Guild Wars 2

This has been driving me absolutely crazy while trying to decorate the guild hall. You right click to turn your camera, you left click to turn your decoration, and sometimes you click both mouse buttons during the transition between the two and your character runs forward and screws up all of your positioning. Please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD give us an option to turn off this archaic default control that moves your character forward when using both mouse buttons simultaneously.

(If it is already possible to turn this off and someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.)

Why do you say it’s “archaic”? You get far superior control with a mouse over keys. Keyboard turning is used as an insult for good reason.

Agemnon.4608:

Why do you say it’s “archaic”? You get far superior control with a mouse over keys. Keyboard turning is used as an insult for good reason.

The purpose of this thread is to advocate for an option to turn off double mouse button character movement, not to argue about what is and isn’t “archaic” or play styles in general.

That being said I prefer to move forward with my keyboard and use my mouse buttons to pan or change direction. That isn’t keyboard turning. What I’ve just described is the exact functionality you get out of holding down both mouse buttons at the same time but the difference is it doesn’t make guild hall decorating difficult. I assume this feature exists to facilitate some degree of one-handed gameplay but it does nothing for me so I’d like to be able to turn it off.

I have no idea why they did this, and would also love an option to turn it off. And for those with poor reading comprehension, I’m not saying that keyboard turning is better than mouse turning. I’m saying I’d like an option to turn off the mandatory “left mouse+right mouse = forward”.

Ironically, I use this semi-often and the only thing I don’t like about it is that you fire your weapon when you first start running. It’s embarrassing. I just want it to start running when I hold both buttons. But on to your point – I can see the benefit of an option to turn it off. What I’m wary of is that now you’ve mentioned this, anet might decide to suddenly turn it off without giving us any option. They’ve ..uhm.. been known to do things like that.

Power.2957:

This has been driving me absolutely crazy while trying to decorate the guild hall. You right click to turn your camera, you left click to turn your decoration, and sometimes you click both mouse buttons during the transition between the two and your character runs forward and screws up all of your positioning. Please, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD give us an option to turn off this archaic default control that moves your character forward when using both mouse buttons simultaneously.

(If it is already possible to turn this off and someone could point me in the right direction that would be greatly appreciated.)

Those problems have very little do with this particular feature.

The real problem is the clumsy decorating interface we have right now. For example it should be possible to edit a decoration’s orientation after being placed. You should be able to target and remove a specific decoration instead of being an AoE operation. Being able to adjust position after placement would also be good.

Agemnon.4608:

Why do you say it’s “archaic”? You get far superior control with a mouse over keys. Keyboard turning is used as an insult for good reason.

Please learn to read.

I like moving on mouse when running/roaming, it is not usefull for combat, but iut is really usefull when drinking a cup of coffee, escpecially in area’s where you can fall to your death….

You don’t actually have to keep your mouse button pressed down in your situation…

Wow! Been playing for 9 months and didn’t know you could move like that.

I’ll be using it in future but I agree it should be customisable.

I like it as well – why should it be taken out again?

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Ironically, I use this semi-often and the only thing I don’t like about it is that you fire your weapon when you first start running.

no you dont? how on earth does the mouse cause you to activate your autoattack/skills?

Felahr.9830:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Ironically, I use this semi-often and the only thing I don’t like about it is that you fire your weapon when you first start running.

no you dont? how on earth does the mouse cause you to activate your autoattack/skills?

That would Action camera’s fault.

I really like the ability to move by holding down both mouse buttons. Alongside auto-run and right mouse button it’s the option I use most often.

However I do agree that it would be nice to be able to change the bindings for the mouse buttons like we can with the keyboard keys. However I seem to remember hearing that due to the way the game was built it’s not easy to add that option.

OP is NOT asking for it to be removed.

OP is asking for a button in OPTIONS to be put in to turn OFF this feature. So that he can turn it off when decorating in the guild hall and then turn it back on when he goes to leave.

Seera.5916:

OP is NOT asking for it to be removed.

OP is asking for a button in OPTIONS to be put in to turn OFF this feature. So that he can turn it off when decorating in the guild hall and then turn it back on when he goes to leave.

Maybe ANet should at least set up decoration mode so it doesn’t conflict with existing shortcuts, for keyboards or mice.

Felahr.9830:

Zoltar MacRoth.7146:

Ironically, I use this semi-often and the only thing I don’t like about it is that you fire your weapon when you first start running.

no you dont? how on earth does the mouse cause you to activate your autoattack/skills?

As Khisanth pointed out, in action camera mode the left button fires when first clicked.

I use double mouse button run all the time for one handed operation. It’s not as good as the GW1 click to run but it’s useful. They should lump an enable/disable option for it and other functions in a accessibility section of settings.