Posted March 29, 2019
high rated
Hi. With the game now available on GOG, I imagine that a lot of people may be trying it and finding the controls rather outdated and difficult to use. I had the same experience a few years ago when I played it for the first time in years, so I made a small Windows utility to improve the mouse controls and make them more like Warcraft II and nearly every other RTS.
Simply run it before starting the game and it'll map some of the game's keyboard commands to your mouse buttons. In a nutshell, it allows you to left click and drag to select units (i.e. without holding Ctrl), right click to attack or harvest (or just move), middle click to repair, use the WASD keys or the mouse wheel to scroll the map and a few more things. If those are features that you wish that the game had, try it out.
The full Readme and download link are available at the following link. Feedback is most welcome. In fact, I might use it to update it, since it's been a while.
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/954-warcraft-mouse-helper
Edit: I've noticed that dragging and dropping the GOG shortcut onto the Create Shortcut window doesn't create a new shortcut. That's because GOG put the shortcut on the Public desktop, which I didn't account for. To work around it, right click the helper and choose Run as Administrator. I'll fix that in the next version.
Edit #2: It's been brought to my attention that WASD scrolling may stop working after saving a game. That's because it has to be disabled to allow you to use those characters in the save game name, but it may not get properly re-enabled afterward. If that happens to you, press Shift+F11 to re-enable it.
Simply run it before starting the game and it'll map some of the game's keyboard commands to your mouse buttons. In a nutshell, it allows you to left click and drag to select units (i.e. without holding Ctrl), right click to attack or harvest (or just move), middle click to repair, use the WASD keys or the mouse wheel to scroll the map and a few more things. If those are features that you wish that the game had, try it out.
The full Readme and download link are available at the following link. Feedback is most welcome. In fact, I might use it to update it, since it's been a while.
https://community.pcgamingwiki.com/files/file/954-warcraft-mouse-helper
Edit: I've noticed that dragging and dropping the GOG shortcut onto the Create Shortcut window doesn't create a new shortcut. That's because GOG put the shortcut on the Public desktop, which I didn't account for. To work around it, right click the helper and choose Run as Administrator. I'll fix that in the next version.
Edit #2: It's been brought to my attention that WASD scrolling may stop working after saving a game. That's because it has to be disabled to allow you to use those characters in the save game name, but it may not get properly re-enabled afterward. If that happens to you, press Shift+F11 to re-enable it.
Post edited April 07, 2019 by jnisbet