General DiscussionWASD camera vs edge pan

I was considering it myself, im just so used to play with wasd camera, im not even sure if it affects my gameplay tbh.

It's easy to get used to..

I played CS for 10 years, then dota for 1 year with WASD, and getting used to edge pan took just some games.

Now I barely use edge pan, but mouse3 drag.

what is edge pan?

and isnt it better juts to whip the mouse? why the hell would you need WASD`?

Scroll drag master race

I think he meant edge scroll which means you have to move your mouse to the edge of the screen to make the camera move

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@Pure idk it kinda feels like waste of keys. With edge pan your fingers are set so you can use abilities faster but with wasd theres like so fckin many buttons.

Scroll drag just feels retarded when i've played with it a little.. lol

I like to use drag scroll because I don't have to remove my mouse from the center of the camera. Even if its means destroying the middle mouse of a death adder

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Using WASD, or in my case; ESDF, for camera movement gives you more room for controll of your character.

If you don't understand why then you simply don't understand why.

^I dont understand why. OT: just use whatever, edge pan masterrace tho. Allows for the easiest navigation in fast fights tho as you won't accidently hit the wrong button or smth.

Muhics - like kittler saids wasd allow me to micro my hero better when chasing someone down like a storm or hasted hero. Ill give it a shot though.

I don't understand how people play without WASD camera. They limiting their vision.

How does edge pan limit your vision?

I cannot imagine using WASD to move camera, edge pan was just natural and it allows me to move camera precisely. WASD would make me slow at using multiple skills, items and shift them if necessary. Middle button for me either as I feel it takes so long and I can't use other mouseclicks for a second.

Edgepan rules the world. Will take you 5 games to get comfortable with, don't think about it too much.

btw., is there any pro player who doesn't use the edge?

Its either edge or scroll drag or the combination of 2. WASD isnt even a thing.

zoom camera >all

Usually I edge scroll when playing Dota 2.

min 2 xd

ahh and i use edge pan, always have

Wasd makes ur reaction slower and gives u buttons that u dont have to use , btw what r ur spells and hotkeys with wasd moving ur camera ?
What if ur using wasd to move ur cam and suddenly a invs hero hit u how slow is ur reaction to stun him or blink if ur hands r not yet on the button?

I use WASD to move the screen, as well as QERF for skills. Works fine for me, WASD is just natural for me.

Yea, I don't think it slows my reactions at all... WASD cam, QERF skills GV for additional 2 \ (left of z) is stop F1 is sellect all 1 is select hero and ` is select all other. zxc space, mouse 4 and 5 for items (logitech g700s mouse, used to use the buttons above mouse 4 and 5 for top and bottom rune, but my autoexec doesn't work anymore, also use front trigger button as autocast item in slot z, usually for blinks or rod of atos, abysall etc) .... B for attack move... which sounds like a bad button... but my hands are huge and I've played guitar all my life... so hitting big stretches means practically nothing to me... and it's only used for microing illus to farm/ aggro swaping and denying towers (since i have right click to deny on)...

I used WASD cam in all of the RTS games I played since RA2... and I'm just pretty damn familiar with it... edge pan does my tits in since if you over shoot you gotta put your mouse miles out of where you likely wanted it to be to push it back a bit. whereas a quick a-s tap and you're there, and your mouse was always ready.

All of my issues with dota come from the fact that I've never played MOBAs before, can't farm/lasthit, bad situational awareness, like to run at people whether I can kill them or not... there is nothing more satisfying than a CM runing at 5 people who back up in fear... something I'll likely only experience at 2k lololol.

I used to play like this when I started dota, because I was mostly playing CS and my sens was very very low, so it was really uncomfortable to move camera with mouse. :D It's worth changing it trust me, WASD camera sucks.

Maybe WASD camera suits better for supports, because they need to move camera a lot, to be aware of what is going on around. While edge pan works for carry, because they focused more on AFK farming and have need to move camera only couple times per game minute.

@13oundary
Wait... RA2 didn't have WASD cam, Q/W/E/R were hotkeys for build categories (main/defense/infantry/vehicles). Unless you mean you used the arrows?
Also, RA2 had right-click scroll which was super comfortable, responsive and could let you scroll as much as you want. Dota 2's scroll just feels way too clunky, you can only scroll the size of your screen and it's set on middle mouse button which is very uncomfortable for me.

^ I dont like you.
You never use kappa
Change ur pic and name
/kappa

been playing this game for 10 years

wtf is WASD camera ?

How do people have enough keys to do wasd

thought edge pannign was the only way lol

I don't use any of that, i use the central mouse button for move the camera (allways), its very bad , but autocad works with it so it's hard to play like the normal people.