[emark]

If, like most you assign Cmd key to "jump", and the "q" key to a weapon or another action, there will probably come a time (no doubt when your Pwning) that you will inadvertently strike them simultaneously causing the game to Quit. ARRRGgghhhhh!

Altering the Cmd-Q in the system preferences doesn't seem to affect the response within the game itself...but fear not, there is a cure (from Icculus himself):

Quit the game if it's running, and then look in your Home directory for the Library/Application Support/Unreal Tournament 2004/System folder. There should be a UT2004.ini file in there. Open it in a text editor and look for:

AllowCommandQKeys=True

Change "True" to "False" ... now the game will ignore Cmd-Q (from then on you'll have to quit the game from the menus or by typing "quit" in the console, though).

Voila.

Happy gaming.

[Big Mac]

Why would you use command for jump instead of spacebar? You'd probably have to hack the game to disable command Q.

[SuvsareRetarded]

don't use the command key for games. It's that easy.

[emark]

excuse me, I meant CMD key for crouch, not Jump...which, BTW IS THE DEFAULT key for CROUCH, and the hint is equally applicable...regardless of how one is using the CMD.

Further, your attitude re: a technically correct tip is poor, if you don't like it, move on. Suprising for someone w/ as many posts as you have.

The capability to turn it off isn't a hack, and the guy primarily responsible (Icculus) for the port to Mac related to me: "We added that .ini option for just this very reason, so it should fix your problems."

Obviously, (obvious to most, I would hope) this isn't an isolated concern, as borne out by their adding the feature.

[SuvsareRetarded]

Lighten up, eMark. I don't know why anyone would want to use that key anyway.... just set them to ASDF and have the space bar do something also.

[emark]

I can appreciate that you've found a method that works best for you.

Your wisdom would be appreciated on its own merits when you express an alternative suggestion in a more constructive way.

Your first post "don't use the command key for games. It's that easy." smacks of condescension, didn't offer reaonable alternatives, and shows a general failure to grasp why this might be important to some, if not a majority of players.

Even if it were for a minority of users, sharing the tip for their benefit, is what it's here for. We all get to look at the keyboard and choose, then fine tune, but at some point the keys you get comfortable with get connected as a reflex after enough play. So while your suggestion not to use the Cmd key is good for some, it IMHO isn't as ergonomic to not use the Cmd key, nor does it address acccidents.

Further, looking at the ASWD DEFAULT movement keys, one would think that using the keys close to them would make sense for weapon assignments or other actions, no? So there in lies a recipe for an accidental quit at some point in time for many people... This wouldn't be as much an issue for me if I just played single player, but is embarassing and possibly damaging to your team/clan to have an accidental quit in the middle of action.

You will note in several forums, (on this board and others) that people have concerns about Safari quitting, as unlike word, excel, or other document processing apps, that would ask you if you wish to save work before exiting, browsers and games are more viewers, and design hasn't emphasized the need to prevent accidental closure. Several hacks, patches, workarounds have sprung up to address this. Having computers work the way people want to use them is better than forcing people to do one thing, one way, all the time. Check out the mod possibilities for the System preferences "keyboard and mouse" pane sometime.

This is a place for sharing ideas, and as this is a little-documented feature added after original release (though it will, I believe be an option in the gui for later releases) I felt some sense of duty to share a tip that is as obscurely documented elsewhere as this one.

And it is a tip, not a hack. It is a feature enabled and subsequently shared by the programmer(s), not some 3rd party add-on or patch.

[mr. burns]

make the control key crouch. that's the key i've ALWAYS used. easy to hit with your pinky finger.