weapon switching bind ...

[]LoL[malkovich|mOO]

not sure if this belongs here or in editing or troubleshooting ...

i have never been able to get a 'best weapon' switching bind to work for my mouse wheel , here is what i want it to do and i believe that i saw one at cleaner's site that is supposed to do just what i want but it wont work for me ... i want it to cycle thru the explosive weapons in the order i choose when i scroll up and the 'hitscan' weapons in the order i select when i scroll down (something like that) ... last time i set it up it did nothing when i rolled the mouse wheel up and switched back and forth between the hammer and enforcer when i rolled down , even tho i had all the weapon names right in the bind and yes , i actually did have the other weapons in my inventory when i tried it ... :D ...

so if someone is using this setup and could post exactly what they have in there , this here n00b sure would appreciate it ... :) ... shirk ...

[gramps]

in User.ini:

MouseWheelDown=switchweapon <number of weapon> | switchweapon <number of weapon> | switchweapon etc.

notes:
the weapon you want to use first should be listed last. for example, if you want to use the sniper first and then the mini, you should use:

switchweapon 7 | switchweapon 9

i don't exactly know which number is what weapon, but you can open Defuser.ini, it should be listed somewhere in there. i think.

example:
i have bound the shock and mini to the "\" key. in my User.ini it looks like this:

Backslash=switchweapon 7 | switchweapon 4

when i press the backslash i get the shockrifle. if i press it again i get the mini. if i press it again i get the shock again.
hope this helps. :)

[gramps]

now that i think of it. i'm not sure whether you can actually bind more than 2 weapons in this fashion. i've never tried that out....

[]LoL[malkovich|mOO]

thanx gramps , i will try that later , maybe that is the problem - i had like 4 weapons in my list for each ... and i didnt know you could use the weapon numbers ... shirk ...

[Tetris L]

The alias as written on my site is flawed. Using getweapon <weaponname> f@cks up the switching if you run out of ammo for one of the weapons. Do what Gramps wrote and use switchweapon <weaponnumber> instead, this works better.

Note: The alias does not make you cycle through all the weapons in the group. It makes you switch only between the two best weapons of the group!

[Boom]

Here are my weapon binds.

MouseWheelDown=switchweapon 2 | switchweapon 5 | switchweapon 10 | switchweapon 7

I have Mousewheeldown set as my hitscan weapon catagory. The last weapon on the list is the first one it will give you. It first will give me weapon 7 (the mini) then switch to 10 (the sniper) and back between mini and sniper. If I run out of ammo on either of those two, it replaces it with weapon 5 (the pulse). So if I am out of mini ammo, my mousewheel down switches from snipe to pulse to snipe to pulse. The only downside is, I cannot access my pulse if I have snipe and mini ammo. But I would never use my pulse if I had snipe and mini, so its really not a problem. Weapon 2 is the enforcer, which only comes up if I only have one other hitscan weapon available, or if I only have the enforcer left.

MouseWheelUp=switchweapon 1 | switchweapon 6 | switchweapon 9 | switchweapon 4

This is my splash damage catagory. First choice, weapon 4, is the shock. I am a shock ho. :D Second choice is the Rocket launcher. It is soooooo nice, to be able to switch between the shock and the rox by just spinning the mousewheel up! If I run out of ammo for one of these, it puts in weapon 6 (the razor) since the razor alt gives a small explosion, and its really not a hitscan, I put it in my splash damage catagory. If I run out of something else it goes to weapon1 which is the hammer. I know hammer doesn't really belong in this catagory, but thats where I want it :p I have another button bound to hammer anyway, since I need it available quickly for hammerjumps. I also have a separate button bound to Xloc, because I need to always be able to get my xloc IMMEDIATELY! He he.

U=getweapon warheadlauncher | switchweapon 3 | switchweapon 8

This one is kind of weird. I had to bind "u" to mousebutton press in my Boomslang settings. I couldn't seem to just set something to mousebuttonpress from inside UT. Don't think I actually press the U button, I just used it cause it was available. This is my spammy weapon catagory. It first brings up weapon 8, the flak, then weapon 3, the goo. I would have liked to put the redeemer last on the list, so it would select that first if I have it, but for some reason that really screws things up. I have no idea why, and I have tried different ways to do it, but if its at the end it just screws everything up. Its because I have it as getweapon instead of switchweapon. But if I do it as switchweapon, then I have to use number 10 which will bring up the sniper if I have one. So anyway, this bind brings up flak, then goo, then flak. It could potentially be a problem if I have flak and goo and a redeemer and want to bring up the redeemer. But that has only happened like once. And it wasn't really a problem. I have a tossweapon bind handy, so I just tossed the goo, then was able to switch from flak to deemer to flak to deemer.

[F}{ZaGhost}{F]

My settings are similar to Boom's
only more specific

MiddleMouse=Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 4 | Switchweapon 10
MouseWheelDown=Switchweapon 2 | Switchweapon 6 | Switchweapon 5 | Switchweapon 7
MouseWheelUp=Switchweapon 3 | Switchweapon 8 | Switchweapon 9
+ a key for
NumPadPeriod=Switchweapon 6 | Getweapon ImpactHammer

this way scroll down will mainly give me mini and pulse
scroll up RL or flak
scroll button shock or sniper

I added the extra key to get quick access to the ripper and hammer in LMS games :)

[]LoL[malkovich|mOO]

hooray ... :) ...

[MÆST]

So I take it 4 years later you got the bind to work? ;)