How to access the previous weapon?

[Eddie_H]

I want to bind a key to the previous weapon in Quake, but:

impulse 12

which I've read selects the previous weapon, doesn't work. What impulse value do I need to use to select the previous weapon, please? Impulse 10 selects the next weapon, as it should, but impulse 12 doesn't select the previous one (it seems to have no effect at all).

Thanks for any answers.

[MH]

Impulse 12 works fine for me. Maybe you have a custom progs that does funny stuff with impulses?

[metchsteekle]

it should be on the control-presonlization options menu, right?
cos thats where i been applying [most] things to keys

[Zop]

Some mods don't support previous weapon (such as vanilla quake), but it should normally be impulse 12.

[=peg=]

you can always make something like this:

//weapons
alias AXE "impulse 1"
alias SG  "impulse 2"
alias SSG "impulse 3"
alias NG  "impulse 4"
alias SNG "impulse 5"
alias GL  "impulse 6"
alias RL  "impulse 7"
alias LG  "impulse 8"

//cycle weapons
alias nextweap weap1
alias prevweap weap1
alias weap1 "AXE;alias nextweap weap1;alias prevweap weap8;echo Axe"
alias weap2 "SG ;alias nextweap weap2;alias prevweap weap1;echo SG"
alias weap3 "SSG;alias nextweap weap3;alias prevweap weap2;echo SSG"
alias weap4 "NG ;alias nextweap weap4;alias prevweap weap3;echo NG"
alias weap5 "SNG;alias nextweap weap5;alias prevweap weap4;echo SNG"
alias weap6 "GL ;alias nextweap weap6;alias prevweap weap5;echo GL"
alias weap7 "RL ;alias nextweap weap7;alias prevweap weap6;echo RL"
alias weap8 "LG ;alias nextweap weap1;alias prevweap weap7;echo LG"

//binds
bind "1" weap1
bind "2" weap2
bind "3" weap3
bind "4" weap4
bind "5" weap5
bind "6" weap6
bind "7" weap7
bind "8" weap8
bind "-" prevweap
bind "=" nextweap

use the standard 1-8 keys to select a weapon, or use:
"-" to cycle down through the weapons (it goes to LG after axe)
"=" to cycle up through the weapons (it goes to AXE after LG)

just change the keys to whatever keys you prefer to use..