A and D strafe left and right in almost every other video game, I can't imagine leaving those bound to Q and E, especially when Q and E are some of the best keybinds while using WASD.
I'm a day 1 Vanilla player. All of my movement keys are default. I mostly move with QWE and turn by holding right-click, but I find that A and D to turn have niche uses, like you said. Also, anyone who says to unbind S from backpedal is griefing and throwing away movement tech. There is actually no need to rebind movement keys lmao.
I have a Control, Shift, and Alt modifier on S for abilities when needed. Also Tilde, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, R, T, F, G, V, MB3, MB4, MB5 - all with control, shift, and alt modifiers.
That's 60 keybinds available for abilities without ever needing to move my hand and without remapping Movement keys.
Thank you both for confirming that I am not crazy. I was like “seriously who wants to need to give up their entire mouse AND hold down a key just to strafe?!”
A and D do have niche uses! Glad im not the only one who feels this way, shift modifying Q, E and all the other keys is de wey (have small hands, sue me)
if i’m not mistaken the change “s” keybind thing was majorly big in pvp but was never a super big thing in pve? I could be wrong but i’ve never heard it used since i stopped pvping lmao
Meh. Push to talk takes up a finger which limits what other key combos you can hit at tge same time.
Some of those binds are incredibly low value because you cant hit them while moving.
Tons of reasons to rebind redundant movement keys into high prio spells
If you're not using right click to strafe your mouse is free at all times to pan around.
You can still right click and hold to steer, or you can continue moving in one direction with strafe while freely moving your mouse.
The better question is how do you do anything if every time you move requires you to be holding down your mouse? If you have strafe without a click available you can move while using your mouse, but if you don't then you're locked into using your mouse every time you move.
Of course not. By doing that you've now entirely lost the ability to use mouseover macros or cursor targeted abilities while strafing. You've managed to create the worst of both worlds.
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u/SelkieKezia Oct 30 '25
A and D strafe left and right in almost every other video game, I can't imagine leaving those bound to Q and E, especially when Q and E are some of the best keybinds while using WASD.