Keyboard Controls Driving Me Insane

[kiarastudios]

Question from a total RDR n00b here...I would be enjoying the game on my PC but the controls are driving me up the wall. I'm constantly having to change the camera angle to see where I am going, and I just cannot manage WASD and the mouse at the same time to shoot or lasso anything, particularly being right handed, and I can't change the controls because it says my changes are unbounded, but I don't know how to "bind" them. Any easier set up? If not I wasted $30 on this game.

[Ink Hyaena]

Do you have a controller you can use? If not, there's plenty of cheapish ones out there. Always an alternative to using mouse and keyboard.

[JuiceWSA]

First - disable Windows Hot/Smart Keys - by any means necessary.

Then, from the initial loading screen, go to settings/controls/KB,M and spend much of your time in the early game re-binding keys to what you're used to. It'll take a while for you to find and identify all the controls, but you will, eventually.

You can hold the story at any point - and I recommend you do so until you sort this control thing. There are MANY controls and to enjoy the game fully you need to master a majority of them, at least.

Make a manual save in a town, or around people.
Rebind some keys, and interact/rob/beat up/shoot/lasso/loot/die.
Reload and fine tune, rebind, discover, etc.

You'll get the hang of it.

Note:
Make Manual Saves often, but more often while you're discovering how to play and what keys you need to do what. It'll really blow losing a lot of situations and not having a safe place to try it again.

It'll be great to use the same thing over and over while you fine tune your controls.

Manual Save is Great.
Autosave sucks big time.

[Let's Go Brandon]

Originally posted by Ink Hyaena:

Do you have a controller you can use? If not, there's plenty of cheapish ones out there. Always an alternative to using mouse and keyboard.

Controllers are for idiots. We're PC users, not console dweebs.

[Ink Hyaena]

Originally posted by Let's Go Brandon:

Originally posted by Ink Hyaena:

Do you have a controller you can use? If not, there's plenty of cheapish ones out there. Always an alternative to using mouse and keyboard.

Controllers are for idiots. We're PC users, not console dweebs.

You can use both, but god forbid you make a game easier for yourself at times

[Let's Go Brandon]

Originally posted by Ink Hyaena:

Originally posted by Let's Go Brandon:

Controllers are for idiots. We're PC users, not console dweebs.

You can use both, but god forbid you make a game easier for yourself at times

I use the controller only for those stupid fillet challenges.

[JuiceWSA]

I can use a controller to drive cars - when I get out of it I'm back on the keyboard/mouse.

A controller is still an unidentified flying object. Unidentified - and flying the first time I punch my horse with it.

[Alejandro]

In the settings you can change the camera view to not be fixed on where you're riding and then you can freely use the mouse to look around while you're using WASD to ride your horse.

[JuiceWSA]

The only problem - I can't drive my horse like that.
Oh, many people can.
I can't.

I need to see where my horse is going - call me crazy.

Once I get him headed in the right direction, I can drift the camera and aim the horse in different directions to seek out herbage, or dinner - at a walk - not at full tilt boogie, but if I release everything the camera goes back in front of the horse - to prevent riding off a cliff, or into an O'Driscoll camp, over a dozen gators or right into a gang of The Night Folk.

Unfortunately when set that way - speaking to anyone means either trampling them with the horse or crashing into them.

Auto-Greet Replies cures all that and I imagine when it irritated a mod guy - he invented a mod to take care of it.

[mlmcdougal]

Originally posted by Let's Go Brandon:

Originally posted by Ink Hyaena:

Do you have a controller you can use? If not, there's plenty of cheapish ones out there. Always an alternative to using mouse and keyboard.

Controllers are for idiots. We're PC users, not console dweebs.

Well since the game was initially programmed for controllers, you can be all sorts of swell headed about it, but playing it with a controller like it was originally designed is infinitely better. This is the first game I bought and used a controller for and in this game it's much better than fumbling around with goofy WASD keys while trying to shoot. Takes a while to get used to a controller, especially if you're a keyboard jockey.

[blairweescot]

Originally posted by kiarastudios:

Question from a total RDR n00b here...I would be enjoying the game on my PC but the controls are driving me up the wall. I'm constantly having to change the camera angle to see where I am going, and I just cannot manage WASD and the mouse at the same time to shoot or lasso anything, particularly being right handed, and I can't change the controls because it says my changes are unbounded, but I don't know how to "bind" them. Any easier set up? If not I wasted $30 on this game.

Being right handed would mean you have the correct natural inclination to WASD and mouse

[blairweescot]

Originally posted by mlmcdougal:

Originally posted by Let's Go Brandon:

Controllers are for idiots. We're PC users, not console dweebs.

Well since the game was initially programmed for controllers, you can be all sorts of swell headed about it, but playing it with a controller like it was originally designed is infinitely better. This is the first game I bought and used a controller for and in this game it's much better than fumbling around with goofy WASD keys while trying to shoot. Takes a while to get used to a controller, especially if you're a keyboard jockey.

WASD would not be to aim. It would be to move. The mouse is to aim and shoot.

[pike]

Canadian keyboard ?
did you set bacon warmer to manual and turn off the bottle opener ?