The Glade 4.0

That looks like an alpha build of DNF.

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"...the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" -Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I was one of the few people I knew that used mouse + Keyboard for Quake. Everyone else used the keyboard only. I tried to convince them otherwise, but I was unsuccessful, until we had a Quake tournament at our local mall. One of my friends, who was favored to win kept telling me, "You can't dance with the mouse, man." When I won the tournament by beating him 3 games in a row, he changed his tune. And suddenly, everyone was trying to learn how to use the mouse, heh. Good times.

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"I Live, I Love, I Slay, and I Am Content."
- Conan the Barbarian

I never played the initial quake beyond a token crack at it long after it was out. My quake experience really started with Quake II, which I miss badly. That was also my first experience with the mouse; I never used it with Doom or Wolfenstein. I actually used the joystick with Quake II for a while but that was.. not as effective as the mouse.

Quake II was also my first introduction to separate video cards. I bought myself a 3DFx Voodoo 2 and damn.. that was some good **** back then. I was just out of college and I had bought myself a nice Pentium II 266MHz which was pretty powerful at the time. With that Voodoo 2, it was as close to a true gaming machine as I've ever had.

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

My first experience with using the mouse was with the game Marathon, made by Bungie in 1994 for the Mac. It was the first major game with the mouse look we use today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_look

Yup, that's the same thing that converted me. I was the "Number one" in our gaming group, we were all keyboard players of Quake 1. Then I went over to another group's house, I got absolutely obliterated, they were all mouselook users. Was time to step up my game!

I was in the same boat. Played Doom as a keyboarder and would obliterate my friends (who also used the keyboard). Beat Quake in single-player mode as a keyboarder.

I played multiplayer CTF online shortly after and there was a map where I was chasing a player up a steep ramp. He was easily pointing down and nailing me, but my look-spring made it impossible for me to hit him. I decided I needed to completely change my setup.

I didn't know how most mousers have their keyboard set up. I didn't do any Altavista-ing (Googling didn't exist). So I just made up what seemed logical. A key to move forward, a key to move backward, and two keys that strafed left and right, and use the mouse for steering. They keys I chose for this setup was E,S,D,and F.

It made logical sense to me: It kept my arms at comfortable distances from each other. The F key was a homerow key so it always had an indent for me to quickly find in the heat of battle. And it gave me keys on both sides for binding weapons to and using quickly. Little did I know that the standard was WASD, exactly how I had planned mine out. Except without the added benefit of having more bindable keys around it and no homerow key (thus, I've always viewed it as inferior).

Changing to that new setup from a setup where I used arrow keys for movement took a while to get used to. I tried it a little bit in single player, but I found myself thinking too much. I resolved myself that the only way to learn is to remove thinking from the equation to build the instincts and muscle memory faster. I decided to play online against other players with this setup, no matter how painful it would be.

For the first week, it was pretty bad. I got owned more than I ever care to admit to. But it did have the intended effect I was hoping for. I got up to speed very fast after that first week and I haven't looked back since.

And my friends followed suit too once they saw how big of a difference it makes. I still smile when I see those core friends of mine place their index fingers on the F key instead of the D.

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Les Zombis et les Loups-Garous!