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C is jump, space is crouch. Come at me

if i’m crouching a lot during twitchy gameplay, i put it on like mouse4 or something

Yes, although I hit C with my index finger, sacrificing .3 seconds of strafing right. The way my hand is on the keyboard, control is just absolutely the worst and most painful (if doing a lot) key to reach. So preach! 😁

How do you crouch and not jump without moving the base of your thumb up off the desk? Or do you have like a wrist rest that's like 3x thicker than your keyboard???

I either rotate my thumb, or lower the thumb. Either works without moving my hand

An unpopular take if I have ever seen one, Storm!

counterargument, crouch jumping is weird

It is and that’s why I like it

Ever tried it in real life? Almost hurt myself

c is so fucking hard to reach no thank you

i'm tryin WASD right now and my thumb naturally rests between C and V. i got skinny fingers tho.

How small are your hands

I would like to see you losing your mind over Deus Ex default key bindings. Staring with X for crouch :)

X is a little out there, but at least it's below WASD so it kinda at least signifies crouch?

At least close enough right, that’s a relief. Then you get the gems like flashlight on F12, reload on ; or putting an item away on Backspace :D

*links an article called "sensible defaults do not exist"* No, but genuinely, Control is easier to reach for me than C. Wonder what I do differently or if it's a hand size thing

I dread this is some weird reveal of me using keyboards wrong but how do you press C,V,B etc with your thumb without hitting space? Am I holding my thumb wrong... Is it not meant to be sideways?

Sideways? Like along the keyboard? No, my thumb is angled from bottom to op, so I can indeed hit all those keys individually with my thumb

Dishonored fully converted me to C for crouch and F for interact

ESDF - you get A and Z for sprinting and crouching, and your hand is already correctly positioned when you need to shit talk.

Shift to crouch 😎🍵

THUMB HAHAHA WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOUR HANDS

Wait, how do YOU play if not this?

Lmao this is crazy

Behold!

That's not a hand that's a talon

I agree, though not for the pinky not being able to reach there (as a big hand individual I don’t mind that), but rather because the pinky is probably already occupied with shift for sprint or maybe a dash. Crouch on C makes things more flexible.

ZQSD are the proper move keys. Now, as you read this, horrified at the image you have of your phalanges twisting to unnatural shapes for those keys, do mind I use an AZERTY keyboard. And as you find relief, know that your previous horror is what I endure every. single. game. until I remap the keys.

I cannot even imagine it on a DVORAK

That left ctrl *hold to crouch* was a standard for a while will always make me mad for this exact reason. Crouch should be toggle by default and as a developer I should be allowed to set default binding to C for any game I work on

well look at Shortfingers McStubby-Digits over here, eh? Alright for some but I’d need an all-day return ticket to hit C with this thumb, but the pinky is already right there

Oooooooh that explains it maybe. My fingers are curved

Crouching isn't easy though

Someone should make a QWOP shooter in which you have to align each leg to crouch correctly, just to make it hard

IMO all action adventure games should consider the age of the player character and, based on that, position the crouch key further and further away. If your characters is over 40 crouching should take a great deal of effort and likely not worth it

masterful baitpost, my liege.

That's what people say when I say Z is up! It's the truth!

Unfortunately here you have gone somewhere I cannot follow

I'm left handed so I *always* have to completely remap all the controls when I play a game. I personally put it all on the numpad (WASD becomes 8426), and crouch is 0/Ins, under the thumb

Ooooh, that's really neat! And about the same ideas as C, with the thumb

Yep exactly The cool thing with the numpad is that the differently-sized keys (Return, Plus, Minus, etc.) positioned all around your "home keys" allows for better muscle memory imho

You’re wrong

Come at me, what’s the alternative?

Control

no I dont think so

Then what is it that you do?

Federal Bureau of Crouch 

Every time you press Ctrl it triggers an AWE