Title says it all but before I go into detail I would like to point out that I really enjoy the combat system in TERA. I am glad to finally see another action type combat system after Age of Conan (developers destroyed that game).

With the two camera modes TERA uses, Combat and Mouse, in order to orient your camera in a different direction then your character you must use WASD. This makes it especially difficult when trying to kite players as a healer and keep eyes on the battlefield. Or as a DPS character keep track of who is on your flanks without losing precious gap closing time with imprecise WASD control.

The current implementation of TERA goes one step beyond the standard MMO market and forces players to look at the action in-front of their character. Unfortunately I believe we have taken a small step backwards to get this to happen. I was fortunate enough to get to play a ton of deathmatch battles in closed beta 1 as a Mystic. The battles where very fun and I was able to operate the current controls with little to no issues. I was constantly panning my camera around and using WASD to keep my character kiting enemy dps trains.

EXAMPLE: As a Mystic in group PvP I have two constant tasks at hand. 1) Make sure that all group members are healed up and be close enough to ones that are in danger of getting damaged so that I can heal them up asap. 2) Keep my fragile *** alive. Constantly moving and being weary of enemy players as they setup a DPS train of death on me.

I would propose a game option in settings that would allow you to use the generic left mouse button controls camera and right mouse button controls camera + character facing. Holding either one of these buttons would be the equivalent of the Combat mode we have now showing a cross-hair in the center of the screen. Letting go of both of these buttons would enable the mouse pointer mode so that you can trade, use menus, ect.

This is somewhat of a cross-post from a General Discussion thread http://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/general-discussion/topics/Camera-Movement-with-Mouse . I wanted more feedback from the PvP community, specifically on the game mechanics issue and ignoring the lack of “flow” between the two camera modes.

TL;DR
TERA forces you to keyboard turn if you want to orient you camera in a different direction then your character! Give us an option for camera controls with the mouse!

There's no such thing as keyboard-turning in Tera, because the only way to turn is with your mouse. You're mistaking strafe for turn.

The quickest way to turn is to swing your mouse and tap W. Instantly, you've changed the direction you're facing, without ever having touched ASD.

It just takes some getting used to, that's all. It's not as clunky as people think once they understand it.

"Give us an option for camera controls with the mouse!"


dude, thats the only way to control the camera...

as long as you're not hitting 'w,' you can move while still examining the battlefield. hit 's' to run (not backpedal) in the opposite direction as your crosshair, or use 'a' or 'd' to run sideways, while still examining the battlefield. and then hitting a skill will fire off in the direction you're aiming.

it's anything but keyboard turning.

Troll thread? This doesn't make sense.

Quote: Kellexx on 2012-02-13 23:15:45 UTC

More like WoWnoob thread? lol

The mindset of this MMO genre is so fcked up. They want everything handed to them, AND they want to play MMO's on auto-pilot lol. I can't wait to see what they'll become in the real world. Fcking losers.

Quote: coma on 2012-02-13 23:22:55 UTC

he's talking strictly from a combat stand-point, and you played L2, the easiest combat system in the genre. the very definition of "auto-pilot."

jus' sayin'

The players that understand good game play becomes proportionally fewer as MMO's such as WoW pull in much more casual instant-gratification players. These forums make it seem like I am talking about rocket science; or are very good new age trolls. *sigh*

The camera is not keyboard turning but mouse sliding/spinning. Slide the mouse to aim somewhere, press w and your character turn really fast. If you want to kite while looking at the mob press s and your character should run toward the camera and turn back to the mob. I found a little video (not mine) to show this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9WDtIZxZ1A

I was playing a sorceror this weekend and what i found annoying a bit was that some move would fire up where the aim is pointing and some other would fire up where the face of my caracter is pointing so i had to hit w before using those while kiting. They should make it so all spell fire where the aim is pointing. I think sorceror is not the only class with spell like that.

you guys should believe in troll threads



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