Spidertron click-drag move hacknslash style

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Spidertron click-drag move hacknslash style

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TL;DR
It would be convenient for spidetron to follow mouse drag with the remote equipped.

What ?
Battling nests I found myself wanting to control my spidertron with a mouse drag. It doesn't seem like that big of a change, but available control modes of wasd and mouse clicks are much more cumbersome. It doesn't seem to me like it would interfere with present control modes in any way.
Why ?
It seems to me like it would be easy to implement. There is an entire genre of games about battling hordes of enemies with the follow drag control scheme, so I feel it would be a good fit for spidertron.

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Re: Spidertron click-drag move hacknslash style

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If it could be integrated in without affecting the current movement controls, then I’d be ok with it. But if not, then no.

Frankly, I prefer wasd over mouse movement controls. Wasd allows you to control the movement while freeing the mouse for other things. I also don’t see the point in changing the movement controls of this one thing, making it different from everything else.
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Re: Spidertron click-drag move hacknslash style

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There is a mod which implements move to mouse click (I call it Diablo movement). Not the same as suggested but similar and could surely changed.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/move-with-mouse-updated
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