Left-handed player models

[Col.Flanders]

I'm a leftie and have become accustomed to being a right-handed infantryman but every now and then it still flips my mind when I suddenly realise I'm using my weapons with the wrong hand.

Who, (I'm refering to lefties here - because the rest of you "normal people" probably wouldn't care ), would like to see a left-handed option for player models?

Not only would it serve to allow us lefties to feel more at home in our virtual bodies (and boy, it would), but could also serve tactically in the sense that a leftie, when in formation, could take up the left flank while leaning out to the left from behind cover etc.

I realise there are implications here with ejection slots being on the right side of weapons and all that but I personally don't care about being hit in the virtual forehead by an expended virtual shell or two.

Out of curiosity...to all the real military folk out there...How are lefties trained in the real world? Do they simply use the same weapons? Are they issued left-handed versions of rifles etc.? Or is it a case of what the education system does in my country and force you to write with your right hand from the moment you can draw with a crayon? (I resisted this bitterly so they gave up )

Sincerely,
a die-hard leftie.

[Dallas]

Yes I'm left handed too.

I'm just too used to using a right hand model, even in the games that provide an option, I go for right hand. With a pen I write like a blind three year old with my right hand, but I've always used my right hand for the mouse.

When I served some young first lieutenant declared everyone had to operate grenades and rifles with right hand, because the safty pin and rifles were right hand only and and walked off. Then our weapons instructor freely translated said: Screw that.

[JdB]

I guess this is something defined in the engine = only BIS can change it (giving an option between left or right handed usage of weapons would cost even more time), which is doubtfull, as it contains no apparant improvements to the stability of the game, it's graphics or it's gameplay.

Just another novelty to add to the bottom of the long bug/wanted features-list...

[Sgt_Eversmann]

Making an Option for ArmA (weapon left hand / weapon right hand) would mean:
Redo all Animations
Redo Proxies
Option for choosing if left handed or right handed.

Dunno if this is worth the work

[CameronMcDonald]

Yeah, I'm a southpaw. Wasn't this option available in Elite? I thought it'd be available in ArmA, if it was for ye ole XBox. Obviously not.

[Sgt_Eversmann]

Yeah, I'm a southpaw. Wasn't this option available in Elite? I thought it'd be available in ArmA, if it was for ye ole XBox. Obviously not.

you go and concentrate on your ACU Units, and maybe you are bored and will make some other decent and nice reskins. No need for you to think about left handed weapons

Just joking

[Mandrake5]

Signed. As a leftie I would love to play as left-handed for greater immersion.

[CameronMcDonald]

you go and concentrate on your ACU Units, and maybe you are bored and will make some other decent and nice reskins. No need for you to think about left handed weapons *** ***

Just joking

Now, now, just cause I'm ACU-orientated...

[Opteryx]

I'm left handed too.

It doesn't bother me that the soldier I'm controlling is right handed very much, that something I've gotten used after many years of playing FPS games.
What does bother me very much is that there's no preset configuration option in the control setting for left handed people because I use my left hand on the mouse, as you can probably guess it means that when I'm using my right hand on the keyboard, I have to push half the keyboard off my desk which is VERY uncomfortable.

I would very much like a alternate configuration for left handed people.

[Balschoiw]

Quote[/b] ]What does bother me very much is that there's no preset configuration option in the control setting for left handed people because I use my left hand on the mouse, as you can probably guess it means that when I'm using my right hand on the keyboard, I have to push half the keyboard off my desk which is VERY uncomfortable.

Mirrored brain connection here aswell, and I totally agree with you on the controls. This should be definately a must-have in all games. With Arma it´s a bit difficult to find a good setup for lefthanders as there are a lot of keys to be assigned and the numpad is used for the lookie - lookie stuff.
I don´t really need left-handed models though. It would look surreal if the casings would always smash into your face when firing