Controls Are Wrong

[Lukezke 0]

TL;DR Right buttons do wrong things.

Alright, might as well get a few things out of the way.

First off I'm not experiencing this problem. This is for a friend.

We're both new players to DayZ and ARMA,

When we first joined a server, I asked him how to sprint. He told me that he could sprint by holding in the RMB. I thought that was weird because I hit W twice and that was the only way I could sprint.

Well, I had a lot of issues with DayZ servers, mostly the BattlEye not responding error and I'd get kicked. After I found a server I could actually play, I'd played for a few hours and gotten pretty familiar with the controls.

When I told him we could actually play together now we joined a server. He found a gun and aggro'd a zombie and he was asking me how to aim down the sight and stuff like that. Naturally, I told him it was click the RMB to ADS and LMB to shoot.

He did exactly what I said, but instead of aiming down the sight he was throwing grenades. I'm figuring this is because his controls are weird and RMB was change firerate, which switched him to a grenade.

I told him to reset the controls to default but it didn't help and his controls are still all wrong.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Sorry if there's a really simple answer. I'm very new to the game. I've checked for different control schemes in the options but couldn't find anything.

[maxnmike 134]

If he had by chance hit the F button he might have had thrown the grenades instead of firing his main weapon. The F button scrolls through all the items you can shoot or throw. Grenades, flares. chemlights.cans. bottles and so on.

Also, if you do throw something, be sure to hit the F button to get back to your gun. Throwing chemlights at zombies when you want to shoot them doesn't work out too well. lol

Edited January 12, 2013 by maxnmike

[boneboys 7988]

Unbind evasive forward from mouse RMB in control options and look for other commands that are bound to same.

Or

Create a new character and start from scratch.

[Lukezke 0]

If he had by chance hit the F button he might have had thrown the grenades instead of firing his main weapon. The F button scrolls through all the items you can shoot or throw. Grenades, flares. chemlights.cans. bottles and so on.

After he threw the grenades I told him to press F to switch back to his gun. He pressed it and it didn't do anything and he threw more grenades. The zombies caught him and killed him.

Unbind evasive forward from mouse RMB in control options and look for other commands that are bound to same.

Or

Create a new character and start from scratch.

I'll get him to try this. Thanks for the info.