Please give us the option to change controls.

[Vortyrion]

I'm sure I'm not the first to ask, but to release a game without that option is a big mistake.

[DefinitelyBean]

I will pass this along to our developers and production team! Thank you for your input.

[omgilovesteak]

And maybe separate COVER and VAULT keys :D

[appleseed2010]

An azerty keyboard player here...
The game is unplayable because we can't reconfigure keys (swap Q <-> A and W <-> Z).

[FuryI6I]

Hi there, agreed.
Tested offline. For 30 secs, could not more lol. Unplayable. Indeed, no Key Bindings.
And no motivation to use WIndows options again. Had too often keyboard issues with that.
Key Bindings options is the least Devs could do. Unbelievable.
Not everyone use QWERTY, but AZERTY as well.
Simple matter of respect for the customers.
Thank you.

[FuryI6I]

Greetings dear Devs, you're kidding right?
Do you realize your game is unplayable for a lot of people?
Still no Key Bindings? Still thinking QWERTY is the only keyboard?
Wanna tell us what this is?
Amazing.

[xiorcal /640]

bringing my 2 cents here, more than a year and still no way to play this game without having to rely on layout switching. that's sad

[Za]

it makes the game artificially more difficult for me to have dodge bound to the keypad instead of a trigger/bumper/stick press etc

its not rocket surgery to add key binding is it?

[emil1man]

wow, changing shoot and meele so smooth, i totally can use LMB on left slot and RMB on right slot! (no, i can not and its suck pretty much). Even with illusion of changing controls i have no idea how to put it in oreder i want.

[Red Star, Blood Moon]

Originally posted by Za:

it makes the game artificially more difficult for me to have dodge bound to the keypad instead of a trigger/bumper/stick press etc

its not rocket surgery to add key binding is it?

The devs never responded either and making it feel like ♥♥♥♥♥♥ megacorp practices of basically hiring some wagey in India to absorb all the predictable ire and insulate them from the backlash. Notice how the devs are absent these threads.

I honestly regret buying this game already. Thank God I got it on GOG instead where at least some of my money went to something I like, Poles and GOG. It's clearly a console game. It also really amplifies my longstanding sense that any game that advertises itself on celebrity voice actors is bound to suck, and I have yet found a single one other than FNV that didn't completely suck, Mass Effect 2 to Master of Orion 4 on and on, and even then FNV was an overrated bugfest with mediocre writing at best. It's got to be my biggest redflag for a game. Idk why ACG rated this as well as he did.

The Fall and Far Lone Sail are the other two, but at least Far was a basic shovelly art game that turned out to be really good and being a sidescroller with W doubling as jump made it playable. I use Q for jump and E for crouch and SPACE for use/interact since late 1990s. In fact simply putting E as the use key is basically proof of a game's console port status, cue worthabuy's "yeah yeah it's a console console console game" singing. This is because bafflingly modern garbage AAA games on consoles were bereft of the most basic af functions since 1990s of jump and crouch. I think Thief had crouch even.

Like seriously it's not a great sign when straight out the gate I am already pissed off and have the most basic af functionality impaired from the movement itself (this might as well be a game breaking bug) to menu functionality, there is no graphical options, there is no feedback from the devs far as I can see. I can play any of hundreds of other titles, so this is like the mom with two kids from two different baby daddies being entitled "I aint settling for under 150k a year and rockstar good looks" tier. I mean I could be playing Witcher 3 and finishing that. Or Weird West, or buy Hard West 2. That's this game's direct competition. So I think this emphasizes why people like me shouldn't be buying games half blindly just because they're on sale and look neat only to throw them on the pile.

Originally posted by FuryI6I:

Greetings dear Devs, you're kidding right?
Do you realize your game is unplayable for a lot of people?
Still no Key Bindings? Still thinking QWERTY is the only keyboard?
Wanna tell us what this is?
Amazing.

Yeah I regret buying this game. I'd strongly encourage Weird West or Hard West instead, and Hard West also has a really fantastic voice actor too.

What I really think is, some game devs basically just blow all their money on voice acting and then don't even bother to make a proper game, abandon it, and more or less expect a high profile name to advertise and sell it for them. This is what I have consistently seen across all titles that have a celebrity voice actor. You'd think celebs themselves would take the time or have their agent take the time to sniff out the team behind it before committing their name to whatever is pushed in front of them, Cage style. Which is a shame because Pearlman has one of the greatest voices, but Weird West looks fantastic as a game and was done by an actually incredibly competent and well experienced team (Arkane staff, people who did Prey 2017 one of the greats, better than Fallout New Vegas, Dishonored etc) or Hard West, a real indie title that had one of the most memorable stories so much so that's the game that even got me into the weird west genre since I normally hated Westerns, and probably kicked off this trend. Why couldn't Pearlman have done that?

Sorry for being so super negative, it's just so clunky handling on PC and there's been no feedback ever in years, supposedly abandoned entirely on GOG, feels and plays like a shovelware game, the one saving grace at least E still works to crouch. But shift to use/interact? Really?? And I can't rebind that??? ffs! This is some of the most bizarre console port scheme I ever seen. All my controls are off and it's going to make this borderline unplayable.

Now compare to a really fantastic, top notch twin stick like Ruiner. Every single thing about that game was better. I'm dreading if this turns out to have Ruiner-esque difficulty because on these controls that's unplayable.

I'm at this point leaving this here unsugarcoated and no longer holding my tongue, I deleted a ♥♥♥♥ post on The Fall and Far Lone Sail pages because I thought it was too snotty, but it just. keeps. happening. And it's not even remotely acceptable, and certainly not for a $20+ game. At least those two had responsive devs, who talked directly and tried being helpful occasionally, as opposed to hiding behind forum mods. SPACE is not jump and SHIFT is not use! Who tf even does that? I need to really vet things and not rely entirely on someone like ACG, the controls are infuriating. At least I tried playing the last one immediately after buying and promptly realized the magnitude of my mistakeeven at $5 Swarm the City no, it was really fun as a zombie plague simulator demo, idk what it even is now but it's nothing like it used to be in bad way. I want devs to stop ramnming asinine controls down everyone and not let us change controls, most basic af functionality. Others here clearly are trying to be nice about it; I'm not, because I am an abject ♥♥♥♥ of a man. If you won't let use do the most basic thing since playing on a PowerMac or Pentium 2, then at least have controls that make some kind of sense. Idk even wtf is going on with E, SHIFT, and SPACE. It's hilarious shooting these zombies, and missing, and coming face to face with how godawful all the controls really are and feeling like all the darkness and art style is basically hiding what would be literally unplayable if it had Redeemer or Big Drunk Satanic Massacre tier graphics than hiding behind an art style.

I've basically lost my patience for this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ at this point. Three in a row with spacebar for jump and no rebind. The problem is when people don't complain loudly enough hitting full-on Karen Saiyan mode it's like these things become "acceptable" and then after the disease becomes endemic when anyone brings it up they'll point to others like "well they're doing it too" do cops really care if the other dudes on your street are robbers?

tl;dr anyone thinking of buying this should realize it's not meant for PC and has been abandoned, the controls will immediately infuriate you and you can't change them on PC