Keyboard/Mouse Layout and Keys

[th3tech 0]

Hello,

I'm brand new and excited to play, I have never played Arma and bought the game just for this Mod.

I am a bit overwhelemed by the ammount of keys and binds.

What are the most used important things I have to bind? Most likley stuff like crouch, prone, iron sights, 3rd person, zoom, etc. I want to use as minimum as possible.. I also have 2 extra buttons on my mouse... and I do use arrows keys, not AWSD.

What are some of the configs you guys run? What's important? Suggestions?

Thanks, I appreciate any feedback.

[ervashi 0]

Bump. I'm also interested in this.

[ratszo 2]

Start at the Bis site:

http://forums.bistudio.com/

Play the regular single player bootcamp missions.

Good luck!

[zanarias 3]

Honestly, I only rebinded one key--GPS toggle. I rebound it to Control-Z, because Right-Control-K was just weird as hell.

Otherwise, the stock binds are actually pretty good. I'd use a mouse key for TS/Mumble/Ingame voice, but that's about it.

One thing that may not be obvious is that you can long-hold right click to zoom in temporarily when you're running around AND when you're in ironsights mode. You don't have to use the keypad + and - keys. That actually was something that wasn't obvious to me for awhile.

EDIT: Don't try and remove any binds. I can guarantee that every bound key will be used at some point or another, even if it's just for a little bit.

[Infaro 1]

The keys I find myself primarily using, though I'm a WASD user, are as follows:

The movement keys are obviously important, maintaining movement speed control with shift is key when stealth is necessary. Q and E are important for leaning around corners, though I find them more useful for silently adjusting myself when prone (also important, the Z key). Having X and C (for crouching and standing, respectively) are important for, once again, maintaining stealth.

For combat, use the left, right, and middle mouse button religiously. Tap right click to go into iron sights, left click to go pewpew, and using the middle mouse button for context menus is also ideal. Do note you may want to get into the habit of selecting context menu items with the middle mouse button instead of your primary click, lest you accidentally shoot a friend.

Those are the main keys you'll need to get around and do it properly, though you may need to remap them for your arrow-key playstyle. The other buttons you'll want to be aware of are B for binoculars, O for the watch, K for the compass, L for flashlight, and M for the map, which are all dependent upon which utility items you've collected. Numpad Enter is good for third person if you aren't playing on a hardcore server that prohibits its use.

So, for a recap, movement keys are primarily important, get your crouch and prone buttons bound to something comfortable, remember to bind sprint to (2x) UpArrow if you plan to use the arrow keys for movement. Mouse buttons should probably remain as they are, though you can bind some utility or VOIP command to those extra 2 mouse buttons if desired.

Lastly, remember the G key is your universal inventory button, if you're on top of something you want, it's typically better to hit G and move it into your inventory manually. I've had stuff disappear into the armaverse by choosing the "Take " context item.

Have fun and kill some zombies!

[boneboys 7988]

Arrow keys here.

important:

togle lean left/right = l&r mouse tilt + evasive l & r (allows you to roll over when prone.

step over = end.

free look= numeric 0

change fire= flare/throw...= page down

L shift toggle walk/run

mouse+ = crouch

mouse - = stand/prone

MB4 = reload

MMB set to B for binoculars

I could go on but remember ArmA is one of the few games that will let you map more than one action per key. Once you have worked it out there is nothing better.

Good luck.

[th3tech 0]

Thanks guys, this really helps...

<3 Infaro

[stevejeon 0]

Good god...

Play the Arma tutorials.

You own the game right?

Despite the confusion and the fact they're terrible they actually help to a degree.

Go through them again and again and again.

Run the obstacle course, patch your buddy, grab ammo and run the course again.

If you can set up a private server just to do it with voice comms on and live with your friends do it.

Remap your keys.

If you are a lefty remap EVERYTHING and delete the bindings you wont use!!! (teaching granny to suck eggs here)

Hint, edit your doc's profile arma2oa.cfg to not use GPU_MaxFramesAhead=1000, 3 is more reasonable and if you want to climb a ladder with your pistol out start spamming 'prone' when you hit the top of it so you won't auto fall off.

[TheBank 0]

Seeing as this thread comes up pretty high on the results for a google search of "Dayz keybindings." I thought I'd post some helpful links.

Here are a couple of Dayz keyboard cheat sheet shortcut layouts.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/18905601/DayZ/DayZ%20Key%20Bindings%2030-05-12.pdf

http://i.imgur.com/6xRit.jpg

[ushiri@gmail.com 10]

Hello,

I'm brand new and excited to play, I have never played Arma and bought the game just for this Mod.

I am a bit overwhelemed by the ammount of keys and binds.

What are the most used important things I have to bind? Most likley stuff like crouch, prone, iron sights, 3rd person, zoom, etc. I want to use as minimum as possible.. I also have 2 extra buttons on my mouse... and I do use arrows keys, not AWSD.

What are some of the configs you guys run? What's important? Suggestions?

Thanks, I appreciate any feedback.

i played operation flashpoint from start...and then arma, arma2, armaOA ...and I feelt it sucked to try to bind keys at all...I go with the keys choosen for me in the game, except changing weapon button....its to much to reconfig. :)