Someone asked me ingame if this is possible, and its not. At first I thought it was a little silly, and I dont know if it has been suggested before - but after thinking about it, it could come in handy for stick users, or just people who like to try different things :)

I guess it would work a lot like mouse look mode, only the further away from center you move the retical, the faster you strafe in that direction.

Havent a clue if it would be *easy* or *hard* to do, but i'd like to at least try :)

Having seen something like it in other games, it could have... possibilities.

Would you want it to only strafe while moving the mouse, or keep strafing until you moved the mouse back to the center? I can see benefits & drawbacks on both.

but i like using my mouse to look around me :(

thats why its a "mode" rene...

I'd say it would be based on distance from center, (not require the mouse to be moving to continue the strafe) with a user-definable deadzone in the center.

Yah, I guess it would have to be as Spellcast describes, that would enable you to strafe in a constant direction without having to lift the mouse too much. The drawback of course being that you would continue to strafe, until you recentered.