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# The strafe key changes the left and right turn keys into left and right strafe keys
 
# The strafe key changes the left and right turn keys into left and right strafe keys
 
# The run key increases the speed of movement
 
# The run key increases the speed of movement
4. On the converted version of Doom 1, the controls are diffrent.
 
  
 
Consult the game instruction manual regarding weapon selection keys, function keys and other controls.
 
Consult the game instruction manual regarding weapon selection keys, function keys and other controls.

Revision as of 04:28, 10 May 2009

The game controls are the inputs by which the player directs movement and other game functions.

Default controls

The default controls, in vanilla Doom, for the most often-used functions are as follows.

Function Keyboard Mouse Joystick
Turn right right arrow mouse right joy right
Turn left left arrow mouse left joy left
Move forward up arrow mouse up or button 2 joy up
Move backward down arrow mouse down joy down
Strafe left (Alt + left arrow) or comma¹ (Alt or button 3) + mouse left
Strafe right (Alt + right arrow) or period¹ (Alt or button 3) + mouse right
Fire weapon Ctrl button 1 button 1
Use (open) space bar double-click button 2 or double-click button 3 button 2
Strafe² Alt button 3 button 3
Run³ Shift button 4
  1. The single-key strafe controls (comma and period) are not listed in the instruction manuals
  2. The strafe key changes the left and right turn keys into left and right strafe keys
  3. The run key increases the speed of movement

Consult the game instruction manual regarding weapon selection keys, function keys and other controls.

Mouse and keyboard

The instruction manuals provide a tip that recommends using the keyboard and mouse simultaneously, saying "the mouse provides fine control for aiming your weapon (allowing you to smoothly rotate right and left) [...]". The keyboard and mouse combination also provides rapid rotation and easier strafing, resulting in quicker maneuvers than when using the keyboard alone.

In mouse and keyboard mode, usually the mouse is used for turning, firing and (perhaps to a lesser extent) strafing and moving forward, and the keyboard is used for the other functions.

Some TSRs (such as Istvan Pataki's Novert) and mouse drivers provide the option to disable or decrease mouse forward/backward movement. This is used especially by players to control forward/backward movement from the keyboard only and thus want to disregard inadvertent vertical mouse movement. Many source ports include this as an internal configuration option.

WASD

When using mouse and keyboard, many players (right-handed people in particular) find the default location of certain keys to be less-than-optimal. Using the Setup program (or a corresponding menu in a source port), it is possible to reassign these key functions to other keys. One popular arrangement is known as WASD (since those are the keys that are reassigned):

Function Default key WASD key
Move forward up arrow W
Move backward down arrow S
Strafe left comma A
Strafe right period D

Analogous arrangements using, for example, ESDF and (for left-handed mousers) IJKL are also used.

Joystick

The joystick is more awkward than the keyboard and mouse combination, and is thus not used very often by Doom players, but the run button setting of the joystick in the configuration file (joyb_speed) will have the effect of allowing the player to always run (as if the key assigned to key_speed were always pressed) if set to 29 (or 31).

References

See also