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Killamangiro91
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I usually play doom on my PC with keyboard and mouse. But sometimes I just feel like lying on my bed and relaxing while playing it or siting on my couch. You can't play on your PC while doing this. And I hate using my laptop to play doom (touchpad sucks).
What do you guys do to solve this problem? Have you got a console port of doom or do you have other alternatives?
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Can't you attach a mouse to your laptop?
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I can't imagine playing Doom on anything other than a properly configured PC with a proper playing space and maximum controller efficiency. This rules out awkward key combinations, uncomfortable keyboards, lack of a mouse, use of gamepads/joysticks, and lack of a steady surface.

Handicapping myself with such substandard controls or playing conditions certainly wouldn't make me feel relaxed: I'd just vent in frustration and throw the POS away.
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USB Mouse, mousepad sized piece of wood/cardboard/hard cover book, mousepad itself, and of course the laptop charger. I do it all the time since I've only got a laptop anyways :P
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I would say finding a portable mouse and just using that to play on your laptop. However, you could try getting used to the touchpad too. That's how I always played until the last 3 or so months when I finally found my mouse. I never had any problems with it.
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Killamangiro91
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DuckReconMajor said:
Can't you attach a mouse to your laptop?


Yeah, but my thumb always touches the touchpad while playing. It gets really annoying after a while.
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Seeker_of_Truth said:
I never had any problems with it.


Try a ZDaemon server then ;-)
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Maes said:


Try a ZDaemon server then ;-)


I don't play much online, but if I were to, I would most definitely use a mouse. I don't think that would be too relaxing though ;-)
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Killamangiro91 said:
Yeah, but my thumb always touches the touchpad while playing. It gets really annoying after a while.
Can't you either: get a hard surface (i.e. clipboard with mousepad) or turn off touchpad?
Maes said:
Try a ZDaemon server then ;-)
lol I played ZDaemon for a while with the TrackPoint on my ThinkPad and did okay.
Seeker_of_Truth said:
I don't think that would be too relaxing though ;-)
I don't see why multiplayer gaming can't be relaxing. I play CoD multiplayer to relax. ZDaemon co-op can be relaxing.

Competitive multiplayer can be relaxing as long as you're not super stressed about winning. And after a while you get accustomed to the game and end up winning even when you're just phoning it in.
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I sometimes play Doom on a laptop sitting on a couch, using a wireless mouse on the armrest and it works fine unless the level happens to be hard as balls. I have deathmatched a few times while lying in bed, and I don't see myself doing it again.
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I use a laptop and have always played with the arrow keys.
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Is this another "how do you play doom" thread?
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I only have a laptop, and for me, playing Doom in itself is relaxing. What better way to unwind from a work day than blasting some imps and drinking a good brew?
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I always play relaxed on the couch, with a PS3 dualshock controller connected to my laptop. It works great with ZDoom.
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DuckReconMajor said:
I don't see why multiplayer gaming can't be relaxing. I play CoD multiplayer to relax. ZDaemon co-op can be relaxing.

Competitive multiplayer can be relaxing as long as you're not super stressed about winning. And after a while you get accustomed to the game and end up winning even when you're just phoning it in.


That could be true, but I don't play multiplayer enough to know that I guess. I don't think dying all the time would be very relaxing for me (and I'm quite sure I would die pretty often).
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Killamangiro91 said:
You can't play on your PC while doing this.

Use a joypad. Use Xpadder to map your joypad. Solved.
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Killamangiro91 said:
And I hate using my laptop to play doom (touchpad sucks).
Not to mention the heat of the laptop on my belly and chest lowering my blood pressure and making me feel sick.

And I don't play Doom when I'm lazy in principle, I don't want to fall the slippery slope of laziness.
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Some kind of special low and wide desk or table that can be positioned left to right over the middle of a bed would probably be good for playing games in bed via laptop.
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Killamangiro91 said:
Yeah, but my thumb always touches the touchpad while playing. It gets really annoying after a while.

Buy an USB numpad as well. Use 8456 for movements and you can keep 791230./*-+ and enter for various other functions.
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+1 for relaxing on a ZDaemon server, using a touchpad, lying in bed with a laptop that needed to rest on a slab of wood from a shelf to prevent it burning the house down. I often used to play some private alien vendetta survival like this with one or two buddies till like 4am during my sleepless college years. 50% Chat, 50% Play. Too relaxed to give much of a damn about not being able to fly around and 360/no-scope cacos etc at usual PC-playing style.

But yeah, even public CTF is too difficult without a mouse. :-)
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Evolution said:
360/no-scope cacos
haha I have to do this sometime
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Killamangiro91
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Just realized I had Doom 3: resurrection of evil on xbox and it comes with both doom 1 and 2. Why didn't you guys mention this?
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I was already set on the keyboard (and no mouse), but I remember thinking when PSX Doom came out that the controls were perfect. Shoulder buttons strafe, other shoulder buttons cycle weapons.

That was until I discovered Turok and then all the FPS's since that showed me how to actually use a mouse. But for laying back and playing, I really think the PSX controller (or similar) is pretty damn good.
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