Have you ever made a game-related macro for your mouse?

[ZedClampet]

Just to head off certain confusion, this question is not about rodents.

I make them all the time. My best ones were for Helldivers 2. As you play Helldivers 2, you frequently are asked to press the arrow keys in a certain order. So when someone goes down, you have a 6 arrow key sequence to type in to get that person respawned. Generally speaking, since you can't shoot during this, you are running for your life--not using the mouse--while you do it. This wasn't going to happen for me, so I made a macro to do it (and a couple more for other things). So I just start running, hit one of the mouse side buttons, and the person gets respawned.

Another one was for dodging in Elden Ring, which I occasionally screwed up. One for making small jumps in another game (one step forward, jump, "w" while in the air, briefly "s" when you land to keep from sliding off the other side), and even one to put away what I was carrying and deploy my umbrella in Nightingale.

Based on previous discussions, I'm pretty sure no one else here has made a mouse macro, but I thought I would give it a shot.

 

[BeardyHat]

I don't do it for games, generally. But I do it for my desktop.

I bind the thumb buttons to Shift-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab and if I have extra buttons, I'll throw Ctrl-W on that one.

I use those all the time, rarely feel the need for macros in the games I play; but I also don't really play any games that would require them.

 

[neogunhero]

I’ve rarely taken advantage of macros. I used to have them set up for Steam and other launcher overlays, I used to have one for the Nvidia app to start/stop recording or save the instant replay and that’s about it, and those have all been on my keyboard. The closest I can think of with my mouse is that I always set my change fire mode button to one of my thumb buttons in every FPS I play.

 

[Pifanjr]

I wouldn't even know how I'd go about doing something like that, I'd have to look it up first.

I don't do it for games, generally. But I do it for my desktop.

I bind the thumb buttons to Shift-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab and if I have extra buttons, I'll throw Ctrl-W on that one.

I should do this.

 

[neogunhero]

I wouldn't even know how I'd go about doing something like that, I'd have to look it up first.

When I had mine set up, I had to use Corsair iCue software to program them. I almost always have bad experiences with software for peripherals so that's why I don't use macros anymore, I uninstalled the software.

 

[BeardyHat]

I wouldn't even know how I'd go about doing something like that, I'd have to look it up first.



I should do this.

If your mouse doesn't come with software to do this, you can use some generic Freeware called Mouse Manager and set it to boot at start-up. I used this on my laptop, as my Steel Series mouse wouldn't let me program it without using the adapter, which I didn't necessarily always want plugged into my laptop.

 

[ZedClampet]

I don't do it for games, generally. But I do it for my desktop.

I bind the thumb buttons to Shift-Tab and Ctrl-Shift-Tab and if I have extra buttons, I'll throw Ctrl-W on that one.

I use those all the time, rarely feel the need for macros in the games I play; but I also don't really play any games that would require them.

I have *FN - Print Screen* as one of my buttons so I can take a quick screenshot since I'm not good at finding either of those keys. I also have video record on one button. I don't really need that anymore since Steam records everything.

I'm trying to figure what I should put on the others. I really wouldn't use the Internet and document ones. I've usually got 30 tabs open in Chrome. I'd rather navigate those with the mouse or "close tabs to the right" sort of thing.

And now that you can right-click on the Windows logo and go just about anywhere, I'm just not sure...

 

[February's Ghost]

I have not. That's not weird is it?

 

[ZedClampet]

I have not. That's not weird is it?

That depends. Am I normal or is everyone else normal? I guess that answers itself.

 

[February's Ghost]

That depends. Am I normal or is everyone else normal? I guess that answers itself.

Normal for this specific thing or in general?

 

[ZedClampet]

Normal for this specific thing or in general?

The answer is the same either way.

 

[neogunhero]

If your mouse doesn't come with software to do this, you can use some generic Freeware called Mouse Manager and set it to boot at start-up. I used this on my laptop, as my Steel Series mouse wouldn't let me program it without using the adapter, which I didn't necessarily always want plugged into my laptop.

The website is kind of borked on my phone, does it support changing RGB on your mouse? I refuse to use Razer Synapse so I’m stuck with cycling rainbow lighting on my mouse. Doesn’t bother me at all though since all the lights are covered with your hand on it, but it would be nice to change it to match my keyboard. I’ve just dealt with it over the past 3-4 years since I really rather not mess around with Synapse again.

 

[BeardyHat]

The website is kind of borked on my phone, does it support changing RGB on your mouse? I refuse to use Razer Synapse so I’m stuck with cycling rainbow lighting on my mouse. Doesn’t bother me at all though since all the lights are covered with your hand on it, but it would be nice to change it to match my keyboard. I’ve just dealt with it over the past 3-4 years since I really rather not mess around with Synapse again.

Nah, it's just super basic and allows you to reprogram additional mouse buttons.

 

[Rolfil]

Not strictly a macro but I always remap Space to a side mouse button as I hate using it for jump.
I've used macro's a few times where you can't remap buttons. For instance in Space Trucker I remapped the accelerate and decelerate controls from space and shift to my side mouse buttons.

I have a Logitech G502 so I usually use the Logitech hub software. I have in the past used AutoHutoKey for more advanced macros but haven't needed to do that in years.

 

[ZedClampet]

The website is kind of borked on my phone, does it support changing RGB on your mouse? I refuse to use Razer Synapse so I’m stuck with cycling rainbow lighting on my mouse. Doesn’t bother me at all though since all the lights are covered with your hand on it, but it would be nice to change it to match my keyboard. I’ve just dealt with it over the past 3-4 years since I really rather not mess around with Synapse again.

The ridiculous thing is you can't fully adjust your lights with Synapse. You can only do one or two very basic things. To fully adjust your lighting, like the colors, you have to download yet another program.