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Should the proposed idea be added?

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Author Topic: Left Handed Option for Characters.  (Read 1669 times)

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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2012, 01:02:55 pm »
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Lefthanders do not use their hands as god intended and are declared witches and should be burned. Thats why there is not option for it.

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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #16 on: August 17, 2012, 02:31:25 pm »
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Let people switch stances/ hand dominance in game and base the wpf penalty on WM (it needs a buff anyway).
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #17 on: August 17, 2012, 02:45:17 pm »
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It would be a good addition indeed, but what do you mean by people with inverted mouse swings?

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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #18 on: August 17, 2012, 03:04:26 pm »
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It would be a good addition indeed, but what do you mean by people with inverted mouse swings?

In the game options, you can set your swings (and/or blocks) to activate with the opposite mouse movement as normal. So, moving the mouse right means you perform a left swing. It's weird to use, but also feels extremely strange to fight against.
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #19 on: August 17, 2012, 03:05:19 pm »
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It would be a good addition indeed, but what do you mean by people with inverted mouse swings?
People who set their attack direction to 'by inverse mouse direction'. Pretty much, moving your mouse left-to-right does a left-to-right swing. Moving your mouse forward makes your guy thrust forward. Etc, etc.

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AFAIK, you cannot set blocks to inverse. This caused me a great deal of grief when I was first learning blocking.

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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #20 on: August 17, 2012, 03:05:43 pm »
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Christ, three people replying to the same post all within a minute
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #21 on: August 17, 2012, 03:38:38 pm »
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I play with the traditional inverted mouse (up and down), so when I move the mouse up I look down and thrust when attacking :) , but - inverted left/right - that's weird!

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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #22 on: August 17, 2012, 04:41:38 pm »
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AFAIK, you cannot set blocks to inverse. This caused me a great deal of grief when I was first learning blocking.

Really? There's an option for it. Is it just disabled for crpg?
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #23 on: August 17, 2012, 08:15:51 pm »
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Fine. But only let it change upon retirement or respec. Choose what you prefer, but dont change it too often.

Agreed, it should be a one time thing when you make your character.  Of if you are able to switch in game, you get a huge hit to wpf/powerstrike/powerdraw etc. 

or add a new skill to put points into allowing you to be ambidextrous
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #24 on: August 17, 2012, 11:10:14 pm »
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or add a new skill to put points into allowing you to be ambidextrous
Well pretty much everyone agrees that WM is mostly a waste of skill points for melee, so there's no reason why WM couldn't do this as well.
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2012, 11:34:11 pm »
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this is a good idea but restricting it per gen for what??? Or losing wpf???? Archery and throwing both require investment into wpf to be effective, What if your an archer you just switched to left hand with half wpf...now your aim is so bad your shooting yourself.
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #26 on: August 18, 2012, 07:47:01 pm »
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since people dont switch from left to right in real life  , so only change at retirement.
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #27 on: September 19, 2012, 08:52:05 pm »
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #28 on: September 19, 2012, 09:21:07 pm »
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This would be cool.
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Re: Left Handed Option for Characters.
« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2012, 10:55:31 pm »
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Even though this sounds good on paper, all lefthanded characters will be incredibly OP and lame, until it becomes mainstream, everyone gets used to it and the right/left handed populations are about the same size.

If it really was to be done I'd say only allow it on 100% new characters and maybe in case of a full respec (the auction thing). Once per gen is too much IMO.