keypad use with freelancer

[Flash™]

* Flash™ says this is too advanced to him, he uses a mouse and couple keys.....

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[HazMat]

* .Flash. says this is too advanced to him, he uses a mouse and couple keys.....

I haven't tried it with a fighter yet, but it makes piloting a cap ship a lot more user friendly. I'm not jumping around all over my keyboard.

[Thargoid]

For a lot of my games I use Xpadder or Joy2Key.

They allow a gamepad to send keyboard/mouse commands by mapping each key, e.g. on an old Playstation pad you could map the X button to right mouse, so you could fire, and left analog stick to mouse movement, R1 for F (use shield bats). Completely customizable.

For even more customization you also use AutoHotKey to remap certain KB keys, assign more than 2 alternative keys etc.

[HazMat]

I thought about doing that, but I hate console style controllers. I don't even play consoles anymore because of it. Everyone is different though.

[Thargoid]

If you can't map the keys in your device into Freelancer, then AutoHotKey is your tool

I currently use it to switch strafing to turret steer, I press Control+H and it swaps them, press it again and it switches back to strafing.

I also have a 5 button mouse, and have mapped the 5th key to missile/torpedo/mine, I press Control+` and it cycles through missile/torp/mine.

4th key is reserved for firing a CD at escaping trader

Be careful what you do with it though, as I know some cheating individuals use it for chain-firing and crazy matrix manoeuvres.

[HazMat]

I have it all set up. I don't chain fire. Personally, I see no real gains from doing it. When I played mechwarrior, then it was a valid tactic, but IMHO not in this game. I just like it for the ease of nit having to have an app that involves and extra and honestly unneeded hot key combination.