Comment by kentonv

I always preferred Q/E to strafe, A/D to turn. But these days, almost no games actually let you bind keys to turn anymore. This makes me sad.

Of course I use the mouse for precision turning and aiming. But if I'm just navigating through a map without interacting with anything, turn keys let me do that one-handed, while the other hand reaches for a snack or drink!

Unfortunately I'm permanently stuck with the Q/E habit even though it's no longer useful... doomed (so to speak) forever to waste time rebinding my keys every time I start a new game.

(To streamline things I've made a rule: Whatever is bound to E I move to mouse 4, and Q to mouse 5, then I rebind Q/E to strafe. Luckily no games have defaults set to mouse 4 or 5 since not everyone has 5-button mice. Still, I get really pissed when a game decides to have five different independently-configured control schemes for different contexts, like "on foot" vs "in a vehicle", and I have to go through all of them...)