change controls?

[Jonah_Hax]

Just downloaded the demo and I can't find a way to change the default controls. They seem to use WASD and arrow keys and I want to change to the keys I want to use instead. How do I do that???

[tholugo 朗涛]

You can remap keyboard controls as explained here:
https://unrailed-wiki.com/page/FAQ#How_can_I_remap_the_keyboard_bindings.3F

[Jonah_Hax]

Thanks, but why do I need to mess around with files like that instead of being able to just bind keys ingame like any other game?

[tholugo 朗涛]

We never took the time to do it. It's on our Todo list for quite some time. We also only had a few requests and for those I added the config file.

[Jonah_Hax]

thanks for the reply. I do however feel that it is a general tendency for game developers these days to just assume everyone want to use the same control scheme. In the eighties I did a little programming of simple games myself as most other people with a PC back then did, and the first thing we did, was to make options to change the controls. I can't remember a single game from the 80's and 90's were you could not change all the controls of a game. Over the last 10-15 years it has become more and more normal to just supply 1 control scheme and then people just have to use that. I have made posts about this problem to 4 different games over the last 2 days, just 4 games in my big games collection on steam which all had some kind of problems with the controls and it seems that developers just don't care about people that are left handed or just want to use other keys to control the games with, than what the developers think they should use. I get a lot of my games from Humble Bundles and other places where I unfortunately can't get a refund for the games on Steam, so it is a crap shoot for me to get new games these days.

Your game looks fun and I am able to play it with a controller, but would prefer to play with mouse and keyboard like most of my games, so I hope you will make an option in the game so people can rebind any function to any key or button they want, in the future. Thanks for reading my rant!