Ah, also meant to mention Snow Down the Shirt was handy for mugging the opposing team’s present carrier. (Also useful if you can put that on the opponent before going BOOM if a team member is helping mug them.) Fun, fun, fun!
I use index, middle, ring for WASD as well. It’s much easier, for me.
I recently learned that one of my friends uses WAXD (three middle fingers and thumb) for movement – I’d never seen that before. anyone else do that?
In my case I tried WASD a few times, and kept hitting the wrong keys. You see, my
fingers are kind of short and stubby, and the arrow keys give me more room to
“manuever” them, so to speak (more room for error). And yes there’s enough other
keys nearby that unless the game requires you to have 2 dozen different instant
actions I can get along just fine.
I seem to get along just fine and can manuever, strafe, dodge etc. in a more than
adequate fashion. I will admit that a few of the lesser-used commands (this is for
UT99 the one I play the most) get a little awkward to use sometimes in the heat
of battle, but other than that I can beat up on Godlike bots pretty well. I am sure
that the online guys would own me, but 80% of the reason I still play UT99 is
because of the hilarious voice packs I have made for myself and various humorous
skins and models I’ve DLed-it’s less than a FPS and more of a game with live action
cartoon violence for me. 
I’m an arrow user, and although I haven’t played in years, people used to leave the server on UT99 when I entered. At one time, I was feared. 
So I suppose you could say I can do pretty well at the games with arrows.
E: Forward, using the middle finger.
D: Backwards
S: turn left (or strafe if there’s no turning)
F: turn right (or strafe if there’s no turning)
A: Strafe left (or torso twist left in MW4)
G: Strafe right (or torso twist right)
I need my index finger on the F key, or I can’t tell where the hell my hand is on the keyboard.
Index/middle/pinky here. Probably because when I started playing WoW I was using the arrow keys and those were the easiest ones to use. It also allows easier access to tab, , and Ctrl, which I use a lot. I should probably move Teamspeak back to though, as I tend to send static while trying on new clothes.
Pinky on ctrl, ring A, middle S, index D, thumb on space. Left mouse button for forward, right mouse button for fire, middle mouse button for alt-fire.
Index/middle/pinky here, but I use ESDF- I like having more keys available for my pinky. Other than that, I do love my mouse- it’s got four buttons and two wheels, all of which I use in shooters. I haven’t gotten a new mouse in years (it’s not even optical. It’s the stupid cat hair collecting ball kind that you have to clean every so often.) because I can’t find one with the same wonderful buttons.
Same here. I don’t really play many FPSes these days and the ones I do are more likely to be older ones without mouselooking. If you don’t have one hand on the mouse, it makes as much sense to use the arrow keys with the right hand and any switching or the like (and let’s face it, with games like Doom the only switching is weapons on the number row) with the left.
I’m a WASD gamer, using the three middle finger setup (pinky = crouch (ctrl), thumb = jump (space)) . I would prefer to be an ESDF gamer due to the extra keys, but I’m too set in my ways to change now.
You don’t use your mouse to turn?
I was a Quake I weenie–back in the days when the arrow keys were the default config–when I learned the power of WASD. I wouldn’t say I was a Frag God afterwards, but I was pretty damned decent with WASD, while I could never frag my way out of a paper bag with the arrow keys.
Depends on the game. I’m kind of spacing on how MW4 worked… I should probably reload that and play it again (It’s Solaris time!!!). That game had basic turning like in all other shooters, torso twist, and side view, so it was a bit confusing at times. In some games like WOW, I use both, but, since it’s not a 1st-person shooter, it doesn’t really apply. I usually go ahead and defined them to left & right because I can turn in a circle faster with the keys than by swooping the mouse back and forth.
WASD annoy me because they’re not nicely aligned like the arrow keys are. I have an Intellimouse Explorer and use:
Arrow keys: forward, backward, strafe left and right
Left Mouse: Fire
Middle Mouse: Secondary fire
Mouse Wheel: Cycle weapons
Right Mouse: Jump
Large Thumb Button: Reload
Small Thumb Button: Change fire mode
End: Crouch
Home: Prone
Right Shift: Run
Enter: Use
Wish DirectX had some sort of standard keyboard map that you could define so I didn’t have to redefine every key for each new game I play.
WASD feels so weird to me. I like WASZ:
[ul]
[li]W (middle finger) - forward[/li][li]A (ring finger) - strafe left[/li][li]S (index finger) - strafe right[/li][li]Z (thumb) - backward[/li][/ul]
This frees up my pinkie for SHIFT or CTRL or the occasional TAB. My thumb also covers X (crouch) and SPACE (jump) as necessary. I also set up Q (under my ring finger) and E, R, D and F (under my index finger) for less-used functions (e.g. use item or open door).
I’ve tried WASD several times, and I just can’t get into it. If I have to back up suddenly after a run, I either need to take the time to move my index finger from W to S (which is slow), or keep my thumb positioned over S (which is akward). I’m okay with not being able to strafe while I sift through my pack.
E or W (though E is usually Use) or the lower middle mouse button (it rests on the 2nd knuckle of my right middle finger)
I have pinky on A, ring on WS, middle finger on D, and my index finger rests on the F key. Yaknow, like you’re SUPPOSED to do on a keyboard. 
Invariably, I have to remap the controls so that Crouch is moved from Ctrl to C, where it SHOULD be.
DeadlyAccurate, what do you use to jump?
BTW, I used to use the right button for forward back in the Quake 1 days. I’m considering doing that in UT2004, the FPS I generally play these days.
A to jump, Z to crouch (both left pinky finger)
I think I started this setup back in the Duke Nukem 3D days, but it might’ve been from Doom 2.
My husband uses left-mouse for fire, right-mouse for forward, too, but he also has a Nostromo pad for his left hand. I have very small hands, though, and I can’t even get all my fingers on it.
I use my middle three fingers on WASD.
Back in the days of DOOM & Quake I always changed the keyboard configuration to something else (don’t even remember what it was now). But, I grew tired of that, so I use WASD because it’s support by default most of the time.
Like the others, I use middle finger on A&S because it feels stronger.