Still no mod to fix awful controls?

[rawr22]

Is it just me that finds it dumb that that with magic your right hand is left click and your left hand is right click? I know this can now be swapped, but then when you switch to melee block is left click and attack is right click...

 

In the to games of Skyrim I've played I've stuck to pure melee and pure magic because of this. There's a lot of new great looking mods out now so I'd like to play again and finally try a battlemage, a melee-magic hybrid, but dread this for obvious reasons.

 

I can't find any mods that fix these controls or simply(?) swap the shield to the right hand. Am I missing something? I find this so game breaking it can't only be me.

[Co0n]

So what should happen when you have Magic + shield?

I think your problem is totally weird. Either have left hand = left MB or swapped, not BOTH since thats just confusing.

If you want to use Magic for your left hand with the left mousebutton, ofcourse the shield has to be left mousebutton too.

[ThatOneFurryInEveryFandom]

Honestly, I think you're picky. You're probably the one out of a thousand people that have been playing Skyrim that actually cares about this.

[rawr22]

Have the shield in the right hand. Problem solved.

 

Left click: magic attack, right click: shield block.

 

 

omegau that really does surprise me. I'd be happy playing v1.0 of Skyrim with no other mods if the controls worked correctly...

[Chaosrains]

Have the shield in the right hand. Problem solved.

 

Left click: magic attack' date=' right click: shield block.

 

 

omegau that really does surprise me. I'd be happy playing v1.0 of Skyrim with no other mods if the controls worked correctly...

[/quote']

I've had no issues with the controls. They're actually quite nice and and the mouse buttons make sense.

 

I don't think you can just switch the shield into the right hand. That would probably require a whole new set of animations and other backend fixes. It's far more trouble than it's worth.

 

You don't quite seem to pick up on the fact that left-clicking in PC games has been the standard for attacking. It would be extremely disorienting for the majority of PC players to be introduced to a right-click based attack, and left-click based defense.

 

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't shields IRL typically held in the left hand anyway? I can't really remember an instance of someone holding it in their right hand.

 

[rawr22]

You don't quite seem to pick up on the fact that left-clicking in PC games has been the standard for attacking. It would be extremely disorienting for the majority of PC players to be introduced to a right-click based attack' date=' and left-click based defence.

 

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't shields IRL typically held in the left hand anyway? I can't really remember an instance of someone holding it in their right hand.

[/quote']

This is exactly my point. If you don't want the magic controls to be backwards you have no choice which button you block with.

 

I've no idea which hands are used traditionally IRL, but I'm left handed myself so it's still the wrong way round for me

 

I'm seriously astonished I'm the only one with an issue with backwards controls. I thought these would be the first mods out. I guess it must be me.

[thesapien]

Huh, that does seem like it would bother a lot people. I never knew because I use a controller with my PC, so left is always matched to left hand and right to right hand, no confusion.

 

Sorry, that doesn't help you. Unless you're motivated to buy a controller now! Having analog control is pretty sweet.

[fg109]

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=88

[oblivioner]

What bothers me is that as a caster it's so uselessly hard to fight with a shield.

Start fight with a magic resist enchanted daedric shield in left hand and let's say "summon Storm Atronach" in the right hand.

So I get the old potent storm atronach out, and now I want to cast a few thunderbolts...

If I use the q menu:

I have to scroll down to thunderbolt and right-click on that if I want to break combat(which typically I don't)

OR

hit thunderbolt hotkey twice and shield hotkey once.

So much so I just use two handed weapons(either the ebon blade, or summon up a battle axe.

[Rax]

i set my left hand to left click and right hand to right click. it makes perfect sense to me lol

[Bware]

Is it just me that finds it dumb that that with magic your right hand is left click and your left hand is right click? I know this can now be swapped' date=' but then when you switch to melee block is left click and attack is right click...

 

In the to games of Skyrim I've played I've stuck to pure melee and pure magic because of this. There's a lot of new great looking mods out now so I'd like to play again and finally try a battlemage, a melee-magic hybrid, but dread this for obvious reasons.

 

I can't find any mods that fix these controls or simply(?) swap the shield to the right hand. Am I missing something? I find this so game breaking it can't only be me.

[/quote'] I agree 100%, and it's even more annoying now that I use "Categorized Favorites Menu" http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/4862/. It allows you to hotkey up to nine abilities, but with the default coding in Skyrim, when you hit a hotkey it automagically (pun intended) goes to your left hand. So if I want to roll with my shield I have to hit the spell hotkey twice to assign to left then right, then my shield hotkey, or hit Q and manually click. I don't understand why you can't just allow shields in either hand..swords can be in either hand.

 

I don't know much about coding, but I assume the issue here is that they had to hard code block as it's own thing to work better with a controller. It seems to me that a shield should be just like a weapon or spell, no matter what hand you have something in, using that trigger (controller) or left/right click should use that spell/shield/weapon..