Mouse won't aim up or down w/wheel

[TheBeastWithin]

WOW.. what a trip with all the icons!
Ok guys/gals.. back from ten years of smoking crack.  Luckily I didn't die! 
I'm looking to retrain my hands away from the keyboarding I used to do and want to use the mouse for aiming and shooting.
PROBLEM:
My Quake2 won't recognize wheelup/wheeldown for lookup/lookdown which I want to try out.
Hawkins is my brother and I need to be on my toes if I'm ever going to get competitive w/him again.
Can someone plz help a healing burnout come back to the fold with new tricks up his sleeve?
Thanks,
TheBeastWithin

[VaeVictis]

WOW.. what a trip with all the icons!
Ok guys/gals.. back from ten years of smoking crack.  Luckily I didn't die! 
I'm looking to retrain my hands away from the keyboarding I used to do and want to use the mouse for aiming and shooting.
PROBLEM:
My Quake2 won't recognize wheelup/wheeldown for lookup/lookdown which I want to try out.
Hawkins is my brother and I need to be on my toes if I'm ever going to get competitive w/him again.
Can someone plz help a healing burnout come back to the fold with new tricks up his sleeve?
Thanks,
TheBeastWithin

just turn on mouselook so you can look up and down by moving the mouse forward and backward.. easiest way to do it... i have no idea why you would want to use the wheel to look up and down

[TheBeastWithin]

Well.. I'm trying to figure out how to play this dang game better than I used to!

I didn't know about "Mouselook"... I'm assuming it's somewhere in the options menu, so I'll try it out.

Thanks a bunch, and my brother  HAWKINS will suffer for it.

TheBeastWithin

[VaeVictis]

generic set up for fps games these days is pretty good

wasd for moving each direction, so you can run forward backward and strafe left and right, keys surrounding that you can use for stuff like crouch and binding to individual weapons

mouse for looking around, left click (mouse1) for shooting

and jump on either spacebar or right click (mouse2)

it all comes down to preference though, play with what your comfy with, using a mouse to look is definitely the best solution as far as keeping things fluid and being able to look exactly where you want very fast, but the keyboard side is a lot more free, ive seen people with number pad set ups that do alright, and ive seen people who use the arrow keys do alright too

any one configuration wont make you better out right, but bad configurations can cripple your play

once you get used to a config that you like, you can work on gameplay mechanics like aim, map knowledge, sound cues, prediction, weapon choice, all sorts of stuff if you want to put the practice in you can always get better at quake

[[BTF]adam]

be an og hustla like me and arrow key it UP, and as much as I hate to agree with the above... thing, mouselook is the way forward.

[peewee_RotA]

I didn't know about "Mouselook"... I'm assuming it's somewhere in the options menu, so I'll try it out.

Console command:

freelook 1

or

+mlook



If you can figure outsomething with the keyboard then more power to you. The alt/strafe combo for doom/hexen/heretic is a reasonable contender with enough practice. You also get the advantage of centerview and perfect foward accuracy when using the keys.

I've had some success playing with normal WASD movement and a modified keyboard arrow aiming. Nothing competitive but enough to get in the upper part of the vanilla scoreboard.

I imagine if you get your mwheel to do up/down for looking up and down, a mouse3 to do centerview and some clever keyboard setup then you can keep pretty competitive with practice.

[peewee_RotA]

once you get used to a config that you like, you can work on gameplay mechanics like aim, map knowledge, sound cues, prediction, weapon choice...

Yeah... that's all for dueling. You really do not have to even begin to care about that stuff unless you want to. FFA is 70% aiming and 30% movement. Everything else is trivial.

[[BTF] Reflex]

I played q1 with pgup and pgdown to lookup and look down for like 2 years before I switched to mouse...

Making the switch was REALLY REALLY hard to do,  but I wish I had done it sooner.

[[BTF]Gator]

Aiming with ANY keys is totally retarded. Use the mouselook. Bottom line is that you can move a mouse and acquire a target much faster than you can with pressing any key. Actually using keys for movement AND moving the mouse for aiming at the same time is often necessary. Proper movement is actually a vital part of aiming, especially with weapons like the railgun.

Maybe you're one of those people that's still used to playing games like Doom 1 and Duke Nukem where a lot of people didn't even use the mouse. I suppose you COULD use only keys for aiming, but don't expect to hit much. Better than 98% of the players around here use mouse aiming, and they'll be able to get you first every time.

[VaeVictis]

once you get used to a config that you like, you can work on gameplay mechanics like aim, map knowledge, sound cues, prediction, weapon choice...

Yeah... that's all for dueling. You really do not have to even begin to care about that stuff unless you want to. FFA is 70% aiming and 30% movement. Everything else is trivial.

wrong idk how all my comments get deleted yet your completely idiotic and totally wrong statement didnt lol

[|iR|Focalor]

Aiming with ANY keys is totally retarded. Use the mouselook. Bottom line is that you can move a mouse and acquire a target much faster than you can with pressing any key. Actually using keys for movement AND moving the mouse for aiming at the same time is often necessary. Proper movement is actually a vital part of aiming, especially with weapons like the railgun.

Maybe you're one of those people that's still used to playing games like Doom 1 and Duke Nukem where a lot of people didn't even use the mouse. I suppose you COULD use only keys for aiming, but don't expect to hit much. Better than 98% of the players around here use mouse aiming, and they'll be able to get you first every time.

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