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Valve has moved quickly to outlaw automated keyboard features.

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[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

The game is coded to not allow you to strafe while pressing both side buttons. This software sidesteps that by changing how the keyboard functions with simultaneous key presses.

This is simillar to banning n-key rollover if something like 4-key rollover was the norm.

Rollover has nothing to do with how the game is coded to handle certain inputs.

It's an improvement on movement and raises the skill ceiling.

Strafing is a difficult skill. Allowing hardware to change how a character behaves lowers the skill ceiling.

that example is also nothing like the feature being discussed here.

Still a closer analogy than "are they gonna ban low latency peripherals." Genuinely baffling how you came to that conclusion.