who killed you or something like that. EDIT: fixed

mmmm... soldat

the time when we realise mouse would have done awesome job...

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