+strafe

Type: Action

Binding: ALT

Description: When used the turn left and turn right keys will make the player move left and move right.

Note: The keys bound to the +left and +right will function as if they were bound to +moveleft and +moveright. This command will also affect the mouse, so that when the mouse was moved left and right the player looked left and right, now the player will move left and right instead.

Also, did you know this?
...create a file called autoexec.cfg in the id1/ directory and put in the line +mlook into that file. By doing this the game will automatically execute the autoexec.cfg file and it will also active that command.

Thanks for the response, but that doesn't answer my question. I want to be able to simultaneously have freelook without holding any keys, and have strafing without holding any keys. I want to be able to strafe by hitting left or right, and still be able to freelook left and right.

I recommend using a source port like Quakespasm.

Bluefoot_Bandit wrote:

I want to be able to simultaneously have freelook without holding any keys, and have strafing without holding any keys. I want to be able to strafe by hitting left or right, and still be able to freelook left and right.

Then just reconfigure the keys in the game. There are separate keys for turning and strafing.

The strafe key is a key one must hold down though, which then changes the turn left or turn right into strafe. And when one strafes one cannot look left or right. There is no "strafe left" or "strafe right" option. So essentially it seems to be impossible to strafe and look about simultaneously, which means one cannot turn and strafe simultaneously, which basically destroys my style of movement/play.

Unfortunately I don't have internet access to get a different port like suggested above. I am at work atm, which is how I'm on here.

I suppose I will just have to develop a new style.

Thanks for the replies though guys.

Bluefoot_Bandit wrote:

There is no "strafe left" or "strafe right" option.

Yes there is. In the game options they are called "step left" and "step right".

Bluefoot_Bandit wrote:

it seems to be impossible to strafe and look about simultaneously, which means one cannot turn and strafe simultaneously

Works fine here. WASD + mouselook, DOSBox-0.74, Quake v.1.08

edit id1/autoexec.cfg , add +mlook , done, no sourceport needed.

generally players don't use strafe modifiers, that's a Wolf3D holdover. Dedicated strafe Left/Right keys FTW

leileilol wrote:

generally players don't use strafe modifiers, that's a Wolf3D holdover. Dedicated strafe Left/Right keys FTW

Even in DOS Doom? Understandable if playing a source port with mouselook, but in vanilla the controls are mostly the same as Wolf3D.

Doom had default , . for dedicated strafe keys yes. Much easier to play Doom that way.

That's true, but I never imagined it was easy to play it like that considering the modifier was conveniently placed near the left Ctrl key, so I just resorted to the modifier and arrow keys.

Nowadays there are even people who use WASD in Wolf3D despite the game not being capable of Y axis. The mouse is used to turn around and eventually creep around corners.

Hah, yeah I feel like a real dumbass. Zirkoni, you are totally right, I just had to bind the "step left" and "step right" keys respectively. I was just thinking about it way too hard and when I didn't see a "strafe *direction*" designation after I learned about the whole "+strafe" capability and ran into the turning problem I described. No wonder I never found this question posed anywhere. I should probably lay off the smoke for a little while.

I won't, but I probably should.

Thanks everyone, for your responses, and for not making me feel too retarded.

No problem 😀 Even in mouselooking source ports like Zdoom I still play it with only the arrow keys 🤣

QUAKE\ID1\AUTOEXEC.CFG
crosshair 1
+mlook

- In Game -
Options
Customize Controls
Turn Left:
Turn Right:
Step Left:
Step Right:

sv_aim 2 (or some other high number) should also be essential if you want to turn the autoaim off. This isn't an archived cvar, so stick that in autoexec.