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colanderman on Aug 17, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wolfenstein 1D

Why CTRL for shoot? It doesn't work in my browser for who knows what number of reasons, rendering the game unplayable. Games running on unknown hardware should stick to common keys which can be expected to work/exist.

rkowalick on Aug 17, 2011 [–]

I imagine CTRL was chosen for historical reasons; it was the fire key on the original game.

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