Key bindings

[ShoC]

Hi,

In fallout 4 I have my movements keys bound to the arrow keys as I'm left handed. So this proves a problem when using the in game building elements as this is bound to them, this means I can't build and walk.

Is this the same case here? Or can the menu navigation be reassigned? It's a deal breaker if it's hardcoded like fallout 4.

Thanks for the answers

[DrexXxacK]

same problem here. im left handed too. cant walk and use weaponwheel

[Darkrayne]

They really need to do a pass on the UI and keybinds for the PC version. Just using a workbench is a merry trip across your whole keyboard, never mind when you're building stuff in your CAMP.

Open map and press Z to get to the usual ESC menu? Piss off.

[J.P]

Yeah the keybindings on this game are so damn messy, no logical reason for it to be the way it is, Enter to progress in some menus, then Space, then Interact, JUST USE ONE DAMN KEY!!! wouldn't be so bad if you could just change them yourself, but doesn't look like you can, didn't seem them in INI anyway.

[ShoC]

so this is just as bad as fallout 4?

[pvthoch]

Originally posted by ShoC:

so this is just as bad as fallout 4?

It is Fallout 4 with online

[ShoC]

shame.

[Andro Quazar]

Old thread but hopefully gets visibility by the devs. I'm left handed and the keybinding scheme is terrible. Should be a simple fix if only they allowed full remapping of building, menus, movements etc...

[Met A Demon Once]

I think Bethesda has got the key bindings just right and everyone else has them all wrong. But, since I started playing Bethesda games first it makes sense that I think this way.

[Nabster]

Just bumping this thread as came back to this game after along absence to find key bindings still not fixed as i also use arrow keys to move around but this breaks the movement keys when in the build menus.
Thought about using xbox controller whilst in build menus but this is still broken as well its either keyboard or controller and not both at the same time which i find totally bizarre, gta v and watchdog series of games are some that i can think of that i switch between whilst in game without issue so why cant you make it work in 76.

[Amanandhisdog]

Originally posted by J.P:

Yeah the keybindings on this game are so damn messy, no logical reason for it to be the way it is, Enter to progress in some menus, then Space, then Interact, JUST USE ONE DAMN KEY!!! wouldn't be so bad if you could just change them yourself, but doesn't look like you can, didn't seem them in INI anyway.

the logical reason is, there are not as many left handed gamers as right handed.
controllers are very popular and this game does support them, thats not an excuse or reason not to have remappable movement keys, its the logical reason.
a neat solution for left handed gamers is, gaming keypads, they are small, have just about all the keys most games use for actions and menus etc. and can be inexpensive to expensive for pro style genre specific models like mmorpg types. (same for gaming mice btw)

a long time ago i was a console fps player for years... got into pc gaming... wasd? wtf.
i would hit e and q more than w or d or a. so those aroow keys were my goto and mapping crouch/prone reload etc around those was key in my gaming choices if the game didnt allow remapping to suit me i didnt buy it or play it.
then one day i just forced myself to start using wasd... in single player modes then in online multiplayer modes and i was bad for a while but eventually you can retrain your fingers to use the keys same as you can whilst learning to type. good luck lefties... its really why most things are right handed... and an age old debate... even the simpsons had a go at it...flanders is left handed iirc.

[S73V3NS]

Originally posted by Nabster:

Just bumping this thread as came back to this game after along absence to find key bindings still not fixed as i also use arrow keys to move around but this breaks the movement keys when in the build menus.
Thought about using xbox controller whilst in build menus but this is still broken as well its either keyboard or controller and not both at the same time which i find totally bizarre, gta v and watchdog series of games are some that i can think of that i switch between whilst in game without issue so why cant you make it work in 76.

As a Lefty I play with standard wasd keyboard, I still occasionally hit keys by mistake but get by okay. The mouse itself for a lefty can be as bad, as the shape and so on is mostly for a right handed player.

It is awkward no doubt, the amout of times i've hit E to exit Armour at the wrong place and time let alone jump and use vats :-)

But hey we're SPECIAL)) and I like to say i'm "right" handed.

[Kingsleaze]

The shoddy keybinding has been around since Fallout 3 (and Skyrim too). I use arrow keys too, and remap most of my movement and action keys around the arrow keys. Thanks to creation engine's horrible keybinding I regularly have to go over to "E" and "R" keys to loot bodies though, since things like looting and building are hardmapped to certain keys even if you remap them.

I originally dealt with the building/movement problem in Fallout 4 by using auto-move to move around. It was pathetic.

I finally got a customizable keyboard and now have a special layout just for Bethesda games. Basically, instead of remapping the game controls I remap the keyboard keys (for instance, I remap WASD to the arrow keys). It makes button prompts useless but I don't need them once I'm used to the game.

[BizarreMan]

I'm a lefty who right handed mouses. For me playing games with a controller is just that much easier for me.

[Stoneybridge]

aaaahhhhh great, came here to see if the key bindings when using steam link can be changed as they are different to the PC controller bindings so guess not, what a clever idea.

[HuggyDeathBunny🐰💀]

The game was designed for XBox so is technically a port, hence all the dumbass keybindings, also why you cannot remap certain ones. Use a key re-mapper 3rd party program.