4 Common Myths about Classic Doom = DEBUNKED!

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Doomkid , regarding Myth #2: Even back when I first started playing Doom in 1994 I figured out quickly that keyboard + mouse was in fact a way to play. I think the big problem for me, and I would argue most other people, was that mouse support was so bad at the time that people basically had to get good with the keyboard-only in order to have any fun. I don't know if you've put in much time playing the original DooM and DooM II in DOS, but I've got thousands and thousands of hours, and let me tell you mouse support sucked back then. Any forward or backward mouse movement moved the player forward or backward! It was obnoxious and impossible to work with, and that's why NOVERT.EXE was created to stop that nonsense from happening. But even with the vertical mouse axis taken out of the picture, mouse support was never crisp and accurate. It was nigh impossible to find a sensitivity setting that actually felt good. If you don't believe me try it in DOS yourself, Christ it's bad! That's part of why the engine has a bit of autoaim in it, because the devs knew that the controls weren't precise enough to make sniper shots(and yeah obviously because you couldn't look up or down).

Another thing is that back in those days the WASD play style wasn't that common yet. You can find plenty of evidence of this by looking at the default settings for most FPS games released from 1992 all the way to 1998(and a few beyond that!). The movement control defaults set by the developers were not set to WASD in games until later in time, because they knew most casual players didn't play that way. This article talks a bit about how WASD became the standard.

You should've debunked that dumb Kurt Cobain myth on MAP21.